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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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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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Edward Allen Hannegan (1807-1859) —
also known as Edward A. Hannegan —
of Covington, Fountain
County, Ind.
Born in Hamilton
County, Ohio, June 25,
1807.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1832-33, 1841-42; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 7th District, 1833-37; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1843-49; U.S. Minister to Prussia, 1849-50.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
In May, 1852, during a drunken
argument, he stabbed
his brother-in-law, Captain Duncan, who died the next
day.
Died from overdose of morphine (probably suicide),
in St.
Louis, Mo., February
25, 1859 (age 51 years, 245
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
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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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William Sumner Maynard (1802-1866) —
also known as William S. Maynard —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Berkshire
County, Mass., April 25,
1802.
Village
president of Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1836-38, 1839-40; mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1856-58, 1865-66.
Congregationalist.
Suffering from severe depression, he committed suicide
by an overdose of morphine or laudanum, in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., June 18,
1866 (age 64 years, 54
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Relatives:
Married to Julia Guiteau (aunt of Charles Julius Guiteau (assassin in
1881 of President James
A. Garfield)). |
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Henry Connelly (1800-1866) —
of New Mexico.
Born in Nelson County (part now in Spencer
County), Ky., 1800.
Member
New Mexico territorial council, 1851; Governor of
New Mexico Territory, 1861-66.
Catholic.
Died of an opium overdose, at Santa Fe, Santa Fe
County, N.M., August
12, 1866 (age about 66
years).
Interment at San
Rosario Cemetery, Santa Fe, N.M.
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John H. Fitzgerald (1834-1871) —
of Wickenburg, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., 1834.
Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of Arizona
territorial House of Representatives, 1871.
Committed suicide
by taking a dose of strychnine, at Mill City (now part of
Phoenix), Maricopa
County, Ariz., July 22,
1871 (age about 37
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Benjamin F. Ferris (c.1806-1876) —
also known as B. F. Ferris; H. A. Johnson —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in New York, about 1806.
Justice of the Peace, 1853 to about 1860; mayor of
Oakland, Calif., 1865-66; banker.
While traveling under the pseudonym 'H. A. Johnson', aboard the
steamer Amador on the Sacramento River, he committed suicide
by taking poison, tying his feet together, and then jumping or
falling overboard to drown in
the river, near Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., May 20,
1876 (age about 70
years).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Henry C. Hoffman (c.1827-1883) —
of Chemung
County, N.Y.
Born about 1827.
Member of New York
state assembly from Chemung County, 1866, 1880-81.
Committed
suicide, by taking strychnine, in Horseheads, Chemung
County, N.Y., August
26, 1883 (age about 56
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Jacques J. Stillwell (1827-1884) —
also known as J. J. Stillwell —
of Gravesend (now part of Brooklyn), Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in 1827.
Member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 12th District, 1881-82.
While suffering from an overdose of chloral hydrate, and
fearing the onset of insanity, he shot himself,
and died several days later, in Gravesend (now part of Brooklyn), Kings
County, N.Y., December
14, 1884 (age about 57
years).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Michael S. Tynan (c.1835-1893) —
of Stapleton, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.
Born about 1835.
Republican. Shoe
merchant; member of New York
state assembly from Richmond County, 1885.
Committed
suicide with illuminating gas, in Stapleton, Staten
Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., November
13, 1893 (age about 58
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Jacob H. Hoysradt (1858-1911) —
of Ancram, Columbia
County, N.Y.
Born in 1858.
Member of New York
state assembly from Columbia County, 1895.
Member, Freemasons;
Grange.
Committed
suicide, using chloroform, in Ancram, Columbia
County, N.Y., December
14, 1911 (age about 53
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1880
to Carrie Miller. |
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Frank Bosworth Brandegee (1864-1924) —
also known as Frank B. Brandegee —
of New London, New London
County, Conn.
Born in New London, New London
County, Conn., July 8,
1864.
Son of Augustus
Brandegee and Nancy Christina (Bosworth) Brandegee.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from New London, 1889; Speaker of
the Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1899-1900;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Connecticut, 1900;
U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 3rd District, 1902-05; U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1905-24; died in office 1924.
Member, Union
League.
Committed suicide
by inhaling from a gaslight, in Washington,
D.C., October
14, 1924 (age 60 years, 98
days).
Interment at Cedar
Grove Cemetery, New London, Conn.
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Asa Francis Smith (c.1847-1925) —
also known as Asa F. Smith —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Beverly, Essex
County, Mass., about 1847.
Lawyer;
Prohibition candidate for New York
state assembly from Kings County 17th District, 1902; candidate
for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1919, 1920 (Prohibition).
Died, a week after being overcome by fumes from his gas stove,
in Prospect Heights Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
16, 1925 (age about 78
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Harwood E. Fish (1875-1934) —
of Roselle Park, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Otterville, Ontario,
August
23, 1875.
Son of John DeField Fish (1833-1911) and Janette Ann (Titus) Fish
(1843-1886).
Mayor
of Roselle Park, N.J., 1912-16.
Committed
suicide with illuminating gas, in Roselle Park, Union
County, N.J., September
4, 1934 (age 59 years, 12
days).
Interment at Rosedale
Cemetery, Linden, N.J.
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Nathan Lieberman (c.1888-1939) —
also known as Leonard Madden —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born about 1888.
Republican. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1912;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 17th District, 1921.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
In March 1939, he was charged,
along with two others, over a stock
fraud scheme; he pleaded not guilty and was released on bail;
meanwhile, in a separate case, he was indicted in Broome County.
Died, apparently of pneumonia
while attempting to commit
suicide with poison, in his room at the Tudor Hotel
(where he had registered under the assumed name "Leonard Madden"),
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 12,
1939 (age about 51
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Ralph Emerson Bailey (1878-1948) —
of Sikeston, Scott
County, Mo.
Born in Cainsville, Harrison
County, Mo., July 14,
1878.
Son of John L. Bailey and Honora (Reeves) Bailey.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 14th District, 1925-27.
Died, from acute vascular
collapse as a result of an adverse reaction to a blood
transfusion, in St. Francis Hospital,
Cape Girardeau, Cape
Girardeau County, Mo., April 8,
1948 (age 69 years, 269
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Sikeston, Mo.
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Douglas Hemphill Elliott (1921-1960) —
also known as Douglas H. Elliott —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., June 3,
1921.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; public
relations business; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 33rd District, 1957-60; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 18th District, 1960; died in
office 1960.
Committed suicide,
through carbon monoxide poisoning, by draping a deer skin over
his head and the tail pipe of a car, in Horse Valley, Franklin
County, Pa., June 19,
1960 (age 39 years, 16
days).
Interment at Falling
Spring Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Chambersburg, Pa.
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James Thomas Blair, Jr. (1902-1962) —
also known as James T. Blair, Jr. —
of Jefferson City, Cole
County, Mo.
Born in Maysville, DeKalb
County, Mo., March 15,
1902.
Son of James
Thomas Blair and Grace Emma (Ray) Blair.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives; elected 1928, 1930; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1936,
1960;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; mayor
of Jefferson City, Mo., 1947; Lieutenant
Governor of Missouri, 1949-57; Governor of
Missouri, 1957-61.
Presbyterian.
Member, Elks; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Moose;
Sons
of the American Revolution; American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Amvets; American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Sigma
Chi; Phi
Delta Phi; Sigma Nu
Phi; Military
Order of the World Wars; Knights
of Pythias; Woodmen;
Kiwanis;
Eagles.
Died, along with his wife, of accidental carbon monoxide
poisoning, when exhaust fumes from a car left
running in an attached garage entered their home through the air
conditioning system, in Jefferson City, Cole
County, Mo., July 12,
1962 (age 60 years, 119
days).
Interment at Riverview
Cemetery, Jefferson City, Mo.
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Sidney Theodore Roebuck (1901-1982) —
also known as S. T. Roebuck —
of Newton, Newton
County, Miss.
Born in Attala
County, Miss., 1901.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Mississippi
state house of representatives; secretary of
Mississippi Democratic Party, 1937; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Mississippi, 1940.
Died from an accidental overdose of Coumadin (Warfarin), 1982
(age about
81 years).
Interment at Lakewood
Memorial Park, Jackson, Miss.
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Nathan R. Sobel (1906-1997) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., 1906.
Lawyer;
counsel to Gov. Herbert
H. Lehman, 1937; County Court Judge; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1962-67; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 17th District, 1967;
appointed 1967; Kings
County Surrogate, 1969-76.
Died, from an adverse reaction to medication, in New York
Hospital-Cornell
Medical Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 20,
1997 (age about 90
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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James J. Eagan (1926-2000) —
also known as "The Jolly Green Giant" —
of Florissant, St. Louis
County, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., March 4,
1926.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; mayor
of Florissant, Mo., 1963-2000.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, of an adverse reaction to a prescription drug, in St.
John's Mercy Medical
Center, St.
Louis, Mo., November
2, 2000 (age 74 years, 243
days); body donated
to science.
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