Very incomplete list!
in chronological order
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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.
English
and Welsh
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Commanded expedition with William
Clark to Oregon, 1803-04.
Died from 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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Relatives: Son
of William Lewis and Lucy (Meriwether) Lewis; first cousin once
removed of Howell
Lewis, John
Walker, David
Meriwether (1755-1822), James
Meriwether (1755-1817), Francis
Walker and George
Rockingham Gilmer; first cousin five times removed of Arthur
Sidney Demarest; second cousin of James
Meriwether (1788-1852), David
Meriwether (1800-1893) and James
Archibald Meriwether; second cousin once removed of George
Washington, Howell
Cobb (1772-1818), Thomas
Walker Gilmer, David
Shelby Walker and Reuben
Handy Meriwether; second cousin twice removed of Howell
Cobb (1815-1868), Thomas
Reade Rootes Cobb, James
David Walker and David
Shelby Walker Jr.; second cousin thrice removed of Hubbard
T. Smith; second cousin four times removed of Archer
Woodford; third cousin of Theodorick
Bland, Robert
Brooke, Bushrod
Washington, George
Madison and Richard
Aylett Buckner; third cousin once removed of John
Randolph of Roanoke, Henry
St. George Tucker, John
Thornton Augustine Washington, Zachary
Taylor, Francis
Taliaferro Helm and Aylette
Buckner; third cousin twice removed of John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton, Aylett
Hawes Buckner, Charles
John Helm, Thomas
Leonidas Crittenden, Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker and Hubbard
Dozier Helm; third cousin thrice removed of James
Francis Buckner Jr., Key
Pittman, Claude
Pollard and Vail
Montgomery Pittman; fourth cousin once removed of Henry
Rootes Jackson. |
| | | Political families: Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis
family of New Jersey; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: George
F. Shannon |
| | | Lewis counties in Idaho, Ky., Mo., Tenn. and Wash. are
named for him; Lewis and Clark
County, Mont. is named partly for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Meriwether
Lewis Randolph
— Meriwether
Lewis Walker
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared (along with Clark's) on the $10 U.S. Note from 1898 to
1927. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about Meriwether Lewis: Thomas C.
Danisi, Uncovering
the Truth About Meriwether Lewis — Donald Barr
Chidsey, Lewis
and Clark: The Great Adventure |
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Tobias Lear (1762-1816) —
of Virginia.
Born in Portsmouth, Rockingham
County, N.H., September
19, 1762.
Private secretary to George
Washington, 1790-99; U.S. Commercial Agent (Consul) in Cape Hatien, 1801-03.
Killed himself, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
11, 1816 (age 54 years, 22
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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George Washington Adams (1801-1829) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Berlin, Germany,
April
12, 1801.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1826.
En route to New York City aboard the Benjamin Franklin, he
apparently killed himself by jumping from the ship and drowning,
in Long
Island Sound, June 9,
1829 (age 28 years, 58
days). His body washed ashore a few days later.
Interment at Hancock
Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.
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James Blair (1786-1834) —
of South Carolina.
Born in The Waxhaws, Lancaster
County, S.C., September
26, 1786.
Democrat. Planter; sheriff;
U.S.
Representative from South Carolina, 1821-22, 1829-34 (9th
District 1821-22, 8th District 1829-34); resigned 1822; died in
office 1834; in 1832, he assaulted
newspaper editor Duff Green, breaking some bones, and fined
$350.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in Washington,
D.C., April 1,
1834 (age 47 years, 187
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1797-1834) —
also known as Lucius Q. C. Lamar —
of Georgia.
Born in Warren
County, Ga., July 15,
1797.
Lawyer;
superior court judge in Georgia, 1830-34.
When he learned that a man he had sentenced to death for murder was
not guilty, he killed himself by gunshot,
Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga., July 4,
1834 (age 36 years, 354
days).
Interment at Memory
Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Ga.
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Henry Seymour (1780-1837) —
of Onondaga
County, N.Y.
Born in Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn., May 30,
1780.
Member of New York
state senate Western District, 1815-19, 1821-22; member of New York
state assembly from Onondaga County, 1819-20.
Financially ruined in the Panic of 1837, he died from a
self-inflicted gunshot,
in Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y., August
26, 1837 (age 57 years, 88
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Moses
Seymour and Molly (Marsh) Seymour; brother of Horatio
Seymour (1778-1857); married, January
1, 1807, to Mary Ledyard Forman (first cousin once removed of Edwin
Barber Morgan and Christopher
Morgan); father of Horatio
Seymour (1810-1886) and Julia Catherine Seymour (who married Roscoe
Conkling); uncle of Origen
Storrs Seymour and George
Seymour; grandfather of Horatio
Seymour Jr. and Helen Lincklaen (who married Charles
Stebbins Fairchild); granduncle of Edward
Woodruff Seymour, Joseph
Battell and Morris
Woodruff Seymour; first cousin once removed of McNeil
Seymour and Henry
William Seymour; first cousin twice removed of Norman
Alexander Seymour; second cousin once removed of Thomas
Seymour and Hezekiah
Cook Seymour; second cousin twice removed of William
Pitkin, Silas
Seymour, William
Chapman Williston and Augustus
Sherrill Seymour; second cousin thrice removed of Orlo
Erland Wadhams; second cousin four times removed of Dalton
G. Seymour; third cousin once removed of Josiah
Cowles, Daniel
Pitkin, David
Lowrey Seymour and Thomas
Henry Seymour; third cousin twice removed of Caleb
Seymour Pitkin; fourth cousin of Timothy
Pitkin, Orsamus
Cook Merrill, Timothy
Merrill and Ela
Collins; fourth cousin once removed of Farrand
Fassett Merrill, William
Collins, John
Robert Graham Pitkin and William
Sheffield Cowles. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Murphy-Merrill
family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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James Collinsworth (1806-1838) —
Born in Tennessee, 1806.
U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, 1829-35; served
in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Brazoria, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1836; Attorney
General of the Texas Republic, 1836; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Brazoria, 1836; justice of
Texas Republic supreme court, 1837.
Member, Freemasons.
While a candidate
for the presidency of the Texas Republic, jumped off a boat
and drowned
in Galveston
Bay, 1838
(age about
32 years).
Interment at Founders
Memorial Park, Houston, Tex.
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Peter William Grayson (1788-1838) —
also known as Peter W. Grayson; Peter Wagener
Grayson —
of Baird's Town (now Bardstown), Nelson
County, Ky.; Texas.
Born in Baird's Town (now Bardstown), Nelson
County, Ky., 1788.
Postmaster at Bardstown,
Ky., 1816; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Goliad, 1835; Attorney
General of the Texas Republic, 1836, 1837; candidate for President
of the Texas Republic, 1838.
Died from self-inflicted gunshot,
at Bean Station, Grainger
County, Tenn., July 9,
1838 (age about 50
years).
Interment at Eastern
Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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George Campbell Childress (1804-1841) —
also known as George C. Childress —
of Texas.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., January
8, 1804.
Lawyer;
delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Milam, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836.
Killed himself with a Bowie
knife, in Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex., October
6, 1841 (age 37 years, 271
days).
Interment at Trinity
Episcopal Cemetery, Galveston, Tex.; statue at Washington-on-the-Brazos
State Park, Washington, Tex.
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Thomas Reynolds (1796-1844) —
of Missouri.
Born March
12, 1796.
Governor
of Missouri, 1840-44; died in office 1844.
Died of a self-inflicted gunshot
wound, in Jefferson City, Cole
County, Mo., February
9, 1844 (age 47 years, 334
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Jefferson City, Mo.
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Jesse Burgess Thomas (1777-1853) —
also known as Jesse B. Thomas —
of Lawrenceburg, Dearborn
County, Ind.; Kaskaskia, Randolph
County, Ill.; St. Clair
County, Ill.; Edwardsville, Madison
County, Ill.; Mt. Vernon, Knox
County, Ohio.
Born in Shepherdstown, Jefferson
County, Va. (now W.Va.), 1777.
Member of Indiana
territorial House of Representatives, 1805-08; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Indiana Territory, 1808-09; federal
judge, 1809-18; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention from St. Clair
County, 1818; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1818-29.
Slaveowner.
Died by suicide, in Mt. Vernon, Knox
County, Ohio, May 3,
1853 (age about 75
years).
Interment at Mound
View Cemetery, Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
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Alexander Keith McClung (1809-1855) —
also known as Alexander K. McClung; "The Black Knight
of the South" —
of Mississippi.
Born in Virginia, 1809.
Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; U.S. Charge
d'Affaires to Bolivia, 1849-51.
Killed his opponents in a number of duels.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
with a dueling pistol, in a hotel
room at Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss., March
23, 1855 (age about 45
years).
Interment at Friendship
Cemetery, Columbus, Miss.
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Thomas Jefferson Rusk (1803-1857) —
also known as Thomas J. Rusk —
of Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches
County, Tex.
Born in South Carolina, December
5, 1803.
Democrat. Delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Nacogdoches, 1835;
delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Nacogdoches, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; general in the Texas
Army during the Texas War of Independence; Texas
Republic Secretary of War, 1836, 1836-37; member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1837-38; justice of
Texas Republic supreme court, 1838-40; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845; U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1846-57; died in office 1857.
Slaveowner.
Killed himself, in Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches
County, Tex., July 29,
1857 (age 53 years, 236
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Nacogdoches, Tex.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; statue at Rusk
County Courthouse Grounds, Henderson, Tex.
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Anson Jones (1798-1858) —
of Texas.
Born in Great Barrington, Berkshire
County, Mass., January
20, 1798.
Physician;
served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member
of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Brazoria, 1839-41; Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1841-44; President
of the Texas Republic, 1844-45.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Died from self-inflicted gunshot,
in the Rice Hotel,
Houston, Harris
County, Tex., January
9, 1858 (age 59 years, 354
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Houston, Tex.; cenotaph at Church
on the Hill Cemetery, Lenox, Mass.
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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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Royal Tyler Wheeler (1810-1864) —
of Texas.
Born in Vermont, 1810.
District judge in Texas, 1844; justice of
Texas state supreme court, 1845-64; died in office 1864.
Died by suicide, in Washington
County, Tex., April 9,
1864 (age about 53
years).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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John Milton (1807-1865) —
of Marianna, Jackson
County, Fla.
Born near Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ga., April
20, 1807.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Florida; member of Florida
state senate, 1848-49; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1850; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Florida, 1860;
Governor
of Florida, 1861-65; died in office 1865.
At the end of the Civil War, believing that "death would be
preferable to reunion," he killed himself by gunshot,
Marianna, Jackson
County, Fla., April 1,
1865 (age 57 years, 346
days).
Interment at St.
Luke's Episcopal Cemetery, Marianna, Fla.
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Preston King (1806-1865) —
of Ogdensburg, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y.
Born in Ogdensburg, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y., October
14, 1806.
Lawyer;
postmaster at Ogdensburg,
N.Y., 1833-41; member of New York
state assembly from St. Lawrence County, 1835-38; U.S.
Representative from New York 18th District, 1843-47, 1849-53;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1856
(member, Platform
Committee), 1860,
1864;
U.S.
Senator from New York, 1857-63; candidate for Presidential
Elector for New York; U.S. Collector of Customs, 1865; died in office 1865.
Member, Kappa
Alpha Society.
Tied bags of lead shot to his body, jumped from the ferryboat
Paterson, between New York and Hoboken, and drowned
in the Lower
Hudson River, November
12, 1865 (age 59 years, 29
days).
Interment at Ogdensburg
Cemetery, Ogdensburg, N.Y.
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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.
Merchant;
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 killed himself 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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James Henry Lane (1814-1866) —
also known as James H. Lane; "Liberator of
Kansas"; "Fighting Jim" —
of Lawrenceburg, Dearborn
County, Ind.; Lawrence, Douglas
County, Kan.
Born in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn
County, Ind., June 22,
1814.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; Lieutenant
Governor of Indiana, 1849-53; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 4th District, 1853-55; delegate
to Kansas state constitutional convention, 1855, 1857; Kansas
Democratic state chair, 1855; U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1861-66; died in office 1866; general in the
Union Army during the Civil War.
Member, Freemasons.
Deranged, and charged
with financial irregularities, he was mortally wounded by a
self-inflicted gunshot
on July 1, 1866, and died ten days later, near Fort Leavenworth, Leavenworth
County, Kan., July 11,
1866 (age 52 years, 19
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Lawrence, Kan.
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Elijah Hise (1802-1867) —
of Russellville, Logan
County, Ky.
Born in Allegheny
County, Pa., July 4,
1802.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1829; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1836; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Guatemala, 1848-49; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 3rd District, 1866-67; died in
office 1867.
German
ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died by a self-inflicted pistol
shot, in Russellville, Logan
County, Ky., May 8,
1867 (age 64 years, 308
days). He left a note declaring that he had "lost all hope of
… saving the country from the impending disasters and ruin in
which despotic and unconstitutional rule has involved her." However,
later news
reports disclosed that he had been about to be indicted
for perjury
and tax
evasion, based on his statements as a candidate.
Interment at Maple
Grove Cemetery, Russellville, Ky.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Daniel Mace (1811-1867) —
of Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind.
Born in Pickaway
County, Ohio, September
5, 1811.
Lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1836; U.S.
Attorney for Indiana, 1845-48; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 8th District, 1851-57; postmaster at
Lafayette,
Ind., 1866-67.
Suffered a stroke in
1866, never completely recovered, and became depressed over his
condition; killed himself by gunshot,
in the post
office at Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind., July 26,
1867 (age 55 years, 324
days).
Interment at Greenbush
Cemetery, Lafayette, Ind.
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Damien Marchessault (1818-1868) —
also known as Damien Marchesseau —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Quebec,
April
1, 1818.
Democrat. Mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1859-60, 1861-65, 1867.
French
Canadian ancestry.
Died, from a self-inflicted gunshot
wound, in the Council Room of Los Angeles City
Hall, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
20, 1868 (age 49 years, 294
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry English Read (1824-1868) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Larue
County, Ky., December
25, 1824.
Representative
from Kentucky in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65.
Killed himself, November
9, 1868 (age 43 years, 320
days).
Interment at Elizabethtown
City Cemetery, Elizabethtown, Ky.
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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.
Killed himself by swallowing 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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O. C. Maxwell (1837-1871) —
of Ohio.
Born in Franklin, Warren
County, Ohio, February
7, 1837.
Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; wounded
in the leg at Perryville, and crippled
for life; delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1868.
Died, in a state of desperation from financial difficulties, from a
self-inflicted gunshot,
in Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio, December
5, 1871 (age 34 years, 301
days).
Interment at Lebanon
Cemetery, Lebanon, Ohio.
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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 killed
himself 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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Harrison Cockrill (1826-1876) —
of Owsley
County, Ky.
Born in Breathitt
County, Ky., June 18,
1826.
Member of Kentucky
state senate, 1863-65, 1869-73; county judge in Kentucky, 1860;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Kentucky; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 9th District, 1874.
Member, Freemasons.
Died of a (probably) self-inflicted gunshot
wound, in Estill
County, Ky., May 22,
1876 (age 49 years, 339
days).
Interment at Cockrell
Family Cemetery, Ravenna, Ky.
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William W. Lee (c.1817-1882) —
of Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born about 1817.
Republican. Candidate for New
Jersey state house of assembly, 1879.
While depressed over the death of his wife, he killed himself
by taking an ounce and a half of laudanum,
in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., December
19, 1882 (age about 65
years).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Samuel Calley (1821-1883) —
of Salem, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., April
13, 1821.
House
painter; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1870-71; mayor of
Salem, Mass., 1872, 1881-82.
Killed himself by hanging,
in the back stairway of his home, Salem, Essex
County, Mass., January
1, 1883 (age 61 years, 263
days).
Entombed at Harmony
Grove Cemetery, Salem, Mass.
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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.
Killed himself, by taking
strychnine, in Horseheads, Chemung
County, N.Y., August
26, 1883 (age about 56
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Heman J. Redfield (1823-1883) —
of Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich.
Born in Le Roy, Genesee
County, N.Y., February
25, 1823.
Democrat. Mayor of
Monroe, Mich., 1871-75; member of Michigan
state senate 5th District, 1875-78; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Michigan, 1876,
1880
(alternate).
Killed himself at his cemetery plot, Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich., September
9, 1883 (age 60 years, 196
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Monroe, Mich.
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Relatives:
Married 1855 to Ellen
Pickering. |
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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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Andre J. Dumont (c.1844-1885) —
of Algiers, New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., about 1844.
Republican. Owner of a whiskey
distillery; Louisiana
Republican state chair, 1877-85; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Louisiana, 1880.
African
and French
ancestry.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., June 29,
1885 (age about 41
years).
Entombed at St.
Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans, La.
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Woodbury H. Polleys (1817-1885) —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, December
17, 1817.
Ship
captain; U.S. Consul in Barbados, as of 1880; U.S. Commercial Agent (Consul) in San Juan de los Remedios, as of 1884.
Died by suicide, in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, November
11, 1885 (age 67 years, 329
days).
Interment at Pine Grove Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
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Theodore P. Rich (c.1848-1886) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Cobleskill, Schoharie
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, about 1848.
Democrat. Candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 13th District, 1876.
Pursued his estranged wife to Minnesota; killed
her, and then, perhaps to avoid prosecution,
killed himself, by gunshot,
in the Astoria House hotel,
St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., February
27, 1886 (age about 38
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1876 to Fannie
(Smith) Trimble (daughter of Henry
Smith). |
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Thomas Caute Reynolds (1821-1887) —
also known as Thomas C. Reynolds —
of Missouri.
Born in South Carolina, October
11, 1821.
U.S.
Attorney for Missouri, 1853-57; Lieutenant
Governor of Missouri, 1860-61; Confederate Governor of Missouri
(in exile), 1862-65.
Killed himself by leaping
down an elevator
shaft at the Customs House, St.
Louis, Mo., March
30, 1887 (age 65 years, 170
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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John C. Niglutsch (d. 1887) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Clerk at Castle Garden; organist;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 10th District, 1882.
Suffered a self-inflicted gunshot
wound, apparently while in a paranoid state, and died soon after,
in Bellevue Hospital,
New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
8, 1887.
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Andrew Jackson Bryant (1831-1888) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Effingham, Carroll
County, N.H., October
30, 1831.
Democrat. Gold miner;
wholesale
liquor merchant; importer and dealer in safes and locks; insurance
business; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1875-79.
Jumped or fell from
the ferry steamer Encinal, and drowned
in San
Francisco Bay, May 11,
1888 (age 56 years, 194
days).
Original interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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John M. Lingle (1843-1889) —
of Webb City, Jasper
County, Mo.
Born in Pennsylvania, April 2,
1843.
Democrat. Newspaper
publisher; postmaster at Webb
City, Mo., 1885-89.
After being threatened with criminal
prosecution for allegedly misappropriating
funds as postmaster, he stepped out the back door of the post
office, and killed himself by gunshot,
in Webb City, Jasper
County, Mo., January
4, 1889 (age 45 years, 277
days).
Interment at Webb
City Cemetery, Webb City, Mo.
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Almond M. Paine (1820-1890) —
of Danielsonville (now Danielson), Killingly, Windham
County, Conn.
Born in Rhode Island, September
15, 1820.
Republican. Probate judge in Connecticut, 1850; postmaster at East
Killingly, Conn., 1861-67; served in the Union Army during the
Civil War; bank
director.
Died, by self-inflicted gunshot,
in Danielsonville (now Danielson), Killingly, Windham
County, Conn., June 7,
1890 (age 69 years, 265
days).
Interment at Grove Street Cemetery, Putnam, Conn.
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Lucien Wells Sperry (1820-1890) —
also known as Lucien W. Sperry —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Woodbridge, New Haven
County, Conn., March 8,
1820.
Coal
dealer; insurance
agent; mayor
of New Haven, Conn., 1866-69; member of Connecticut
state senate 4th District, 1869-70.
Unable to account for money entrusted to him, and likely to be arrested
as an embezzler,
he died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., June 26,
1890 (age 70 years, 110
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Evan E. Swearengin (1840-1890) —
also known as Van Swearengin —
of Concordia, Cloud
County, Kan.
Born in Morgan
County, Ind., January
17, 1840.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; mayor
of Concordia, Kan., 1880-81; member of Kansas
state senate, 1889-90; died in office 1890.
Member, Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias.
Died from self-inflicted gunshot,
in Concordia, Cloud
County, Kan., October
12, 1890 (age 50 years, 268
days).
Interment at Pleasant
Hill Cemetery, Concordia, Kan.
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Frank B. Arnold (1839-1890) —
also known as Michael Edwards; Benjamin Franklin
Arnold —
of Unadilla, Otsego
County, N.Y.
Born in County Clare, Ireland,
March
29, 1839.
Republican. School
teacher; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Otsego County 2nd District, 1885-87; member
of New
York state senate 23rd District, 1888-89; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 24th District, 1890, 1890.
Irish
ancestry.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in his law
office, Unadilla, Otsego
County, N.Y., December
11, 1890 (age 51 years, 257
days).
Interment at St.
Matthew's Cemetery, Unadilla, N.Y.
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John Birdsall (1840-1891) —
also known as "John Williams" —
of Glen Cove, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Flatbush (now part of Brooklyn), Kings
County, N.Y., October
5, 1840.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; merchant;
farmer;
member of New York
state senate 1st District, 1880-81.
While registered under the assumed name "John Williams," he killed
himself with illuminating
gas in his room at the United States Hotel,
New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
14, 1891 (age 50 years, 191
days).
Interment at St. Paul's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Glen Cove, Long Island,
N.Y.
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Charles A. Binder (1857-1891) —
also known as John Roth —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
2, 1857.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 10th District, 1884, 1886; accused
in 1891 of embezzling
$20,000 from the estate of Barbara Hausman; fled
and became a fugitive,
traveling under the alias "John Roth".
German
ancestry.
Wounded by self-inflicted gunshot,
in his room at the Sheridan House Hotel,
and died there early the next morning, in Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., May 17,
1891 (age 33 years, 196
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Albert Pickett Morehouse (1835-1891) —
also known as Albert P. Morehouse —
of Maryville, Nodaway
County, Mo.
Born in Delaware
County, Ohio, July 11,
1835.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri,
1876
(member, Credentials
Committee); Lieutenant
Governor of Missouri, 1885-89; Governor of
Missouri, 1887-89.
Killed himself, by slashing
his throat, in Maryville, Nodaway
County, Mo., September
23, 1891 (age 56 years, 74
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Maryville, Mo.
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Charles P. Miller (1853-1892) —
of South Omaha (now part of Omaha), Douglas
County, Neb.
Born January
29, 1853.
Mayor
of South Omaha, Neb., 1891-92; died in office 1892.
Member, Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias.
Found unconscious from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot
wound, and died soon after, in Methodist Hospital,
Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., October
5, 1892 (age 39 years, 250
days). Later, two men were arrested and charged with murdering
him, but evidence did not support this, and charges were dismissed.
Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery, Omaha, Neb.
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Francis Spies Jr. (1840-1893) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 10,
1840.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; commission
merchant; Portland
cement importer;
Vice-Consul
for Honduras in New
York, N.Y., 1887-93.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Tammany
Hall.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 21,
1893 (age 53 years, 42
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Francis Spies and Amanda Maria (Harding) Spies; married 1869 to Amelia
L. Schwarzwaelder. |
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memorial |
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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.
Reportedly afflicted with "melancholia", he died by suicide,
from illuminating
gas, in Stapleton, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., November
13, 1893 (age about 58
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Rudolph Walter De Lion (1838-1894) —
also known as R. W. De Lion —
of Port Townsend, Jefferson
County, Wash.; Tacoma, Pierce
County, Wash.
Born in Bavaria, Germany,
1838.
Ship
captain; dry dock
business; Consul
for Chile in Port
Townsend, Wash., 1885-92; mayor
of Port Townsend, Wash., 1887; Consul
for Chile in Tacoma,
Wash., 1892-94.
German
ancestry.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in Seattle, King
County, Wash., February
27, 1894 (age about 55
years).
Interment at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Port Townsend, Wash.
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Thomas McKee Bayne (1836-1894) —
also known as Thomas M. Bayne —
of Allegheny (now part of Pittsburgh), Allegheny
County, Pa.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Bellevue, Allegheny
County, Pa., June 14,
1836.
Republican. Lawyer;
colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; Allegheny
County District Attorney, 1870-74; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 23rd District, 1877-91;
defeated, 1874; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1884,
1888.
Alarmed about a tuberculosis-related
lung hemorrhage, he killed himself, by gunshot
to the head, in Washington,
D.C., June 16,
1894 (age 58 years, 2
days).
Interment at Union
Dale Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Robert F. Kraft (1859-1894) —
of New Albany, Floyd
County, Ind.
Born in Johnson
County, Ill., October, 1859.
Democrat. Shoemaker;
candidate for mayor
of New Albany, Ind., 1894.
Killed himself by swallowing
arsenic, in New Albany, Floyd
County, Ind., October
2, 1894 (age about 35
years).
Interment at Fairview
Cemetery, New Albany, Ind.
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Charles Daniel Sherwood (1833-1895) —
also known as Charles D. Sherwood —
of Rushford, Fillmore
County, Minn.; Sherwood, Franklin
County, Tenn.
Born in New Milford, Litchfield
County, Conn., November
18, 1833.
Republican. Physician;
lawyer;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1859-61, 1863 (District 9
1859-60, District 14 1861, 1863); postmaster;
Lieutenant
Governor of Minnesota, 1864-66.
Drowned,
reportedly as a suicide, in Lake
Michigan, near Chicago, Illinois, July 2,
1895 (age 61 years, 226
days).
Interment at Mound
Grove Cemetery, Kankakee, Ill.
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Edward Augustus Stevenson (1831-1895) —
also known as Edward A. Stevenson —
of El
Dorado County, Calif.; Tehama
County, Calif.; Boise, Ada
County, Idaho.
Born in Lowville, Lewis
County, N.Y., June 15,
1831.
Democrat. Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state assembly, 1854-56, 1860-61 (18th District 1854-56, 13th
District 1860-61); Speaker of
the California State Assembly, 1860; member
Idaho territorial council, 1866-68, 1876-78; Governor
of Idaho Territory, 1885-89; appointed 1885; candidate for Governor of
Idaho, 1894.
Died by suicide, from laudanum,
at Paraiso Springs, Monterey
County, Calif., July 6,
1895 (age 64 years, 21
days).
Interment at Pioneer
Cemetery, Boise, Idaho.
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Jasper B. Chapin (1822-1896) —
of Virginia City, Madison
County, Mont.; Moorhead, Clay
County, Minn.; Fargo, Cass
County, Dakota Territory (now N.Dak.).
Born in Genesee
County, N.Y., January
7, 1822.
Hotel
owner; mayor of
Fargo, N.Dak., 1880-82.
Killed himself, in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., January
26, 1896 (age 74 years, 19
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Emma Jane Clark. |
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Michael Daniel Harter (1846-1896) —
also known as Michael D. Harter —
of Mansfield, Richland
County, Ohio.
Born in Canton, Stark
County, Ohio, April 6,
1846.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1891-95 (15th District 1891-93, 14th
District 1893-95).
Lutheran.
Killed by self-inflicted gunshot,
in Fostoria, Seneca
County, Ohio, February
22, 1896 (age 49 years, 322
days).
Interment at Mansfield
Cemetery, Mansfield, Ohio.
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Frank Mapes (1861-1896) —
of Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan.
Born in Racine, Racine
County, Wis., 1861.
Democrat. Postmaster at Kansas
City, Kan., 1893-96.
While postal inspectors discovered
that he had embezzled
about $9,200 from post office accounts, he died from a
self-inflicted gunshot,
in Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan., March
15, 1896 (age about 34
years).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Kansas City, Kan.
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Relatives: Son
of Alfred R. Mapes and Elizabeth P. (Chittenden) Mapes; married to
Annie Lispenard Sharp. |
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memorial |
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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 died from a
self-inflicted gunshot,
in his office
at 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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Abram S. Cassedy (d. 1896) —
of Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y.
Lawyer;
mayor
of Newburgh, N.Y., 1880-82.
Distressed over business losses, he shot
himself, and died later that day, in in Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y., April
29, 1896.
Burial location unknown.
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Otto Munchmeyer (d. 1897) —
of West Virginia.
Born in Parkersburg, Wood
County, W.Va.
U.S. Consular Agent in Acajutla, as of 1896; U.S. Consul in San Salvador, as of 1897.
Killed himself, in San Salvador, El
Salvador, July 25,
1897.
Burial location unknown.
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Horace Riverside Buck (1853-1897) —
also known as Horace R. Buck —
of Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont.
Born in Yazoo
County, Miss., September
18, 1853.
Member
Montana territorial council, 1884; district judge in Montana 1st
District, 1891-96; justice of
Montana state supreme court, 1897; died in office 1897.
Died, from a self-inflicted gunshot
(possibly a gun
accident), in Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont., December
6, 1897 (age 44 years, 79
days).
Interment at Forestvale
Cemetery, Helena, Mont.
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John J. Boyle (c.1843-1898) —
of New Castle, New Castle
County, Del.
Born about 1843.
Democrat. Merchant;
Delaware State Sealer of Weights and Measures.
Killed himself by self-inflicted gunshot,
April
6, 1898 (age about 55
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Fenton Collier (1817-1899) —
also known as Charles F. Collier —
of Petersburg,
Va.
Born in Petersburg,
Va., September
27, 1817.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Virginia state legislature, 1852; Representative
from Virginia in the Confederate Congress, 1862-64; mayor
of Petersburg, Va., 1866-68, 1888-92; president, Southern Railroad.
Presbyterian.
Died, from a self-inflicted gunshot,
attributed to "insomnia, melancholia, and nervous prostration," in Petersburg,
Va., June 29,
1899 (age 81 years, 275
days).
Interment at Blandford
Cemetery, Petersburg, Va.
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Charles Addison Chickering (1843-1900) —
also known as Charles A. Chickering —
of Copenhagen, Lewis
County, N.Y.
Born in Harrisburg, Lewis
County, N.Y., November
26, 1843.
Republican. Member of New York
state assembly from Lewis County, 1879-81; clerk of the New York
Assembly, 1884-1890; U.S.
Representative from New York 24th District, 1893-1900; died in
office 1900.
Member, Freemasons.
Jumped or fell from
a fourth-floor balcony of the Grand Union Hotel,
and died from his injuries, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
13, 1900 (age 56 years, 79
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Copenhagen, N.Y.
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Joseph Flesheim (1848-1900) —
of South Haven, Van Buren
County, Mich.; Menominee, Menominee
County, Mich.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, April 8,
1848.
Republican. Insurance
business; president, Menominee Electric Company, manufacturer
of telephone
switchboards and equipment; mayor
of Menominee, Mich., 1888; member of Michigan
state senate, 1891-94 (31st District 1891-92, 30th District
1893-94).
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Facing the failure of his business enterprises, he died by
self-inflicted gunshot,
in Menominee, Menominee
County, Mich., February
26, 1900 (age 51 years, 324
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Menominee, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Flesheim and Babette (Straus) Flesheim; married, February
25, 1875, to Delia Isabella 'Belle' Stephenson. |
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Adam Cyrus Reinoehl (1840-1900) —
also known as Adam C. Reinoehl —
of Lancaster, Lancaster
County, Pa.
Born in Lebanon, Lebanon
County, Pa., November
14, 1840.
Republican. Major in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives from Lancaster County, 1868,
1870-71; postmaster at Lancaster,
Pa., 1900.
Died by suicide, with illuminating
gas, in his office
at the Lancaster post
office, Lancaster, Lancaster
County, Pa., December
14, 1900 (age 60 years, 30
days).
Interment at Lancaster
Cemetery, Lancaster, Pa.
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William Irvin Shaw (1860-1900) —
also known as W. Irvin Shaw —
of Houtzdale, Clearfield
County, Pa.
Born in Clearfield, Clearfield
County, Pa., 1860.
Republican. Lawyer; chair of
Clearfield County Republican Party, 1894; U.S. Consul in Barranquilla, 1897-1900.
Died by suicide, from slashing
his throat, wrists, and leg, in a hotel at
Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
25, 1900 (age about 40
years).
Interment at Hillcrest
Cemetery, Clearfield, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Archibald Henry Shaw and Mary E. (Irvin) Shaw; married 1895 to Mary
Valentine Rhodes. |
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memorial |
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Louis Stern (c.1856-1901) —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Germany,
about 1856.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; newspaper
reporter; U.S. Commercial Agent (Consul) in Bamberg, 1893-1901.
Jewish.
Arrested
and fined in
Kissingen, Germany, 1895, for insulting
the Baron von Thuengen; also charged
with misrepresenting
his 15-year-old son as being twelve in order to get cheaper passage
to Europe for him on a steamship; the U.S. Consul General in Berlin
asserted that Mr. Stern was "very harshly and unjustly treated".
Depressed over financial problems and perceived anti-Semitism, he
began neglecting
his work; he was recalled
as commercial agent in 1901, but remained at Bamberg; his failure
to return money he had collected on behalf of U.S. citizens led
to a judgement
against him for 2,000 marks, which he was unable to pay; he died
by self-inflicted gunshot,
in the public gardens at Bamberg, Germany,
June
10, 1901 (age about 45
years).
Burial location unknown.
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William Van Slooten (c.1857-1901) —
also known as "The Mysterious Van
Slooten" —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., about 1857.
Democrat. Mining engineer;
candidate for New York
state senate 5th District, 1893.
Died, from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
14, 1901 (age about 44
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Van Slooten. |
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David Todd Gillmor (1837-1902) —
also known as David T. Gillmor —
of Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J.
Born in Connecticut, January
25, 1837.
Republican. Dry goods
merchant; mayor
of Paterson, N.J., 1881-82.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
while suffering from Bright's
disease, in Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J., August
17, 1902 (age 65 years, 204
days).
Interment at Cedar
Lawn Cemetery, Paterson, N.J.
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James Lawrence Blair (1854-1904) —
also known as James L. Blair —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., April 2,
1854.
Lawyer;
president, St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners, 1884; general
counsel, St. Louis World's Fair (Louisiana Purchase Exposition),
1901-03; indicted
in December, 1903, for forgery
of two deeds of trust to obtain
a loan from an estate he managed.
Member, American Bar
Association; Loyal
Legion; Sons of
the Revolution.
Died, either from suicide (which he had attempted at least
twice before) or from "congestion of
the brain", in Eustis, Lake
County, Fla., January
16, 1904 (age 49 years, 289
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Robert Milligan McLane (1867-1904) —
also known as Robert M. McLane —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., November
30, 1867.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Baltimore, Md., 1903-04; died in office 1904.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in Baltimore,
Md., May 30,
1904 (age 36 years, 182
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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William Copeland Philips (1823-1906) —
of Austin, Travis
County, Tex.
Born in Boone
County, Mo., January
14, 1823.
Secretary
of state of Texas, 1867.
Killed himself, 1906
(age about
83 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Adams Jr. (1849-1906) —
also known as Bertie Adams —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., February
26, 1849.
Republican. Member of Pennsylvania
state senate 6th District, 1883-86; U.S. Minister to Brazil, 1889-90; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 2nd District, 1893-1906; died in
office 1906; drafted and introduced the declaration of war against
Spain, 1898.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Sons of
the Revolution; Sons of
the War of 1812; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Despondent over heavy losses in stock speculation and the prospect of
defeat at the polls, he killed himself by pistol
shot, in his rooms at the Metropolitan Club, and died soon after
in Emergency Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., June 1,
1906 (age 57 years, 95
days).
Interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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William J. Donohue (1873-1907) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in 1873.
Republican. Member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 14th District, 1907; defeated,
1903; died in office 1907.
Shot
and killed himself, or was murdered,
in the lavatory of a saloon
in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
31, 1907 (age about 33
years).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
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Howard P. Frothingham (1861-1907) —
of Mt. Arlington, Morris
County, N.J.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
12, 1861.
Stockbroker;
mayor
of Mt. Arlington, N.J., 1891.
Following large financial losses, he jumped from the
second-story window of his home, fell about
30 feet, fractured his skull, and subsequently died, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
2, 1907 (age 45 years, 327
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Hillside, 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.
Republican. Lawyer; banker; mayor
of Meadville, Pa., 1877; chair of
Crawford County Republican Party, 1878; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania; 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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Otto Phillipp Max Adae (1840-1907) —
also known as Otto M. Adae —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Möckmühl, Germany,
September
26, 1840.
Consul
for Austria-Hungary in Cincinnati,
Ohio, 1873-77.
German
ancestry.
Took his own life by drowning,
in San
Diego Bay, August
8, 1907 (age 66 years, 316
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, San Diego, Calif.
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Paul Charles Barth (1858-1907) —
also known as Paul C. Barth —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Germany,
December, 1858.
Mayor
of Louisville, Ky., 1905-07; removed from
office over alleged vote
fraud, 1907.
Killed himself by gunshot,
in the lavatory of his office,
Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., August
21, 1907 (age 48 years, 0
days).
Interment at St.
Louis Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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William Henry Abercrombie (1845-1907) —
also known as William H. Abercrombie —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1845.
Physician;
U.S. Consul in Nagasaki, 1890-97.
He stuffed cotton in the cracks around his bedroom doors and windows,
and killed himself by turning on the illuminating
gas jets, in Washington,
D.C., September
5, 1907 (age about 62
years).
Interment at Charles
Evans Cemetery, Reading, Pa.
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Charles D. Pierce (c.1848-1908) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born about 1848.
Consulting
engineer; commission
merchant; manufacturer of well-drilling,
excavation,
and mining
machinery and supplies; Consul-General
for Orange Free State in New
York, N.Y., 1891-1902.
Killed himself by inhaling
illuminating gas, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
24, 1908 (age about 60
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Silas Clark McFarland (1859-1908) —
also known as Silas C. McFarland —
of Marshalltown, Marshall
County, Iowa.
Born in Mt. Pleasant, Henry
County, Iowa, June 3,
1859.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Iowa, 1888;
U.S. Consul in Nottingham, 1899-1902; Reichenberg, 1902-07; U.S. Consul General in St. Gall, 1907.
Killed himself, by gunshot,
in his compartment on the Hamburg-Berlin express
train, near Ludwigslust, Germany,
October
24, 1908 (age 49 years, 143
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel McFarland and Mary A. (Woolson) McFarland; married, September
1, 1886, to Marie Eiboeck. |
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William C. Mains (c.1872-1909) —
of Mt. Vernon, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born about 1872.
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 37
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. George P. Mains. |
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Hinton Rowan Helper (1829-1909) —
of North Carolina; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Mocksville, Davie
County, N.C., December
27, 1829.
Author and publisher of The Impending Crisis of the South
(1857), an attack on the institution of slavery as holding the South
back economically; the book caused a furor, and was banned in the
South; U.S. Consul in Buenos Aires, 1861-66.
Killed himself with illuminating
gas, in Washington,
D.C., March 9,
1909 (age 79 years, 72
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Suitland, Md.
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Charles Fred Jewett (1836-1909) —
also known as C. F. Jewett —
Born in Sidney, Kennebec
County, Maine, August
19, 1836.
Farmer;
member of Iowa
state house of representatives, 1880; member of Iowa
state senate, 1890.
Died from a self-inflicted rifle
shot, in Kensett, Worth
County, Iowa, May 17,
1909 (age 72 years, 271
days).
Interment at Kensett Cemetery, Kensett, Iowa.
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Constantine Fernow Brunn (1858-1909) —
also known as Constantine F. Brunn —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; South Woodstock, Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
24, 1858.
Vice-Consul
for Portugal in New
York, N.Y., 1893-96.
German
and Irish
ancestry.
According to published
reports, in a sudden fit of rage, perhaps angered because he
wasn't able to reach his wife by telephone, he shot
and killed his sister, Freda Brunn, and his brother, Dr. Armin
Brunn, and then shot
himself, in South Woodstock, Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn., September
29, 1909 (age 50 years, 340
days).
Interment a private or family graveyard, Windham County, Conn.
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Samuel Levis Gracey (1835-1911) —
also known as Samuel L. Gracey —
of Smyrna, Kent
County, Del.; Pawtucket, Providence
County, R.I.; Chelsea, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Natick, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Lynn, Essex
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., September
8, 1835.
Methodist
minister; served in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Consul in Foochow, 1890-93, 1897-1911, died in office 1911.
Methodist.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died by suicide, when he cut his
throat with a razor, in the West Newton Sanitarium,
West Newton, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
19, 1911 (age 75 years, 345
days).
Interment at Mt.
Moriah Cemetery, West Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa.
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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, 1894.
Member, Freemasons;
Grange.
Killed himself with 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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William Whitney Kitchen (1875-1912) —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.; Gulfport, Harrison
County, Miss.
Born in Toronto, Ontario,
April
6, 1875.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; physician;
U.S. Consul in Tenerife, 1911-12, died in office 1912.
While suffering from chronic heart
disease, he died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in Tenerife (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), Canary
Islands, October
16, 1912 (age 37 years, 193
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Martin Berolzheimer (d. 1913) —
U.S. Vice Consul in Vienna, 1895-97.
Died from self-inflicted gunshot,
in Vienna, Austria,
February
9, 1913.
Burial location unknown.
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Yates Pennington (1871-1913) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., March
29, 1871.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates from Baltimore city 2nd District, 1896.
Died by suicide, from inhaling illuminating
gas, in Baltimore,
Md., December
17, 1913 (age 42 years, 263
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Relatives: Son
of Josias Pennington and Elizabeth Ann (Stirling) Pennington;
married, January
9, 1896, to Anna Genevieve Thompson. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Baltimore Sun, September
17, 1903 |
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John J. Kennedy (1856-1914) —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., 1856.
Democrat. Saloon
keeper; banker; New York
state treasurer, 1911-14; died in office 1914.
Killed himself by slashing
his throat with a razor, in a lavatory near the ballroom of the
Markeen Hotel,
Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., February
15, 1914 (age about 57
years).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Lackawanna, N.Y.
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Hayward Augustus Harvey (1870-1914) —
also known as Hayward A. Harvey —
of Orange, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Orange, Essex
County, N.J., November
3, 1870.
Republican. Steel
manufacturer; mining
business; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Essex County, 1896.
Presbyterian.
Killed by self-inflicted gunshot,
in the Lackawanna Railroad station,
Orange, Essex
County, N.J., February
25, 1914 (age 43 years, 114
days).
Interment at Rosedale
Cemetery, Orange, N.J.
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Otto H. Boyesen (1857-1914) —
also known as Otto H. Boysen —
of Grand Forks, Grand
Forks County, N.Dak.; Bowman, Bowman
County, N.Dak.
Born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway,
April
24, 1857.
Democrat. Lawyer; Vice-Consul
for Sweden & Norway in Grand
Forks, N.D., 1889-92; U.S. Consul in Christiania, 1893; Gothenberg, 1893-97; district judge in North Dakota, 1909-12.
Norwegian
ancestry.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in a hotel
room at Glasgow, Valley
County, Mont., February
27, 1914 (age 56 years, 309
days).
Interment at Highland
Cemetery, Glasgow, Mont.
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Southard Parker Warner (1881-1914) —
also known as Southard P. Warner —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Washington,
D.C., October
29, 1881.
U.S. Consular Agent in Gera, 1904; U.S. Consul in Leipzig, 1904-09; Bahia, 1909-11; Harbin, 1912-14, died in office 1914.
Died, from a self-inflicted gunshot,
while in a hospital
at Harbin, China,
May
9, 1914 (age 32 years, 192
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Edward C. Cheasty (1864-1914) —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in 1864.
Democrat. Haberdashery
business; Honorary Vice-President, Democratic National
Convention, 1904.
Jumped from his window on the 10th floor of the Hotel
Washington, and fell to
his death on the pavement below, in Seattle, King
County, Wash., June 12,
1914 (age about 49
years).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Seattle, Wash.
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Harry Woods (d. 1914) —
of Illinois.
Democrat. Secretary
of state of Illinois, 1913-14; died in office 1914.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in the garage at the rear of his home, in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., October
11, 1914.
Burial location unknown.
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Christopher Paulus (d. 1915) —
of Wisconsin.
Member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1915; died in office 1915.
Killed himself, 1915.
Burial location unknown.
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John Miller Faison (1862-1915) —
also known as John M. Faison —
of Faison, Duplin
County, N.C.
Born near Faison, Duplin
County, N.C., April
17, 1862.
Democrat. Physician;
farmer;
U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 3rd District, 1911-15.
In failing health, he died by self-inflicted gunshot,
in Faison, Duplin
County, N.C., April
21, 1915 (age 53 years, 4
days).
Interment at Faison
Cemetery, Faison, N.C.
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Frederick Van Dyne (1861-1915) —
Born in Palmyra, Wayne
County, N.Y., November
24, 1861.
U.S. Consul in Kingston, 1907-09; Lyon, 1915, died in office 1915.
While a passenger on the steamship Sant'Anna, en route from
New York to Naples, he jumped overboard and was presumed drowned,
in the North
Atlantic Ocean, April
21, 1915 (age 53 years, 148
days); his remains were not
recovered.
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John J. Fowler (1850-1915) —
of Wilmington, New
Hanover County, N.C.
Born in Wilmington, New Hanover
County, N.C., December
19, 1850.
Mayor
of Wilmington, N.C., 1890.
Killed himself, in Wilmington, New Hanover
County, N.C., May 23,
1915 (age 64 years, 155
days).
Interment at Oakdale
Cemetery, Wilmington, N.C.
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George Riddell (1860-1915) —
of Grand Rapids, Itasca
County, Minn.
Born September
14, 1860.
Mayor
of Grand Rapids, Minn., 1915; died in office 1915.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in Grand Rapids, Itasca
County, Minn., July 7,
1915 (age 54 years, 296
days).
Interment at Itasca Calvary Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Minn.
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Relatives:
Married to Iva Anderson. |
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George Gundrum (1842-1916) —
of Ionia, Ionia
County, Mich.
Born in Pirmasens, Germany,
January
20, 1842.
Democrat. Pharmacist;
mayor
of Ionia, Mich., 1893.
Methodist.
German
ancestry.
Died, from acute
morphine poisoning, probably intentional, in Ionia, Ionia
County, Mich., November
18, 1916 (age 74 years, 303
days).
Interment at Highland
Park Cemetery, Ionia, Mich.
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Alfred Ronalds Conkling (1850-1917) —
also known as Alfred R. Conkling —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
28, 1850.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1884; member of New York
state assembly, 1892, 1895 (New York County 7th District 1892,
New York County 8th District 1895).
Killed himself by jumping to
his death from a fourth-story window, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
18, 1917 (age 66 years, 355
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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George Pelton Lawrence (1859-1917) —
also known as George P. Lawrence —
of North Adams, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Adams, Berkshire
County, Mass., May 19,
1859.
Republican. Lawyer;
district judge in Massachusetts, 1885-94; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1895-97; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1897-1913.
Under stress as head of a World War I draft exemption board, he
jumped from an eighth-floor window and fell to his
death, at the Belmont Hotel,
Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., November
21, 1917 (age 58 years, 186
days).
Interment at Hillside
Cemetery, North Adams, Mass.
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Charles Harrington (c.1859-1919) —
of Essex, Middlesex
County, Conn.
Born in Essex, Middlesex
County, Conn., about 1859.
Democrat. Postmaster at Essex,
Conn., 1888-92, 1896-1900, 1915-19.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Ancient
Order of United Workmen.
After a shortage of $1,250 was discovered in his post office
accounts, he died from self-inflicted gunshot,
in Essex, Middlesex
County, Conn., September
24, 1919 (age about 60
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
Hartford Courant, September 30, 1919 |
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Cary Roy Miller (1872-1919) —
also known as Cary R. Miller —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Millersburg, Elkhart
County, Ind., February
25, 1872.
U.S. Vice Consul in Stockholm, 1918-19, died in office 1919.
Member, Freemasons.
Shot
and killed himself, in his suite at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
9, 1919 (age 47 years, 257
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Oakridge
Cemetery, Goshen, Ind.
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Nathaniel Wheeler Bishop (1865-1920) —
also known as Nathaniel W. Bishop —
of Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born July 16,
1865.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Connecticut, 1916;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War I.
Despondent due to a lengthy illness, he stabbed
himself in the chest, and died soon afterward at Bridgeport Hospital,
Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn., April 4,
1920 (age 54 years, 263
days).
Interment at Mountain
Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn.
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Warren Jay Terhune (1869-1920) —
also known as Warren J. Terhune —
of Hackensack, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in Midland Park, Bergen
County, N.J., May 3,
1869.
Served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War; U.S. Navy
commander; Governor of
American Samoa; died in office 1920.
Three days before he was to face an inquiry
into charges
against his
administration, he shot
himself in the heart, in a bathroom of the Executive
Mansion, Utulei, American
Samoa, November
3, 1920 (age 51 years, 184
days); later, the Navy exonerated him; his accuser, Lieutenant
Commander Creed H. Boucher, was courtmartialed and found guilty of
fomenting unrest among the Samoans.
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Jacob Haussling (1855-1921) —
also known as Jake Haussling —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., February
22, 1855.
Democrat. Essex
County Sheriff, 1881-83; mayor of
Newark, N.J., 1907-14; defeated, 1914.
Stabbed
himself, in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., February
25, 1921 (age 66 years, 3
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Arthur Elston (1874-1921) —
also known as John A. Elston; J. A. Elston —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Woodland, Yolo
County, Calif., February
10, 1874.
Republican. School
teacher; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from California 6th District, 1915-21; died in
office 1921.
Killed himself by drowning
in the Potomac River, Washington,
D.C., December
15, 1921 (age 47 years, 308
days). In his suicide note, he wrote that he was "caught in a
chain of circumstances that spelled ruin.".
Cremated.
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Raymond Schofield Curtice (1887-1922) —
also known as Raymond S. Curtice —
of Saltsburg, Indiana
County, Pa.
Born in Middlefield Center, Middlefield, Middlesex
County, Conn., October
31, 1887.
U.S. Vice Consul in Seoul, as of 1916-17; U.S. Consul in Nagasaki, as of 1921.
Killed himself by gunshot,
in his room at the Hotel
duPont, Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., February
15, 1922 (age 34 years, 107
days).
Interment at Greenfield
Cemetery, Uniondale, Long Island, N.Y.
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Hillyer Rudisill (1875-1923) —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Forsyth, Monroe
County, Ga., April
26, 1875.
Republican. Postmaster at Macon,
Ga., 1922-23 (acting, 1922).
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in the post
office at Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., February
16, 1923 (age 47 years, 296
days). A shortage
of about $86,000 was discovered
after his death.
Interment at Forsyth
Cemetery, Forsyth, Ga.
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Edward Richard Folsom (1874-1923) —
also known as Edward R. Folsom —
of Irvington, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in North Urbana, Steuben
County, N.Y., September
18, 1874.
Charged,
in 1894, of forging
checks, bank
robbery, and arson;
pleaded
guilty to two charges; sentenced
to ten years in prison;
pardoned
and released in September 1897; coal
dealer; mayor
of Irvington, N.J., 1923; died in office 1923.
Blackmailers threatening to expose his criminal past extorted money
from him until he was nearly penniless; killed himself by an
overdose
of sedative, in Irvington, Essex
County, N.J., September
26, 1923 (age 49 years, 8
days).
Interment at Clinton
Cemetery, Irvington, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of Frederick Lewis Folsom and Martha (Layton) Folsom; married to Sara
Elizabeth Keeler. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Walter M. Taussig (1862-1923) —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., June 10,
1862.
Democrat. President, Wiesbuch & Hilger, hardware
exporters; vice-president, American Chain Company; president,
Challenge Cutlery Company; mayor
of Yonkers, N.Y., 1922-23; defeated, 1923; died in office 1923.
Shot
himself in the head, in the garage of his home, and died forty
minutes later, in St. John's Hospital,
Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., November
21, 1923 (age 61 years, 164
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Jean Baptiste Adoue (1846-1924) —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born in Aurignac, France,
October
24, 1846.
Merchant;
banker;
Consular
Agent for France in Dallas,
Tex., 1897-1907.
French
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Suffered an apoplectic
stroke, and fearing that he would become an invalid, he killed
himself, by self-inflicted gunshot,
in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., June 20,
1924 (age 77 years, 240
days).
Interment at Grove
Hill Memorial Park, Dallas, Tex.
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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.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from New London, 1889, 1899-1900;
Speaker
of the Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1899-1900;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Connecticut, 1900;
member of Connecticut
Republican State Central Committee, 1901; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 3rd District, 1902-05; U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1905-24; died in office 1924.
Member, Union
League.
Killed himself by inhaling from
a gaslight, in Washington,
D.C., October
14, 1924 (age 60 years, 98
days). Five years later, U.S. Sen. Cole
Blease of South Carolina received a letter from a woman alleging
that Brandegee had been murdered;
the letter was turned over to a Senate committee to investigate the
mystery,
but nothing came of it.
Interment at Cedar
Grove Cemetery, New London, Conn.
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Martin Henry Glynn (1871-1924) —
also known as Martin H. Glynn —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Valatie, Columbia
County, N.Y., September
27, 1871.
Democrat. Lawyer; postmaster;
owner and editor of Albany Times-Union newspaper;
U.S.
Representative from New York 20th District, 1899-1901; defeated,
1900; New York
state comptroller, 1907-08; defeated, 1908; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1913; Governor of
New York, 1913-15; defeated, 1914; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1916
(Temporary
Chair; speaker),
1924.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
First
Catholic governor of New York State; brokered peace and independence
for Ireland in 1921.
Killed himself, in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., December
14, 1924 (age 53 years, 78
days).
Entombed at St.
Agnes Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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Joseph Medill McCormick (1877-1925) —
also known as Medill McCormick —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 16,
1877.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1916,
1920
(member, Resolutions
Committee; speaker);
member of Illinois state legislature, 1910; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1917-19; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1919-25; died in office 1925.
Scotch-Irish
and Dutch
ancestry.
Died by suicide, through an overdose of
barbiturates (reported at the time as a heart attack), in his
room at the Hotel
Hamilton, Washington,
D.C., February
25, 1925 (age 47 years, 285
days).
Interment at Middlecreek
Cemetery, Byron, Ill.
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Wyatt Tate Brady (1870-1925) —
also known as W. Tate Brady —
of Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla.
Born in Forest City, Holt
County, Mo., January
20, 1870.
Democrat. Hotelier;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Oklahoma, 1907.
Member, Ku
Klux Klan; Sons
of Confederate Veterans.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot
wound, in Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla., August
29, 1925 (age 55 years, 221
days).
Interment at Oaklawn
Cemetery, Tulsa, Okla.
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William Boggs Whitt (1867-1926) —
also known as William B. Whitt —
of Ashland, Boyd
County, Ky.
Born in Carter
County, Ky., September
17, 1867.
Democrat. Grocer;
member of Kentucky
state senate, 1910; mayor
of Ashland, Ky., 1926; died in office 1926.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in Ashland, Boyd
County, Ky., December
19, 1926 (age 59 years, 93
days).
Interment a private or family graveyard, Boyd County, Ky.
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Maurice Edgar Crumpacker (1886-1927) —
also known as Maurice E. Crumpacker —
of Oregon.
Born in Valparaiso, Porter
County, Ind., December
19, 1886.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Oregon 3rd District, 1925-27; died in office
1927.
Came to San Francisco with Nicholas
Longworth and others; left the group and was found by police,
sitting on a curb and claiming he had been poisoned
by someone trying to murder
him; deemed paranoid, taken to a hospital, and sedated; released at
his insistence; walking near the shoreline with a friend, he yelled
"Tell everybody good-bye!", jumped into the water, and drowned,
in San
Francisco Bay, July 24,
1927 (age 40 years, 217
days).
Interment at River
View Cemetery, Portland, Ore.
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Ezra Andrew Barnes (1879-1928) —
also known as Ezra A. Barnes —
of Oswego, Oswego
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Scriba, Oswego
County, N.Y., May 11,
1879.
Republican. Lawyer; farmer;
served in the U.S. Army on the Mexican border; served in the U.S.
Army during World War I; member of New York
state assembly from Oswego County, 1921-23.
Member, American Bar
Association; Grange;
Freemasons;
Elks; Knights
of Pythias; American
Legion.
He killed himself by opening the gas jets
in his room, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 10,
1928 (age 48 years, 365
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Scriba town, Oswego County, N.Y.
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John Christopher Cutler (1846-1928) —
of Utah.
Born in Sheffield, England,
February
5, 1846.
Salt
Lake County Clerk, 1884-90; Governor of
Utah, 1905-09; banker.
Mormon.
Found in the garage of his home, with a self-inflicted gunshot
wound in his head, and died soon after in a hospital
at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, July 30,
1928 (age 82 years, 176
days).
Interment at Salt
Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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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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Joseph Eugene Agan (1898-1929) —
also known as Joseph E. Agan —
of Mahoningtown, Lawrence
County, Pa.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Youngstown, Mahoning
County, Ohio, July 23,
1898.
U.S. Vice Consul in Porto Alegre, as of 1921; translator;
newspaper
correspondent.
Member, American
Society for International Law.
Killed himself, by slashing
his throat and wrists with a razor blade, stabbing
himself in the heart with an ice pick, and leaping
from his apartment window to the street six floors below, in Washington,
D.C., October
11, 1929 (age 31 years, 80
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of James L. Agan. |
| | | Image source: U.S. passport application
(1921) |
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J. O. Stricklin (1872-1930) —
of Yazoo City, Yazoo
County, Miss.
Born July 9,
1872.
Mayor
of Yazoo City, Miss., 1929-30; died in office 1930.
Indicted
by a Yazoo County grand jury in 1929 for stealing a
cow; details of the case were printed in the Yazoo
Sentinel newspaper, leading to a feud between Stricklin and the
Sentinel's editor, Frank R. Birdsall; a year later, on Main Street in
front of the Sentinel office, Stricklin was talking with Dr. R.
E. Hawkins, his opponent in the last election, when Birdsall
approached; Stricklin pulled out a pistol, shot
Birdsall three times (he died the next day), and shot
at, but missed, Dr. Hawkins; he then went to his son's funeral
parlor, where he died by a self-inflicted gunshot,
in Yazoo City, Yazoo
County, Miss., April 1,
1930 (age 57 years, 266
days).
Interment at Glenwood Cemetery, Yazoo City, Miss.
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Edward Irving Edwards (1863-1931) —
also known as Edward I. Edwards —
of Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Bergen town (now part of Jersey City), Hudson
County, N.J., December
1, 1863.
Democrat. General
contractor; banker; New Jersey
state comptroller, 1911-17; member of New
Jersey state senate from Hudson County, 1919; Governor of
New Jersey, 1920-23; candidate for Democratic nomination for
President, 1920;
U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1923-29; defeated, 1928; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1924
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1928.
Episcopalian.
Welsh
and English
ancestry. Member, American
Bankers Association; Zeta
Psi; Freemasons;
Elks; Moose; Eagles.
Depressed over political and financial misfortunes, the deaths of
those close to him, and his own poor health, he shot and
killed himself, in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., January
26, 1931 (age 67 years, 56
days).
Interment at Bayview
- New York Bay Cemetery, Jersey City, N.J.
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Edward Gallatin Roberts (1878-1931) —
also known as Gallatin Roberts —
of Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C.
Born in Flat Creek, Buncombe
County, N.C., October
26, 1878.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer; Buncombe
County Attorney, 1907-08; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives from Buncombe County,
1911-16; mayor
of Asheville, N.C., 1919-23, 1927-30; as mayor, he found that
millions of dollars of city money were held in the failing Asheville
Central Bank and Trust Company; rather than bringing the bank down
and losing the money, he helped sustain it for a while by maintaining
city deposits there.
Presbyterian.
Member, Odd
Fellows.
Following the collapse of Central Bank and Trust, and the city's loss
of $4 million in deposits, he was forced to
resign as mayor, and later indicted
over his alleged misuse
of city funds to support the bank; shot and
killed himself in an office
lavatory, Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C., February
25, 1931 (age 52 years, 122
days).
Interment at Green Hills Cemetery, Asheville, N.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Jacob R. Roberts and Mary Elizabeth (Buckner) Roberts; married, January
19, 1907, to Mary Altha Sams. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Knoxville News-Sentinel,
May 13, 1931 |
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Hans Adolph Aune (1878-1931) —
also known as Hans A. Aune; H. A. Aune —
of Baldwin, St. Croix
County, Wis.; Osseo, Trempealeau
County, Wis.
Born in Baldwin, St. Croix
County, Wis., December
19, 1878.
School
teacher and principal; superintendent
of schools; lawyer;
member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1931; died in office 1931.
Norwegian
ancestry.
Killed himself by drowning
in Lake Monona, Madison, Dane
County, Wis., February
25, 1931 (age 52 years, 68
days). He left a note saying, "You will find my body in the lake
east of the Capitol," but it was not found until almost two months
later.
Interment at Woodside Cemetery, Baldwin, Wis.
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Edward Frederick Peters (1875-1931) —
also known as Edward F. Peters —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, January
29, 1875.
Democrat. Lawyer; Vice-Consul
for Uruguay in Cincinnati,
Ohio, 1902-07; Vice-Consul
for Honduras in Cincinnati,
Ohio, 1903; served in the U.S. Army during World War I.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Accidentally
or deliberately shot
himself, in his law
office, in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, March 4,
1931 (age 56 years, 34
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Adolph Peters and Eva (Stermer) Peters; married 1900 to Bertha
M. Rice. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Cincinnati Post, March 4,
1931 |
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Homer Hancock (1881-1931) —
of Jefferson, Jackson
County, Ga.
Born in Georgia, August
6, 1881.
Banker;
mayor of Jefferson, Georgia; Jackson
County Superior Court Clerk, 1917-20; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1927-30; member of Georgia
state senate 33rd District, 1931.
Presbyterian.
Died, from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in the directors
room of the Citizens Bank and Trust Company, Jackson
County, Ga., March
28, 1931 (age 49 years, 234
days).
Interment at Woodbine Jefferson City Cemetery, Jefferson, Ga.
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Livingston Davis (1882-1932) —
also known as Livy Davis —
of Milton, Norfolk
County, Mass.; Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., August
13, 1882.
Banker;
director of railroads;
Consul
for Belgium in Boston,
Mass., 1930-32.
Member, American
Antiquarian Society.
In ill health for some time, he died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., January
11, 1932 (age 49 years, 151
days).
Interment at Worcester
Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward
Livingston Davis and Maria Louisa (Robbins) Davis; married, April
23, 1908, to Alice Gardiner; married, August
31, 1927, to Georgia Appleton; grandson of Isaac
Davis; great-grandnephew of John
Davis (1787-1854); first cousin twice removed of John
Chandler Bancroft Davis and Horace
Davis; second cousin once removed of John
Davis (1851-1902); third cousin once removed of John
Barnard Fairbank, Henry
Cabot Lodge Jr. and John
Davis Lodge; third cousin twice removed of Merton
William Fairbank and George
Cabot Lodge; fourth cousin once removed of Wilson
Henry Fairbank, Alexander
Warren Fairbank, Charles
Warren Fairbanks and Newton
Hamilton Fairbanks. |
| | | Political families: Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon
family of Massachusetts; Fairbanks-Adams
family; Davis
family of Massachusetts; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Boston Globe, January 12,
1932 |
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George Eastman (1854-1932) —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Waterville, Oneida
County, N.Y., July 12,
1854.
Republican. Inventor;
founder, Eastman Kodak Company; philanthropist; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1928.
English
ancestry.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., March
14, 1932 (age 77 years, 246
days). His suicide note was just six words: "My work is
done. Why wait?".
Interment at Kodak
Park, Rochester, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of George Washington Eastman and Maria (Kilbourn) Eastman; first
cousin of Harvey
Gridley Eastman; third cousin of Frederick
Walker Pitkin; third cousin twice removed of James
Kilbourne and Daniel
Kellogg (1791-1875); fourth cousin once removed of Silas
Condict, Byron
H. Kilbourn, Harrison
Blodget, George
Bradley Kellogg, Daniel
Kellogg (1835-1918), Clarence
Horatio Pitkin, Carroll
Peabody Pitkin, Caleb
Seymour Pitkin and Eldred
C. Pitkin. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Eastman
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The World War II Liberty
ship SS George Eastman (built 1943 at Richmond,
California; scrapped 1977) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about George Eastman: Carl W.
Ackerman, George
Eastman: Founder of Kodak and the Photography
Business — Elizabeth Brayer, George
Eastman: A Biography — Lynda Pflueger, George
Eastman: Bringing Photography to the People (for young
readers) |
| | | Image source: Time Magazine, March 31,
1924 |
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Stanley J. Pacholek (1890-1932) —
of Hamtramck, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Poland,
December
8, 1890.
Undertaker;
candidate for mayor
of Hamtramck, Mich., 1932 (primary), 1932.
Polish
ancestry.
Arrested
in April, 1932, for drunk
driving;
died by suicide in his jail
cell, by hanging
himself with his scarf, in Birmingham, Oakland
County, Mich., April
19, 1932 (age 41 years, 133
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Wetmore Crane (1859-1932) —
also known as Henry W. Crane —
of Oneida, Knox
County, Ill.; Woodhull, Henry
County, Ill.
Born in Oneida, Knox
County, Ill., July 7,
1859.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Illinois, 1908.
Died by suicide, in Woodhull, Henry
County, Ill., October
10, 1932 (age 73 years, 95
days).
Interment at Ontario Cemetery, Ontario, Ill.
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William Montross Inglis (1875-1932) —
also known as William M. Inglis —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Clyde Township, St. Clair
County, Mich., January
7, 1875.
Republican. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Washington, 1924,
1928
(alternate).
Killed by a single gunshot
behind his ear, under mysterious
circumstances, and posthumously accused
of attempted murder, in Seattle, King
County, Wash., October
22, 1932 (age 57 years, 289
days). The only witness, Mary Nash, who shared the apartment,
said that he had been despondent and drinking
heavily; that she had hidden his pistol, but he had found it;
that without warning, he shot
her twice (she was badly injured but survived), and then
immediately killed himself; investigators questioned her
story, and thought he might have been murdered,
but she was not charged.
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Seattle, Wash.
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Relatives: Son
of John Jacob Inglis and Martha Ann (Montross) Inglis; married to
Anne Hughes. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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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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Raymond Davis (1883-1933) —
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, September
5, 1883.
Forester;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S. Consul in Aden, 1921-24; Paris, 1924-29; Lyon, 1926; Rosario, 1929-32; Prague, 1932-33, died in office 1933.
At the Hotel
Alcron, where he and his wife were staying, he deliberately or
accidentally (accounts differ) went over a second-floor railing, and
fell to
his death in the lobby below, in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czechia),
January
24, 1933 (age 49 years, 141
days).
Interment somewhere
in Paris, France.
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Relatives: Son
of John H. Davis and Jennie Davis; married, August
25, 1909, to Avis M. Parker. |
| | | Image source: U.S. Passport application
(1919) |
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John T. Manning (1892-1933) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., April
26, 1892.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives from St. Louis City 1st District,
1921-24; candidate for Missouri
state senate, 1932.
Collapsed and died on a
streetcar, apparently a suicide from swallowing
poison, in St.
Louis, Mo., February
6, 1933 (age 40 years, 286
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Godfrey Gummer Goodwin (1873-1933) —
also known as Godfrey G. Goodwin —
of Cambridge, Isanti
County, Minn.
Born in Nicollet
County, Minn., January
11, 1873.
Republican. Lawyer; Isanti
County Attorney, 1899-1907, 1912-25; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 10th District, 1925-33; died in
office 1933.
Died when he jumped or fell from
a fifth-floor window at the Hotel
Driscoll, Washington,
D.C., February
16, 1933 (age 60 years, 36
days).
Interment at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Norman B. Horton (1881-1933) —
of Fruit Ridge, Lenawee
County, Mich.
Born in Fruit Ridge, Lenawee
County, Mich., July 18,
1881.
Republican. Farmer; cheese
manufacturer; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member
of Michigan
state senate 19th District, 1923-32; defeated, 1932.
Died, by self-inflicted gunshot,
in Fruit Ridge, Lenawee
County, Mich., May 16,
1933 (age 51 years, 302
days).
Interment at Sand
Creek Cemetery, Sand Creek, Mich.
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Edwin S. Norton (1864-1933) —
also known as Ed S. Norton —
of Varna, Marshall
County, Ill.; Pomona, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Riverside, Riverside
County, Calif.
Born in Illinois, 1864.
Democrat. Dry goods
merchant; shoe
merchant; candidate for California
state assembly, 1932.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in the back room of his shoe
store, Riverside, Riverside
County, Calif., June 23,
1933 (age about 68
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Albert L. Redmon (1892-1934) —
also known as Bert Redmon —
of Sallisaw, Sequoyah
County, Okla.
Born in Arkansas, January
2, 1892.
Republican. Postmaster at Sallisaw,
Okla., 1932-34.
Member, Freemasons.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in the vault at the post
office, Sallisaw, Sequoyah
County, Okla., January
16, 1934 (age 42 years, 14
days).
Interment at Sallisaw City Cemetery, Sallisaw, Okla.
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Edward Jackson Brundage (1869-1934) —
also known as Edward J. Brundage —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Lake Forest, Lake
County, Ill.
Born in Campbell, Steuben
County, N.Y., May 13,
1869.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives 6th District, 1899-1900, 1903-04;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1916,
1928
(alternate); Illinois
state attorney general, 1917-25; corporate counsel, Chicago,
Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway.
Protestant.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Knights
Templar; Knights
of Pythias; Royal
League.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot
wound, in Lake Forest, Lake
County, Ill., January
20, 1934 (age 64 years, 252
days).
Interment at Rosehill
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Harwood Edward Odery Fish (1875-1934) —
also known as Harwood E. Fish —
of Roselle Park, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Otterville, Ontario,
August
23, 1875.
Mayor
of Roselle Park, N.J., 1912-16.
Killed himself with illuminating
gas, in Roselle Park, Union
County, N.J., September
4, 1934 (age 59 years, 12
days).
Interment at Rosedale and Rosehill Cemetery, Linden, N.J.
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George Charles Hanson (1883-1935) —
also known as George C. Hanson —
of Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn., October
11, 1883.
Engineer;
U.S. Deputy Consul General in Shanghai, 1911-12; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Chefoo, 1912-13; Dalny, 1913-14; Newchwang, 1914; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Tientsin, 1914-15; U.S. Consul in Swatow, 1915-17; Chungking, 1917-18; Foochow, 1918-21; Harbin, 1921-31; U.S. Consul General in Harbin, 1931-33; Moscow, 1934-35; Salonika, 1935, died in office 1935.
Presbyterian.
Member, Alpha
Delta Sigma; Delta
Tau Delta; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Killed by a self-inflicted gunshot,
aboard
the steamship President Polk, en route from Marseilles to
New York, in the North
Atlantic Ocean, September
2, 1935 (age 51 years, 326
days).
Interment somewhere
in Fairfield, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles C. Hanson and Josephine (Stegkemper)
Hanson. |
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Thomas Putnam Chapman (1875-1936) —
also known as Thomas P. Chapman —
of Fairfax,
Va.
Born in Plattsmouth, Cass
County, Neb., December
31, 1875.
Real
estate and insurance
business; mayor
of Fairfax, Va., 1936; died in office 1936.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot
wound in the Fairfax firehouse, Fairfax,
Va., February
25, 1936 (age 60 years, 56
days).
Interment at Fairfax
City Cemetery, Fairfax, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Matthews Chapman and Sarah (Putnam) Chapman; married to
Estelle F. Inzer. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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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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Francis Aaron Spencer (1865-1936) —
also known as Frank A. Spencer —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., January
24, 1865.
Democrat. Commission
merchant; importer;
Consul
for Mexico in Portland,
Ore., 1895-1914; wholesale grocery
manager; administrator, Oregon Liquor Control Commission, 1935;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Oregon.
Jumped from the high Vista Avenue Viaduct, and fell
hundreds of feet to his death amid traffic on Canyon Road, in
Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., December
22, 1936 (age 71 years, 333
days). His suicide note was quoted in news reports as
follows: "Frankly, the pace has been too fast for me, and I cannot
convince myself that I can make a comeback.".
Interment at River
View Cemetery, Portland, Ore.
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Byron W. Austin (1887-1937) —
of Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.; Danbury, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Danbury, Fairfield
County, Conn., 1887.
Democrat. Elected mayor
of Danbury, Conn. 1937, but died before taking office.
Died, probably by suicide, from carbon
monoxide poisoning, in his car,
in the garage of his hunting lodge, in New Fairfield, Fairfield
County, Conn., about April 1,
1937 (age about 49
years).
Interment at Wooster
Cemetery, Danbury, Conn.
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John Henry Roraback (1870-1937) —
also known as J. Henry Roraback —
of North Canaan, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in Sheffield, Berkshire
County, Mass., April 5,
1870.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
Republican State Central Committee, 1901; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Connecticut, 1908,
1912,
1916,
1920,
1924
(speaker),
1928,
1932,
1936
(member, Arrangements
Committee); Connecticut
Republican state chair, 1912-37; member of Republican
National Committee from Connecticut, 1920-32; president,
Connecticut Light and
Power Co., 1925-37; Vice-Chair
of Republican National Committee, 1932-36.
With his health compromised and activities limited by a severe streptococcus
infection, he killed himself by gunshot,
while sitting in his
car near his hunting lodge, in Harwinton, Litchfield
County, Conn., May 19,
1937 (age 67 years, 44
days).
Interment at Mountain View Cemetery, North Canaan, Conn.
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Coleman W. Avery (1880-1938) —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, February
22, 1880.
Democrat. Lawyer; justice of
Ohio state supreme court, 1920; appointed 1920; defeated, 1920.
According to published
reports, he murdered
his wife, Sara, by shooting her in the head, and then shot
himself; he was found and taken to General Hospital,
where he died without regaining consciousness, in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, March
14, 1938 (age 58 years, 20
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Julius S. Berg (1895-1938) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 15,
1895.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; injured in combat and lost a
leg; member of New York
state assembly from Bronx County 3rd District, 1923-30; member of
New
York state senate 22nd District, 1931-38; died in office 1938.
Jewish.
Member, American
Legion; Jewish
War Veterans; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans; Freemasons;
Elks; Knights
of Pythias.
Indicted
on charges
of receiving
money for his aid in procuring
liquor licenses and arranging for concessions at the New York
World's Fair; that same day, he killed himself by gunshot,
in his law
office, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 20,
1938 (age 43 years, 5
days).
Interment at Mt.
Ararat Cemetery, East Farmingdale, Long Island, N.Y.
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Pedro José de Larralde (1880-1938) —
also known as Pedro J. de Larralde —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Venezuela,
May
15, 1880.
Physician;
Honorary
Consul for Venezuela in Los
Angeles, Calif., 1927-38.
In grief over the death of his wife a year earlier, he killed
himself, by carbon
monoxide poisoning, inside his garage, in Hollywood, Los Angeles,
Los
Angeles County, Calif., August
8, 1938 (age 58 years, 85
days).
Interment somewhere
in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Image source:
Los Angeles Times, Agust 9, 1938 |
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Frederick A. Chapman (1878-1938) —
also known as Fred A. Chapman —
of Ionia, Ionia
County, Mich.
Born in Leeds, England,
October
16, 1878.
Republican. Furniture
manufacturer; business partner of Gov. Fred
W. Green; bank
director; co-founder (1915) and manager (1915-38) of the Ionia
Free Fair; mayor of
Ionia, Mich., 1927-31; defeated, 1931; delegate
to Michigan convention to ratify 21st amendment from Ionia
County, 1933; warden of Michigan Reformatory at Ionia, 1936-37.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Suffered from an incurable stomach
ailment; while in his
car, parked in his home garage, he killed himself with a
shotgun,
in Ionia, Ionia
County, Mich., October
18, 1938 (age 60 years, 2
days).
Interment at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Ionia, Mich.
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James Montgomery Burlingame Jr. (1868-1938) —
also known as James M. Burlingame —
of Great Falls, Cascade
County, Mont.
Born in Owatonna, Steele
County, Minn., June 6,
1868.
Republican. Member of Montana
state senate, 1911-21; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Montana, 1916,
1920
(alternate).
Died of a self-inflicted gunshot
wound at his home in Great Falls, Cascade
County, Mont., December
28, 1938 (age 70 years, 205
days).
Interment at Old Highland Cemetery, Great Falls, Mont.
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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; 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.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Died, apparently of pneumonia,
while attempting to kill himself 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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Frederic Ancrum Lord (1861-1940) —
of Wilmington, New
Hanover County, N.C.
Born in Wilmington, New Hanover
County, N.C., July 29,
1861.
Insurance
business; Vice-Consul
for Spain in Wilmington,
N.C., 1891-98.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died, by self-inflicted pistol
shot, six weeks after the death of his wife, in Wilmington, New Hanover
County, N.C., January
19, 1940 (age 78 years, 174
days).
Interment at Oakdale
Cemetery, Wilmington, N.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Frederick James Lord and Columbia Arabella (Brown) Lord; married
1887 to
Kate Anderson Cameron. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Joseph Augustus Tolbert (1891-1940) —
also known as Joseph A. Tolbert —
of Greenville, Greenville
County, S.C.
Born in South Carolina, October
8, 1891.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of South Carolina, 1923-33;
delegate to Republican National Convention from South Carolina, 1924,
1928
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1936;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1936; candidate for Governor of
South Carolina, 1938.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in Greenville, Greenville
County, S.C., March
22, 1940 (age 48 years, 166
days).
Interment a private or family graveyard, Abbeville County, S.C.
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Ione Nicoll (d. 1940) —
also known as Ione Page —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1924;
delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Female.
Episcopalian.
One of the leaders of the Women's Organization for National
Prohibition Reform; bolted the Republican Party over the prohibition
issue in 1932.
Jumped or fell
sixteen stories to her death, from her room at New York
Hospital, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August
9, 1940.
Interment at Southampton
Cemetery, Southampton, Long Island, N.Y.
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Frederick W. Kavanaugh (1871-1940) —
also known as Fred W. Kavanaugh —
of Waterford, Saratoga
County, N.Y.
Born in Waterford, Saratoga
County, N.Y., September
10, 1871.
Republican. Knit goods
manufacturer; hotel
owner; banker;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1908
(alternate), 1936;
Saratoga
County Sheriff; member of New York
state senate 32nd District, 1921-24; chair of
Saratoga County Republican Party, 1924-32.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Redmen.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in the garage adjoining his home, in Waterford, Saratoga
County, N.Y., December
2, 1940 (age 69 years, 83
days).
Entombed at Oakwood
Cemetery, Troy, N.Y.
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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.
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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Clarence Albert Upham (1883-1941) —
also known as C. A. Upham —
of New Hampton, Chickasaw
County, Iowa.
Born in Fredericksburg, Chickasaw
County, Iowa, July 3,
1883.
Chickasaw
County Sheriff; delegate
to Iowa convention to ratify 21st amendment from Chickasaw
County, 1933.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in Lebanon, Linn
County, Ore., June 23,
1941 (age 57 years, 355
days).
Interment at New
Hampton Cemetery, New Hampton, Iowa.
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Anna Lou P. Boettcher (1903-1941) —
also known as Anna Lou Pigott —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont., October
29, 1903.
Delegate
to Colorado convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Female.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in Denver,
Colo., September
17, 1941 (age 37 years, 323
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Fairmount
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Benjamin Herman Linhardt (1879-1941) —
also known as Benjamin H. Linhardt; Ben H.
Linhardt —
of Jefferson City, Cole
County, Mo.
Born in Osage
County, Mo., September
15, 1879.
Republican. Lumber
dealer; Cole
County Recorder, 1919-22; postmaster at Jefferson
City, Mo., 1923-33 (acting, 1923-24); real estate
developer.
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Knights
of Pythias.
Died, from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in Jefferson City, Cole
County, Mo., September
30, 1941 (age 62 years, 15
days).
Interment at Riverview
Cemetery, Jefferson City, Mo.
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James Crosby Hobbs (1879-1942) —
also known as J. Crosby Hobbs —
of Camden, Knox
County, Maine.
Born in Hope, Knox
County, Maine, September
24, 1879.
Democrat. Knox
County Commissioner, 1907-12; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Maine, 1908,
1936;
Knox
County Sheriff.
Died, from a self-inflicted gunshot
wound, February
18, 1942 (age 62 years, 147
days).
Interment somewhere
in Camden, Maine.
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Relatives: Son
of James Philbrick Hobbs and Nancy Maria (Miller) Hobbs; married, October
8, 1910, to Annie Stewart Johnson. |
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Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke II (1889-1943) —
also known as W. S. Van Dyke; "One-Take
Woody" —
of West Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., March
21, 1889.
Democrat. Child actor
in vaudeville; director
of dozens of movies,
1917-42; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1940.
Christian
Scientist. Member, Society
of Colonial Wars.
Ill with cancer,
he died by suicide, in Brentwood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
5, 1943 (age 53 years, 321
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Albert Linxwiler (1878-1943) —
of Jefferson City, Cole
County, Mo.
Born in Hillsboro, Montgomery
County, Ill., January
30, 1878.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
served in the U.S. Army on the Mexican border; colonel in the U.S.
Army during World War I; postmaster at Jefferson
City, Mo., 1934-43.
Presbyterian.
Member, United
Spanish War Veterans; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Knights
of Pythias; Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Royal
and Select Masters; Knights
Templar.
Died, from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in Jefferson City, Cole
County, Mo., April
15, 1943 (age 65 years, 75
days).
Interment at Riverview
Cemetery, Jefferson City, Mo.
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Charles Dunsmore Millard (1873-1944) —
also known as Charles D. Millard —
of Tarrytown, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Tarrytown, Westchester
County, N.Y., December
1, 1873.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
Republican State Committee, 1920-37; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1920,
1928;
U.S.
Representative from New York 25th District, 1931-37; resigned
1937; Westchester
County Surrogate, 1937-43.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Elks; Eagles;
Redmen;
Psi
Upsilon.
Fearing that he was losing his mind, he jumped from the north
end of the Henry Hudson Bridge, and fell 150
feet to his death on the rocks below, in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., December
11, 1944 (age 71 years, 10
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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Charles Armijo Woodruff (1884-1945) —
also known as Charles A. Woodruff —
Born in Santa Fe, Santa Fe
County, N.M., January
12, 1884.
U.S. Navy officer; Governor of
American Samoa; captain in Merchant Marine.
Died by suicide, from hanging,
in his room at the Hotel
Bossert, Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
22, 1945 (age 61 years, 314
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Alan Nathaniel Steyne (1896-1946) —
also known as Alan N. Steyne —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
19, 1896.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; in metal export
business in China, 1928-29; U.S. Vice Consul in Montreal, 1929-31; Hamburg, 1932.
Suffered a self-inflicted gunshot,
and died soon after, in Emergency Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., May 22,
1946 (age 49 years, 184
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Raymond L. Jaegers (1903-1946) —
of New Albany, Floyd
County, Ind.
Born in New Albany, Floyd
County, Ind., June 23,
1903.
Republican. Floyd
County Sheriff, 1939-42; mayor
of New Albany, Ind., 1943-46; died in office 1946.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Order of the
Eastern Star.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in his City
Hall office,
New Albany, Floyd
County, Ind., September
5, 1946 (age 43 years, 74
days).
Interment at Fairview
Cemetery, New Albany, Ind.
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Herbert Livingston Satterlee (1863-1947) —
also known as Herbert L. Satterlee —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
31, 1863.
Republican. Lawyer;
private secretary for U.S. Senator William
M. Evarts, 1887-89; served in the U.S. Navy during the
Spanish-American War; counsel for Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad,
1898-1902; U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 1906-07; U.S.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1908-09; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1920.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Union
League; Navy
League; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died, from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 14,
1947 (age 83 years, 256
days).
Interment at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of George LeRoy Bowen Satterlee and Sarah Bradley (Wilcox) Satterlee;
married, November
15, 1909, to Louisa Pierpont Morgan (daughter of J. Pierpont
Morgan); second great-grandnephew of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794) and Walter
Livingston; third great-grandson of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790); third great-grandnephew of Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Philip
Livingston and William
Livingston; fourth great-grandnephew of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert
Livingston; fifth great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder and Pieter
Van Brugh; fifth great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler, Johannes
Cuyler and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin thrice removed of Henry
Walter Livingston; first cousin four times removed of Philip
Peter Livingston and Henry
Brockholst Livingston; first cousin five times removed of Robert
Gilbert Livingston and Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775); first cousin six times removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger, Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746), Cornelis
Cuyler and John
Cruger Jr.; first cousin seven times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin twice removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859) and Edward
Livingston (1796-1840); second cousin thrice removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Peter
Augustus Jay, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, William
Jay and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); second cousin four times removed
of Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr. and Edward
Livingston (1764-1836); second cousin five times removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Philip
P. Schuyler, Stephen
John Schuyler and Henry
Cruger; third cousin twice removed of Philip
Schuyler, William
Duer, Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning
Duer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard and John
Jay II; third cousin thrice removed of Hamilton
Fish; fourth cousin of Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870) and Bronson
Murray Cutting; fourth cousin once removed of Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr., John
Kean, Hamilton
Fish Kean and Brockholst
Livingston. |
| | | Political family: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John Gilbert Winant (1889-1947) —
also known as John G. Winant —
of Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
23, 1889.
Republican. Member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1917-18, 1923-24;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of New
Hampshire state senate, 1921-22; Governor of
New Hampshire, 1925-27, 1931-35; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New Hampshire, 1928
(Convention
Vice-President; member, Credentials
Committee), 1932;
U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1941-46.
Episcopalian.
Died by self-inflicted pistol
shot, in Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H., November
3, 1947 (age 58 years, 253
days).
Interment at St.
Paul's School, Concord, N.H.
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Harold A. Bastien (1896-1948) —
of Manhattan Beach, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in 1896.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; postmaster at
Manhattan
Beach, Calif., 1941-48 (acting, 1941-42).
Despondent over ill health, he shot and
killed himself, in the garage of his home, in Manhattan Beach,
Los
Angeles County, Calif., September
8, 1948 (age about 52
years).
Interment at Pacific Crest Cemetery, Redondo Beach, Calif.
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James Vincent Forrestal (1892-1949) —
also known as James V. Forrestal —
of Beacon, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Matteawan (now part of Beacon), Dutchess
County, N.Y., February
15, 1892.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1944-47; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1944;
U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1947-49.
Catholic.
Jumped from a window on the 16th floor, and fell to
his death, while a patient at Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., May 22,
1949 (age 57 years, 96
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Edward S. Haws (1873-1949) —
of Narberth, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in Joanna, Berks
County, Pa., May 4,
1873.
Democrat. Plastering
contractor; postmaster at Narberth,
Pa., 1913-22; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1928.
Killed himself by rifle
shot to the head, in the cellar of his home, Narberth, Montgomery
County, Pa., December
26, 1949 (age 76 years, 236
days).
Interment at West
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of John P. Haws and Sarah (McGowan) Haws; married to Ada Louise
Ely. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Edward C. Krause (1914-1950) —
of La Crosse, La Crosse
County, Wis.
Born in 1914.
Republican. Member of Wisconsin
state assembly from La Crosse County 1st District, 1941-46;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin,
1944.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in La Crosse, La Crosse
County, Wis., November
20, 1950 (age about 36
years).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, La Crosse, Wis.
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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, 1928
(alternate), 1944.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Major proponent of the United Nations.
While suffering from depression, he jumped from the eighth
floor of an office
building, and fell to
his death, in Charlotte, Mecklenburg
County, N.C., December
23, 1952 (age 64 years, 321
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Charlotte, N.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, and either died by suicide or was murdered,
January
12, 1953 (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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Robert Marion LaFollette Jr. (1895-1953) —
also known as Robert M. LaFollette, Jr. —
of Madison, Dane
County, Wis.
Born in Madison, Dane
County, Wis., February
6, 1895.
Wisconsin
Republican state chair, 1925; U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1925-47; defeated in Republican primary,
1946; delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, 1928
(member, Resolutions
Committee; speaker),
1932.
Protestant.
Died of a self-inflicted gunshot
wound, in the bathroom of his home, in Washington,
D.C., February
24, 1953 (age 58 years, 18
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wis.
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Relatives: Son
of Robert
Marion LaFollette and Belle (Case) LaFollette; brother of Philip
Fox LaFollette; married, September
17, 1930, to Rachel Wilson Young; father of Bronson
Cutting LaFollette. |
| | | Political family: LaFollette
family of Madison, Wisconsin (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Robert M. LaFollette, Jr.:
Roger T. Johnson, Robert
M. LaFollette, Jr. and the Decline of the Progressive Party in
Wisconsin — Bernard A. Weisberger, The
LaFollettes of Wisconsin : Love and Politics in Progressive
America — Patrick J. Maney, Young
Bob : A Biography of Robert M. LaFollette, Jr. |
| | | Image source: Wisconsin Blue Book
1940 |
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John Frederick Hartsfield (1884-1953) —
also known as John F. Hartsfield —
of Illiopolis, Sangamon
County, Ill.; Monticello, Piatt
County, Ill.; Homewood, Jefferson
County, Ala.
Born in Durham, Durham
County, N.C., January
3, 1884.
Democrat. Jeweler;
postmaster at Monticello,
Ill., 1934-46 (acting, 1934-35).
According to published
reports, he had an argument with his daughter-in-law over
disciplining two small children; he then shot
her in the chest (she survived), and then shot and
killed himself, in Homewood, Jefferson
County, Ala., May 9,
1953 (age 69 years, 126
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Birmingham, Ala.
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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
(speaker),
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 died from
self-inflicted rifle
shot, 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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Rubey Mosley Hulen (1894-1956) —
also known as Rubey M. Hulen —
of Columbia, Boone
County, Mo.; St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Hallsville, Boone
County, Mo., July 9,
1894.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Boone
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1920-24; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Missouri, 1940;
U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri, 1943-56;
died in office 1956.
Wounded by self-inflicted gunshot,
and died soon after, at Barnes Hospital,
St.
Louis, Mo., July 7,
1956 (age 61 years, 364
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Guy R. Fisher (d. 1957) —
of Staunton,
Va.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Virginia,
1932.
Died, by his own hand, Staunton,
Va., January
15, 1957.
Burial location unknown.
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Clendenin James Ryan (1905-1957) —
also known as Clendenin Ryan —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Allamuchy, Warren
County, N.J.
Born in Suffern, Rockland
County, N.Y., July 16,
1905.
Republican. Aide to Mayor Fiorello
LaGuardia, 1938-39; New York City Commissioner of Commerce, 1939;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New Jersey, 1948;
Independent Voters candidate for Governor of
New Jersey, 1953.
Catholic.
Died by self-inflicted gunshot,
in the same East 70th Street townhouse where his father killed
himself in 1939, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
12, 1957 (age 52 years, 58
days).
Interment at Culinary Institute of America Grounds, Hyde Park, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Clendenin James Ryan (1882-1939) and Caroline (O'Neil) Ryan;
married 1937 to Jean
Harder; grandson of Thomas
Fortune Ryan. |
| | | Political family: Ryan-Nicoll
family of New York City, New York. |
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Robert Ralph Young (1897-1958) —
also known as Robert R. Young; "Railroad
Young"; "Populist of Wall Street";
"The Daring Young Man of Wall Street";
"Maverick of Wall Street" —
of Newport, Newport
County, R.I.
Born in Canadian, Hemphill
County, Tex., February
14, 1897.
Republican. Stockbroker;
financier;
assistant treasurer of General
Motors; predicted the 1929 stock market crash, and profited by
selling stocks short; chairman of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway,
and later the New York Central Railroads;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Rhode Island, 1944.
Presbyterian.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., January
25, 1958 (age 60 years, 345
days).
Interment at St.
Mary's Episcopal Cemetery, Portsmouth, R.I.
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Thomas Alfred Mathis (1869-1958) —
also known as Thomas A. Mathis; "Cap'n
Tom" —
of Tuckerton, Ocean
County, N.J.; Toms River, Ocean
County, N.J.
Born in New Gretna, Burlington
County, N.J., June 7,
1869.
Republican. Mariner;
automobile
dealer; member of New
Jersey state senate from Ocean County, 1910-11, 1914-15, 1923-31,
1942-46; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey,
1928,
1940,
1944;
secretary
of state of New Jersey, 1931-41.
Indicted
for tax
evasion by a federal grand jury in 1937.
He killed himself, by self-inflicted gunshot,
in Toms River, Ocean
County, N.J., May 18,
1958 (age 88 years, 345
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Toms River, N.J.
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Lyman F. Fischer (1895-1958) —
of Two Rivers, Manitowoc
County, Wis.
Born in Two Rivers, Manitowoc
County, Wis., December
7, 1895.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer; Manitowoc
County District Attorney, 1929-33; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, 1932;
bank
director.
Died, from self-inflicted gunshot
wounds, in Manitowoc
County, Wis., June 9,
1958 (age 62 years, 184
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery, Two Rivers, Wis.
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Melvin Horace Purvis Jr. (1903-1960) —
also known as Melvin H. Purvis; "Little
Mel" —
of Florence, Florence
County, S.C.
Born in Timmonsville, Florence
County, S.C., October
24, 1903.
Democrat. Lawyer; FBI
agent; involved in the capture or killing of outlaws in the
1930s, including John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, 1940.
Member, Kappa
Alpha Order.
Died, from a self-inflicted gunshot
to the head, in Florence, Florence
County, S.C., February
29, 1960 (age 56 years, 128
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Florence, S.C.
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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.
Less than two months after taking office as U.S. Representative, he
killed himself by draping a deer skin over his head and the
tail pipe of a car, to produce carbon
monoxide poisoning, 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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Joseph Wheeler Bloodgood (1926-1960) —
also known as Joseph W. Bloodgood —
of Madison, Dane
County, Wis.
Born in Madison, Dane
County, Wis., May 15,
1926.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict; Dane
County Coroner, 1951-54; lawyer;
member of Wisconsin
state assembly from Dane County 1st District, 1955-56; Dane
County District Attorney, 1957-60; Dane
County Family Court Judge, 1960.
Died from suicide, by hanging
himself with his belt, in a hospital
shower room, in Madison, Dane
County, Wis., July 7,
1960 (age 34 years, 53
days).
Interment at Nashotah House Cemetery, Summit, Wis.
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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; candidate for Presidential
Elector for New Jersey.
Episcopalian.
Killed himself by strangling
with an electric shaver cord, in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., June 16,
1965 (age 58 years, 296
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Carroll Putnam Lord and Frances Roberts (Troy) Lord; married to
Margaret Eastburn and Nina
Underwood McAlpin. |
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Willis Randolph Lovelace Jr. (1912-1965) —
also known as Willis Lovelace —
of Corona, Lincoln
County, N.M.
Born in El Paso, El Paso
County, Tex., February
29, 1912.
Republican. Rancher;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Mexico, 1960.
Died, from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in near Corona, Lincoln
County, N.M., August
18, 1965 (age 53 years, 0
days).
Interment at Restlawn
Memorial Park, El Paso, Tex.
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Inger Stevens (1934-1970) —
also known as Inger Stensland; "Kay
Palmer" —
Born in Stockholm, Sweden,
October
18, 1934.
Democrat. Actress;
honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Female.
Swedish
ancestry.
Died, from acute
barbiturate poisoning, (later ruled to be suicide), in the
ambulance
on the way to the hospital, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
30, 1970 (age 35 years, 194
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in North Pacific Ocean.
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John W. Peters (c.1921-1970) —
of Webster Groves, St. Louis
County, Mo.
Born about 1921.
Republican. Nominated in primary for U.S.
Representative from Missouri 2nd District 1970, but died before
election.
Shot
and killed himself, in his campaign
office, Brentwood, St. Louis
County, Mo., September
27, 1970 (age about 49
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Richard Joseph Donovan (1926-1971) —
also known as Richard Donovan; Dick
Donovan —
of Chula Vista, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in New Rochelle Hospital,
New Rochelle, Westchester
County, N.Y., February
24, 1926.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; police
officer; lawyer;
member of California
state assembly, 1965-69; municipal judge in California, 1969-71;
died in office 1971.
Catholic;
later Congregationalist.
Member, Elks; Kiwanis;
Sons
of the American Revolution.
Suffered a self-inflicted gunshot
wound, and died soon after, in a hospital
at Chula Vista, San Diego
County, Calif., November
21, 1971 (age 45 years, 270
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Glen
Abbey Memorial Park, Bonita, Calif.
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William Oswald Mills (1924-1973) —
also known as William O. Mills —
of Easton, Talbot
County, Md.
Born in Bethlehem, Caroline
County, Md., August
12, 1924.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 1st District, 1971-73; died in
office 1973; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Maryland, 1972.
Methodist.
The Washington Post reported that his campaign was under investigation
for receiving $25,000 from secret funds of President Richard
Nixon's re-election committee, and failed
to report the contribution as required by law; this tied him to
the Watergate scandal;
a day later, he killed himself, by gunshot,
at his Mulberry Hill farm, Talbot
County, Md., May 24,
1973 (age 48 years, 285
days).
Interment at Hillcrest
Cemetery, Federalsburg, Md.
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William Fife Knowland (1908-1974) —
also known as William F. Knowland —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.; Piedmont, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Alameda, Alameda
County, Calif., June 26,
1908.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; member of California
state assembly, 1933-35; member of California
state senate, 1935-39; delegate to Republican National Convention
from California, 1936
(alternate), 1940
(member, Arrangements
Committee), 1948,
1952,
1956
(Temporary
Chair; speaker),
1964
(delegation chair), 1968;
member of Republican
National Committee from California, 1938-42; served in the U.S.
Army during World War II; U.S.
Senator from California, 1945-59; candidate for Governor of
California, 1958.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Eagles;
Moose;
Elks; Native
Sons of the Golden West.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot
wound at his summer home near Guerneville, Sonoma
County, Calif., February
23, 1974 (age 65 years, 242
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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William Monroe Rainach (1913-1978) —
also known as William M. Rainach; Willie Rainach;
William Odom —
of Summerfield, Claiborne
Parish, La.
Born in Kentwood, Tangipahoa
Parish, La., July 31,
1913.
Democrat. Member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1940-48; member of Louisiana
state senate, 1948-60; candidate for Governor of
Louisiana, 1959; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Louisiana, 1960.
Died, from a self-inflicted gunshot
wound, in Summerfield, Claiborne
Parish, La., January
26, 1978 (age 64 years, 179
days).
Interment at Arlington Cemetery, Homer, La.
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Relatives:
Adoptive son of Albert Monroe Rainach and Hannah (Shirey) Rainach;
married to Mable Justin Fincher. |
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of our children, elect Rainach governor." |
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memorial |
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Bartholomew F. Guida (1914-1978) —
also known as Bart Guida —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., 1914.
Democrat. Real
estate and insurance
business; mayor
of New Haven, Conn., 1970-75; defeated in primary, 1975.
Died from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot
wound, in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., April
26, 1978 (age about 63
years).
Burial location unknown.
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John Zuinglius Anderson (1904-1981) —
also known as Jack Z. Anderson; "Airplane
Ears" —
of San Juan Bautista, San Benito
County, Calif.
Born in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., March
22, 1904.
Republican. Orchardist;
U.S.
Representative from California 8th District, 1939-53.
Protestant.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Native
Sons of the Golden West.
Died of a self-inflicted gunshot
wound, in Hollister, San Benito
County, Calif., February
9, 1981 (age 76 years, 324
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Gustav J. Akerland (1920-1981) —
of Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born September
14, 1920.
Republican. Mayor
of Annapolis, Md., 1981.
A month after becoming acting mayor, he was found wounded by a
self-inflicted gunshot,
on the floor of his office
in the Annapolis municipal
building, and died a few days later without regaining
consciousness, in Anne Arundel General Hospital,
Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., April
15, 1981 (age 60 years, 213
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Audrey Phillips Beck (1931-1983) —
also known as Audrey P. Beck; Audrey Elaine
Phillips —
of Storrs, Mansfield, Tolland
County, Conn.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., August
6, 1931.
Democrat. University
professor; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1967-75; member of Connecticut
state senate, 1975-83.
Female.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Killed herself by slashing
her wrists, in a wooded area of Willington, Tolland
County, Conn., March 9,
1983 (age 51 years, 215
days).
Interment at New Storrs Cemetery, Storrs, Mansfield, Conn.
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Donald R. Manes (1934-1986) —
also known as "The King of Queens" —
of Flushing, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Jamaica, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
18, 1934.
Democrat. Lawyer; borough
president of Queens, New York, 1971-86; resigned 1986; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1980,
1984.
On January 10, 1986, he was found driving erratically and bleeding
from slashes to his wrist and ankle; at first he claimed he had been
abducted, but then admitted his wounds were self-inflicted; while he
was hospitalized, a criminal investigation
against him became public.
Stabbed
himself in the heart, and died soon after, at Booth Memorial
Medical
Center, Flushing, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., March
13, 1986 (age 52 years, 54
days).
Interment at Mt.
Ararat Cemetery, East Farmingdale, Long Island, N.Y.
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John Porter East (1931-1986) —
also known as John P. East —
of North Carolina.
Born in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., May 5,
1931.
Republican. Candidate for secretary
of state of North Carolina, 1968; candidate for Presidential
Elector for North Carolina; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1981-86; died in office 1986.
Presbyterian.
His legs were
paralyzed due to polio.
Killed himself by carbon
monoxide poisoning, in Greenville, Pitt
County, N.C., June 29,
1986 (age 55 years, 55
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Samuel Jerome Bronson (1930-1986) —
also known as S. Jerome Bronson —
of Franklin, Oakland
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., March
21, 1930.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Michigan
state senate 12th District, 1960; Oakland
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1965-68; candidate for circuit
judge in Michigan 6th Circuit, 1966; Judge,
Michigan Court of Appeals 2nd District, 1969-86; died in office
1986.
Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Arrested
and charged
with soliciting
and accepting
a bribe of $20,000 for his vote on a pending case; he killed
himself by gunshot
the same day, in Franklin, Oakland
County, Mich., November
14, 1986 (age 56 years, 238
days).
Interment at Beth El Memorial Park, Livonia, Mich.
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Robert Budd Dwyer (1939-1987) —
also known as R. Budd Dwyer —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in St. Charles, St. Charles
County, Mo., November
21, 1939.
Republican. Member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1965-70; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 50th District, 1971-81; resigned 1981; Pennsylvania
state treasurer, 1981-87; died in office 1987.
Baptist.
Member, National
Education Association; Eagles;
Theta
Chi; Jaycees.
Convicted
in December 1986 of bribery
and conspiracy in federal court.
About to be sentenced,
and widely expected to resign from office, he called a press
conference; there, in front of spectators and television cameras,
he insisted he was not guilty, and then shot and
killed himself, in Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa., January
22, 1987 (age 47 years, 62
days).
Interment at Blooming
Valley Cemetery, Blooming Valley, Pa.
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Sarah Goddard Power (1935-1987) —
also known as Sarah Goddard —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., June 19,
1935.
Democrat. Member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1975-87; died in office 1987;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1976.
Female.
Protestant.
Died by suicide, from jumping to
her death from the eighth floor of Burton Tower, on the University of
Michigan campus, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., March
24, 1987 (age 51 years, 278
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Donald Edgar Koster (1937-1987) —
also known as Donald E. Koster —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born November
11, 1937.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives 53rd District, 1970.
Died of a self-inflicted gunshot
wound, in the garage of his home, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., April
26, 1987 (age 49 years, 166
days).
Cremated.
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Relatives: Son
of Willis Koster and Frances (Eck) Koster; married to Marilyn
Axelrod. |
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Forrest Howard Anderson (1913-1989) —
also known as Forrest Anderson —
of Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont.
Born in Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont., January
30, 1913.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Montana
state house of representatives, 1943-45; Lewis
and Clark County Attorney, 1945-47; justice of
Montana state supreme court, 1953-57; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Montana, 1956;
Montana
state attorney general, 1957-68; Governor of
Montana, 1969-73.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Eagles;
Moose;
Phi
Delta Theta.
Died of a self-inflicted gunshot
wound, in Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont., July 20,
1989 (age 76 years, 171
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Forestvale
Cemetery, Helena, Mont.
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Gentry Crowell (1932-1989) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Chestnut Mound, Smith
County, Tenn., December
10, 1932.
Democrat. Member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1969-77; secretary
of state of Tennessee, 1977-89; died in office 1989.
His office was a target of the federal "Operation Rocky Top" investigation
into fraudulent
charity bingo games; his administrative assistant admitted to
longtime embezzlement.
Suffered a self-inflicted gunshot
wound on December 12, 1989, and died eight days later in
Vanderbilt Hospital,
Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., December
20, 1989 (age 57 years, 10
days).
Interment at Cedar
Grove Cemetery, Lebanon, Tenn.
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Ricardo Jerome Bordallo (1927-1990) —
also known as Ricardo J. Bordallo; Ricky
Bordallo —
of Agana (now Hagatna), Guam.
Born in Agana (now Hagatna), Guam,
December
11, 1927.
Democrat. Restaurant
owner; automobile
dealer; member of Guam
legislature, 1956-70; Guam
Democratic Party chair, 1960-63, 1971-73; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Guam, 1964;
Governor
of Guam, 1975-78, 1983-86; defeated, 1970; Convicted
in 1987 on corruption charges,
including bribery,
obstruction
of justice, and witness
tampering; sentenced
to nine years in prison
and fined;
some of the charges were overturned on appeal in 1988; resentenced
to four years in prison
in December, 1989.
Catholic.
Chamorro
ancestry.
Just before he was to report to prison, he chained himself to a
statue of Chief Quipuha, in a busy traffic circle at rush hour;
wrapped in a Guam flag and wearing a sign saying "I regret I have but
one life to give for my island," he shot and
killed himself, in Agana (now Hagatna), Guam,
February
1, 1990 (age 62 years, 52
days).
Interment at Pigo Catholic Cemetery, Hagatna, Guam.
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Frank J. Forshee (1896-1991) —
of Pittsfield Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Dexter, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., June 10,
1896.
Democrat. Farmer;
candidate for supervisor
of Pittsfield Township, Michigan, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1940.
Irish
and German
ancestry.
Died, from a self-inflicted gunshot
wound, in Dexter, Washtenaw
County, Mich., January
15, 1991 (age 94 years, 219
days).
Cremated.
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Aris Tee Allen (1910-1991) —
also known as Aris T. Allen —
of Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., December
27, 1910.
Republican. Physician;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1967-74, 1991; died in office 1991;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1972
(delegation chair); Maryland
Republican state chair, 1977-79; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Maryland, 1978; member of Maryland
state senate 30th District, 1979-81.
African
Methodist Episcopal. African
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Phi Alpha; American Medical
Association; American
Legion; NAACP.
Following a diagnosis of cancer,
he died from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in his parked rental
car, in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., February
5, 1991 (age 80 years, 40
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Vann Rogers Jr. (1911-1993) —
also known as Will Rogers, Jr. —
of Culver City, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in New York, October
20, 1911.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from California 16th District, 1943-44; resigned
1944; candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1946; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1948.
Cherokee
Indian ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died, from a self-inflicted gunshot,
in in Tubac, Santa Cruz
County, Ariz., July 9,
1993 (age 81 years, 262
days).
Interment at Tubac
Cemetery, Tubac, Ariz.
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Nicholas J. Wasicsko (1959-1993) —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., May 13,
1959.
Democrat. Police
officer; mayor
of Yonkers, N.Y., 1988-89; defeated, 1989.
Died, from a self-inflicted gunshot
wound, in Oakland Cemetery (near his father's grave), Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., October
29, 1993 (age 34 years, 169
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Yonkers, N.Y.
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Lewis Burwell Puller Jr. (1945-1994) —
of Mt. Vernon, Fairfax
County, Va.
Born in Jacksonville, Onslow
County, N.C., August
18, 1945.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War; lost both
legs in the explosion of an improvised land mine in South
Vietnam, 1968; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Virginia 1st District, 1978; received a Pulitzer
Prize in 1992 for his autobiography, Fortunate Son: The
Healing of a Vietnam Vet.
Killed by a self-inflicted gunshot,
in Mt. Vernon, Fairfax
County, Va., May 11,
1994 (age 48 years, 266
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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John D. Gray (c.1928-1995) —
of Virginia.
Born about 1928.
Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1965-82; circuit judge in Virginia,
1983-95.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot
wound, the day after being told his lung
cancer was terminal, Hampton,
Va., December
10, 1995 (age about 67
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Carl Maxey (1924-1997) —
of Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash.
Born June 23,
1924.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Senator from Washington, 1970.
African
ancestry.
Died of a self-inflicted gunshot
wound, in Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash., July 17,
1997 (age 73 years, 24
days).
Burial location unknown.
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David J. Dwork (c.1941-1997) —
of Mahwah, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born about 1941.
Mayor
of Mahwah, N.J., 1991-97; died in office 1997.
Shot
and killed himself in his office
in the Town
Hall, Mahwah, Bergen
County, N.J., August
18, 1997 (age about 56
years).
Burial location unknown.
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William Woodward III (1944-1999) —
also known as Woody Woodward —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born July 24,
1944.
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter; magazine
publisher; candidate for New York
state senate 26th District, 1978.
Jumped from the kitchen window of his apartment, and fell to
his death fourteen stories below, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 2,
1999 (age 54 years, 282
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Steve Apodaca (c.1951-2001) —
of San Clemente, Orange
County, Calif.
Born in Downey, Los Angeles
County, Calif., about 1951.
Republican. Insurance
broker; political
consultant; candidate for California
state assembly 73rd District, 1998.
Died of a self-inflicted gunshot
wound, in San Clemente, Orange
County, Calif., April 2,
2001 (age about 50
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Colin Riley McMillan (1935-2003) —
also known as Colin R. McMillan —
of New Mexico.
Born July 27,
1935.
Republican. Oil
executive; member of New
Mexico state house of representatives, 1971-82; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New Mexico, 1994.
Died, of a self-inflicted gunshot
wound, in Roswell, Chaves
County, N.M., July 24,
2003 (age 67 years, 362
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Harry E. Claiborne (c.1918-2004) —
of Las Vegas, Clark
County, Nev.
Born in McRae, White
County, Ark., about 1918.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Nevada
state house of representatives, 1950; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Nevada, 1964; U.S.
District Judge for Nevada, 1979-86; convicted
in 1984 of tax
evasion, and sentenced
to two years in prison;
impeached
in 1986 by the U.S. House and convicted
(removed from office) by the Senate.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot
wound, in Las Vegas, Clark
County, Nev., January
19, 2004 (age about 86
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;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Florida; 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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Richard John Egan (1936-2009) —
also known as Richard J. Egan —
Born in Milton, Norfolk
County, Mass., February
28, 1936.
Republican. Co-founder of EMC Corporation, technology
firm; U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, 2001-02.
Irish
ancestry.
Died from self-inflicted gunshot,
while suffering from lung
cancer, in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., August
28, 2009 (age 73 years, 181
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James Douglas Johnson (1924-2010) —
also known as James D. Johnson; Jim Johnson;
"Justice Jim" —
of Crossett, Ashley
County, Ark.; Conway, Faulkner
County, Ark.
Born in Crossett, Ashley
County, Ark., August
20, 1924.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; lawyer;
member of Arkansas
state senate 22nd District, 1950-54; Democratic candidate for Governor of
Arkansas, 1956 (primary), 1966; justice of
Arkansas state supreme court, 1959-66; candidate in Democratic
primary for U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1968.
Methodist.
Member, Lambda
Chi Alpha; Freemasons;
Shriners.
Diehard segregationist.
Died, from a self-inflicted gunshot
wound, in Conway, Faulkner
County, Ark., February
13, 2010 (age 85 years, 177
days).
Interment at Oak Grove Cemetery, Conway, Ark.
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Robert Lofton Brown (1949-2011) —
also known as Robert Brown —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Greenville, Meriwether
County, Ga., January
30, 1949.
Democrat. Member of Georgia
state senate 26th District, 1991-2011; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Georgia, 2008;
candidate for mayor of
Macon, Ga., 2011.
African
ancestry.
Died from a self-inflicted gunshot
wound, in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., December
8, 2011 (age 62 years, 312
days).
Interment at Middle Georgia Memory Gardens, Jones County, Ga.
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