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Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Charles Town, Nevis,
January
11, 1757.
Son of James Hamilton and Rachel (Faucette) Hamilton.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1782; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1786-87; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; delegate to
New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from New-York
County, 1788; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1789-95.
Episcopalian.
Scottish
and French
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Society
of the Cincinnati.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1915. His portrait appears on the
U.S. $10
bill; from the 1860s to the 1920s, his portrait also appeared on
U.S. notes
and certificates of various denominations from $2
to $1,000.
Shot and mortally wounded in a duel with
Aaron
Burr on July 11, 1804, and died the next day in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 12,
1804 (age 47 years, 183
days).
Interment at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Treasury
Building Grounds, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of James Hamilton and Rachel (Faucette) Hamilton; married 1780 to
Elizabeth Schuyler (daughter of Philip
John Schuyler; sister of Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler); father of James
Alexander Hamilton and William
Stephen Hamilton; ancestor of Robert
Hamilton Woodruff; second great-grandfather of Laurens
M. Hamilton. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
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| | | Cross-reference: Nathaniel
Pendleton — Robert
Troup — John
Tayler — William
P. Van Ness |
| | | Hamilton counties in Fla., Ill., Ind., Kan., Neb., N.Y., Ohio and Tenn. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Alexander
H. Buell
— Alexander
H. Holley
— Hamilton
Fish
— Alexander
H. Stephens
— Alexander
H. Bullock
— Alexander
H. Bailey
— Alexander
H. Rice
— Alexander
Hamilton Jones
— Alexander
H. Waterman
— Alexander
H. Coffroth
— Alexander
H. Revell
— Alexander
Hamilton Hargis
— Alexander
Hamilton Phillips
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| | | Personal motto: "Do it better
yet." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Alexander Hamilton: Richard
Brookhiser, Alexander
Hamilton, American — Forrest McDonald, Alexander
Hamilton: A Biography — Gertrude Atherton, Conqueror
: Dramatized Biography of Alexander Hamilton — Ron
Chernow, Alexander
Hamilton — Thomas Fleming, Duel:
Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of
America — Arnold A. Rogow, A
Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr —
Willard Sterne Randall, Alexander
Hamilton: A Life — John Harper, American
Machiavelli : Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign
Policy — Stephen F. Knott, Alexander
Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth — Charles Cerami,
Young
Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men. Their Impossible Plan and
The Revolution That Created The Constitution |
| | | Critical books about Alexander
Hamilton: Thomas DiLorenzo, Hamilton's
Curse : How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution
-- and What It means for Americans Today |
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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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Joseph Hamilton Daviess (1774-1811) —
also known as Joe Daviess —
of Danville, Boyle
County, Ky.; Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Bedford
County, Va., March 4,
1774.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for Kentucky, 1800-06; major in the U.S. Army during the
War of 1812.
Welsh
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Around 1801, he served as a second to John
Rowan in his duel
with James Chambers; after Chambers was killed, he fled
to avoid
prosecution as accomplice to murder,
and became a fugitive,
but when Rowan was arrested, he returned to act as Rowan's legal
counsel.
Shot and killed
in the Battle of Tippecanoe, in what is now Tippecanoe
County, Ind., November
7, 1811 (age 37 years, 248
days).
Interment at Tippecanoe
Battlefield Park, Battle Ground, Ind.
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David Ramsay (1749-1815) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Lancaster
County, Pa., April 2,
1749.
Physician;
author;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1776-83; served in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate
to Continental Congress from South Carolina, 1782-83, 1785-86;
member of South
Carolina state senate, 1801-15.
Shot and mortally
wounded by a crazed patient, and died two days later, in
Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., May 8,
1815 (age 66 years, 36
days).
Interment at Circular
Congregational Church Burying Ground, Charleston, S.C.
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Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1797-1834) —
also known as Lucius Q. C. Lamar —
of Georgia.
Born July 15,
1797.
Lawyer;
superior court judge in Georgia, 1830-34.
When he learned that a man he had sentenced to death for murder was
not guilty, he committed
suicide by gunshot, July 4,
1834 (age 36 years, 354
days).
Interment at Memory
Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Ga.
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Ira J. Westover (d. 1836) —
Delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Goliad, 1835;
served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence.
Following the Battle of Coleto, during the Texas
War of Independence, he was among those taken prisoner by the
Mexican Army; a few days later, he and almost 400 other prisoners
were shot to death, an incident now known as the Goliad
Massacre, in Goliad, Goliad
County, Tex., March 27,
1836.
Cremated.
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William Harris Wharton (1802-1839) —
of Texas.
Born in Virginia, 1802.
Delegate
to Texas Convention of 1832 from District of Victoria, 1832; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Victoria, 1833; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Columbia, 1835;
member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Brazoria, 1836, 1837-39; died in
office 1839.
Killed when he accidentally
shot himself while dismounting from his horse, near
Hempstead, Waller
County, Tex., March 14,
1839 (age about 36
years).
Interment at Restwood
Memorial Park, Clute, Tex.
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Robert Potter (c.1800-1842) —
of Oxford, Granville
County, N.C.
Born near Williamsboro, Vance
County, N.C., about 1800.
Member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1826, 1834-35; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 6th District, 1829-31; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Nacogdoches, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; Texas
Republic Secretary of the Navy, 1836; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Red River and Fannin, 1840-42;
died in office 1842.
Resigned
from the U.S. Congress in 1831 after maiming
two men in a jealous rage; convicted,
and sentenced
to six months in prison.
Expelled
in 1835 from the North Carolina House for cheating
at cards.
Shot and killed by
members of an opposing faction who surrounded his home, in Harrison
County (part now in Marion
County), Tex., March 2,
1842 (age about 42
years).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Marion County, Tex.; reinterment in
1928 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Thomas Reynolds (1796-1844) —
of Missouri.
Born March 12,
1796.
Governor
of Missouri, 1840-44; died in office 1844.
Died of a self-inflicted
gunshot wound, February
9, 1844 (age 47 years, 334
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Jefferson City, Mo.
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Thomas Walker Gilmer (1802-1844) —
of Virginia.
Born in Gilmerton, Albemarle
County, Va., April 6,
1802.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1829-36, 1838-39; Speaker of
the Virginia State House of Delegates, 1838-39; Governor of
Virginia, 1840-41; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1841-44 (12th District 1841-43, 5th
District 1843-44); U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1844; died in office 1844.
Among those killed in the explosion
when a cannon accidentally
burst on board
the U.S.S. Princeton, on the Potomac River near Fort
Washington, Prince
George's County, Md., February
28, 1844 (age 41 years, 328
days).
Originally entombed at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at a
private or family graveyard, Albemarle County, Va.
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Abel Parker Upshur (1790-1844) —
of Virginia.
Born in Northampton
County, Va., June 17,
1790.
Son of Littleton
Upshur.
Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1812-13, 1824-27; state court judge in
Virginia, 1826-41; delegate to
Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829-30; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1841-43; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1843-44; died in office 1844.
Episcopalian.
Among those killed in the explosion
when a cannon accidentally
burst on board
the U.S.S. Princeton, on the Potomac River near Fort
Washington, Prince
George's County, Md., February
28, 1844 (age 53 years, 256
days).
Originally entombed at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; later interred in 1874 at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Virgil Maxcy (1785-1844) —
of Maryland.
Born in Attleboro, Bristol
County, Mass., May 5,
1785.
Son of Levi Maxcy and Ruth (Newell) Maxcy.
Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state executive council, 1815; member of Maryland
state house of delegates; member of Maryland
state senate; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Belgium, 1837-42.
Among those killed in the explosion
when a cannon accidentally
burst on board
the U.S.S. Princeton, on the Potomac River near Fort
Washington, Prince
George's County, Md., February
28, 1844 (age 58 years, 299
days).
Originally entombed at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at a
private or family graveyard, Anne Arundel County, Md.
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Married to Mary Galloway. |
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David Gardiner (1784-1844) —
of New York.
Born in 1784.
Member of New York
state senate 1st District, 1824-27.
Among those killed in the explosion
when a cannon accidentally
burst on board
the U.S.S. Princeton, on the Potomac River near Fort
Washington, Prince
George's County, Md., February
28, 1844 (age about 59
years).
Originally entombed at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; later interred at South
End Cemetery, East Hampton, Long Island, N.Y.
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Joseph Roffignac (1766-1846) —
also known as Louis Philippe Joseph de Rouffignac —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Angoulême, France,
1766.
Mayor
of New Orleans, La., 1820-28.
French
ancestry.
Fled
France in 1789 to escape the
guillotine, presumably over disloyalty
to the revolutionary regime.
Suffered a stroke,
and dropped the gun he was holding, which accidentally
discharged, shooting him in the head and killing him, in
Périgueux, France,
1846
(age about
80 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Alexander Keith McClung (1809-1855) —
also known as Alexander K. McClung; "The Black Knight
of the South" —
of Mississippi.
Born in Virginia, 1809.
Son of William
McClung.
Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; U.S. Charge
d'Affaires to Bolivia, 1849-51.
Killed his opponents in a number of duels.
Died from a self-inflicted
gunshot, with a dueling pistol, in a hotel room
at Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss., March 23,
1855 (age about 45
years).
Interment at Friendship
Cemetery, Columbus, Miss.
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Anson Jones (1798-1858) —
of Texas.
Born in Great Barrington, Berkshire
County, Mass., January
20, 1798.
Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member
of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Brazoria, 1839-41; Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1841-44; President
of the Texas Republic, 1844-45.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Committed suicide
by gunshot, in the Rice Hotel,
Houston, Harris
County, Tex., January
9, 1858 (age 59 years, 354
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Houston, Tex.
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Philip Barton Key (1818-1859) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Georgetown, Washington,
D.C., April 5,
1818.
Son of Francis
Scott Key.
U.S.
Attorney for the District of Columbia, 1853-59; died in office
1859.
Shot and killed by
Daniel
E. Sickles, in retaliation
for Key's affair
with his wife Teresa, at Lafayette Park, Washington,
D.C., February
27, 1859 (age 40 years, 328
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; cenotaph at Westminster
Burying Ground, Baltimore, Md.
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Robert Simpson Neighbors (1815-1859) —
of Texas.
Born in Virginia, November
3, 1815.
Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member
of Texas
state house of representatives, 1852-53; Federal Superintendent
of Indians.
Shot and killed by
Edward Cornett, at Fort Belknap (now Belknap), Young
County, Tex., September
14, 1859 (age 43 years, 315
days).
Interment at Fort
Belknap Civilian Cemetery, Belknap, Tex.
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John C. Bell (c.1831-1860) —
of El
Dorado County, Calif.
Born about 1831.
Member of California
state assembly 18th District, 1860; died in office 1860.
During an argument just outside the Assembly
session in the California
State Capitol, was shot and stabbed
by Dr. W. H. Stone, mortally
wounded, and died four days later, in Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., April 15,
1860 (age about 29
years).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Sacramento, Calif.
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Francis Stebbins Bartow (1816-1861) —
of Georgia.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., September
6, 1816.
Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Georgia 1st District, 1856; delegate
to Georgia secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861; died
in office 1861; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Killed
by rifle shot, while rallying his men on the Henry House Hill,
during the first battle of Manassas,
Va., July 21,
1861 (age 44 years, 318
days).
Interment at Laurel
Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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George Nixon Briggs (1796-1861) —
also known as George N. Briggs —
of Lanesboro, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Adams, Berkshire
County, Mass., April 12,
1796.
Lawyer;
Berkshire
County Register of Deeds, 1824-31; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1831-43 (9th District 1831-33,
7th District 1833-43); Governor of
Massachusetts, 1844-51; defeated (American), 1859; common pleas
court judge in Massachusetts, 1851-56; delegate to
Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1853.
Killed by the accidental
discharge of a "fowling piece" (shotgun), in Pittsfield,
Berkshire
County, Mass., September
11, 1861 (age 65 years, 152
days).
Interment at Pittsfield
Cemetery, Pittsfield, Mass.
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Benjamin Franklin Terry (1821-1861) —
also known as Frank Terry —
Born in Russellville, Logan
County, Ky., February
18, 1821.
Son of Joseph Royal Terry (1792-1877) and Sarah David (Smith) Terry
(1793-1837).
Planter;
in 1844, he was attacked
by two rebellious slaves with knives and axes; railroad
builder; delegate
to Texas secession convention, 1861; colonel in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War.
Shot and killed in
action while leading Terry's Texas Rangers at the battle of
Woodsonville (also called Rowlett's Station), in Hart
County, Ky., December
17, 1861 (age 40 years, 302
days).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Fort Bend County, Tex.; reinterment
in 1880 at Glenwood
Cemetery, Houston, Tex.
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William McPherson McIntosh (1815-1862) —
of Georgia.
Born in Elbert
County, Ga., February
14, 1815.
Democrat. Lawyer; planter;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1846-47; member of Georgia
state senate, 1855-56; Presidential Elector for Georgia, 1860;
general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Died from gunshot wounds received at the Civil
War battle at Garnett's Farm, Henrico
County, Va., June, 1862
(age 47
years, 0 days).
Interment at Heard
Cemetery, Elberton, Ga.
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George W. Johnson (1811-1862) —
of Georgetown, Scott
County, Ky.
Born in 1811.
Lawyer;
delegate
to Kentucky secession convention, 1861; Confederate Governor of
Kentucky, 1861-62.
Shot during a Civil War
battle, and died soon after, 1862
(age about
51 years).
Interment somewhere
in Georgetown, Ky.
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Felix Kirk Zollicoffer (1812-1862) —
also known as Felix K. Zollicoffer —
of Tennessee.
Born in Bigbyville, Maury
County, Tenn., May 19,
1812.
Member of Tennessee
state senate, 1849; fought a pistol duel
with rival editor John L. Martin, in Nashville, Tenn., 1852; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 8th District, 1853-59; general in
the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Shot and killed in a Civil
War battle near Mill Springs, Wayne
County, Ky., January
19, 1862 (age 49 years, 245
days).
Interment at Nashville
City Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.; cenotaph at Zollicoffer
Park Cemetery, Near Nancy, Pulaski County, Ky.
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W. H. L. Wallace (d. 1862) —
of Ottawa, La Salle
County, Ill.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1856;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Shot and killed while leading troops at the Civil
War battle of Shiloh near Pittsburg Landing, Hardin
County, Tenn., April 6,
1862.
Interment a
private or family graveyard, La Salle County, Ill.
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Richardson A. Scurry (1811-1862) —
of Texas.
Born in Gallatin, Sumner
County, Tenn., November
11, 1811.
Democrat. Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of
Independence; judge of Texas Republic, 1840-41; member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1842-44; U.S.
Representative from Texas 1st District, 1851-53; general in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Accidentally
shot himself in the foot while hunting,
in August 1854; the wound never healed and became infected;
though his leg was later amputated, he died as a result in Hempstead,
Waller
County, Tex., April 9,
1862 (age 50 years, 149
days).
Interment at Hempstead
Cemetery, Hempstead, Tex.
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Robert Eden Scott (1808-1862) —
of Virginia.
Born in Warrenton, Fauquier
County, Va., April 23,
1808.
Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1835-42, 1845-52; delegate to
Virginia state constitutional convention, 1850-51; delegate
to Virginia secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Virginia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62.
Shot and killed, in a Civil
War skirmish with a band of Union deserters, in Fauquier
County, Va., May 3,
1862 (age 54 years, 10
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Fauquier County, Va.
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George Taliaferro Ward (c.1810-1862) —
also known as George T. Ward —
of Leon
County, Fla.
Born in Fayette
County, Ky., about 1810.
Whig. Member
Florida territorial council, 1833-34; delegate
to Florida state constitutional convention from Leon County,
1838-39; candidate for Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Florida Territory, 1841; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1848; candidate for Governor of
Florida, 1852; delegate
to Florida secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Florida to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
candidate for Senator
from Florida in the Confederate Congress, 1861; colonel in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Shot and killed while leading his regiment in the Civil
War battle at Williamsburg,
Va., May 5,
1862 (age about 52
years).
Interment at Episcopal
Cemetery, Williamsburg, Va.
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William T. Casto (1824-1862) —
Born January
24, 1824.
Son of Abijah Casto.
Lawyer;
mayor
of Maysville, Ky.; arrested
in 1861 and imprisoned
for allegedly aiding
the Confederacy; released in 1862.
Blamed Col. Leonidas Metcalfe (son of Gov. Thomas
Metcalfe) for his imprisonment; challenged him to a duel; the
weapons were Colt rifles at 60 yards; Casto was shot dead on
the first fire, in Bracken
County, Ky., May 8,
1862 (age 38 years, 104
days).
Interment at Maysville
Cemetery, Maysville, Ky.
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Epitaph: "A
Patriot, his Country's firm unwavering friend, he was willing to die
for his Principles and as a man of Honor nobly fell a Veteran of the
sacred and invincible right of personal liberty." |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Isaac Ingalls Stevens (1818-1862) —
of Washington.
Born in North Andover, Essex
County, Mass., March 25,
1818.
Major in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; Governor of
Washington Territory, 1853-57; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Washington Territory, 1857-61; general in
the Union Army during the Civil War.
Shot and killed at the Civil
War battle of Chantilly, Fairfax
County, Va., September
1, 1862 (age 44 years, 160
days).
Interment at Island
Cemetery, Newport, R.I.
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Relatives:
Cousin of Charles
Abbot Stevens and Moses
Tyler Stevens. See Stevens
family of Massachusetts. |
| | | Stevens County,
Wash. is named for him. |
| | | Epitaph: "Who gave to the service of
his country a quick and comprehensive mind, a warm and generous
heart, a firm will, and a strong arm, and who fell while rallying his
command, with the flag of the Republic in his dying grasp, at the
battle of Chantilly, Va." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Isaac Ingalls Stevens:
Joseph Taylor Hazard, Companion
of Adventure: A Biography of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, First Governor of
Washington |
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James Streshly Jackson (1823-1862) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Fayette
County, Ky., September
27, 1823.
U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 2nd District, 1861; general in the
Union Army during the Civil War.
Killed
by rifle shot in the Battle of Perryville, Boyle
County, Ky., October
8, 1862 (age 39 years, 11
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Hopkinsville, Ky.
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Charles Tillinghast James (1805-1862) —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in West Greenwich Center, West Greenwich, Kent
County, R.I., September
15, 1805.
U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1851-57.
Died of wounds that he received from the accidental
explosion
of a cannon shell of his own manufacture, with which he was
experimenting, at Sag Harbor, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., October
17, 1862 (age 57 years, 32
days).
Interment at Swan
Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
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Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (1823-1862) —
of Georgia.
Born in Jefferson
County, Ga., April 10,
1823.
Delegate
from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Shot and killed
in the battle of Fredericksburg, Stafford
County, Va., December
13, 1862 (age 39 years, 247
days).
Interment at Oconee
Hill Cemetery, Athens, Ga.
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Jacob Babbitt (1809-1862) —
of Bristol, Bristol
County, R.I.
Born in Bristol, Bristol
County, R.I., May 9,
1809.
Son of Jacob Babbitt (1769-1850) and Bathsheba (Stoddard) Babbitt
(1773-1852).
Democrat. Banker; cotton
manufacturer; member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Rhode Island, 1860;
major in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Shot and wounded (in a "friendly fire" accident) during the Civil
War battle of Fredericksburg, Va., and died ten days later, in
Mansion House Hospital,
Alexandria,
Va., December
23, 1862 (age 53 years, 228
days).
Interment at Juniper
Hill Cemetery, Bristol, R.I.
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Relatives:
Married, October
7, 1826, to Abby Eliza Briggs (1808-1882). |
| | | Epitaph: "Know this, if I fall, it will
be in defense of our beloved Constitution." |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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George M. Carhart (d. 1863) —
of California.
Member of California
state assembly 21st District, 1853-54.
Accidentally
shot and killed while sleeping in Skinner's Saloon,
Bannock, Beaverhead
County, Mont., May 17,
1863.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Allison Owens (1833-1864) —
also known as William A. Owens —
of Charlotte, Mecklenburg
County, N.C.
Born September
19, 1833.
Mayor
of Charlotte, N.C., 1861-62; colonel in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War.
Shot and wounded at the Civil
War battle of Snicker's Gap, and died the next day, July 19,
1864 (age 30 years, 304
days).
Interment at Settler's
Cemetery, Charlotte, N.C.
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Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb (1807-1864) —
also known as Williamson R. W. Cobb —
of Bellefonte, Jackson
County, Ala.
Born in Rhea
County, Tenn., June 8,
1807.
Democrat. Member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1845; U.S.
Representative from Alabama, 1847-61 (6th District 1847-53, 8th
District 1853-55, 6th District 1855-61); Representative
from Alabama in the Confederate Congress 3rd District; defeated,
1861; elected 1863.
Killed by the accidental
discharge of his own pistol, while putting up a fence on
his plantation near Bellefonte, Jackson
County, Ala., November
1, 1864 (age 57 years, 146
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Madison County, Ala.
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John Milton (1807-1865) —
of Marianna, Jackson
County, Fla.
Born near Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ga., April 20,
1807.
Son of Homer Virgil Milton (1781-1822).
Democrat. Lawyer;
Presidential Elector for Florida, 1848;
member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1850; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Florida, 1860;
Governor
of Florida, 1861-65; died in office 1865.
At the end of the Civil War, believing that "death would be
preferable to reunion," he committed suicide
by gunshot, Marianna, Jackson
County, Fla., April 1,
1865 (age 57 years, 346
days).
Interment at St.
Luke's Episcopal Cemetery, Marianna, Fla.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) —
also known as "Honest Abe"; "Old
Abe"; "The Rail-Splitter"; "The
Illinois Baboon" —
of Spencer
County, Ind.; Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in a log
cabin, Hardin County (part now in Larue
County), Ky., February
12, 1809.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1834-41; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1847-49; candidate for
Republican nomination for Vice President, 1856;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1858; President
of the United States, 1861-65; died in office 1865.
English
ancestry.
His election as president in 1860 precipitated the Civil War;
determined to preserve the Union, he led the North to victory on the
battlefield, freed the slaves in the conquered states, and in doing
this, redefined American nationhood.
Shot by the assassin
John Wilkes Booth, during a play at
Ford's Theater,
in Washington,
D.C., April 14, 1865; died at Peterson's Boarding
House, across the street, the following day, April 15,
1865 (age 56 years, 62
days). He was elected in 1900 to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans. His portrait appears on the U.S. penny
(one
cent coin) since 1909, and on the $5
bill since 1913. From the 1860s until 1927, his portrait also
appeared on U.S. notes
and certificates of various denominations from $1
to $500.
Interment at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.; memorial monument at National
Mall, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1868 at Judiciary
Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives:
Married, November
4, 1842, to Mary Ann Todd (1818-1882; grandniece of David
Rittenhouse Porter; sister-in-law of Ninian
Wirt Edwards; half-sister-in-law of N. H.
R. Dawson); father of Robert
Todd Lincoln. See Porter-Edwards-Lincoln-Todd
family. |
| | | Cross-reference: Clement
Claiborne Clay, Jr. — Isham
N. Haynie — William
M. Stone — John
Pitcher — Stephen
Miller — John
T. Stuart — William
H. Seward — Henry
L. Burnett — Judah
P. Benjamin — Robert
Toombs — Richard
Taylor Jacob — George
W. Jones — James
Adams — John
G. Nicolay — Edward
Everett — Stephen
T. Logan — Francis
P. Blair — John
Hay |
| | | Lincoln counties in Ark., Colo., Idaho, Kan., La., Minn., Miss., Mont., Neb., Nev., N.M., Okla., Ore., Wash., W.Va., Wis. and Wyo. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Abraham
L. Keister
— Abraham
L. Brick
— Abraham
L. Kellogg
— Abraham
Lincoln Bernstein
— A.
Lincoln Reiley
— A.
L. Helmick
— A.
Lincoln Acker
— A.
L. Auth
— A.
Lincoln Niditch
— Abraham
Lincoln Freedman
— A.
L. Marovitz
— Lincoln
Gordon
— Abraham
Lincoln Tosti
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Abraham Lincoln: David
Herbert Donald, Lincoln —
George Anastaplo, Abraham
Lincoln : A Constitutional Biography — G. S. Boritt,
ed., The
Lincoln Enigma : The Changing Faces of an American
Icon — Albert J. Beveridge, Abraham
Lincoln 1809-1858 (out of print) — Geoffrey Perret, Lincoln's
War : The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander
in Chief — David Herbert Donald, We
Are Lincoln Men : Abraham Lincoln and His Friends —
Edward Steers, Jr., Blood
on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln —
Mario Cuomo, Why
Lincoln Matters : Today More Than Ever — Michael W.
Kauffman, American
Brutus : John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln
Conspiracies — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln —
Joshua Wolf Shenk, Lincoln's
Melancholy : How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His
Greatness — John Channing Briggs, Lincoln's
Speeches Reconsidered — Ronald C. White, Jr., The
Eloquent President : A Portrait of Lincoln Through His
Words — Harold Holzer, Lincoln
at Cooper Union : The Speech That Made Abraham Linco ln
President — Michael Lind, What
Lincoln Believed : The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest
President — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln —
Michael Burlingame, ed., Abraham
Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John
Hay — Thomas J. Craughwell, Stealing
Lincoln's Body — Roy Morris, Jr., The
Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen
Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America — Karen
Judson, Abraham
Lincoln (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Abraham Lincoln:
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, The
Real Lincoln : A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an
Unnecessary War |
| | | Fiction about Abraham Lincoln: Gore
Vidal, Lincoln:
A Novel |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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James Henry Lane (1814-1866) —
also known as James H. Lane; "Liberator of
Kansas"; "Fighting Jim" —
of Lawrenceburg, Dearborn
County, Ind.; Lawrence, Douglas
County, Kan.
Born in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn
County, Ind., June 22,
1814.
Son of Amos
Lane and Mary (Foote) Lane.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; Lieutenant
Governor of Indiana, 1849-53; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 4th District, 1853-55; delegate to
Kansas state constitutional convention, 1855, 1857; Kansas
Democratic state chair, 1855; U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1861-66; died in office 1866; general in the
Union Army during the Civil War.
Member, Freemasons.
Deranged and charged
with financial irregularities, he committed
suicide by gunshot on July 1, 1866, and died ten days
later, near Fort Leavenworth, Leavenworth
County, Kan., July 11,
1866 (age 52 years, 19
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Lawrence, Kan.
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Almon Case (1819-1867) —
of Obion
County, Tenn.
Born in Aurora, Portage
County, Ohio, January
6, 1819.
Son of Gideon Case (1779-1822) and Persis (Seward) Case (1786-1874).
Member of Tennessee
state senate, 1867; died in office 1867.
Shot and killed, on
his horse, by
an unknown assailant, reportedly in retaliation for his advocacy of
voting rights for ex-slaves, in Obion
County, Tenn., January
11, 1867 (age 48 years, 5
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Caleb Claiborne Herbert (c.1814-1867) —
of Texas.
Born in Goochland
County, Va., about 1814.
Member of Texas
state senate, 1857-59; Representative
from Texas in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65.
Shot and killed
outside a saloon in
Columbus, Colorado
County, Tex., July 5,
1867 (age about 53
years).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Colorado County, Tex.
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Damien Marchessault (1818-1868) —
also known as Damien Marchesseau —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Quebec,
April
1, 1818.
Democrat. Mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1859-60, 1861-65, 1867.
French
Canadian ancestry.
Died, from a self-inflicted
gunshot wound, in the Council Room of Los Angeles City
Hall, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
20, 1868 (age 49 years, 294
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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James Hinds (1833-1868) —
of Arkansas.
Born near Salem, Washington
County, N.Y., December
5, 1833.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 2nd District, 1868; died in office
1868.
Shot and killed by
George A. Clark, who was drunk at the time, near Indian Bay, Monroe
County, Ark., October
22, 1868 (age 34 years, 322
days).
Interment somewhere
in East Norwich, Long Island, N.Y.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Edward Dexter Holbrook (1836-1870) —
also known as Edward D. Holbrook —
of Idaho City, Boise
County, Idaho.
Born in Elyria, Lorain
County, Ohio, May 6,
1836.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Idaho Territory, 1865-69.
Censured
by the House of Representatives in 1869 for use of unparliamentary
language.
Shot and mortally
wounded by Charles H. Douglas, and died the next day, in Idaho
City, Boise
County, Idaho, June 18,
1870 (age 34 years, 43
days).
Interment at Masonic
Burial Ground, Idaho City, Idaho.
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Alexander Parker Crittenden (1816-1870) —
also known as Alexander P. Crittenden —
of Santa
Clara County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Virginia City, Storey
County, Nev.
Born in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., January
14, 1816.
Son of Thomas
Turpin Crittenden (1788-1832).
Lawyer;
went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state assembly, 1849-51, 1852-53 (Los Angeles District 1849-51,
5th District 1852-53).
Shot and mortally
wounded by his ex-lover, Laura D. Fair, on board a
ferry boat in San Francisco Bay, and died two days later, in San
Francisco, Calif., November
5, 1870 (age 54 years, 295
days). Fair was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death, but
the state supreme court ordered a new trial, and she was acquitted.
Burial
location unknown.
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Lewis Holmes Kenan (1833-1871) —
of Georgia.
Born in Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga., 1833.
Son of Augustus
Holmes Kenan.
Member of Georgia
state senate 20th District, 1867-68.
Shot and killed in
Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga., 1871
(age about
38 years).
Interment somewhere
in Milledgeville, Ga.
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Clement Laird Vallandigham (1820-1871) —
also known as Clement L. Vallandigham —
of Ohio.
Born in New Lisbon (now Lisbon), Columbiana
County, Ohio, July 29,
1820.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1845-46; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Ohio, 1856,
1864,
1868;
U.S.
Representative from Ohio 3rd District, 1858-63; defeated, 1852,
1854, 1862; candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1863.
Leader of the pro-Southern "Copperheads" during the Civil War; arrested
by the Union military authorities in 1863 for treasonable
utterances, and banished
to the Confederate States; returned to the North by way of Canada.
Accidentally
shot himself, while practicing a courtroom
demonstration he planned as part of a defense in a murder trial (not
actually in court at the time, contrary to legend), and died of his
wound the next day, in the Lebanon House hotel,
Lebanon, Warren
County, Ohio, June 17,
1871 (age 50 years, 323
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio.
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O. C. Maxwell (1837-1871) —
of Ohio.
Born in Franklin, Warren
County, Ohio, February
7, 1837.
Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; wounded
in the leg at Perryville, and crippled
for life; delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1868.
Died, in a state of desperation from financial difficulties, from a
self-inflicted
gunshot, in Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio, December
5, 1871 (age 34 years, 301
days).
Interment at Lebanon
Cemetery, Lebanon, Ohio.
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Joseph R. Waldrop (1825-1872) —
of Alabama.
Born in Mississippi, 1825.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1869.
Methodist.
Member, Ku
Klux Klan.
Shot and killed
while getting off his horse in front of a boarding
house in Escatawpa, Washington
County, Ala., 1872
(age about
47 years).
Interment at Old
Escatawpa Cemetery, Escatawpa, Ala.
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Edwin Stanton McCook (1837-1873) —
Born in Carrollton, Carroll
County, Ohio, March 26,
1837.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; secretary
of Dakota Territory, 1872-73; died in office 1873.
Member, Freemasons.
Shot and killed by
Peter P. Wintermute, a banker and political adversary, at a saloon in
Yankton, Yankton
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.), September
11, 1873 (age 36 years, 169
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Thomas Neel Stilwell (1830-1874) —
also known as Thomas N. Stilwell —
of Anderson, Madison
County, Ind.
Born in Stilwell, Butler
County, Ohio, August
29, 1830.
Republican. Lawyer; banker;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1856; served in the Union Army
during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 11th District, 1865-67; U.S. Minister
to Venezuela, 1867-68.
During an argument over financial matters, he drew his pistol and
fired at John E. Corwin, wounding him in the leg; Corwin then
shot Stilwell in the head, killing
him, in Anderson, Madison
County, Ind., January
14, 1874 (age 43 years, 138
days).
Interment at West
Maplewood Cemetery, Anderson, Ind.
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Harvey Myers (1828-1874) —
of Kentucky.
Born February
10, 1828.
Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 6th District, 1872.
Shot and killed by
Col. William G. Terrell, whose wife he had represented in a divorce
case, in the Stevenson & Myers law
office, Greer Building, Covington, Kenton
County, Ky., March 28,
1874 (age 46 years, 46
days).
Interment at Highland
Cemetery, Fort Mitchell, Ky.
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Harrison Cockrill (1826-1876) —
of Owsley
County, Ky.
Born in Breathitt
County, Ky., June 18,
1826.
Son of Simon Cockrill.
Member of Kentucky
state senate, 1863-65, 1869-73; county judge in Kentucky;
Presidential Elector for Kentucky, 1868;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 9th District, 1874.
Member, Freemasons.
Died of a (probably) self-inflicted
gunshot wound May 22,
1876 (age 49 years, 339
days).
Interment at Cockrell
Family Cemetery, Ravenna, Ky.
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Robert A. Alston (1832-1879) —
of Georgia.
Born in Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga., 1832.
Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1878-79; died in office 1879.
Killed
in a gunfight in the Georgia state
capitol building, Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., 1879
(age about
47 years).
Interment at Decatur
Cemetery, Decatur, Ga.
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John Milton Elliott (1820-1879) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Scott
County, Va., May 20,
1820.
Son of John Elliott and Jane Elliott.
Democrat. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1847, 1860-61; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 6th District, 1853-59; Delegate
from Kentucky to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
Representative
from Kentucky in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65; circuit judge
in Kentucky, 1868-74; Judge,
Kentucky Court of Appeals, 1876-79; died in office 1879.
Expelled
from the Kentucky legislature in 1861 for supporting
the Confederacy.
Shot and killed by
Col. Thomas Buford, in front of the ladies' entrance to the Capitol
Hotel,
in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., March 26,
1879 (age 58 years, 310
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.; statue at Boyd
County Courthouse Grounds, Catlettsburg, Ky.
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James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) —
also known as James A. Garfield —
of Hiram, Portage
County, Ohio.
Born in a log
cabin near Orange, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, November
19, 1831.
Son of Abram Garfield (1799-1833) and Elizabeth (Ballou) Garfield
(1801-1888).
Republican. Lawyer; college
professor; president,
Eclectic University (now Hiram College); member of Ohio state
senate, 1859-61; general in the Union Army during the Civil War;
U.S.
Representative from Ohio 19th District, 1863-81; President
of the United States, 1881; died in office 1881.
Disciples
of Christ. English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Delta
Upsilon.
His portrait appeared on the U.S. $20
gold certificate in about 1898-1905.
Shot by the assassin
Charles J. Guiteau, in the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad
Station, Washington, D.C., July 2, 1881, and died from the
effects of the wound and infection,
in Elberon, Monmouth
County, N.J., September
19, 1881 (age 49 years, 304
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio; statue erected 1887 at Garfield
Circle, Washington, D.C.; statue at Golden
Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif.
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Relatives: Third
cousin thrice removed of Samuel
Lathrop; son of Abram Garfield (1799-1833) and Elizabeth (Ballou)
Garfield (1801-1888); fourth cousin of Eli
Thayer; married, November
11, 1858, to Lucretia "Crete" Rudolph (1832-1918);
third cousin once removed of Abial
Lathrop; fourth cousin once removed of John
Alden Thayer; father of James
Rudolph Garfield. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: William
S. Maynard |
| | | Garfield counties in Colo., Mont., Neb., Okla., Utah and Wash. are
named for him. |
| | | Politician named for him: James
G. Stewart
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about James A. Garfield: Allan
Peskin, Garfield:
A Biography — Justus D. Doenecke, The
Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A.
Arthur |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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Alonzo William Slayback (1838-1882) —
also known as Alonzo W. Slayback —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born July 4,
1838.
Democrat. Lawyer;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1876;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Missouri, 1876.
Member, Elks.
Shot and killed by
John Cockerill, editor of the Post-Dispatch newspaper, in St.
Louis, Mo., October
13, 1882 (age 44 years, 101
days). Cockerill pleaded self-defense and was not indicted by the
grand jury.
Interment at Machpelah
Cemetery, Lexington, Mo.
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Thomas J. R. Swafford (d. 1884) —
Democrat. Member of Tennessee
state senate, 1884; died in office 1884; shot
through his arm by Jeff Dibrell, brother of George
G. Dibrell; injured
in several other gun and knife fights, in one of which he wounded two
attackers and accidentally killed his father-in-law.
Shot and killed
during an armed confrontation with Monroe Hudson, shopkeeper, who had
ordered him to leave his store, in
Sparta, White
County, Tenn., October
17, 1884.
Burial
location unknown.
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Jacques J. Stillwell (1827-1884) —
also known as J. J. Stillwell —
of Gravesend (now part of Brooklyn), Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in 1827.
Member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 12th District, 1881-82.
While suffering from an overdose
of chloral hydrate, and fearing the onset of insanity, he shot
himself,
and died several days later, in Gravesend (now part of Brooklyn), Kings
County, N.Y., December
14, 1884 (age about 57
years).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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John B. Bowman (1832-1885) —
of East St. Louis, St. Clair
County, Ill.
Born in Germany,
1832.
Republican. Civil
engineer; lawyer; real estate
business; mayor
of East St. Louis, Ill., 1865-66, 1868, 1872-74, 1877-78.
German
ancestry.
Shot and killed by
an unknown assailant, in front of his home, in East St. Louis, St. Clair
County, Ill., November
21, 1885 (age about 53
years). Two East St. Louis policemen were later charged with his
murder, but they were never tried.
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Claiborne Hooper Phillips (1847-1886) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in 1847.
Mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1883-86.
Accidentally
shot and killed while on a hunting
trip, near Britton, Marshall
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.), September
10, 1886 (age about 39
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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John C. Niglutsch (d. 1887) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Clerk at Castle Garden; organist;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 10th District, 1882.
Suffered a self-inflicted
gunshot wound, apparently while in a paranoid state, and died
soon after, in Bellevue Hospital,
New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
8, 1887.
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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William Wirt Adams (1819-1888) —
of Mississippi.
Born in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., March 22,
1819.
Member of Mississippi state legislature, 1858; general in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Shot and killed in
a street encounter with John Martin, a newspaper editor with whom he
had quarreled, in Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss., May 1,
1888 (age 69 years, 40
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Jackson, Miss.; cenotaph at Confederate
Cemetery, Okolona, Miss.
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David Smith Terry (1823-1889) —
also known as David S. Terry —
of Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Stockton, San Joaquin
County, Calif.
Born in Christian County (part now in Todd
County), Ky., March 8,
1823.
Son of Joseph Royal Terry (1792-1877) and Sarah David (Smith) Terry
(1793-1837).
Lawyer;
went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; advocated the extension of
slavery to California; justice of
California state supreme court, 1855-59; chief
justice of California state supreme court, 1857-59; killed U.S.
Senator David
C. Broderick in a duel
near San Francisco in 1859; tried for
murder,
but acquitted; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
delegate
to California state constitutional convention, 1878-79; candidate
for Presidential Elector for California, 1880;
his wife Sarah Althea Hill claimed to be the widow and heir of
wealthy U.S. Senator William
Sharon; in September, 1888, when her claim was finally rejected
by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen
J. Field (acting as a Court of Appeals judge for California), she
and Terry caused an altercation in the courtroom and were jailed
six months for contempt
of court.
Five months after his release from jail, he encountered Justice Field
and slapped him in the face; he was then shot through the
heart and killed by
U.S. Deputy Marshal David Neagle, the justice's bodyguard, in the train
station dining
room at Lathrop, San Joaquin
County, Calif., August
14, 1889 (age 66 years, 159
days). Neagle was arrested by local authorities, but later
released on the demand of the U.S. government.
Interment at Stockton
Rural Cemetery, Stockton, Calif.
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William Cassius Goodloe (1841-1889) —
also known as W. Cassius Goodloe —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Madison
County, Ky., June 27,
1841.
Son of D. I. Goodloe.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
publisher; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Kentucky, 1868,
1872
(delegation chair), 1884,
1888;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1871; defeated, 1867; member of
Republican
National Committee from Kentucky, 1872-; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1873; candidate for Kentucky
state attorney general, 1875; U.S. Minister to Belgium, 1878-80.
Episcopalian.
Member, Loyal
Legion.
During a violent encounter in the lobby of the Lexington Post
Office, he repeatedly
stabbed and ultimately killed a political enemy, Col. Armistead
Swope, who meanwhile shot and badly
wounded him; before any prosecution
could ensue, he died of his own wounds two days later, in the Phoenix
Hotel,
Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., November
8, 1889 (age 48 years, 134
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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William Preston Taulbee (1851-1890) —
also known as William P. Taulbee —
of Salyersville, Magoffin
County, Ky.
Born in Morgan
County, Ky., October
22, 1851.
Son of William Harrison Taulbee (1824-1905) and Mary Ann (Wilson)
Taulbee (1831-1916).
Democrat. Ordained
minister; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 10th District, 1885-89.
Shot and mortally
wounded, by Charles E. Kincaid, a journalist with whom he had
quarreled, in the U.S.
Capitol Building, and died eleven days later at Providence Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., March 11,
1890 (age 38 years, 140
days). Kincaid pleaded self-defense and was found not guilty of
murder in 1891.
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Morgan County, Ky.
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Charles A. Binder (c.1858-1891) —
also known as John Roth —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, about 1858.
Son of Margaret Binder.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 10th District, 1884, 1886.
German
ancestry.
Accused
in 1891 of embezzling
$20,000 from the estate of Barbara Hausman; fled
and became a fugitive,
traveling under the alias "John Roth".
Committed suicide
by gunshot, in his room at the Sheridan House Hotel, and
died there early the next morning, in Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., May 17,
1891 (age about 33
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Adam Henneman (1835-1891) —
also known as J. A. Henneman —
of Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C.
Born in Kronach, Bavaria (now Germany),
1835.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; jeweler; mayor
of Spartanburg, S.C., 1891; died in office 1891.
German
ancestry.
Shot and killed by
John Williams, in Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C., September
27, 1891 (age about 56
years). Williams was hanged for the murder on October 7, 1892.
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Spartanburg, S.C.
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Relatives:
Married to Louisa Rate (1838-1909). |
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R. D. McCotter (d. 1892) —
of Pamlico
County, N.C.
Member of North
Carolina state senate, 1892; died in office 1892.
Shot and killed
from ambush near his home, purportedly by the "White Caps", in Pamlico
County, N.C., May 20,
1892.
Burial
location unknown.
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Carter Henry Harrison (1825-1893) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born near Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., February
15, 1825.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Illinois 2nd District, 1875-79; mayor of
Chicago, Ill., 1879-87, 1893; died in office 1893; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1884;
candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1884.
Shot and killed at
his home, by Patrick Eugene Prendergast, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., October
28, 1893 (age 68 years, 255
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Thomas McKee Bayne (1836-1894) —
also known as Thomas M. Bayne —
of Allegheny (now part of Pittsburgh), Allegheny
County, Pa.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Bellevue, Allegheny
County, Pa., June 14,
1836.
Republican. Lawyer;
colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; Allegheny
County District Attorney, 1870-74; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 23rd District, 1877-91;
defeated, 1874; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1884.
Alarmed about a lung hemorrhage, he committed suicide,
by gunshot to the head, in Washington,
D.C., June 16,
1894 (age 58 years, 2
days).
Interment at Uniondale
Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Alson Bailey Abbott (1844-1894) —
also known as Alson B. Abbott —
of Queensbury, Warren
County, N.Y.; Glens Falls, Warren
County, N.Y.
Born in Andover, Essex
County, Mass., November
3, 1844.
Son of William F. Abbott (1814-1896) and Sarah Job (Abbott) Abbott
(1818-1863).
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Warren County, 1878; president, Canton Bridge
Company.
While cleaning a shotgun for hunting,
it accidentally
discharged, killing him, in Glens Falls, Warren
County, N.Y., August
27, 1894 (age 49 years, 297
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1873
to Sarah Morgan. |
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Michael Daniel Harter (1846-1896) —
also known as Michael D. Harter —
of Mansfield, Richland
County, Ohio.
Born in Canton, Stark
County, Ohio, April 6,
1846.
Son of Isaac Harter.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1891-95 (15th District 1891-93, 14th
District 1893-95).
Lutheran.
Committed suicide
by self-inflicted
gunshot, in Fostoria, Seneca
County, Ohio, February
22, 1896 (age 49 years, 322
days).
Interment at Mansfield
Cemetery, Mansfield, Ohio.
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Charles Henry Voorhis (1833-1896) —
also known as Charles H. Voorhis —
of New Jersey.
Born in Spring Valley (now Paramus), Bergen
County, N.J., March 13,
1833.
Republican. Lawyer; banker;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1864;
U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 5th District, 1879-81.
Indicted
in 1881 for bank
fraud over his actions as president of two banks, which later
became insolvent; tried and
found not guilty.
Fearing oncoming total blindness, he committed suicide
by gunshot, in his office in
the Davidson Building, Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., April 15,
1896 (age 63 years, 33
days).
Original interment at Bayview
- New York Bay Cemetery, Jersey City, N.J.; reinterment at Hackensack
Cemetery, Hackensack, N.J.
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Caleb Dorsey (1833-1896) —
of Pike
County, Mo.; Stanislaus
County, Calif.
Born in Patapsco, Anne Arundel
County, Md., September
7, 1833.
Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; livestock
raiser; bank
director; member of California
state assembly 5th District, 1877-80.
Member, Freemasons.
Shot and killed by
his mining partner, J. T. Newcomer, at Snell Mine, near Columbia, Tuolumne
County, Calif., April 21,
1896 (age 62 years, 227
days). Newcomer claimed self-defense, but was convicted of murder
and sentenced to prison.
Interment at Stockton
Rural Cemetery, Stockton, Calif.
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Abram S. Cassedy (d. 1896) —
of Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y.
Lawyer;
mayor
of Newburgh, N.Y., 1880-82.
Distressed over business losses, he shot himself,
and died later that day, in in Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y., April 29,
1896.
Burial
location unknown.
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John J. Boyle (c.1843-1898) —
of New Castle, New Castle
County, Del.
Born about 1843.
Democrat. Merchant;
Delaware State Sealer of Weights and Measures.
Committed suicide
by self-inflicted gunshot, April 6,
1898 (age about 55
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Charles Fenton Collier (1817-1899) —
also known as Charles F. Collier —
of Petersburg,
Va.
Born in Petersburg,
Va., September
27, 1817.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Virginia state legislature, 1852; Representative
from Virginia in the Confederate Congress, 1862-64; mayor
of Petersburg, Va., 1866-68, 1888-92; president, Southern Railroad.
Presbyterian.
Died, from a self-inflicted
gunshot, attributed to "insomnia, melancholia, and nervous
prostration," in Petersburg,
Va., June 29,
1899 (age 81 years, 275
days).
Interment at Blandford
Cemetery, Petersburg, Va.
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William J. Goebel (1856-1900) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Sullivan
County, Pa., January
4, 1856.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state senate, 1887-99; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Kentucky, 1888;
delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1890-91; Governor of
Kentucky, 1900; died in office 1900.
In 1895, he killed a factional rival, John Stanford, in a political
quarrel; never tried.
While contesting the outcome of a gubernatorial election, was
shot and mortally
wounded in front of the old Kentucky State
Capitol; he was declared elected and sworn in as Governor before
he died four days later, in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., February
3, 1900 (age 44 years, 30
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.; statue at Old
State Capitol Grounds, Frankfort, Ky.
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William H. Mattox (1836-1900) —
of Elbert
County, Ga.
Born in Elbert
County, Ga., 1836.
Planter;
merchant;
served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1865-66; delegate to
Georgia state constitutional convention, 1877; member of Georgia
state senate, 1880-81.
Shot and killed by
his son-in-law J. B. Jones, Jr., during a gunfight, in Elbert
County, Ga., November
17, 1900 (age about 64
years).
Interment at Elmhurst
Cemetery, Elberton, Ga.
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Louis Stern (d. 1901) —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Germany.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; newspaper
reporter; U.S. Commercial Agent (Consul) in Bamberg, 1893-1901.
Jewish.
Arrested
and fined in
Kissingen, Germany, 1895, for insulting
the Baron von Thuengen; also charged
with misrepresenting
his 15-year-old son as being twelve in order to get cheaper passage
to Europe for him on a steamship; the U.S. Consul General in Berlin
asserted that Mr. Stern was "very harshly and unjustly treated".
Depressed over financial problems and perceived anti-Semitism, he
began neglecting
his work; he was recalled
as commercial agent in 1901, but remained at Bamberg; his failure
to return money he had collected on behalf of U.S. citizens led
to a judgement
against him for 2,000 marks, which he was unable to pay; he
committed suicide
by gunshot, in the public gardens at Bamberg, Germany,
June
10, 1901.
Burial
location unknown.
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William McKinley, Jr. (1843-1901) —
also known as "Idol of Ohio" —
of Canton, Stark
County, Ohio.
Born in Niles, Trumbull
County, Ohio, January
29, 1843.
Republican. Major in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1877-84, 1885-91 (17th District
1877-79, 16th District 1879-81, 17th District 1881-83, 18th District
1883-84, 20th District 1885-87, 18th District 1887-91); delegate to
Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1884,
1888;
Governor
of Ohio, 1892-96; President
of the United States, 1897-1901; died in office 1901.
Methodist.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Loyal
Legion; Freemasons;
Grand
Army of the Republic; Knights
of Pythias; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
His portrait appeared on the U.S. $500
bill from about 1928 until 1946.
Shot by the assassin
Leon Czolgosz, at a reception
in the Temple of Music, at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo,
N.Y., September 6, 1901, and died eight days later, in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., September
14, 1901 (age 58 years, 228
days).
Interment at McKinley
Monument, Canton, Ohio; statue at Lucas
County Courthouse Grounds, Toledo, Ohio.
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William Van Slooten (c.1857-1901) —
also known as "The Mysterious Van
Slooten" —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., about 1857.
Son of John Van Slooten.
Democrat. Mining engineer;
candidate for New York
state senate 5th District, 1893.
Died, from a self-inflicted
gunshot, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
14, 1901 (age about 44
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Hale Johnson (1847-1902) —
of Newton, Jasper
County, Ill.
Born in Montgomery
County, Ind., August
21, 1847.
Son of John B. Johnson.
Lawyer;
mayor of Newton, Ill.; Prohibition candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1896.
Disciples
of Christ.
While attempting to collect a debt from a farmer, the debtor, Harry
Harris, shot and killed
him, in Bogota, Jasper
County, Ill., November
4, 1902 (age 55 years, 75
days). Harris was arrested that day, but poisoned himself on the
way to jail.
Interment somewhere
in Newton, Ill.
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James Buchanan Marcum (1858-1903) —
also known as J. B. Marcum —
of Kentucky.
Born January
9, 1858.
Republican. Kentucky
Republican state chair, 1903.
Shot and killed, by
Curtis Jett and Tom White, at the behest of county judge James
H. Hargis, on the steps of the Breathitt County
Courthouse, Jackson, Breathitt
County, Ky., May 4,
1903 (age 45 years, 115
days).
Interment at Sewell
Cemetery, Jackson, Ky.
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Andrew Haswell Green (1820-1903) —
also known as Andrew H. Green; "Father of Greater New
York"; "Handy Andy" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born near Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., October
6, 1820.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1880;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 13th District, 1894.
Protestant.
Guided creation of Central Park in New York, and Niagara State
Preserve (first
state park in the U.S.); led crusade to consolidate the five boroughs
into today's New York City; helped create the New York Public
Library, the Bronx Zoo, and other cultural institutions. Green
Island, near Niagara Falls, is named for
him.
Shot and killed, by
a murderer who mistook him for someone else, in front of his home, on
Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
13, 1903 (age 83 years, 38
days).
Interment at Rural
Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
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Robert Milligan McLane (1867-1904) —
also known as Robert M. McLane —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., November
20, 1867.
Son of James Latimer McLane (1834-1923) and Fanny (King) McLane
(1836-1905).
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Baltimore, Md., 1903-04; died in office 1904.
Died from a self-inflicted
gunshot, in Baltimore,
Md., May 30,
1904 (age 36 years, 192
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Robert Adams, Jr. (1849-1906) —
also known as Bertie Adams —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., February
26, 1849.
Republican. Member of Pennsylvania
state senate 6th District, 1883-86; U.S. Minister to Brazil, 1889-90; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 2nd District, 1893-1906; died in
office 1906; drafted and introduced the declaration of war against
Spain, 1898.
Despondent over heavy losses in stock speculation and the prospect of
defeat at the polls, he committed
suicide by pistol shot, in his rooms at the Metropolitan
Club, and died soon after in Emergency Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., June 1,
1906 (age 57 years, 95
days).
Interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Arthur Brown (1843-1906) —
of Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo
County, Mich.; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born near Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo
County, Mich., March 8,
1843.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Senator from Utah, 1896-97; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Utah, 1896
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization; speaker).
Shot and killed by
Anna Bradley, who claimed to be the mother of his children, in Washington,
D.C., December
12, 1906 (age 63 years, 279
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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William J. Donohue (d. 1907) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Republican. Member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 14th District, 1907; defeated,
1903; died in office 1907.
Shot and killed
himself, in the lavatory of a saloon in
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
31, 1907.
Burial
location unknown.
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George Wallace Delamater (1849-1907) —
also known as George W. Delamater —
of Meadville, Crawford
County, Pa.
Born in Meadville, Crawford
County, Pa., March 31,
1849.
Son of Susan (Town) Delamater (1820-1916) and George
Benjamin Delamater.
Republican. Lawyer; banker; mayor
of Meadville, Pa., 1877; chair of
Crawford County Republican Party, 1878; Presidential Elector for
Pennsylvania, 1880;
member of Pennsylvania
state senate 50th District, 1887-90; candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1890.
Died from a self-inflicted
gunshot wound, in his office at
the Diamond Banking Building, Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., August 7,
1907 (age 58 years, 129
days).
Interment at Greendale
Cemetery, Meadville, Pa.
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Paul C. Barth (1858-1907) —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., 1858.
Mayor
of Louisville, Ky., 1905-07.
Removed
from office over alleged vote
fraud in 1907.
Committed
suicide by gunshot, in the lavatory of his office,
Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., August
21, 1907 (age about 49
years).
Interment at St.
Louis Catholic Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Athelston Gaston (1838-1907) —
of Meadville, Crawford
County, Pa.
Born in Castile, Wyoming
County, N.Y., April 24,
1838.
Democrat. Mayor
of Meadville, Pa., 1891; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 26th District, 1899-1901.
Accidentally
hit by gunshot while on a hunting
trip at Lake Edward, Quebec,
September
23, 1907 (age 69 years, 152
days).
Interment at Greendale
Cemetery, Meadville, Pa.
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James Henderson Hargis (1862-1908) —
also known as James H. Hargis; "Big
Jim" —
of Jackson, Breathitt
County, Ky.
Born in Jackson, Breathitt
County, Ky., October
13, 1862.
Son of John
Seldon Hargis.
Democrat. County judge in Kentucky; member of Kentucky
Democratic State Central Committee, 1899-1907.
Tried
and acquitted for the 1902-03 murders
of J.
B. Marcum and two others, but found liable for plotting
the killings in a 1904 civil suit for money damages by surviving
family members.
Shot and killed by
his son, Beech Hargis, in the Hargis Brothers general
store, Jackson, Breathitt
County, Ky., February
6, 1908 (age 45 years, 116
days).
Interment at Hargis
Family Cemetery, Jackson, Ky.
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Silas Clark McFarland (1859-1908) —
also known as Silas C. McFarland —
of Marshalltown, Marshall
County, Iowa.
Born in Mt. Pleasant, Henry
County, Iowa, June 3,
1859.
Son of Samuel McFarland and Mary A. (Woolson) McFarland.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Iowa, 1888;
U.S. Consul in Nottingham, 1899-1902; Reichenberg, 1902-07; U.S. Consul General in SAINT Gall, 1907.
Committed suicide,
by gunshot, in his compartment on the Hamburg-Berlin express
train, near Ludwigslust, Germany,
October
24, 1908 (age 49 years, 143
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Edward Ward Carmack (1858-1908) —
also known as Edward W. Carmack —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born near Castalian Springs, Sumner
County, Tenn., November
5, 1858.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1885; editor of newspapers,
including the Nashville American, the Memphis
Commercial, and the Nashville Tennesseean; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1896;
U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 10th District, 1897-1901; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1901-07; candidate for Governor of
Tennessee, 1908.
Member, Freemasons.
Shot and killed by
Robin J. Cooper, whose father, Col. Duncan Hunter, had been ridiculed
in the Tennesseean, in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., November
9, 1908 (age 50 years, 4
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Columbia, Tenn.; statue at State
Capitol Grounds, Nashville, Tenn.
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William C. Mains (c.1869-1909) —
of Mt. Vernon, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born about 1869.
Son of Rev. George P. Mains.
Republican. Lawyer;
crusader against saloons in Mt. Vernon, N.Y.; member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County 1st District, 1901.
Died, from a self-inflicted
gunshot wound, in his office at
Mt. Vernon, Westchester
County, N.Y., January
23, 1909 (age about 40
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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John T. Carmody (1861-1909) —
of Fremont, Sandusky
County, Ohio; Cedar Rapids, Linn
County, Iowa.
Born in Ireland,
December, 1861.
Foundry
owner; mayor
of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1909; died in office 1909.
Shot and badly
wounded in the abdomen by a burglar on May 23, and subsequently
died, probably due to infection,
in Cedar Rapids, Linn
County, Iowa, August 7,
1909 (age 47 years, 0
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Bruce MacMaster, Jr. (1875-1912) —
also known as William B. MacMaster, Jr. —
of New York.
Born, of American parents, in Colombia,
June
28, 1875.
Son of William
Bruce MacMaster.
Rancher;
U.S. Vice Consul in Cartagena, 1904-08; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Cartagena, 1908-12, died in office 1912; stabbed
by two Colombians in the summer of 1909; pressed charges against his
attackers, one of whom was an influential newspaper editor; arrested
by Colombian authorities in June 1910 on charges
that, years earlier, he shot
a a Colombian citizen, in what he said was self-defense; initially
acquitted, then found
guilty, then exonerated by a higher court.
While hunting
alone, was shot multiple times and killed by
an unknown assassin, near Cartagena, Colombia,
August
11, 1912 (age 37 years, 44
days).
Interment at Church
and Convent of Santo Domingo, Cartagena, Colombia.
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Paul Oscar Adolph Husting (1866-1917) —
also known as Paul O. Husting —
of Mayville, Dodge
County, Wis.
Born in Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac
County, Wis., April 25,
1866.
Son of John P. Husting and Mary M. (Juneau) Husting.
Democrat. Lawyer; Dodge
County District Attorney, 1903-06; member of Wisconsin
state senate 13th District, 1907-14; U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1915-17; died in office 1917; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Wisconsin, 1916
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee).
French,
Luxemburgian,
and Menominee
Indian ancestry.
Accidentally
shot in the back by his brother Gustave, when he stood up in his
boat while duck
hunting on Rush Lake, and died soon after in a nearby farmhouse,
near Pickett, Winnebago
County, Wis., October
21, 1917 (age 51 years, 179
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Mayville, Wis.
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Warren Jay Terhune (1869-1920) —
also known as Warren J. Terhune —
of Hackensack, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in Midland Park, Bergen
County, N.J., May 3,
1869.
Served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War; U.S. Navy
commander; Governor of
American Samoa; died in office 1920.
Three days before he was to face an inquiry
into charges
against his
administration, he shot himself
in the heart, in a bathroom of the Executive
Mansion, Utulei, American
Samoa, November
3, 1920 (age 51 years, 184
days); later, the Navy exonerated him; his accuser, Lieutenant
Commander Creed H. Boucher, was courtmartialed and found guilty of
fomenting unrest among the Samoans.
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Walter M. Taussig (1862-1923) —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., June 10,
1862.
Son of Dr. William Taussig.
Democrat. President, Wiesbuch & Hilger, hardware
exporters; vice-president, American Chain Company; president,
Challenge Cutlery Company; mayor of
Yonkers, N.Y., 1922-23; defeated, 1923; died in office 1923.
Shot himself
in the head, in the garage of his home, and died forty minutes later,
in St. John's Hospital,
Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., November
21, 1923 (age 61 years, 164
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Christopher Cutler (1846-1928) —
of Utah.
Born in Sheffield, England,
February
5, 1846.
Salt
Lake County Clerk, 1884-90; Governor of
Utah, 1905-09; banker.
Mormon.
Found in the garage of his home, with a self-inflicted
gunshot wound in his head, and died soon after in a hospital
at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, July 30,
1928 (age 82 years, 176
days).
Interment at Salt
Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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David Fulton Rice (1889-1929) —
of Centerville, Appanoose
County, Iowa.
Born near Exline, Appanoose
County, Iowa, September
13, 1889.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Iowa state
house of representatives, 1925.
Methodist.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; Freemasons;
American
Legion.
Shot and killed by
a disgruntled law client, George Domyancich, as he was leaving the
Appanoose County
Courthouse, Centerville, Appanoose
County, Iowa, February
28, 1929 (age 39 years, 168
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Centerville, Iowa.
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E. J. Dennis (c.1876-1930) —
of Berkeley
County, S.C.
Born about 1876.
Member of South
Carolina state senate, 1910-30; died in office 1930.
Tried
and acquitted in 1929 for conspiracy to violate the alcohol
prohibition law.
Shot and mortally
wounded by W. L. Thornley, on the street in front of the post
office in Moncks Corner, S.C., and died the next day in a hospital
at Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., July 25,
1930 (age about 54
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Edward Irving Edwards (1863-1931) —
also known as Edward I. Edwards —
of Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Bergen town (now part of Jersey City), Hudson
County, N.J., December
1, 1863.
Son of William W. Edwards and Emma J. (Nation) Edwards.
Democrat. General
contractor; banker; New Jersey
state comptroller, 1911-17; member of New Jersey
state senate from Hudson County, 1919; Governor of
New Jersey, 1920-23; candidate for Democratic nomination for
President, 1920;
U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1923-29; defeated, 1928; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1924,
1928.
Episcopalian.
Welsh
and English
ancestry. Member, American
Bankers Association; Zeta
Psi; Freemasons;
Elks; Moose; Eagles.
Depressed over political and financial misfortunes, the deaths of
those close to him, and his own poor health, he shot and killed
himself, in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., January
26, 1931 (age 67 years, 56
days).
Interment at Bayview
- New York Bay Cemetery, Jersey City, N.J.
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Robert Lee Henry (1864-1931) —
also known as Robert L. Henry —
of Waco, McLennan
County, Tex.
Born in Linden, Cass
County, Tex., May 12,
1864.
Democrat. Mayor
of Texarkana, Tex., 1890; U.S.
Representative from Texas, 1897-1917 (7th District 1897-1903, 1st
District 1903-05, 11th District 1905-17); delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Texas, 1912
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business; speaker).
Died from the accidental
discharge of a pistol, in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., July 9,
1931 (age 67 years, 58
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Texarkana, Tex.
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Edward Coke Mann (1880-1931) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Lowndesville, Abbeville
County, S.C., November
21, 1880.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 8th District, 1919-21.
While returning from a hunting
trip, was accidentally
shot and killed, near Rowesville, Orangeburg
County, S.C., November
11, 1931 (age 50 years, 355
days).
Interment at Sunnyside
Cemetery, Orangeburg, S.C.
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George Eastman (1854-1932) —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Waterville, Oneida
County, N.Y., July 12,
1854.
Son of George Washington Eastman (1815-1862) and Maria (Kilbourn)
Eastman (1821-1907).
Republican. Inventor;
founder, Eastman Kodak Company; philanthropist; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1928.
English
ancestry.
Died from a self-inflicted
gunshot, in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., March 14,
1932 (age 77 years, 246
days). His suicide
note was just six words: "My work is done. Why wait?".
Interment at Kodak
Park, Rochester, N.Y.
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A. J. Rosier (d. 1932) —
of Rawlins, Carbon
County, Wyo.
Lawyer;
member of Wyoming
state senate, 1932; died in office 1932.
Shot and killed by
Thomas Lacey, Rawlins, Carbon
County, Wyo., April 15,
1932. Lacey, who then killed himself, had been convicted of
gambling, and was angered by Rosier's refusal to file a lawsuit on
his behalf against county authorities.
Burial
location unknown.
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Samuel Austin Kendall (1859-1933) —
also known as Samuel A. Kendall —
of Jefferson, Greene
County, Iowa; Myersdale, Somerset
County, Pa.
Born in Greenville Township, Somerset
County, Pa., November
1, 1859.
Republican. School
teacher; superintendent
of schools; officer in lumber
manufacturing companies; president of two small railroads;
vice-president of Citizens National Bank of
Myersdale, Pa.; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives from Somerset County, 1899-1902;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1904,
1908,
1912;
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1919-33 (23rd District 1919-23,
24th District 1923-33); died in office 1933.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners.
Died of a self-inflicted
gunshot wound, in the House Office
Building, Washington,
D.C., January
8, 1933 (age 73 years, 68
days).
Interment at Hochstetler
Cemetery, Greenville Township, Somerset County, Pa.
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Anton Joseph Cermak (1873-1933) —
also known as Anton J. Cermak; "Pushcart
Tony" —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Kladno, Bohemia (now Czech
Republic), May 9,
1873.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois,
1924,
1928,
1932;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1928; mayor of
Chicago, Ill., 1931-33; died in office 1933.
Bohemian
ancestry.
On February 15, 1933, while he was standing on the running board of
an open
car from which president-elect Franklin
D. Roosevelt had just given a speech, was shot and badly
wounded by Italian-American bricklayer Guiseppe Zangara, who had
aimed for Roosevelt; over the next month, the wound became infected,
and he died, in Jackson Memorial Hospital,
Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla., March 6,
1933 (age 59 years, 301
days).
Interment at Bohemian
National Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Melville Clyde Kelly (1883-1935) —
also known as M. Clyde Kelly; "Father of Air
Mail" —
of Edgewood, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Bloomfield, Muskingum
County, Ohio, August 4,
1883.
Son of William B. Kelly and Mary C. (Clark) Kelly.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1910-13; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1913-15, 1917-35 (30th District
1913-15, 1917-23, 33rd District 1923-33, 31st District 1933-35).
Presbyterian.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution.
On returning from a frog
hunting trip, was injured when a rifle he was cleaning accidentally
fired; he died one week later, in a hospital
at Punxsutawney, Jefferson
County, Pa., April 29,
1935 (age 51 years, 268
days).
Interment at Mahoning
Union Cemetery, Marchand, Pa.
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George Charles Hanson (1883-1935) —
also known as George C. Hanson —
of Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn., October
11, 1883.
Son of Charles C. Hanson (c.1844-1934) and Josephine (Stegkemper)
Hanson.
U.S. Deputy Consul General in Shanghai, 1911; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Chefoo, 1912-13; U.S. Vice Consul in Dalny, 1913-14; Tientsin, 1914-15; Newchwang, 1915; U.S. Consul in Swatow, 1915-17; Chungking, 1917-18; Foochow, 1918-21; Harbin, 1922-31; U.S. Consul General in Harbin, 1931-32; Moscow, 1935; Salonika, 1935, died in office 1935.
Presbyterian.
Member, Alpha
Delta Sigma; Delta
Tau Delta; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Killed by a self-inflicted
gunshot, aboard the
steamship President Polk, en route from Marseilles to New
York, in the North
Atlantic Ocean, September
2, 1935 (age 51 years, 326
days).
Interment somewhere
in Fairfield, Conn.
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Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935) —
also known as Huey P. Long; "The
Kingfish" —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born near Winnfield, Winn
Parish, La., August
30, 1893.
Son of Huey Pierce Long and Caledonia (Tison) Long.
Democrat. Lawyer; Governor of
Louisiana, 1928-32; member of Democratic
National Committee from Louisiana, 1928; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1932-35; died in office 1935.
Baptist.
Member, Elks.
Impeached
by the Louisiana House in 1929 over multiple charges including his
attempt to impose an oil tax and his unauthorized demolition of the
governor's mansion, but not convicted by the Senate.
Shot and mortally
wounded by Dr. Carl Weiss (who was immediately killed at the
scene), in the Louisiana State
Capitol Building, September 8, 1935, and died two days later at
Our Lady of the Lake Hospital,
Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Parish, La., September
10, 1935 (age 42 years, 11
days).
Interment at State
Capitol Grounds, Baton Rouge, La.
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Henry H. Denhardt (1876-1937) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Warren
County, Ky., 1876.
Democrat. Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1923-27.
Shot
and injured on Election Day 1931. After his girlfriend was killed in
November 1936, he was charged
with murder
and tried in
LaGrange, Ky.; the jury could not reach a verdict.
Before he could be tried a second time, he was shot and killed, at
the Armstrong Hotel,
Shelbyville, Shelby
County, Ky., September
20, 1937 (age about 61
years).
Interment at Fairview
Cemetery, Bowling Green, Ky.
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James Theodore Marriner (c.1892-1937) —
also known as J. Theodore Marriner; Ted
Marriner —
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, about 1892.
Son of Harriet Cram (Thorpe) Marriner.
U.S. Consul General in Beirut, 1935-37, died in office 1937.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Shot and killed by
Mejardich Karayan, an Armenian who thought he had been denied a U.S.
visa, in Beirut, Syria (now Lebanon),
October
12, 1937 (age about 45
years); the killer was sentenced to death and hanged soon after.
Interment somewhere
in Portland, Maine.
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James M. Burlingame (1868-1938) —
of Great Falls, Cascade
County, Mont.
Born in Owatonna, Steele
County, Minn., June 6,
1868.
Republican. Member of Montana
state senate, 1911-21; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Montana, 1916,
1920
(alternate).
Died of a self-inflicted
gunshot wound at his home in Great Falls, Cascade
County, Mont., December
28, 1938 (age 70 years, 205
days).
Interment at Highland
Cemetery, Great Falls, Mont.
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Frederick W. Kavanaugh (c.1871-1940) —
also known as Fred W. Kavanaugh —
of Waterford, Saratoga
County, N.Y.
Born about 1871.
Republican. Hotel
owner; banker;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1908
(alternate), 1936;
Saratoga
County Sheriff; member of New York
state senate 32nd District, 1921-24; chair of
Saratoga County Republican Party, 1927-29.
Died from a self-inflicted
gunshot, in the garage adjoining his home, in Waterford, Saratoga
County, N.Y., December
2, 1940 (age about 69
years).
Entombed at Oakwood
Cemetery, Troy, N.Y.
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Herschel L. Carnahan (c.1879-1941) —
also known as H. L. Carnahan —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Aledo, Mercer
County, Ill., about 1879.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 1920;
Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1928-31; candidate for Presidential
Elector for California, 1940.
Suffered a self-inflicted
gunshot wound in the head, at his downtown law
office and died shortly afterward, at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 13,
1941 (age about 62
years).
Entombed in mausoleum at Evergreen
Memorial Park, Riverside, Calif.
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Anna Lou P. Boettcher (1903-1941) —
also known as Anna Lou Pigott —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont., October
29, 1903.
Delegate
to Colorado convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Female.
Died from a self-inflicted
gunshot, in Denver,
Colo., September
17, 1941 (age 37 years, 323
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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James Crosby Hobbs (1879-1942) —
also known as J. Crosby Hobbs —
of Camden, Knox
County, Maine.
Born in Hope, Knox
County, Maine, September
24, 1879.
Son of James Philbrick Hobbs (1835-1904) and Nancy Maria (Miller)
Hobbs (1843-1907).
Democrat. Knox
County Commissioner, 1907-12; Knox
County Sheriff; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Maine, 1936.
Died, of a self-inflicted
gunshot wound, February
18, 1942 (age 62 years, 147
days).
Interment somewhere
in Camden, Maine.
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Paul Ranous Greever (1891-1943) —
also known as Paul R. Greever —
of Wyoming.
Born in Lansing, Leavenworth
County, Kan., September
28, 1891.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; mayor of
Cody, Wyo., 1930-32; U.S.
Representative from Wyoming at-large, 1935-39; defeated, 1938.
Killed accidentally,
while cleaning his shotgun, in Cody, Park
County, Wyo., February
16, 1943 (age 51 years, 141
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Cody, Wyo.
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Warren Green Hooper (1904-1945) —
also known as Warren G. Hooper —
of Albion, Calhoun
County, Mich.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 2,
1904.
Republican. Newspaper
reporter; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Calhoun County 1st District,
1939-44; member of Michigan
state senate 9th District, 1945; died in office 1945.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
During a grand jury investigation,
admitted
to taking
bribes and was given immunity from
prosecution in return for his testimony against others; however,
four days before the hearing, he was shot and killed in his
car, alongside highway M-99, near Springport, Jackson
County, Mich., January
11, 1945 (age 40 years, 254
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Albion, Mich.
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Thomas Campbell Wasson (1896-1948) —
also known as Thomas C. Wasson —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Great Falls, Cascade
County, Mont., February
8, 1896.
Son of Edmund Atwill Wasson and Mary (DeVeny) Wasson.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S. Vice Consul in Melbourne, 1925-29; Puerto Cortes, 1932; U.S. Consul in Florence, 1936; Lagos, 1938; U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem, 1948, died in office 1948.
Shot by an unknown sniper,
and died the next day, in Hadassah English Mission Hospital,
Jerusalem, Israel,
May
23, 1948 (age 52 years, 105
days).
Entombed at Washington
National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
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Robert Marion LaFollette, Jr. (1895-1953) —
also known as Robert M. LaFollette, Jr. —
of Madison, Dane
County, Wis.
Born in Madison, Dane
County, Wis., February
6, 1895.
Son of Robert
Marion LaFollette and Belle (Case) LaFollette.
Wisconsin
Republican state chair, 1925; U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1925-47; defeated in Republican primary,
1946; delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, 1928,
1932.
Protestant.
Died of a self-inflicted
gunshot wound, in the bathroom of his home, in Washington,
D.C., February
24, 1953 (age 58 years, 18
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wis.
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Clellan S. Forsythe (1895-1953) —
of Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y.
Born in Houtzdale, Clearfield
County, Pa., March 6,
1895.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; automobile
dealer; member of New York
state assembly from Onondaga County 2nd District, 1945-48.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Freemasons.
Suffered a heart
attack while holding a shotgun, which accidentally
discharged, killing him, on Fox Island, Jefferson
County, N.Y., September
18, 1953 (age 58 years, 196
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Allison D. Wade (1902-1954) —
of Warren, Warren
County, Pa.
Born in Warren, Warren
County, Pa., September
17, 1902.
Son of Harrison Douglas Wade (1860-1928) and Alice Cary (Jones) Wade
(1869-1935).
Republican. District judge in Pennsylvania 37th District, 1942-54;
died in office 1954; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1944.
Shot and killed in
his courtroom,
in the Warren County
Courthouse, by Norman W. Moon, Warren, Warren
County, Pa., January
13, 1954 (age 51 years, 118
days). Moon, who attempted suicide at the time of his arrest,
believed the judge was involved with his ex-wife, and would
personally benefit from ordering payment of alimony. Moon was
convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death; the sentence
was commuted to a mental institution by Gov. George
M. Leader, and then to life imprisonment.
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Warren, Pa.
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Albert L. Patterson (c.1891-1954) —
of Phenix City, Russell
County, Ala.
Born about 1891.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of Alabama
state senate; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Alabama, 1952;
elected Alabama
state attorney general 1954, but died before taking office.
Shot and killed in his
car, by an unknown assailant, in Phenix City, Russell
County, Ala., June 18,
1954 (age about 63
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Lester Callaway Hunt (1892-1954) —
of Lander, Fremont
County, Wyo.
Born in Isabel, Edgar
County, Ill., July 8,
1892.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; dentist;
member of Wyoming
state house of representatives, 1933-34; secretary of
state of Wyoming, 1935-43; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Wyoming, 1940,
1944,
1948,
1952;
Governor
of Wyoming, 1943-49; U.S.
Senator from Wyoming, 1949-54; died in office 1954.
Member, Tau
Kappa Epsilon.
In despair over his poor health and threats to expose his son's
arrest for homosexual solicitation, he shot
himself with a rifle, at his desk in the Senate Office
Building, and died soon after, in Casualty Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., June 19,
1954 (age 61 years, 346
days).
Interment at Beth
El Cemetery, Cheyenne, Wyo.
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Melvin Horace Purvis, Jr. (1903-1960) —
also known as Melvin H. Purvis; "Little
Mel" —
of Florence, Florence
County, S.C.
Born in Timmonsville, Florence
County, S.C., October
24, 1903.
Son of Melvin Horace Purvis (1869-1938) and Janie Elizabeth (Mims)
Purvis (1874-1927).
Democrat. Lawyer;
agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation; involved in the
capture or killing of outlaws in the 1930s, including John Dillinger
and Pretty Boy Floyd; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
South Carolina, 1940.
Member, Kappa
Alpha Order.
Died, from a self-inflicted
gunshot to the head, in Florence, Florence
County, S.C., February
29, 1960 (age 56 years, 128
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Florence, S.C.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) —
also known as John F. Kennedy; "J.F.K.";
"Lancer" —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., May 29,
1917.
Son of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy (1890-1995).
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 11th District, 1947-53; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1953-60; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1956;
candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1956;
received a 1957 Pulitzer
Prize for his book Profiles in Courage; President
of the United States, 1961-63; died in office 1963.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Columbus; American
Legion; Elks.
Shot by a sniper,
Lee Harvey Oswald, while riding in a
motorcade, and died in Parkland Hospital,
Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., November
22, 1963 (age 46 years, 177
days). Oswald was shot and killed two days later by Jack Ruby.
Kennedy was posthumously awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1963. His portrait appears on the U.S. half
dollar (50
cent coin).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.; memorial monument at John
F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza, Dallas, Tex.
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Relatives:
Grandson of Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929) and John
Francis Fitzgerald; son of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy (1890-1995);
brother of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Jr., Eunice Mary Kennedy (1921-2009; who married
Robert
Sargent Shriver, Jr.), Patricia
Kennedy Lawford, Robert
Francis Kennedy, Jean
Kennedy Smith and Edward
Moore Kennedy (who married Virginia
Joan Bennett); married, September
12, 1953, to Jacqueline Lee 'Jackie' Bouvier (step-daughter of Hugh
Dudley Auchincloss; step-sister of Eugene
Luther Gore Vidal, Jr. and Hugh
Dudley Auchincloss III); step-brother-in-law of Nina Gore
Auchincloss (who married Newton
Ivan Steers, Jr.); uncle of Maria Owings Shriver (who married Arnold
Alois Schwarzenegger), Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend, Joseph
Patrick Kennedy II, Mark
Kennedy Shriver and Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (1967-); father of John
Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr.. See Kennedy
family of Massachusetts and New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: John
B. Connally — Henry
B. Gonzalez — Henry M.
Wade — Walter
Rogers — Gerry
E. Studds — James
B. McCahey, Jr. — Mark
Dalton — Waggoner
Carr — Theodore
C. Sorensen — Pierre
Salinger — John
Bartlow Martin |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books by John F. Kennedy: Profiles
in Courage |
| | | Books about John F. Kennedy:
Christopher Loviny & Vincent Touze, JFK
: Remembering Jack — Robert Dallek, An
Unfinished Life : John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 — Michael
O'Brien, John
F. Kennedy : A Biography — Sean J. Savage, JFK,
LBJ, and the Democratic Party — Thurston Clarke, Ask
Not : The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed
America — Thomas Reeves, A
Question of Character : A Life of John F. Kennedy —
Shelley Sommer, John
F. Kennedy : His Life and Legacy (for young
readers) |
| | | Critical books about John F. Kennedy:
Seymour Hersh, The
Dark Side of Camelot — Lance Morrow, The
Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948:
Learning the Secrets of Power — Victor Lasky, JFK:
the Man and the Myth |
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George Lincoln Rockwell (1918-1967) —
of Arlington, Arlington
County, Va.
Born in Bloomington, McLean
County, Ill., March 9,
1918.
Son of George Lovejoy 'Doc' Rockwell (vaudeville and radio comedian)
and Claire (Schade) Rockwell.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; served in the U.S. Navy
during the Korean conflict; founder, in 1959, of the National
Committee to Free America from Jewish
Domination (later known as the American Nazi
Party); arrested
at various demonstrations
during the 1960s; American Nazi candidate for Governor of
Virginia, 1965.
Shot and killed by
a sniper, later identified as John Patler, while driving his
car in the parking lot of Dominion Hills Shopping
Center, Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., August
25, 1967 (age 49 years, 169
days); Patler was convicted of the murder and sentenced to 20
years in prison. Rockwell's funeral procession was not allowed into
Culpeper National Cemetery because of Nazi emblems worn by his
supporters.
Cremated.
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Robert Francis Kennedy (1925-1968) —
also known as Robert F. Kennedy; Bobby Kennedy;
"R.F.K." —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass.; Glen Cove, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
20, 1925.
Son of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1956,
1960;
U.S.
Attorney General, 1961-64; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1965-68; died in office 1968; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1968.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion.
On June 5, 1968, while running
for president, having just won the California presidential primary,
was shot and mortally
wounded by Sirhan Sirhan, in the Ambassador Hotel, and
died the next day in in Good Samaritan Hospital,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 6,
1968 (age 42 years, 199
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives:
Grandson of Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929) and John
Francis Fitzgerald; son of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy; brother of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Jr., John
Fitzgerald Kennedy, Eunice Mary Kennedy (1921-2009; who married
Robert
Sargent Shriver, Jr.), Patricia
Kennedy Lawford, Jean
Kennedy Smith and Edward
Moore Kennedy; married, June 17,
1950, to Ethel Skakel; father of Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend, Joseph
Patrick Kennedy II and Kerry Kennedy (who married Andrew
M. Cuomo); uncle of Mark
Kennedy Shriver and Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (1967-). See Kennedy
family of Massachusetts and New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: Benjamin
Altman — John
Bartlow Martin |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Robert F. Kennedy: Arthur
M. Schlesinger Jr., Robert
Kennedy and His Times — Evan Thomas, Robert
Kennedy : His Life — Joseph A. Palermo, In
His Own Right |
| | | Critical books about Robert F. Kennedy:
Allen Roberts, Robert
Francis Kennedy: Biography of a Compulsive
Politician — Victor Lasky, RFK:
Myth and Man |
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John Gordon Mein (1913-1968) —
of Maryland.
Born in Cadiz, Trigg
County, Ky., September
10, 1913.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Guatamala, 1965-68, died in office 1968.
Shot and killed by
terrorists who ambushed his limousine,
in Guatemala City, Guatemala,
August
28, 1968 (age 54 years, 353
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Joseph A. Yablonski (1910-1969) —
also known as Jock Yablonski —
of East Bethlehem Township, Washington
County, Pa.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., March 3,
1910.
Democrat. Coal miner;
district
leader for the United Mine Workers, and candidate for union
president in 1969; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1956,
1960,
1964.
Shot and killed,
along with his wife and daughter, by three hit men hired by United
Mine Workers President Tony Boyle, in East Bethlehem Township, Washington
County, Pa., December
31, 1969 (age 59 years, 303
days).
Interment at Washington
Cemetery, Washington, Pa.
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Fred B. Cohen (1913-1970) —
of Bremerton, Kitsap
County, Wash.
Born in Bremerton, Kitsap
County, Wash., February
8, 1913.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Washington,
1944
(alternate), 1948;
Kitsap
County Prosecutor.
Shot and killed on
his porch by an unknown gunman, in Bremerton, Kitsap
County, Wash., January
19, 1970 (age 56 years, 345
days).
Entombed at Miller-Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bremerton, Wash.
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Leon M. Jordan (1905-1970) —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., May 6,
1905.
Democrat. Police
officer; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Missouri, 1960;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1964-70; died in office 1970.
African
ancestry.
During his campaign
for re-election, was shot and killed
while leaving the Green Duck Tavern,
which he owned and operated, in Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., July 15,
1970 (age 65 years, 70
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Richard Joseph Donovan (1926-1971) —
also known as Dick Donovan —
of California.
Born in New Rochelle Hospital,
New Rochelle, Westchester
County, N.Y., February
24, 1926.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; member of California
state assembly, 1965-69; municipal judge in California, 1969-71;
died in office 1971.
Catholic;
later Congregationalist.
Member, Elks; Kiwanis.
A California state prison was named for
him.
Died, from a self-inflicted
gunshot wound, at Chula Vista Community Hospital,
Chula Vista, San Diego
County, Calif., November
21, 1971 (age 45 years, 270
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Glen
Abbey Memorial Park, San Diego, Calif.
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William Fred Duckworth (1899-1972) —
also known as W. Fred Duckworth —
of Norfolk,
Va.
Born in Brevard, Transylvania
County, N.C., June 20,
1899.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; plant manager for Ford Motor
Company, 1933-42; automobile
dealer; mayor of
Norfolk, Va., 1950-62.
Member, Freemasons.
Shot and killed by
an unknown assailant, while walking on Major Avenue, Norfolk,
Va., March 4,
1972 (age 72 years, 258
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Norfolk, Va.
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Relatives:
Married to Gertrude Summers. |
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Major B. Coxson (c.1929-1973) —
of Camden, Camden
County, N.J.
Born about 1929.
Convicted
10 times on fraud and
larceny
charges,
most related to automobile
theft; served 22 months in federal prison;
candidate for mayor of
Camden, N.J., 1973.
African
ancestry.
Admitted four men to his house, who bound and gagged him and his
family, and shot each one, killing
him and wounding the others, in Cherry Hill, Camden
County, N.J., June 9,
1973 (age about 44
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Fife Knowland (1908-1974) —
also known as William F. Knowland —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.; Piedmont, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Alameda, Alameda
County, Calif., June 26,
1908.
Son of Joseph
Russell Knowland.
Republican. Member of California
state assembly, 1933-35; member of California
state senate, 1935-39; delegate to Republican National Convention
from California, 1936
(alternate), 1940,
1948,
1952,
1956,
1964
(delegation chair); member of Republican
National Committee from California, 1938-42; served in the U.S.
Army during World War II; U.S.
Senator from California, 1945-59; candidate for Governor of
California, 1958.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Eagles;
Moose;
Elks; Native
Sons of the Golden West.
Died from a self-inflicted
gunshot wound at his summer home near Guerneville, Sonoma
County, Calif., February
23, 1974 (age 65 years, 242
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Francis Edward Meloy, Jr. (1917-1976) —
also known as Francis E. Meloy, Jr. —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Washington,
D.C., March 28,
1917.
Son of Francis E. Meloy, Sr. and Anne Teresa (Connor) Meloy.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Vice Consul in Dhahran, 1946; personal assistant to Secretary of State Dean
Acheson, 1946-53; U.S. Ambassador to Dominican Republic, 1969-73; Guatamala, 1973-76; Lebanon, 1976, died in office 1976.
Kidnapped from his car, along with two others, and shot to death, in
Beirut, Lebanon,
June
16, 1976 (age 59 years, 80
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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George Richard Moscone (1929-1978) —
also known as George Moscone —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., November
24, 1929.
Son of George Joseph Moscone and Lena Moscone.
Democrat. Candidate for California
state assembly, 1960; member of California
state senate, 1966-75; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 1972;
mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1976-78; died in office 1978.
Shot and killed,
along with Supervisor Harvey Milk, by Supervisor Dan White, in his office in
San Francisco City
Hall, San
Francisco, Calif., November
27, 1978 (age 49 years, 3
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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Allard Kenneth Lowenstein (1929-1980) —
also known as Allard Lowenstein —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Long Beach, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., January
16, 1929.
Son of Gabriel Abraham Lowenstein and Augusta (Goldberg) Lowenstein.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1960
(alternate), 1968,
1972;
U.S.
Representative from New York 5th District, 1969-71; defeated in
primary, 1972, 1978.
Jewish.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Shot and mortally
wounded by Dennis Sweeney, in his law
office in Rockefeller Center, and died about seven hours later,
in St. Clare's Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 14,
1980 (age 51 years, 58
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Russell G. Lloyd, Sr. (1932-1980) —
of Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind.
Born in Kingston, Luzerne
County, Pa., March 29,
1932.
Republican. Lawyer; mayor
of Evansville, Ind., 1972-79; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Indiana, 1972.
Catholic.
Shot and mortally
wounded by Julia Van Orden; he died eight hours later, in St.
Mary's Hospital,
Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind., March 21,
1980 (age 47 years, 358
days); his killer was convicted and sentenced to 40 years in
prison.
Interment at St.
Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Evansville, Ind.
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Marion Price Daniel, Jr. (1941-1981) —
of Texas.
Born June 8,
1941.
Son of Marion
Price Daniel.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1969-78; Speaker of
the Texas State House of Representatives, 1973; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1974; candidate in
primary for Texas
state attorney general, 1978.
Shot and killed by
his estranged wife, Vickie, near Liberty, Liberty
County, Tex., January
19, 1981 (age 39 years, 225
days). She was arrested and indicted for his murder, but found
not guilty at trial.
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Liberty County, Tex.
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John Zuinglius Anderson (1904-1981) —
also known as Jack Z. Anderson; "Airplane
Ears" —
of San Juan Bautista, San Benito
County, Calif.
Born in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., March 22,
1904.
Son of George Howard Anderson and Susan (Brown) Anderson.
Republican. Orchardist;
U.S.
Representative from California 8th District, 1939-53.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Died of a self-inflicted
gunshot wound, in Hollister, San Benito
County, Calif., February
9, 1981 (age 76 years, 324
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Gustav J. Akerland (1920-1981) —
of Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born September
14, 1920.
Republican. Mayor
of Annapolis, Md., 1981.
A month after becoming acting mayor, he was found wounded by a self-inflicted
gunshot, on the floor of his office in
the Annapolis municipal
building, and died a few days later without regaining
consciousness, in Anne Arundel General Hospital,
Annapolis, Anne Arundel
County, Md., April 15,
1981 (age 60 years, 213
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Aloysius J. Rumely (c.1911-1982) —
of LaPorte, LaPorte
County, Ind.
Born about 1911.
Mayor
of La Porte, Ind., 1982.
On May 31, 1982, former city employee Harold Lang shot him and
his wife, leading to his death six
months later, November
25, 1982 (age about 71
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Robert Budd Dwyer (1939-1987) —
also known as R. Budd Dwyer —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in St. Charles, St. Charles
County, Mo., November
21, 1939.
Republican. Member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1965-70; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 50th District, 1971-81; resigned 1981; Pennsylvania
state treasurer, 1981-87; died in office 1987.
Baptist.
Member, National
Education Association; Eagles; Theta
Chi; Jaycees.
Convicted
in December 1986 of bribery
and conspiracy in federal court.
About to be sentenced,
and widely expected to resign from office, he called a press
conference; there, in front of spectators and television cameras,
he insisted he was not guilty, and then shot and killed
himself, in Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa., January
22, 1987 (age 47 years, 62
days).
Interment at Blooming
Valley Cemetery, Blooming Valley, Pa.
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Donald Edgar Koster (1937-1987) —
also known as Donald E. Koster —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born November
11, 1937.
Son of Willis Koster and Frances (Eck) Koster.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives 53rd District, 1970.
Died of a self-inflicted
gunshot wound, in the garage of his home, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., April 26,
1987 (age 49 years, 166
days).
Cremated.
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Relatives:
Married to Marilyn Axelrod. |
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Forrest Howard Anderson (1913-1989) —
also known as Forrest Anderson —
of Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont.
Born in Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont., January
30, 1913.
Son of Oscar A. Anderson and Nora (O'Keefe) Anderson.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Montana
state house of representatives, 1943-45; Lewis
and Clark County Attorney, 1945-47; justice of
Montana state supreme court, 1953-57; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Montana, 1956;
Montana
state attorney general, 1957-68; Governor of
Montana, 1969-73.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Eagles; Moose; Phi
Delta Theta.
Died of a self-inflicted
gunshot wound, in Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont., July 20,
1989 (age 76 years, 171
days).
Cremated.
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Gentry Crowell (1932-1989) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Chestnut Mound, Smith
County, Tenn., December
10, 1932.
Democrat. Member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1969-77; secretary of
state of Tennessee, 1977-89; died in office 1989.
His office was a target of the federal "Operation Rocky Top" investigation
into fraudulent
charity bingo games; his administrative assistant admitted to
longtime embezzlement.
In reaction to the scandal, he attempted to commit suicide
on December 12, 1989, by gunshot; he died eight days later in
Vanderbilt Hospital,
Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., December
20, 1989 (age 57 years, 10
days).
Interment at Cedar
Grove Cemetery, Lebanon, Tenn.
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Ricardo Jerome Bordallo (1927-1990) —
also known as Ricardo J. Bordallo; Ricky
Bordallo —
of Agana (now Hagatna), Guam.
Born in Agana (now Hagatna), Guam, December
11, 1927.
Son of B. J. Bordallo.
Democrat. Restaurant
owner; member of Guam
legislature, 1956-70; Guam
Democratic Party chair, 1960-63, 1971-73; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Guam, 1964;
Governor
of Guam, 1975-78, 1983-86; defeated, 1970; Convicted
in 1987 on corruption charges,
including bribery,
obstruction
of justice, and witness
tampering; sentenced
to nine years in prison
and fined;
some of the charges were overturned on appeal in 1988; resentenced
to four years in prison in
December, 1989.
Just before he was to report to prison, he committed suicide
by pistol shot to the head; he was wrapped in a Guam flag,
wearing a sign saying "I regret I have but one life to give for my
island," and chained to a statue of Chief Quipuha, in a busy traffic
circle at rush hour, in Agana (now Hagatna), Guam, February
1, 1990 (age 62 years, 52
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Frank J. Forshee (1896-1991) —
of Pittsfield Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Dexter, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., June 10,
1896.
Son of John Forshee and Virginia (Cowen) Forshee.
Democrat. Farmer;
candidate for supervisor
of Pittsfield Township, Michigan, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1940.
Irish
and German
ancestry.
Died, of a self-inflicted
gunshot wound, in Dexter, Washtenaw
County, Mich., January
15, 1991 (age 94 years, 219
days).
Cremated.
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William Vann Rogers, Jr. (1911-1993) —
also known as Will Rogers, Jr. —
of Culver City, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in New York, October
20, 1911.
Son of Will Rogers (1879-1935; humorist) and Betty (Blake) Rogers.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from California 16th District, 1943-44; resigned
1944; candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1946; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1948.
Cherokee
Indian ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died, from a self-inflicted
gunshot, in in Tubac, Santa Cruz
County, Ariz., July 9,
1993 (age 81 years, 262
days).
Interment at Tubac
Cemetery, Tubac, Ariz.
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Nicholas J. Wasicsko (1959-1993) —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., May 13,
1959.
Son of Nicholas Wasicsko and Anne (Slota) Wasicsko.
Democrat. Police
officer; mayor of
Yonkers, N.Y., 1988-89; defeated, 1989.
Died, from a self-inflicted
gunshot wound, in Oakland Cemetery (near his father's grave),
Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., October
29, 1993 (age 34 years, 169
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Yonkers, N.Y.
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Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr. (1945-1994) —
of Mt. Vernon, Fairfax
County, Va.
Born in Jacksonville, Onslow
County, N.C., August
18, 1945.
Son of Lewis Burwell Puller (1898-1971) and Virginia Montague (Evans)
Puller (1908-2006).
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War; lost both
legs in the explosion of an improvised land mine in South
Vietnam, 1968; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Virginia 1st District, 1978; received a Pulitzer
Prize in 1992 for his autobiography, Fortunate Son: The
Healing of a Vietnam Vet.
Killed by a self-inflicted
gunshot, in Mt. Vernon, Fairfax
County, Va., May 11,
1994 (age 48 years, 266
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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John D. Gray (c.1928-1995) —
of Virginia.
Born about 1928.
Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1965-82; circuit judge in Virginia,
1983-95.
Died of a self-inflicted
gunshot wound, the day after being told his lung
cancer was terminal, Hampton,
Va., December
10, 1995 (age about 67
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Carl Maxey (1924-1997) —
of Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash.
Born June 23,
1924.
Democrat. Candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Washington, 1970.
African
ancestry.
Died of a self-inflicted
gunshot wound, in Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash., July 17,
1997 (age 73 years, 24
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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David J. Dwork (c.1941-1997) —
of Mahwah, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born about 1941.
Mayor
of Mahwah, N.J., 1991-97; died in office 1997.
Shot and killed
himself in his office at
Town
Hall, Mahwah, Bergen
County, N.J., August
18, 1997 (age about 56
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Tommy Burks (1940-1998) —
of near Monterey, Putnam
County, Tenn.
Born in Cookeville, Putnam
County, Tenn., May 22,
1940.
Son of Walter Fred Burks and Christine Gilliam Burks.
Farmer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1971-78; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1979-98; died in office 1998.
Church
of Christ. Member, Lions; Farm
Bureau.
Shot and killed in
his pickup
truck by his opponent for re-election, Byron
Low Tax Looper, near Monterey, Cumberland
County, Tenn., October
19, 1998 (age 58 years, 150
days).
Interment at Crestlawn
Memorial Cemetery, Cookeville, Tenn.
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Steve Apodaca (c.1951-2001) —
of San Clemente, Orange
County, Calif.
Born in Downey, Los Angeles
County, Calif., about 1951.
Republican. Candidate in primary for California
state assembly 73rd District, 1998.
Died of a self-inflicted
gunshot wound, in San Clemente, Orange
County, Calif., April 2,
2001 (age about 50
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Colin Riley McMillan (1935-2003) —
also known as Colin R. McMillan —
of New Mexico.
Born July 27,
1935.
Republican. Oil
executive; member of New Mexico
state house of representatives, 1971-82; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New Mexico, 1994.
Died, of a self-inflicted
gunshot wound, in Roswell, Chaves
County, N.M., July 24,
2003 (age 67 years, 362
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Arthur E. Teele (1946-2005) —
also known as Art Teele —
of Florida.
Born in Prince
George's County, Md., May 14,
1946.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; lawyer;
director, U.S. Urban Mass Transportation Administration, 1981-83;
Presidential Elector for Florida, 1992;
as Miami city commissioner in 1997-2004, he chaired the Community
Redevelopment Agency (CRA); an investigation
of corruption in the agency, started in 2003, led to charges
that he had accepted $135,000 in kickbacks
from two construction companies; as a result, he was removed from
office in 2004 by Gov. Jeb
Bush; in August, 2004, when he and his wife were under
surveillance, he drove his
car at a police detective in an attempt to run him
over, and also threatened
to kill police officers who had been following his wife during
the investigation; convicted
in March 2005 on charges
related to this incident; indicted
on July 14, 2005, on federal conspiracy and money
laundering charges, over a scheme to fraudulently obtain
contracts for electrical work at the Miami International Airport
through a "minority-owned" shell company; published police reports
revealed that he had put his mistress
on the CRA payroll, that he regularly bought and used cocaine,
and that he frequently made use of a male prostitute.
Church
of God in Christ. African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi; NAACP; Freemasons.
Came to the offices
of the Miami Herald newspaper, and shot himself
in the head with a semiautomatic pistol; he died two hours later in
the trauma unit of Jackson Memorial Hospital,
Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., July 27,
2005 (age 59 years, 74
days).
Interment at Culley's MeadowWood Memorial Park, Tallahassee, Fla.
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James Douglas Johnson (1924-2010) —
also known as James D. Johnson; Jim Johnson;
"Justice Jim" —
of Crossett, Ashley
County, Ark.; Conway, Faulkner
County, Ark.
Born in Crossett, Ashley
County, Ark., August
20, 1924.
Son of Thomas William Johnson and Maudie Myrtle (Long) Johnson.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; lawyer;
member of Arkansas
state senate 22nd District, 1950-54; Democratic candidate for Governor of
Arkansas, 1956 (primary), 1966; justice of
Arkansas state supreme court, 1959-66; candidate in Democratic
primary for U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1968.
Methodist.
Member, Lambda
Chi Alpha; Freemasons;
Shriners.
Diehard segregationist.
Died, from a self-inflicted
gunshot wound, in Conway, Faulkner
County, Ark., February
13, 2010 (age 85 years, 177
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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