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Thomas Lynch, Jr. (1749-1779) —
of South Carolina.
Born in South Carolina, August 5,
1749.
Son of Thomas
Lynch, Sr..
Member of South Carolina state legislature, 1776; Delegate
to Continental Congress from South Carolina, 1776; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776.
While on an ocean voyage
to France, was lost at
sea, in the North
Atlantic Ocean, 1779
(age about
29 years); his remains were not recovered.
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James Carr (1777-1818) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine, September
9, 1777.
Son of Francis
Carr.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1806-11; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 17th District, 1815-17.
Drowned
in the Ohio River, August
24, 1818 (age 40 years, 349
days); his body was apparently not recovered.
Cenotaph at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine.
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John Pegram (1773-1831) —
of Virginia.
Born in Dinwiddie
County, Va., November
16, 1773.
Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1797-1801; member of Virginia
state senate, 1804-08; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 19th District, 1818-19.
Lost his life during the burning of a
boat on
the Ohio River, April 8,
1831 (age 57 years, 143
days); his remains were never recovered.
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William Johnson (1771-1834) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., December
27, 1771.
Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1794; state court judge
in South Carolina, 1799; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1804-34.
Presbyterian.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August 4,
1834 (age 62 years, 220
days); his remains apparently were lost in transit.
Cenotaph at St.
Philip's Churchyard, Charleston, S.C.
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Oliver Hillhouse Prince (1782-1837) —
also known as Oliver H. Prince —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Montville, New London
County, Conn., 1782.
Member of Georgia
state senate, 1824; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1828-29.
Perished
in the wreck
of the packet ship Home, in the North
Atlantic Ocean off Ocracoke Inlet, N.C., October
9, 1837 (age about 55
years); his remains were never recovered.
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William Beatty Rochester (1789-1838) —
also known as William B. Rochester —
of Bath, Steuben
County, N.Y.
Born in Hagerstown, Washington
County, Md., January
29, 1789.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly from Allegany and Steuben counties, 1816-18; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1821-23 (20th District 1821-23,
28th District 1823); candidate for Governor of
New York, 1826.
Perished
in the wreck
of the steamer Pulaski in the North
Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina, June 14,
1838 (age 49 years, 136
days); his remains were never recovered.
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John Adams Cameron (1788-1838) —
also known as John A. Cameron —
of Fayetteville, Cumberland
County, N.C.
Born in Mecklenburg
County, Va., 1788.
Newspaper
editor; member of North
Carolina house of commons from Fayetteville, 1810-12, 1820; major
in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S. Consul in Veracruz, 1831-32; U.S.
District Judge for Florida, 1832-38.
Member, Freemasons.
Perished
in the wreck
of the steamer Pulaski in the North
Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina, June 14,
1838 (age about 49
years); his remains were probably not recovered.
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Archibald McNeill (d. 1849) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Moore
County, N.C.
Member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1808-09; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1811-13, 1820-21; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 7th District, 1821-23, 1825-27.
In 1849
he was captain of about one hundred men traveling from Texas to
California; struck by a desert
sandstorm in what is now Arizona, he and most of the men were
killed; his remains were not recovered.
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John B. Macy (1799-1856) —
of Wisconsin.
Born in Nantucket, Nantucket
County, Mass., March 25,
1799.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 3rd District, 1853-55.
Lost his life in the burning of
the steamer
Niagara, on Lake
Michigan, near Port Washington, Wisconsin, September
24, 1856 (age 57 years, 183
days); his remains were not found.
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Stephen Clarendon Phillips (1801-1857) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., November
4, 1801.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1824-29; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1830; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1834-38; mayor of
Salem, Mass., 1838-42; Free Soil candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1848, 1849.
Perished in the burning of
the steamer
Montreal on the St. Lawrence River in Canada,
June
26, 1857 (age 55 years, 234
days); his remains were never recovered.
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James Hamilton, Jr. (1786-1857) —
of Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., May 8,
1786.
Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; lawyer; mayor
of Charleston, S.C., 1822; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 2nd District, 1822-29; Governor of
South Carolina, 1830-32.
While en route from New Orleans to Galveston, through some mishap, was
drowned
in the Gulf of
Mexico, November
15, 1857 (age 71 years, 191
days). His remains were probably never found.
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Thomas Francis Meagher (1823-1867) —
of Montana.
Born in Ireland,
August
3, 1823.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; secretary
of Montana Territory, 1865; Governor of
Montana Territory, 1865-66.
Fell from a steamboat
into the Missouri River and presumably drowned,
at Fort Benton, Chouteau
County, Mont., July 1,
1867 (age 43 years, 332
days); his body was never found.
Statue at State
Capitol Grounds, Helena, Mont.
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Rufus Wheeler Peckham (1809-1873) —
also known as Rufus W. Peckham —
of New York.
Born in Rensselaerville, Albany
County, N.Y., December
20, 1809.
Son of Peleg Peckham (1762-1828) and Desire (Watson) Peckham
(1767-1852).
Democrat. Lawyer; law
partner of Lyman
Tremain; U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1853-55; Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1861-69; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1870-73; died in office 1873.
Member, Kappa
Alpha Society.
En route to Europe on the steamer Ville du Havre, he was among
226 passengers and crew who perished
when the steamer collided
with the Scottish sailing vessel Loch Earn, and sank, in the
North
Atlantic Ocean, November
22, 1873 (age 63 years, 337
days); his remains were never found.
Cenotaph at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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Thomas Taylor Minor (1844-1889) —
also known as Thomas T. Minor —
of Port Townsend, Jefferson
County, Wash.; Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born, of American parents, in Manepy, Ceylon (now Sri
Lanka), February
20, 1844.
Son of Eastman Strong Minor and Judith (Manchester) Minor
(1814-1900).
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; physician;
one of the founders of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Washington Territory,
1880;
mayor of Port Townsend, Wash., 1881; mayor of
Seattle, Wash., 1887-88.
Last seen traveling by canoe to Whidbey Island with G. Morris Haller,
and was never
heard from again; presumed drowned
in a watercraft
accident, in Puget
Sound, December
2, 1889 (age 45 years, 285
days). Their remains were not found.
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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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William Walter Wedemeyer (1873-1913) —
also known as William W. Wedemeyer —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Washtenaw
County, Mich., March 22,
1873.
Republican. Lawyer; law
partner of Martin
J. Cavanaugh, from 1896; U.S. Consul in Georgetown, 1905; member of Michigan
Republican State Central Committee, 1907; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 2nd District, 1911-13; defeated,
1912; died in office 1913.
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Knights
of Pythias.
Accidentally drowned
in the harbor at Colón, Panama,
January
2, 1913 (age 39 years, 286
days); his remains were never recovered.
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Alfred L. M. Gottschalk (1873-1918) —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
8, 1873.
Son of L. G. Gottschalk and Louise de L. (Boucher) Gottschalk.
Newspaper
correspondent; sugar grower; U.S.
Consul in Callao, 1903-05; U.S. Consul General in Callao, 1905-06; Mexico City, 1906-08; , 1908-11; Rio de Janeiro, 1916-17.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
While en route from Bahia, Brazil to Baltimore on the U.S. Navy ship
Cyclops, during World War
I, he was one of 306 sailors and crew who perished
when the ship sank, in the
North
Atlantic Ocean, March, 1918
(age 45
years, 0 days); the wreckage was never found.
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Carl Frederick Zeidler (1908-1942) —
also known as Carl Zeidler; "Singing Mayor";
"Boy Mayor" —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., January
4, 1908.
Mayor
of Milwaukee, Wis., 1940-42; resigned 1942; served in the U.S.
Navy during World War II.
Carl Zeidler Park, in downtown Milwaukee, is named for
him.
Killed
when the munitions ship La
Salle was struck by torpedos, exploded,
and sank,
about 350 miles southeast of the Cape of Good Hope, in the Indian
Ocean, November
7, 1942 (age 34 years, 307
days); his remains were never found.
Cenotaph at Forest
Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis.
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Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr. (1914-1972) —
also known as Hale Boggs —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Long Beach, Harrison
County, Miss., February
15, 1914.
Son of William Robertson Boggs and Claire Josephine (Hale) Boggs.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 2nd District, 1941-43, 1947-72;
died in office 1972; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Louisiana, 1948,
1956,
1960;
Parliamentarian, 1964;
candidate for Governor of
Louisiana, 1952; Vice-Chair
of Democratic National Committee, 1957; member, President's Commission
on the Assassination of President KNDY, 1963-64.
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion; Amvets; Catholic
War Veterans; Sons of
the American Revolution; Knights
of Columbus; American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Phi
Beta Kappa; Beta
Theta Pi; Omicron
Delta Kappa.
Disappeared
while on a campaign
flight from Anchorage to Juneau, Alaska, October
16, 1972, and presumed dead in a plane
crash (age 58 years, 244
days); apparently the wreckage was never found.
Cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Nicholas Joseph Begich (1932-1972) —
also known as Nick Begich —
of Anchorage,
Alaska.
Born in Eveleth, St. Louis
County, Minn., April 6,
1932.
Democrat. Member of Alaska
state senate, 1963-71; U.S.
Representative from Alaska at-large, 1971-72; died in office
1972; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Alaska, 1972.
Alaska
Native and Croatian
ancestry.
Begich Middle School in Anchorage is named for
him.
Disappeared
while on a campaign
flight from Anchorage to Juneau, Alaska, October
16, 1972, and presumed dead in a plane
crash (age 40 years, 193
days); apparently the wreckage was never found.
Cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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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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John Vaudain Creely (b. 1839) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
14, 1839.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 2nd District, 1871-73.
Before his term in Congress expired in 1873, he mysteriously
disappeared; he was never found, and a Philadelphia court
declared him legally dead in 1900.
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John Lansing, Jr. (b. 1754) —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., January
30, 1754.
Member of New York
state assembly from Albany County, 1780-84, 1785-87, 1788-89; Speaker of
the New York State Assembly, 1786; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1785; mayor of
Albany, N.Y., 1786-90; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; delegate to
New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Albany
County, 1788; Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1790-1801.
Christian
Reformed.
Mysteriously
disappeared in New York City, December 12, 1829, after leaving
his hotel to post a letter; his fate is unknown.
Cenotaph at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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James W. Tate (b. 1831) —
also known as "Honest Dick" —
of Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky.
Born in Franklin
County, Ky., January
2, 1831.
Kentucky
state treasurer, 1868-.
Absconded
from the state treasurer's office in March, 1888; Gov. Simon
Buckner said Tate had embezzled
almost $250,000 from the state. Impeached
in absentia by the Kentucky House; convicted
and removed from
office by the Senate.
He never
returned, and his fate is unknown.
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Joseph Force Crater (b. 1889) —
also known as Joseph F. Crater; "Good Time
Joe" —
of New York.
Born in Easton, Northampton
County, Pa., January
5, 1889.
Son of Frank E. Crater and Leila Virginia (Montague) Crater.
Democrat. Lawyer;
secretary to Robert
F. Wagner, 1920-26; newspapers reported that the two became law
partners, but Wagner later denied it; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1930; appointed 1930.
Member, Freemasons;
Sigma
Chi; Tammany
Hall.
Mysteriously
disappeared (probably kidnapped and murdered)
on August 6, 1930; his body was never found; he was declared
legally dead in 1939.
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