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George M. Carhart (d. 1863) —
of California.
Member of California
state assembly 21st District, 1853-54.
Accidentally
shot
and killed while sleeping in Skinner's Saloon, Bannock, Beaverhead
County, Mont., May 17,
1863.
Burial
location unknown.
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Caleb Claiborne Herbert (c.1814-1867) —
of Texas.
Born in Goochland
County, Va., about 1814.
Member of Texas
state senate, 1857-59; Representative
from Texas in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65.
Shot
and killed
outside a saloon in Columbus, Colorado
County, Tex., July 5,
1867 (age about 53
years).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Colorado County, Tex.
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Edwin Stanton McCook (1837-1873) —
Born in Carrollton, Carroll
County, Ohio, March 26,
1837.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; secretary
of Dakota Territory, 1872-73; died in office 1873.
Member, Freemasons.
Shot
and killed by
Peter P. Wintermute, a banker and political adversary, at a
saloon in Yankton, Yankton
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.), September
11, 1873 (age 36 years, 169
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Benjamin Long (1838-1877) —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born March 7,
1838.
Mayor
of Dallas, Tex., 1868-70, 1872-74.
Killed
when he attempted to stop three people from leaving a saloon
without paying, June 23,
1877 (age 39 years, 108
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Dallas, Tex.
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David Smith Terry (1823-1889) —
also known as David S. Terry —
of Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Stockton, San Joaquin
County, Calif.
Born in Christian County (part now in Todd
County), Ky., March 8,
1823.
Son of Joseph Royal Terry (1792-1877) and Sarah David (Smith) Terry
(1793-1837).
Lawyer;
went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; advocated the extension of
slavery to California; justice of
California state supreme court, 1855-59; chief
justice of California state supreme court, 1857-59; killed U.S.
Senator David
C. Broderick in a duel
near San Francisco in 1859; tried for
murder,
but acquitted; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
delegate
to California state constitutional convention, 1878-79; candidate
for Presidential Elector for California, 1880;
his wife Sarah Althea Hill claimed to be the widow and heir of
wealthy U.S. Senator William
Sharon; in September, 1888, when her claim was finally rejected
by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen
J. Field (acting as a Court of Appeals judge for California), she
and Terry caused an altercation in the courtroom and were jailed
six months for contempt
of court.
Five months after his release from jail, he encountered Justice Field
and slapped him in the face; he was then shot
through the heart and killed by
U.S. Deputy Marshal David Neagle, the justice's bodyguard, in the train
station dining room at Lathrop, San Joaquin
County, Calif., August
14, 1889 (age 66 years, 159
days). Neagle was arrested by local authorities, but later
released on the demand of the U.S. government.
Interment at Stockton
Rural Cemetery, Stockton, Calif.
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Nicholas Fish (1848-1902) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
19, 1848.
Son of Hamilton
Fish (1808-1893).
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Charge d'Affaires to Switzerland, 1877-81; U.S. Minister to Belgium, 1882-85; banker;
Presidential Elector for New York, 1896.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Quarreled with Thomas J. Sharkey, a private detective, on the second
floor of the Ehrhardt Brothers saloon; Sharkey struck
him, so that he fell down the stairs into the street with a skull
fracture; died the next day, without regaining consciousness, at
Roosevelt Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
16, 1902 (age 54 years, 209
days). Sharkey was later convicted of second-degree manslaughter
and sentenced to ten years in prison.
Interment at St.
Philip's Cemetery, Garrison, N.Y.
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William J. Donohue (d. 1907) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Republican. Member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 14th District, 1907; defeated,
1903; died in office 1907.
Shot
and killed
himself, in the lavatory of a saloon in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
31, 1907.
Burial
location unknown.
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Claude C. Cheshire (c.1889-1960) —
of Nogales, Santa Cruz
County, Ariz.; Flagstaff, Coconino
County, Ariz.
Born in Oregon, about 1889.
Automobile
dealer; mayor of
Nogales, Ariz., 1937-39.
Suffered a heart
attack and died, while dining with friends in a
restaurant, Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., January
29, 1960 (age about 71
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Leon M. Jordan (1905-1970) —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., May 6,
1905.
Democrat. Police
officer; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Missouri, 1960;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1964-70; died in office 1970.
African
ancestry.
During his campaign
for re-election, was shot and
killed
while leaving the Green Duck Tavern, which he owned and
operated, in Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., July 15,
1970 (age 65 years, 70
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William J. McGovern (1905-1972) —
of Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., August
25, 1905.
Democrat. Tavern
owner; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
Jersey, 1932
(alternate), 1944.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Killed
by armed robbers at his tavern, in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., July 11,
1972 (age 66 years, 321
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, North Arlington, N.J.
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S. Samuel DiFalco (1906-1978) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Italy,
July
26, 1906.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate in primary for New York
state assembly, 1935; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1949-56; New
York County Surrogate, 1957-76.
Italian
ancestry. Member, Tammany
Hall.
Indicted
in May 1976, along with Justice Irving
Saypol, on official
misconduct charges,
in connection with an alleged scheme to obtain appraisal and auction
commissions for Saypol's son; the charges were later dismissed. Indicted
in February 1978 for criminal
contempt, in connection with his statements to a grand jury, but
died before trial.
Died, from a heart
attack, while dining with friends at the Columbus Club,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 28,
1978 (age 71 years, 337
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y.
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