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John Adam Treutlen (1734-1782) —
also known as John A. Treutlen —
of Georgia.
Born in Germany,
January
16, 1734.
Governor
of Georgia, 1777-78.
Lutheran.
German
ancestry.
Murdered, in Orangeburg District (now Orangeburg
County), S.C., March 1,
1782 (age 48 years, 44
days).
Cenotaph at Veterans Park of Effingham County, Springfield, Ga.
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George Wythe (1726-1806) —
of Virginia.
Born in Elizabeth City County, Va. (now part of Hampton,
Va.), 1726.
Member of Virginia state legislature, 1758-68; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-77; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; state court judge in Virginia,
1777; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; delegate to
Virginia state constitutional convention, 1788.
Episcopalian.
Apparently murdered — poisoned
by his grandnephew — and died two weeks later, in Richmond,
Va., June 8,
1806 (age about 79
years).
Interment at St.
John's Churchyard, Richmond, Va.
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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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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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Thomas K. Harris (c.1777-1816) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Tennessee, about 1777.
Democrat. Member of Tennessee
state senate, 1809-11; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1813-15.
Died from wounds received in an encounter with Col. John
Simpson, on the old Kentucky Road at Shells Ford of Collins River,
near McMinnville, Warren
County, Tenn., March 18,
1816 (age about 39
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Solomon P. Sharp (1780-1825) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Abingdon, Washington
County, Va., 1780.
Democrat. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1809; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky, 1813-17 (at-large 1813-15, 6th
District 1815-17); Kentucky
state attorney general, 1821-25.
Stabbed
and killed, by Jereboam O. Beauchamp, in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., November
7, 1825 (age about 45
years).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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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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William Hester Patton (1808-1842) —
of Texas.
Born in Hopkinsville, Christian
County, Ky., 1808.
Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member
of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1837-38.
Murdered, June 12,
1842 (age about 33
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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John M. Hansford (c.1800-1844) —
of Texas.
Born about 1800.
Member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1838-40; judge of Texas
Republic, 1840-42.
Resigned
as judge in 1842 while being impeached
over his handling
of a trial arising out of the "Regulator-Moderator War" in East
Texas.
Killed by members of the Regulators who had seized his home,
in Texas, 1844
(age about
44 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Gordon Chalmers (1803-1847) —
also known as John G. Chalmers —
of La Grange, Fayette
County, Tex.
Born in Halifax
County, Va., August
25, 1803.
Son of James Ronald Chalmers and Sarah Lanier (Williams) Chalmers.
Newspaper
editor; member of Virginia state legislature; Texas
Republic Secretary of the Treasury, 1841.
During a fight with Joshua Holden, he was Stabbed
and mortally wounded; he died soon after, January
1, 1847 (age 43 years, 129
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Moses W. Formwalt (1820-1852) —
of Atlanta, DeKalb County (now Fulton
County), Ga.
Born in Tennessee, 1820.
Tinsmith;
mayor
of Atlanta, Ga., 1848-49; deputy
sheriff.
Stabbed
and killed by a prisoner he was escorting, in May, 1852
(age about
31 years).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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John Gallagher Montgomery (1805-1857) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Northumberland, Northumberland
County, Pa., June 27,
1805.
Democrat. Member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1855; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 12th District, 1857; died in
office 1857.
Presumed to have been deliberately poisoned
at a banquet during the inauguration of President James
Buchanan, in Washington, D.C., and subsequently died, at
Danville, Montour
County, Pa., April 24,
1857 (age 51 years, 301
days).
Interment at Episcopal
Cemetery, Danville, Pa.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John Anthony Quitman (1799-1858) —
also known as John A. Quitman —
of Mississippi.
Born in Rhinebeck, Dutchess
County, N.Y., September
1, 1799.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1826-27; delegate to
Mississippi state constitutional convention, 1832; member of Mississippi
state senate, 1835-36; Governor of
Mississippi, 1835-36, 1850-51; state court judge in Mississippi,
1838; general in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; candidate for
Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1848,
1856;
U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 5th District, 1855-58; died in
office 1858.
Member, Freemasons.
Presumed to have been deliberately poisoned
at a banquet during the inauguration of President James
Buchanan, in Washington, D.C., and subsequently died, near
Natchez, Adams
County, Miss., July 17,
1858 (age 58 years, 319
days).
Interment at Natchez
City Cemetery, Natchez, Miss.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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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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David Fullerton Robison (1816-1859) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born near Greencastle, Franklin
County, Pa., May 28,
1816.
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 17th District, 1855-57.
Presumed to have been deliberately poisoned
at a banquet during the inauguration of President James
Buchanan, in Washington, D.C., and subsequently died, at
Chambersburg, Franklin
County, Pa., June 24,
1859 (age 43 years, 27
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Greencastle, Pa.
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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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Thomas Johnson (1802-1865) —
of Kansas.
Born in 1802.
Member of Kansas
territorial legislature, 1855.
Robbed and murdered, 1865
(age about
63 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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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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Aaron H. Conrow (1824-1865) —
of Missouri.
Born near Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, June 19,
1824.
Delegate
from Missouri to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
Representative
from Missouri in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65; served in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Killed along with M. M.
Parsons and four others, by bandits in Nuevo
León, August
15, 1865 (age 41 years, 57
days).
Interment at Shotwell
Cemetery, Richmond, Mo.
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Mosby Monroe Parsons (1822-1865) —
also known as M. M. Parsons —
of Missouri.
Born in Charlottesville,
Va., May 21,
1822.
Son of Gustavus Adolphus Parsons.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; Missouri
state attorney general, 1853-57; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, 1857-58; general
in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Killed, along with Aaron
H. Conrow and four others, by bandits in Nuevo
León, August
15, 1865 (age 43 years, 86
days).
Interment somewhere
in Nuevo León; cenotaph at Maplewood
Cemetery, Charlottesville, Va.; cenotaph at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Jefferson City, Mo.
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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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Cornelius Springer Hamilton (1821-1867) —
of Union
County, Ohio.
Born in Gratiot, Muskingum
County, Ohio, January
2, 1821.
Republican. Delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention from Union County,
1850-51; member of Ohio state
senate, 1856-57; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 8th District, 1867; died in office 1867.
Killed by his insane son, in Marysville, Union
County, Ohio, December
22, 1867 (age 46 years, 354
days).
Interment at Oakdale
Cemetery, Marysville, Ohio; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Benjamin Franklin Randolph (d. 1868) —
also known as Benjamin F. Randolph —
of Orangeburg
County, S.C.
Delegate
to South Carolina state constitutional convention from Orangeburg
County, 1868.
African
ancestry.
Murdered as he stepped off
a train, 1868.
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Randolph
Cemetery, Columbia, S.C.
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Thomas Carmichael Hindman (1828-1868) —
also known as Thomas C. Hindman —
of Helena (now part of Helena-West Helena), Phillips
County, Ark.
Born in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., January
28, 1828.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of
Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1852; U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 1st District, 1859-61; general in
the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Assassinated in Helena (now part of Helena-West Helena), Phillips
County, Ark., September
27, 1868 (age 40 years, 243
days).
Interment at Maple
Hill Cemetery, Helena-West Helena, Ark.
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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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Thomas Haughey (1826-1869) —
of Alabama.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland,
1826.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Alabama 6th District, 1868-69; died in office
1869.
Assassinated while making a political
speech in Courtland, Lawrence
County, Ala., 1869
(age about
43 years).
Interment at Green
Cemetery, Pinson, Ala.
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John Huyler (1808-1870) —
of Hackensack, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 9,
1808.
Democrat. Member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Bergen County, 1850-52; Speaker of
the New Jersey State House of Assembly, 1851; Judge, New Jersey Court of
Errors and Appeals, 1854-57; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 4th District, 1857-59; defeated,
1858; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1860.
Assassinated in Hackensack, Bergen
County, N.J., January
9, 1870 (age 61 years, 275
days).
Interment at Maple
Grove Park Cemetery, Hackensack, N.J.
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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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James Holt Clanton (1827-1871) —
also known as James H. Clanton —
of Alabama.
Born January
8, 1827.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of
Alabama
state house of representatives; general in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Alabama, 1868.
Assassinated by a man who provoked a quarrel with him, in
Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., September
27, 1871 (age 44 years, 262
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Montgomery, Ala.
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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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J. Goldsteen Dupree (d. 1873) —
of Montgomery
County, Tex.
Member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1870.
African
ancestry.
Allegedly killed by white vigilantes who opposed his campaigning
for Gov. Edmund
J. Davis, 1873.
Burial
location unknown.
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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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Benjamin Long (1838-1877) —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born March 7,
1838.
Mayor
of Dallas, Tex., 1868-70, 1872-74.
Killed when he attempted to stop three people from leaving a
saloon
without paying, June 23,
1877 (age 39 years, 108
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Dallas, Tex.
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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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John Strong, Sr. (1798-1881) —
of Greenfield Township (now part of Detroit), Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Wroxton, Oxfordshire, England,
November
26, 1798.
Democrat. Farmer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County, 1835-36.
Episcopalian.
Attacked by a burglar, wounded, and died as a result, in
Greenfield Township (now part of Detroit), Wayne
County, Mich., February
23, 1881 (age 82 years, 89
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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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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William Henry Haywood Tison (1822-1882) —
also known as W. H. H. Tison —
of Carrollville, Prentiss
County, Miss.
Born in Jackson
County, Ala., November
6, 1822.
Democrat. Farmer; lawyer; postmaster;
dry goods
merchant; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Mississippi, 1860;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Murdered, in Baldwyn, Lee
County, Miss., December
4, 1882 (age 60 years, 28
days).
Interment at Baldwyn
Masonic Cemetery, Baldwyn, Miss.
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Henry Cooper (1827-1884) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Columbia, Maury
County, Tenn., August
22, 1827.
Democrat. Member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1853; state court judge in
Tennessee, 1862; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1869; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1871-77.
Killed by bandits in Tierra Blanca, Guadelupe y Calvo, Chihuahua,
February
3, 1884 (age 56 years, 165
days).
Interment somewhere
in Mexico; cenotaph at City
Cemetery, Shelbyville, Tenn.
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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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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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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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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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Albert Jennings Fountain (1838-1896) —
also known as Albert J. Fountain; Albert
Jennings —
of El Paso, El Paso
County, Tex.; Mesilla, Dona Ana
County, N.M.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., October
23, 1838.
Son of Solomon Jennings and Catherine (de la Fontaine) Jennings.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Collector of Customs at El Paso; Assessor and Collector of Internal
Revenue for the Western District of Texas; member of Texas
state senate, 1869-70; fought a duel
with Frank Williams, and killed him; lawyer.
Presumed murdered near White Sands, Dona Ana
County, N.M., February
1, 1896 (age 57 years, 101
days); his body was never
found.
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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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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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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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Nicholas Fish (1848-1902) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
19, 1848.
Son of Hamilton
Fish (1808-1893).
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Charge d'Affaires to Switzerland, 1877-81; U.S. Minister to Belgium, 1882-85; banker;
Presidential Elector for New York, 1896.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Quarreled with Thomas J. Sharkey, a private detective, on the second
floor of the Ehrhardt Brothers saloon;
Sharkey struck him, so that he fell down the stairs into the
street with a skull fracture; died the next day, without regaining
consciousness, at Roosevelt Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
16, 1902 (age 54 years, 209
days). Sharkey was later convicted of second-degree manslaughter
and sentenced to ten years in prison.
Interment at St.
Philip's Cemetery, Garrison, N.Y.
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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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Charles Harmon Kungle (1829-1904) —
also known as Charles H. Kungle —
of Yuba
County, Calif.
Born in Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa., December
19, 1829.
Member of California
state assembly 15th District, 1860-62.
Murdered on a mining claim, near Carson City (unknown
county), Nev., November
15, 1904 (age 74 years, 332
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Jose Francisco Chaves (1833-1904) —
also known as J. Francisco Chaves —
of Santa Fe, Santa Fe
County, N.M.
Born in Los Padillas, Bernalillo
County, N.M., June 27,
1833.
Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from New Mexico Territory, 1865-67, 1869-71; delegate to
New Mexico state constitutional convention, 1889; New Mexico
superintendent of public instruction, 1903-04; died in office
1904.
Assassinated in Pinos Wells, Torrance
County, N.M., November
26, 1904 (age 71 years, 152
days).
Interment at Santa
Fe National Cemetery, Santa Fe, N.M.
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John McPherson Pinckney (1845-1905) —
also known as John M. Pinckney —
of Hempstead, Waller
County, Tex.
Born near Hempstead, Grimes
County, Tex., May 4,
1845.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; state
court judge in Texas, 1900-03; U.S.
Representative from Texas 8th District, 1903-05; died in office
1905.
Assaulted and killed at a meeting
of the Waller County Prohibition League, Hempstead, Waller
County, Tex., April 24,
1905 (age 59 years, 355
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Hempstead, Tex.
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Frank Steunenberg (1861-1905) —
of Caldwell, Canyon
County, Idaho.
Born in Keokuk, Lee
County, Iowa, August 8,
1861.
Governor
of Idaho, 1897-1901.
Murdered by a bomb wired
to his front yard gate, in Caldwell, Canyon
County, Idaho, December
30, 1905 (age 44 years, 144
days).
Interment at Canyon
Hill Cemetery, Caldwell, Idaho; statue at State
Capitol Grounds, Boise, Idaho.
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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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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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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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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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John Schuyler Crosby (1839-1914) —
of Montana.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., September
19, 1839.
Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Consul in Florence, 1876-82; Governor of
Montana Territory, 1883-84.
Attacked and beaten by a deranged servant, and died as a
result, in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., August 8,
1914 (age 74 years, 323
days).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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Robert W. Imbrie (d. 1924) —
Born in Baltimore,
Md.
U.S. Vice Consul in Petrograd, 1918; Viborg, 1920; Constantinople, 1921; Teheran, 1924, died in office 1924.
Beaten to death by a mob in Teheran, Persia (now Tehran, Iran),
July
18, 1924.
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives:
Married 1922
to Katherine Gillespie. |
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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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Harold Merriman Deane (1891-1929) —
also known as Harold M. Deane —
of Connecticut; Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn., October
24, 1891.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul in Valparaiso, 1925-27; Montreal, 1927-29, died in office 1929.
Found hanged
in his apartment -- the coroner's jury was unable to
decide whether his death was murder or suicide
-- in Montreal, Quebec,
August
28, 1929 (age 37 years, 308
days).
Interment somewhere
in Waterbury, Conn.
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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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S. S. Mincey (d. 1930) —
of Ailey, Montgomery
County, Ga.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Georgia,
1908
(alternate), 1912,
1916,
1920.
African
ancestry.
Taken from his home by a group of Ku Klux Klan members, and
lynched, in Uvalda, Montgomery
County, Ga., July 29,
1930.
Interment at Live
Oak Baptist Church Cemetery, Ailey, Ga.
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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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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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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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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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Joseph Warren Tolbert (d. 1946) —
also known as Joseph W. Tolbert; "Tie-Less
Joe" —
of Greenwood, Greenwood
County, S.C.; Ninety Six, Greenwood
County, S.C.
Son of John
Robert Tolbert.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from South
Carolina, 1900
(alternate), 1908,
1912,
1916,
1924,
1928,
1936;
member of Republican
National Committee from South Carolina, 1912-24; South Carolina
Republican state chair, 1925-31.
Hit by
a car (perhaps intentionally), in his front yard, and died
soon after, in Ninety Six, Greenwood
County, S.C., 1946.
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Ninety Six, S.C.
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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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Vincent Luke Palmisano (1882-1953) —
also known as Vincent L. Palmisano —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Termini, Sicily, Italy,
August
5, 1882.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates from Baltimore city 1st District,
1914-15; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 3rd District, 1927-39; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1940.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry. Member, Foresters.
Disappeared
from his home on January
12, 1953, and either committed suicide
or was murdered (age 70 years, 160
days); his body was recovered from Baltimore Harbor, March 5,
1953.
Interment at New
Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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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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Eunice Carreau (c.1901-1963) —
of Merrick, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born about 1901.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1944.
Female.
Killed during a robbery in Caracas, Venezuela,
1963
(age about
62 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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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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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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William J. McGovern (1905-1972) —
of Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., August
25, 1905.
Democrat. Tavern
owner; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
Jersey, 1932
(alternate), 1944.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Killed by armed robbers at his tavern,
in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., July 11,
1972 (age 66 years, 321
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, North Arlington, N.J.
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Cleo Allen Noel, Jr. (1918-1973) —
also known as Cleo A. Noel, Jr. —
of Missouri.
Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla., August 6,
1918.
U.S. Ambassador to Sudan, 1972-73, died in office 1973.
Assassinated in Sudan,
March
2, 1973 (age 54 years, 208
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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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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Rodger Paul Davies (1921-1974) —
Born in Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., May 7,
1921.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus, 1974, died in office 1974.
Assassinated in Cyprus,
August
19, 1974 (age 53 years, 104
days).
Interment at Sunset
View Cemetery, El Cerrito, 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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Leo Joseph Ryan (1925-1978) —
also known as Leo J. Ryan —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; South San Francisco, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb., May 5,
1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; mayor
of South San Francisco, Calif., 1962; member of California
state assembly, 1963-73; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1964;
U.S.
Representative from California 11th District, 1973-78; died in
office 1978.
Killed by followers of Jim Jones' People's Temple cult, in an
ambush at the dirt airstrip
of Port Kaituma, Guyana,
November
18, 1978 (age 53 years, 197
days).
Interment at Golden
Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, Calif.
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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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Adolph Dubs (1920-1979) —
of Maryland.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August 4,
1920.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, 1978-79, died in office 1979.
Assassinated in Afghanistan,
February
14, 1979 (age 58 years, 194
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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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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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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Lawrence Patton McDonald (1935-1983) —
also known as Larry McDonald —
of Georgia.
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., April 1,
1935.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Georgia 7th District, 1975-83; died in office
1983.
Member, John
Birch Society.
Killed when the Korean
Airlines jet on which he was a passenger was shot down by
the Soviet military, over the Sea of
Japan, September
1, 1983 (age 48 years, 153
days); his remains were never
recovered.
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Arnold Lewis Raphel (1943-1988) —
also known as Arnold L. Raphel —
of New Jersey.
Born in 1943.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, 1987-88, died in office 1988.
Killed when a plane in
which he was a passenger was blown up in
midair by terrorists, near Bahawalpur, Pakistan,
August
17, 1988 (age about 45
years).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Nelson Gerard Gross (1932-1997) —
also known as Nelson G. Gross —
of Saddle River, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born January
9, 1932.
Son of Albert Gross.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly, 1962; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New Jersey, 1968;
chair
of Bergen County Republican Party, 1969; New Jersey
Republican state chair, 1969; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1970; real estate
developer; restaurant
owner.
Jewish.
Indicted
in May 1973 on charges
of falsifying
a $5,000 contribution to the 1969 campaign of Gov. William
T. Cahill, conspiring to commit tax
evasion by disguising the contribution as a business expense, and
counseling a witness to commit perjury;
convicted
in March 1974, and sentenced
to two years jail;
served six months.
Kidnapped in Edgewater, N.J., robbed of $20,000, taken to New York,
and stabbed
to death, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
17, 1997 (age 65 years, 251
days).
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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Jasper Baxter (1957-2001) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born January
28, 1957.
Democrat. Candidate in primary for Pennsylvania
state house of representatives 186th District, 1986.
African
ancestry.
Was conducting a seminar on the 93rd floor of 2 World Trade Center,
when an airliner hijacked by terrorists was deliberately crashed
into the building, causing an explosion,
fire, and
collapse
of the structure, killing almost 3,000, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
11, 2001 (age 44 years, 226
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Joseph Force Crater (b. 1889) —
also known as Joseph F. Crater; "Good Time
Joe" —
of New York.
Born in Easton, Northampton
County, Pa., January
5, 1889.
Son of Frank E. Crater and Leila Virginia (Montague) Crater.
Democrat. Lawyer;
secretary to Robert
F. Wagner, 1920-26; newspapers reported that the two became law
partners, but Wagner later denied it; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1930; appointed 1930.
Member, Freemasons;
Sigma
Chi; Tammany
Hall.
Mysteriously
disappeared (probably kidnapped and murdered) on August 6,
1930; his body was never
found; he was declared legally dead in 1939.
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