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Robert H. Garff, businessman & politician

30Mar

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Robert H. Garff, businessman & politician

Robert Heiner Garff ‑ an American businessman and politician who served as chair of the Ken Garff Automotive Group – died of Covid-19 on March 29, 2020. He also served as the speaker of the Utah House of Representatives from 1985 to 1987. Garff was born on September 15, 1942, the son of Marjorie Heiner and Kendall D. Garff. He attended the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1966 and an MBA in 1967. The Ken Garff Automotive Group is a large car dealership conglomerate, founded in 1932 by Bob's father. The company or one of its dealerships, according to a January 2004 survey conducted by Dan Jones & Associates, was the second-most mentioned car dealership by Utahns ...

25Mar

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Lorenzo Acquarone, lawyer & politician

Lorenzo Acquarone –an Italian lawyer and politician – succumbed to Covid-19 on 24 March 2020. Born in Ventimiglia, Acquarone graduated in law and became a lawyer and university lecturer. As a member of the Italian People's Party, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for three legislatures. In 2002 he participated in the formation of the new political entity called the "Margherita" or Democracy is Freedom - The Daisy, but in September 2003 decided to leave the party to join the Popular-UDEUR. On 27 December 2007, Acquarone was awarded the Knight Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Italian Republic - uniform ribbon. Acquarone died at the age of 89 on 24 March 2020 due to COVID-19 in Italy.

25Mar

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Harry Aarts, politician

Henricus Johannes Bernardus "Harry" Aarts –a Dutch politician – died due to Covid-19 on 25 March 2020. He served in the House of Representatives for the Catholic People's Party and later the Christian Democratic Appeal from 23 January 1973 until 1 October 1993. Aarts was born in 's-Hertogenbosch on 9 March 1930. After attending primary and high school in the same city he studied political science at the Catholic University Nijmegen between 1949 and 1955. Aarts was a member of the municipal council of 's-Hertogenbosch from 1 September 1953 to 2 September 1958. After working at the Heineken brewery for two years he was organisation advisor at the Association of Netherlands Municipalities between 1959 and 1965. He was then appointed mayor of Berkel-Enschot and served from 16...

22Mar

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Jacques Oudin, politician

Jacques Oudin, a French politician, succumbed to Covid-19 on 21 March 2020. He was 80 years old. He was member of the Senate of France from 1986 to 2004, representing the department of Vendée.

21Mar

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Marino Quaresimin, politician

Marino Quaresimin ‑ was an Italian politician ‑ died of COVID-19 on 20 March 2020 in Vicenza, aged 82.. He was born in Vicenza, Italy. Quaresimin was Mayor of Vicenza from 1995 to 1998. During his political career, he was a member of the Italian People's Party, but later switched to The Daisy party. From 1999 to 2008, he was a member of the Vicenza city council.

20Mar

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Hamid Kahram, politician

Hamid Kohram –an Iranian politician and veterinarian who served as a member of the Iranian Parliament representing Ahwaz between 2000 and 2004 ‑died of Covid-19 on 19 March 2020. He was also the Director General of Scholarships Office and Student Exchange, Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. During the 2017 presidential election, Kohram was the head of Hassan Rouhani's campaign in Khuzestan province.

17Mar

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Nicolas Alfonsi, politician

Nicolas Alfonsi –a French politician, member of the Senate of France, representing the department of Corse-du-Sud – succumbed to coronavirus on 16 March 2020. He was born in Cargèse, Corsica. He was a member of the Radical Party of the Left, and was by profession a lawyer. Alfonsi died on 16 March 2020 of COVID-19.

17Mar

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Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani, politician

Sayyid Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani –an Iranian Shia Marja' and representative of the Tehran Province in Iran's Assembly of Experts – died on 16 March 2020 from coronavirus. He studied at the Qom Seminary. Bathaie ran under the People's Experts and the Friends of Moderation electoral list in the 2016 Iranian Assembly of Experts election. Golpayegani claimed that "America is the source of coronavirus, because America went head to head with China and realised it cannot keep up with it economically or militarily." On February 22, Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani announced at a ceremony that he had been infected with COVID-19, but had healed himself using an "Islamic remedy". Three weeks ...

14Mar

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Giovanni Battista Rabino, politician

Giovanni Battista Rabino –an Italian politician from the Christian Democracy party who served as member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1983 to 1992, then a single term, between 1992 and 1994, as Senator – died of Covid-19 on 12 March 2020. He was born in Montaldo Scarampi, and served as mayor of the city between 2004 and 2009. Before his political career, Rabino was a trade unionist, active in Alessandria's Coldiretti branch. Rabino died from COVID-19 at the Cardinal Massaja Hospital in Asti on 12 March 2020. His funeral was held two days later.

12Mar

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Mohammad Kiavash, politician

Iranian politician Mohammad Alavi Tabar‎, also known as Kiyavash– died on 10 March 2020. The Iranian politician was born in 1930 in Zanjan. He was a follower of jurisprudential Islam. Mohammad Alavi Tabar served as a member of the Iranian Parliament representing Ahvaz between 1980 and 1984, representing Abadan between 1984 and 1988. Mohammad Alavi Tabar died from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on 10 March 2020. His funeral was held on 12 March.