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Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) —
of Missouri.
Born near Ivy, Albemarle
County, Va., August
18, 1774.
Governor
of Louisiana (Missouri) Territory, 1807-09; died in office 1809.
Member, Freemasons.
Commanded expedition with William
Clark to Oregon, 1803-04. His portrait (along with Clark's)
appeared on the $10
U.S. Note from 1898 to 1927.
Died of gunshot
wounds under mysterious circumstances (murder or
suicide?)
at Grinder's Stand, an inn on the
Natchez Trace near Hohenwald, Lewis
County, Tenn., October
11, 1809 (age 35 years, 54
days).
Interment at Meriwether
Lewis Park, Near Hohenwald, Lewis County, Tenn.
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William H. Hunter (d. 1842) —
of Ohio.
Born in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Ohio 14th District, 1837-39.
Died under mysterious circumstances near Sandusky, Erie
County, Ohio, 1842.
Interment at Cholera
Cemetery, Sandusky, Ohio.
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Alexander Somervell (1796-1854) —
of Texas.
Born in Maryland, June 11,
1796.
Colonel in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; Texas
Republic Secretary of War, 1836; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Colorado and Austin, 1836-38.
Died under mysterious circumstances in 1854
(age about
58 years); his body was found lashed to the timbers of a capsized
boat.
Burial
location unknown.
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Thomas Taylor Minor (1844-1889) —
also known as Thomas T. Minor —
of Port Townsend, Jefferson
County, Wash.; Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born, of American parents, in Manepy, Ceylon (now Sri
Lanka), February
20, 1844.
Son of Eastman Strong Minor and Judith (Manchester) Minor
(1814-1900).
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; physician;
one of the founders of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Washington Territory,
1880;
mayor of Port Townsend, Wash., 1881; mayor of
Seattle, Wash., 1887-88.
Last seen traveling by canoe to Whidbey Island with G. Morris Haller,
and was never heard from again; presumed drowned
in a watercraft
accident, in Puget
Sound, December
2, 1889 (age 45 years, 285
days). Their remains were not
found.
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Harold Merriman Deane (1891-1929) —
also known as Harold M. Deane —
of Connecticut; Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn., October
24, 1891.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul in Valparaiso, 1925-27; Montreal, 1927-29, died in office 1929.
Found hanged
in his apartment -- the coroner's jury was unable to decide
whether his death was murder or
suicide
-- in Montreal, Quebec,
August
28, 1929 (age 37 years, 308
days).
Interment somewhere
in Waterbury, Conn.
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Manuel Herrick (1876-1952) —
Born in Ohio, 1876.
U.S.
Representative from Oklahoma 8th District, 1921-23; defeated,
1918 (Independent), 1922 (Republican primary), 1924 (Republican
primary), 1926 (Republican primary), 1928 (Republican primary), 1930
(Republican primary); candidate in Republican primary for U.S.
Representative from California, 1948.
Disappeared during a Sierra blizzard,
January
11, 1952 (age about 75
years), while on a trip to his mining claim; his body was found
six weeks later, in a snowbank near Quincy, Plumas
County, Calif.
Cremated;
ashes interred at Quincy
Cemetery, Quincy, Calif.
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Vincent Luke Palmisano (1882-1953) —
also known as Vincent L. Palmisano —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Termini, Sicily, Italy,
August
5, 1882.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates from Baltimore city 1st District,
1914-15; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 3rd District, 1927-39; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1940.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry. Member, Foresters.
Disappeared from his home on January
12, 1953, and either committed suicide
or was murdered
(age 70
years, 160 days); his body was recovered from Baltimore Harbor,
March 5, 1953.
Interment at New
Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr. (1914-1972) —
also known as Hale Boggs —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Long Beach, Harrison
County, Miss., February
15, 1914.
Son of William Robertson Boggs and Claire Josephine (Hale) Boggs.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 2nd District, 1941-43, 1947-72;
died in office 1972; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Louisiana, 1948,
1956,
1960;
Parliamentarian, 1964;
candidate for Governor of
Louisiana, 1952; Vice-Chair
of Democratic National Committee, 1957; member, President's Commission
on the Assassination of President KNDY, 1963-64.
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion; Amvets; Catholic
War Veterans; Sons of
the American Revolution; Knights
of Columbus; American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Phi
Beta Kappa; Beta
Theta Pi; Omicron
Delta Kappa.
Disappeared while on a campaign
flight from Anchorage to Juneau, Alaska, October
16, 1972, and presumed dead in a plane
crash (age 58 years, 244
days); apparently the wreckage was never
found.
Cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Nicholas Joseph Begich (1932-1972) —
also known as Nick Begich —
of Anchorage,
Alaska.
Born in Eveleth, St. Louis
County, Minn., April 6,
1932.
Democrat. Member of Alaska
state senate, 1963-71; U.S.
Representative from Alaska at-large, 1971-72; died in office
1972; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Alaska, 1972.
Alaska
Native and Croatian
ancestry.
Begich Middle School in Anchorage is named for
him.
Disappeared while on a campaign
flight from Anchorage to Juneau, Alaska, October
16, 1972, and presumed dead in a plane
crash (age 40 years, 193
days); apparently the wreckage was never
found.
Cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John Vaudain Creely (b. 1839) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
14, 1839.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 2nd District, 1871-73.
Before his term in Congress expired in 1873, he mysteriously
disappeared; he was never
found, and a Philadelphia court declared him legally dead in 1900.
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John Lansing, Jr. (b. 1754) —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., January
30, 1754.
Member of New York
state assembly from Albany County, 1780-84, 1785-87, 1788-89; Speaker of
the New York State Assembly, 1786; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1785; mayor of
Albany, N.Y., 1786-90; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; delegate to
New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Albany
County, 1788; Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1790-1801.
Christian
Reformed.
Mysteriously disappeared in New York City, December 12, 1829,
after leaving his hotel to post a letter; his fate is
unknown.
Cenotaph at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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James W. Tate (b. 1831) —
also known as "Honest Dick" —
of Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky.
Born in Franklin
County, Ky., January
2, 1831.
Kentucky
state treasurer, 1868-.
Absconded
from the state treasurer's office in March, 1888; Gov. Simon
Buckner said Tate had embezzled
almost $250,000 from the state. Impeached
in absentia by the Kentucky House; convicted
and removed from
office by the Senate.
He never returned, and his fate is unknown.
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Joseph Force Crater (b. 1889) —
also known as Joseph F. Crater; "Good Time
Joe" —
of New York.
Born in Easton, Northampton
County, Pa., January
5, 1889.
Son of Frank E. Crater and Leila Virginia (Montague) Crater.
Democrat. Lawyer;
secretary to Robert
F. Wagner, 1920-26; newspapers reported that the two became law
partners, but Wagner later denied it; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1930; appointed 1930.
Member, Freemasons;
Sigma
Chi; Tammany
Hall.
Mysteriously disappeared (probably kidnapped and murdered)
on August 6, 1930; his body was never
found; he was declared legally dead in 1939.
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