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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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Frank Hatton (1846-1894) —
of Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa.
Born in Cambridge, Guernsey
County, Ohio, April 28,
1846.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1884-85.
Died, from a stroke, in
his office at the Washington Post, Washington,
D.C., April 30,
1894 (age 48 years, 2
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Charles Henry Voorhis (1833-1896) —
also known as Charles H. Voorhis —
of New Jersey.
Born in Spring Valley (now Paramus), Bergen
County, N.J., March 13,
1833.
Republican. Lawyer; banker;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1864;
U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 5th District, 1879-81.
Indicted
in 1881 for bank
fraud over his actions as president of two banks, which later
became insolvent; tried and
found not guilty.
Fearing oncoming total blindness, he committed suicide
by gunshot,
in his office in the Davidson Building, Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., April 15,
1896 (age 63 years, 33
days).
Original interment at Bayview
- New York Bay Cemetery, Jersey City, N.J.; reinterment at Hackensack
Cemetery, Hackensack, N.J.
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George Wallace Delamater (1849-1907) —
also known as George W. Delamater —
of Meadville, Crawford
County, Pa.
Born in Meadville, Crawford
County, Pa., March 31,
1849.
Son of Susan (Town) Delamater (1820-1916) and George
Benjamin Delamater.
Republican. Lawyer; banker; mayor
of Meadville, Pa., 1877; chair of
Crawford County Republican Party, 1878; Presidential Elector for
Pennsylvania, 1880;
member of Pennsylvania
state senate 50th District, 1887-90; candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1890.
Died from a self-inflicted
gunshot
wound, in his office at the Diamond Banking Building,
Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., August 7,
1907 (age 58 years, 129
days).
Interment at Greendale
Cemetery, Meadville, Pa.
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Paul C. Barth (1858-1907) —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., 1858.
Mayor
of Louisville, Ky., 1905-07.
Removed
from office over alleged vote
fraud in 1907.
Committed
suicide by gunshot,
in the lavatory of his office, Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., August
21, 1907 (age about 49
years).
Interment at St.
Louis Catholic Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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William C. Mains (c.1869-1909) —
of Mt. Vernon, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born about 1869.
Son of Rev. George P. Mains.
Republican. Lawyer;
crusader against saloons in Mt. Vernon, N.Y.; member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County 1st District, 1901.
Died, from a self-inflicted
gunshot
wound, in his office at Mt. Vernon, Westchester
County, N.Y., January
23, 1909 (age about 40
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Nicholas Jay Paul (1841-1921) —
also known as Nicholas J. Paul —
of St. Paul, Howard
County, Neb.
Born in Meigs
County, Ohio, July 27,
1841.
Probate judge in Nebraska, 1872-75; member of Nebraska
state house of representatives, 1877; Howard
County Treasurer, 1880-83; banker.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of apoplexy,
at his desk in his office, in St. Paul, Howard
County, Neb., July 18,
1921 (age 79 years, 356
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William M. Bennett (1869-1930) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., July 11,
1869.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 15th District, 1908-10;
member of New York
state senate 18th District, 1915-16; defeated (Independence
League), 1912; candidate in primary for Governor of
New York, 1916; Republican candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1917, 1921 (primary), 1925 (primary);
candidate in primary for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1918, 1920.
Suffered a stroke of
paralysis in his office, and died soon after in Broad
Street Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
16, 1930 (age 60 years, 189
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Samuel Austin Kendall (1859-1933) —
also known as Samuel A. Kendall —
of Jefferson, Greene
County, Iowa; Myersdale, Somerset
County, Pa.
Born in Greenville Township, Somerset
County, Pa., November
1, 1859.
Republican. School
teacher; superintendent
of schools; officer in lumber
manufacturing companies; president of two small railroads;
vice-president of Citizens National Bank of
Myersdale, Pa.; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives from Somerset County, 1899-1902;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1904,
1908,
1912;
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1919-33 (23rd District 1919-23,
24th District 1923-33); died in office 1933.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners.
Died of a self-inflicted
gunshot
wound, in the House Office Building, Washington,
D.C., January
8, 1933 (age 73 years, 68
days).
Interment at Hochstetler
Cemetery, Greenville Township, Somerset County, Pa.
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Victor James Dowling (1866-1934) —
also known as Victor J. Dowling —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 20,
1866.
Son of Denis Dowling and Eliza Fierlants (Faider) Dowling.
Democrat. Lawyer; law
partner of William
Q. Titus, 1887-1901; member of New York
state assembly, 1894; member of New York
state senate 18th District, 1901-04; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1904;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1905-31; resigned 1931;
Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 1st
Department, 1911-31.
Catholic.
Member, Tammany
Hall.
Stricken with a cerebral
hemorrhage in the office of the Interborough Rapid Transit
Company, and died soon after, in Harbor Sanitarium,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 23,
1934 (age 67 years, 246
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Married, June 16,
1891, to Mary Agnes Ford (died 1920). |
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John A. Reeve (1859-1935) —
of Burlington, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., July 25,
1859.
Democrat. Farmer; lumber
business; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Burlington, 1887, 1929-30;
probate judge in Connecticut, 1890.
Died, in his office, in Burlington, Hartford
County, Conn., January
15, 1935 (age 75 years, 174
days).
Interment at Center Cemetery, Burlington, Conn.
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Relatives:
Married to Annie Laura Lovett (1868-1918). |
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Marion Anthony Zioncheck (1901-1936) —
also known as Marion A. Zioncheck —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Kety, Galicia, Poland,
December
5, 1901.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Washington 1st District, 1933-36; died in
office 1936.
While running
for re-election, he jumped
from the window of his campaign office in the Arctic Building,
and fell
to his death, in Seattle, King
County, Wash., August 7,
1936 (age 34 years, 246
days).
Interment at Evergreen-Washelli
Memorial Park, Seattle, Wash.
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Herschel L. Carnahan (c.1879-1941) —
also known as H. L. Carnahan —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Aledo, Mercer
County, Ill., about 1879.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 1920;
Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1928-31; candidate for Presidential
Elector for California, 1940.
Suffered a self-inflicted
gunshot
wound in the head, at his downtown law office and died
shortly afterward, at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 13,
1941 (age about 62
years).
Entombed in mausoleum at Evergreen
Memorial Park, Riverside, Calif.
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Christopher Daniel Sullivan (1870-1942) —
also known as Christopher D. Sullivan —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 14,
1870.
Democrat. Real estate
business; member of New York
state senate, 1907-16 (13th District 1907-08, 11th District
1909-16); delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1916,
1924
(alternate), 1928,
1940;
U.S.
Representative from New York 13th District, 1917-41; leader of New
York County Democratic Party, 1940-41.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Tammany
Hall.
Died, of a heart
attack, in his office at the Second Assembly District
Tammany Club, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August 3,
1942 (age 72 years, 20
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
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James Everett Sanders (1882-1950) —
also known as Everett Sanders —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in a log
cabin near Coalmont, Clay
County, Ind., March 8,
1882.
Son of James Sanders and Melissa Everal (Stark) Sanders.
Republican. School
teacher; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 5th District, 1917-25; secretary to
President Calvin
Coolidge, 1925-29; Chairman of
Republican National Committee, 1932-34.
Baptist.
Member, Elks.
Died, from a heart
ailment, in his law office, in Washington,
D.C., May 12,
1950 (age 68 years, 65
days).
Interment at Highland
Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
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Charles Walter Tillett, Jr. (1888-1952) —
also known as Charles W. Tillett, Jr. —
of Charlotte, Mecklenburg
County, N.C.
Born in Mangum, Richmond
County, N.C., February
6, 1888.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, 1944.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Major proponent of the United Nations.
While suffering from depression, committed suicide
by jumping
from an office building in Charlotte, Mecklenburg
County, N.C., December
23, 1952 (age 64 years, 321
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Clyde Roark Hoey (1877-1954) —
also known as Clyde R. Hoey —
of Shelby, Cleveland
County, N.C.
Born in Shelby, Cleveland
County, N.C., December
11, 1877.
Son of Samuel Alberta Hoey and Mary Charlotte (Roark) Hoey.
Democrat. Newspaper
editor; lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1899-1902; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1903-06; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 9th District, 1919-21; Governor of
North Carolina, 1937-41; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from North Carolina, 1940,
1944,
1948,
1952;
member of Democratic
National Committee from North Carolina, 1941-44; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1945-54; died in office 1954; member, Commission on
Intergovernmental Relations, 1953-54; died in office 1954.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Woodmen;
Junior
Order; Knights
of Pythias; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Sigma
Chi.
Died from a stroke, at
his desk in his congressional office, in Washington,
D.C., May 12,
1954 (age 76 years, 152
days).
Interment at Sunset
Cemetery, Shelby, N.C.
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Lester Callaway Hunt (1892-1954) —
of Lander, Fremont
County, Wyo.
Born in Isabel, Edgar
County, Ill., July 8,
1892.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; dentist;
member of Wyoming
state house of representatives, 1933-34; secretary of
state of Wyoming, 1935-43; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Wyoming, 1940,
1944,
1948,
1952;
Governor
of Wyoming, 1943-49; U.S.
Senator from Wyoming, 1949-54; died in office 1954.
Member, Tau
Kappa Epsilon.
In despair over his poor health and threats to expose his son's
arrest for homosexual solicitation, he shot
himself with a rifle, at
his desk in the Senate Office Building, and died soon after,
in Casualty Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., June 19,
1954 (age 61 years, 346
days).
Interment at Beth
El Cemetery, Cheyenne, Wyo.
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Jean Baptiste Adoue, Jr. (1884-1956) —
also known as J. B. Adoue, Jr. —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., November
4, 1884.
Son of Jean Baptiste Adoue and Mittie N. (Simpson) Adoue.
President, Dallas National Bank of
Commerce, 1924-56; chairman, Gulf Insurance
Company; chairman, Universal Life and Accident Insurance
Company; director, Graham-Brown Shoe
Company; director, First Texas Chemical
Company; director, Cosmopolitan Hotel
Company; mayor of
Dallas, Tex., 1951-53.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Arbitration Association; Rotary; Phi
Delta Theta; Newcomen
Society.
Died, from a heart
attack, while working at his bank, in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., November
17, 1956 (age 72 years, 13
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Crown
Hill Memorial Park, Dallas, Tex.
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William Lee Knous (1889-1959) —
also known as W. Lee Knous —
of Montrose, Montrose
County, Colo.
Born in Ouray, Ouray
County, Colo., February
2, 1889.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Colorado
state senate 17th District, 1930-37; justice of
Colorado state supreme court, 1937-47; chief
justice of Colorado Supreme Court, 1946-47; Governor of
Colorado, 1947-50; U.S.
District Judge for Colorado, 1950.
Suffered a heart
attack at his office, and died soon after in St. Joseph's
Hospital,
Denver,
Colo., December
11, 1959 (age 70 years, 312
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Fairmount
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Dean Gooderham Acheson (1893-1971) —
also known as Dean Acheson —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn., April 11,
1893.
Son of Edward Campion Acheson (1858-1934; Episcopal bishop of
Connecticut) and Eleanor Gertrude (Gooderham) Acheson (1870-1958).
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
private secretary to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis
D. Brandeis, 1919-21; undersecretary of treasury, 1933; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1949-53.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1964; received a Pulitzer
Prize in History, 1970, for his book Present At The Creation:
My Years In The State Department.
Died, probably from a heart
attack, over his desk in his study, Sandy Spring, Montgomery
County, Md., October
12, 1971 (age 78 years, 184
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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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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Ray Charles Bliss (1907-1981) —
also known as Ray C. Bliss —
of Akron, Summit
County, Ohio.
Born in Akron, Summit
County, Ohio, December
16, 1907.
Son of Emil Bliss and Emilie (Wieland) Bliss.
Republican. Insurance
business; chair of
Summit County Republican Party, 1942-60; member of Ohio
Republican State Central Committee, 1944-65; Ohio
Republican state chair, 1949-65; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Ohio, 1952,
1956,
1960,
1964,
1972;
member of Republican
National Committee from Ohio, 1952-80; Chairman of
Republican National Committee, 1965-69; Vice-Chair
of Republican National Committee, 1960-64.
Episcopalian.
German
ancestry. Member, Phi
Kappa Tau; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Kiwanis.
Suffered a heart
attack at his office, and died soon after at Akron City Hospital,
Akron, Summit
County, Ohio, August 6,
1981 (age 73 years, 233
days).
Interment at Mt.
Peace Cemetery, Akron, Ohio.
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Charles Clifton Finch (1927-1986) —
also known as Cliff Finch —
of Mississippi.
Born near Pope, Panola
County, Miss., April 4,
1927.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1960; Panola
County District Attorney; candidate in primary for Lieutenant
Governor of Mississippi, 1971; Governor of
Mississippi, 1976-80; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1978; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1980.
Died, of a heart
attack, in his law office, Batesville, Panola
County, Miss., April 22,
1986 (age 59 years, 18
days).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Batesville, Miss.
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John W. Rollins, Sr. (1916-2000) —
also known as "Big John" —
of Lewes, Sussex
County, Del.; Greenville, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Keith, Catoosa
County, Ga., August
24, 1916.
Republican. Lieutenant
Governor of Delaware, 1953-57; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Delaware, 1956
(alternate), 1972;
candidate for Governor of
Delaware, 1960.
Died, while napping in his office, in Greenville, New Castle
County, Del., April 4,
2000 (age 83 years, 224
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Andrew Nichols (c.1937-2001) —
also known as Andy Nichols —
of Tucson, Pima
County, Ariz.
Born about 1937.
Democrat. Served
in the Peace Corps; physician;
medical
school professor; member of Arizona
state house of representatives 13th District, 1993-2000; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Arizona, 2000;
member of Arizona
state senate 13th District, 2001; died in office 2001.
Disciples
of Christ.
Suffered a heart
attack, collapsed in his office at the Arizona State
Senate office building, and was pronounced dead on arrival at St.
Joseph's Hospital,
Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., April 19,
2001 (age about 64
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Arthur E. Teele (1946-2005) —
also known as Art Teele —
of Florida.
Born in Prince
George's County, Md., May 14,
1946.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; lawyer;
director, U.S. Urban Mass Transportation Administration, 1981-83;
Presidential Elector for Florida, 1992;
as Miami city commissioner in 1997-2004, he chaired the Community
Redevelopment Agency (CRA); an investigation
of corruption in the agency, started in 2003, led to charges
that he had accepted $135,000 in kickbacks
from two construction companies; as a result, he was removed from
office in 2004 by Gov. Jeb
Bush; in August, 2004, when he and his wife were under
surveillance, he drove his
car at a police detective in an attempt to run him
over, and also threatened
to kill police officers who had been following his wife during
the investigation; convicted
in March 2005 on charges
related to this incident; indicted
on July 14, 2005, on federal conspiracy and money
laundering charges, over a scheme to fraudulently obtain
contracts for electrical work at the Miami International Airport
through a "minority-owned" shell company; published police reports
revealed that he had put his mistress
on the CRA payroll, that he regularly bought and used cocaine,
and that he frequently made use of a male prostitute.
Church
of God in Christ. African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi; NAACP; Freemasons.
Came to the offices of the Miami Herald newspaper, and
shot
himself
in the head with a semiautomatic pistol; he died two hours later in
the trauma unit of Jackson Memorial Hospital,
Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., July 27,
2005 (age 59 years, 74
days).
Interment at Culley's MeadowWood Memorial Park, Tallahassee, Fla.
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Jerry Lamon Falwell (1933-2007) —
also known as Jerry Falwell —
Born in Lynchburg,
Va., August
11, 1933.
Son of Carey Hezekiah Falwell and Helen V. (Beasley) Falwell.
Republican. Pastor; television
evangelist; founder
(1971) of Liberty Baptist College, now Liberty University; also
served as its chancellor;
founder of the Moral Majority, political group advocating
conservative Christian views; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1996.
Baptist.
Member, National Rifle
Association.
Suffered cardiac
arrythmia, collapsed in his office at Liberty University,
and died soon after at Lynchburg General Hospital,
Lynchburg,
Va., May 15,
2007 (age 73 years, 277
days).
Interment at Montview
Grounds, Liberty University, Lynchburg, Va.
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