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Politicians Killed by Strangulation

Very incomplete list!

in chronological order

	Samuel Calley (c.1833-1883) — of Salem, Essex County, Mass. Born about 1833. Mayor of Salem, Mass., 1881-82. Committed suicide by hanging himself, in the back stairway of his home, in Salem, Essex County, Mass., January 1, 1883 (age about 50 years). Burial location unknown.
	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.
	Charles Armijo Woodruff (1884-1945) — also known as Charles A. Woodruff — Born in 1884. U.S. Navy officer; Governor of American Samoa; captain in Merchant Marine. Committed suicide by hanging, in his room at the Hotel Bossert, Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., November 22, 1945 (age about 61 years). Burial location unknown.
	Balfour Bowen Thorn Lord (1906-1965) — also known as Thorn Lord — of Lawrence Township, Mercer County, N.J. Born in Plainfield, Union County, N.J., August 24, 1906. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, 1943-45; delegate to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Mercer County, 1947; chair of Mercer County Democratic Party, 1949-65; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1956; candidate for U.S. Senator from New Jersey, 1960; New Jersey Democratic state chair, 1961-65. Episcopalian. Committed suicide by strangling himself with an electric shaver cord, in Princeton, Mercer County, N.J., June 16, 1965 (age 58 years, 296 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Married to Margaret Eastburn (divorced) and Nina Underwood McAlpin. See Rockefeller-Aldrich-Crocker-Whitehouse family of New York.

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