Politicians in Trouble or Disgrace:
Outside U.S.
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Joseph Roffignac (1766-1846) —
also known as Louis Philippe Joseph de Rouffignac —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Angoulême, France,
1766.
Mayor
of New Orleans, La., 1820-28.
French
ancestry.
Fled
France in 1789 to escape the
guillotine, presumably over disloyalty
to the revolutionary regime.
Suffered a stroke,
and dropped the gun he was holding, which accidentally
discharged, shooting
him in the head and killing him, in Périgueux, France,
1846
(age about
80 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Richard Valentine Morris (1768-1815) —
also known as Richard V. Morris —
of Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Morrisania, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, Bronx
County), N.Y., March 8,
1768.
Son of Lewis
Morris.
U.S. Navy Captain, starting in 1798; criticized
by his superiors for his inaction
as commander during an attempted blockade of Tripoli in 1803; he
faced a Naval Court of Inquiry
in 1804 and was dismissed
from the Navy; member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County, 1813-14.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 13,
1815 (age 47 years, 66
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Lorenzo de Zavala (1788-1836) —
also known as Manuel Lorenzo Justiniano de Zavala y
Sáenz —
of Mérida, Yucatan;
La Porte, Harris
County, Tex.
Born in Tecoh, Yucatan,
October
3, 1788.
Son of Anastasio de Zavala y Velázquez and Maria
Bárbara Sáenz y Castro.
Active in politics in Mexico, 1812-34; imprisoned
in 1814-17 by Mexican authorities over his advocacy
of democratic reforms; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Harrisburg, 1835;
delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Harrisburg, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; Vice
President of the Texas Republic, 1836.
Died, of pneumonia,
November
15, 1836 (age 48 years, 43
days).
Interment at de
Zavala Family Cemetery, La Porte, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Anastasio de Zavala y Velázquez and Maria Bárbara
Sáenz y Castro; married 1807 to Teresa
Correa y Correa (died 1831); married, November
12, 1831, to Emily West. |
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Albert Lange (1801-1869) —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Charlottenburg, Prussia (now part of Berlin, Germany),
December
16, 1801.
Republican. U.S. Consul in Amsterdam, 1849-50; Indiana
state auditor, 1861-63; mayor
of Terre Haute, Ind., 1863-67.
He belonged to a secret society which advocated
a constitutional government for the German Empire; in 1824, the
conspiracy was uncovered; he was convicted
of treason
and sentenced
to fifteen years in in prison;
pardoned
in 1829, and left Germany for the United States. A Terre Haute public
school was named for
him in 1900.
Died in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., July 25,
1869 (age 67 years, 221
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
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Stephen Fuller Austin (1793-1836) —
also known as Stephen F. Austin; "Father of
Texas" —
Born in Wythe
County, Va., November
3, 1793.
Son of Moses Austin and Maria (Brown) Austin.
Member of Missouri
territorial legislature, 1814-19; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1832 from District of San Felipe de
Austin, 1832; took petition to Mexico City for the establishment of
Texas as a separate Mexican state, 1832; charged
with attempting
revolution, and imprisoned
until 1835; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Austin, 1833; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of San Felipe de
Austin, 1835; candidate for President
of the Texas Republic, 1836; Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1836; died in office 1836.
Member, Freemasons.
The city of Austin, Texas, is named for
him.
Died of pneumonia,
in Brazoria
County, Tex., December
27, 1836 (age 43 years, 54
days).
Original interment at Peach
Point Cemetery, Gulf Prairie, Tex.; reinterment in 1910 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Henry P. Scholte (1805-1868) —
of Pella, Marion
County, Iowa.
Born in Amsterdam, Netherlands,
September
25, 1805.
Republican. Preacher;
joined the dissenters from the national church of the Netherlands; tried in
1834 for teaching
heresy, expelled
from the church, fined,
and imprisoned;
helped organize a group which emigrated to Iowa in 1847; lawyer; postmaster;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Iowa, 1860.
Dutch
ancestry.
Died August
25, 1868 (age 62 years, 335
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Pella, Iowa.
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Lorenzo Brentano (1813-1891) —
also known as Lorenz Brentano —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Germany,
November
4, 1813.
Republican. Member of Illinois
state house of representatives 61st District, 1863-65; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1864;
Presidential Elector for Illinois, 1868;
U.S. Consul in Dresden, 1872-76; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 3rd District, 1877-79.
German
ancestry.
Sentenced
to life imprisonment
for his role in a German revolution
in 1849; escaped
to the United States.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
18, 1891 (age 77 years, 318
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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John Louis O'Sullivan (1813-1895) —
also known as John L. O'Sullivan —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born, of American parents, in the North
Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Gibraltar, November
15, 1813.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly, 1841-42; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1844;
U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Portugal, 1854; U.S. Minister to Portugal, 1854-58.
Episcopalian;
later Catholic.
Cofounder and editor of The United States Magazine
and Democratic Review, a journal that published the works of
Emerson, Hawthorne and Whitman, as well as political essays on
Jacksonian Democracy, 1837-46. Early advocate in 1840s for abolition
of the death penalty. Invented the term "manifest destiny" to explain
and justify the westward expansion of the United States. Took part in
the failed expedition of Narcisco Lopez to take Cuba from Spanish
rule; as a result, was charged
in federal court in New York with violation
of the Neutrality Act; tried and
acquitted in March 1852.
Died, of influenza
and the effects of an earlier stroke, in
a residential hotel in
New York, New York
County, N.Y., March 24,
1895 (age 81 years, 129
days).
Interment at Moravian
Cemetery, New Dorp, Staten Island, N.Y.
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Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) —
also known as Charles J. Faulkner —
Born in Martinsburg, Berkeley
County, Va. (now W.Va.), July 6,
1806.
Democrat. Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1829-34, 1848-49; member of Virginia
state senate, 1838-42; delegate to
Virginia state constitutional convention, 1850; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1851-59 (10th District 1851-53, 8th
District 1853-59); U.S. Minister to France, 1860; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil
War; delegate to
West Virginia state constitutional convention, 1872; U.S.
Representative from West Virginia 2nd District, 1875-77.
On his return from France in August 1861, was detained
as a prisoner of
state on charges
of negotiating arms sales for the Confederacy
while in Paris; released in December 1861 and negotiated his own
exchange for Alfred
Ely, a a Congressman from New York who had been taken prisoner by
the Confederates at Bull Run.
Died near Martinsburg, Berkeley
County, W.Va., November
1, 1884 (age 78 years, 118
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Berkeley County, W.Va.
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Luke Pryor Blackburn (1816-1887) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Woodford
County, Ky., June 16,
1816.
Son of Edward M. Blackburn and Lavinia S. (Bell) Blackburn.
Physician;
member of Kentucky state legislature, 1843; Governor of
Kentucky, 1879-83.
Baptist.
In 1865, he was tried and
acquitted in a Toronto court for violating Canadian neutrality, in
connection with a Confederate
scheme to spread yellow fever in Northern cities.
Died in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., September
14, 1887 (age 71 years, 90
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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George Wythe Randolph (1818-1867) —
also known as George W. Randolph —
of Virginia.
Born near Charlottesville, Albemarle
County, Va., March 10,
1818.
Son of Thomas
Mann Randolph.
Lawyer;
delegate
to Virginia secession convention, 1861; general in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; Confederate
Secretary of War, 1862.
Episcopalian.
After the collapse of the Confederacy,
fled
to Europe to avoid
capture; pardoned
in 1866.
Died of pulmonary
pneumonia, near Charlottesville, Albemarle
County, Va., April 3,
1867 (age 49 years, 24
days). His portrait appeared on Confederate States $100
notes in 1862-64.
Interment at Monticello
Graveyard, Near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va.
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Albert Rhodes (b. 1840) —
of Pennsylvania; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., 1840.
U.S. Consul in Jerusalem, 1863-65; Rotterdam, 1866; Rouen, 1877-83; Elberfeld, 1883-85; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Netherlands, 1866; dismissed
as Charge d'Affaires in February 1867, by Hugh
Ewing, for suspected disloyalty.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Magear Tweed (1823-1878) —
also known as William M. Tweed; William Marcy Tweed;
"Boss Tweed" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 3,
1823.
Son of Richard Tweed and Eliza (Magear) Tweed.
Democrat. Chairmaker;
fire
fighter; U.S.
Representative from New York 5th District, 1853-55; member of New York
state senate 4th District, 1868-73.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Odd
Fellows; Freemasons.
Convicted
of embezzlement
and sentenced
to twelve years in prison;
escaped;
captured
in Spain and brought back to New York.
Died in
prison, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 12,
1878 (age 55 years, 9
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Robert Cumming Schenck (1809-1890) —
also known as Robert C. Schenck —
of Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio.
Born in Franklin, Warren
County, Ohio, October
4, 1809.
Lawyer;
member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1839-43; U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1843-51, 1863-71 (3rd District 1843-51,
1863-67, 5th District 1867-69, 3rd District 1869-71); U.S. Minister
to Brazil, 1851-53; Great Britain, 1870-76; general in the Union Army during the
Civil War.
While U.S. minister to Great Britain in 1871, he promoted the sale of
shares in the Emma Silver Mine Company, of which was a director;
quietly sold his own shares before news about the mine's depletion
caused their value to collapse. His diplomatic immunity enabled him
to avoid facing fraud charges
in a British court.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 23,
1890 (age 80 years, 170
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio.
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Patrick F. Egan (1841-1919) —
of Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb.
Born in County Longford, Ireland,
August
13, 1841.
Republican. Irish home rule advocate; prosecuted
in Dublin, 1880, for sedition;
grain elevator
business; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Nebraska, 1888;
U.S. Minister to Chile, 1889-93.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
30, 1919 (age 78 years, 48
days).
Interment at St.
Raymond's Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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William Stanley Hollis (1866-1930) —
also known as W. Stanley Hollis —
of Massachusetts; Chevy Chase, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Chelsea, Suffolk
County, Mass., April 4,
1866.
Son of Capt. George Fearing Hollis and Eliza A. (Simmons) Hollis.
U.S. Consul in Mozambique Island, 1894; Lourenco Marques, 1898-1909; Dundee, 1909-10; U.S. Consul General in Beirut, 1911-17; London, 1919-20; Lisbon, 1920-27.
In September, 1894, in Mozambique, he shot and wounded a local
resident who he thought was a burglar; arrested
and tried by
Portugese authorities, convicted
of homicide,
and sentenced
to six months in prison.
Died, following a stroke, in
Chevy Chase, Montgomery
County, Md., June 8,
1930 (age 64 years, 65
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Capt. George Fearing Hollis and Eliza A. (Simmons) Hollis; married
1898 to Lena
Cogswell Hobbs; married 1918 to Alice
Davidson. |
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Louis Stern (d. 1901) —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Germany.
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
committed suicide
by gunshot,
in the public gardens at Bamberg, Germany,
June
10, 1901.
Burial
location unknown.
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John Goodnow (born c.1858) —
of Minnesota.
Born about 1858.
Republican. Minnesota's most prominent advocate of William
McKinley for president in 1896; U.S. Consul General in Shanghai, 1897-1905; charges
of malfeasance
against him were made by Americans in China to the State Department
in 1902, and to President Theodore
Roosevelt in December 1904; two months later, his resignation
was announced; became an advisor to the Chinese government in 1906.
Burial
location unknown.
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Hyman Costrell (b. 1890) —
also known as Jack Robbins —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; New York.
Born in Kurenitz, Russia (now Belarus),
October
19, 1890.
Communist. Arrested
in 1905 in Russia and jailed
three months for demonstrating
and distributing
circulars against the Czarist government; naturalized U.S.
citizen; plumber;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 8th District, 1934.
Jewish.
Burial
location unknown.
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Frederic Duncan MacMaster —
also known as Frederic MacMaster —
Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; member of Theodore
Roosevelt's "Rough Rider" regiment; U.S. Consul in Zanzibar, 1905-06; dismissed
from his consular position in 1906 over multiple instances of misconduct,
including the assault
of police officers in a bar-room; en route to the U.S., he stopped in
Nice, France, and obtained
a bank loan by pretending to be U.S. Consul Harold
S. Van Buren.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Bruce MacMaster, Jr. (1875-1912) —
also known as William B. MacMaster, Jr. —
of New York.
Born, of American parents, in Colombia,
June
28, 1875.
Son of William
Bruce MacMaster.
Rancher;
U.S. Vice Consul in Cartagena, 1904-08; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Cartagena, 1908-12, died in office 1912; stabbed
by two Colombians in the summer of 1909; pressed charges against his
attackers, one of whom was an influential newspaper editor; arrested
by Colombian authorities in June 1910 on charges
that, years earlier, he shot
a a Colombian citizen, in what he said was self-defense; initially
acquitted, then found
guilty, then exonerated by a higher court.
While hunting
alone, was shot
multiple times and killed by
an unknown assassin, near Cartagena, Colombia,
August
11, 1912 (age 37 years, 44
days).
Interment at Church
and Convent of Santo Domingo, Cartagena, Colombia.
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James Mark Sullivan (1873-1933) —
also known as James M. Sullivan —
of New York.
Born in Ireland,
1873.
U.S. Minister to Dominican Republic, 1913-15.
Participated
in the 1916 Easter Uprising in Ireland; arrested
by the British authorities, but not executed due to his American diplomatic
passport.
Died in 1933
(age about
60 years).
Interment at Glasnevin
Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland.
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Olney Arnold (1861-1916) —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in Cumberland, Providence
County, R.I., September
8, 1861.
Son of William G. Arnold and Lucy M. (Aldrich) Arnold.
Democrat. Treasurer and manager Rogers Screw Company; president,
Angell Land
Company; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode
Island, 1888;
member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1908; candidate for Governor of
Rhode Island, 1908, 1909; U.S. Diplomatic Agent to Egypt, 1913-16, died in office 1916; U.S. Consul General in Cairo, 1914-16, died in office 1916; under
investigation in 1916 on charges
of making unneutral
utterances.
Unitarian.
Died in Lisbon, Portugal,
March
5, 1916 (age 54 years, 179
days).
Interment at Swan
Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
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Victor Hugo Duras —
also known as Victor H. Duras —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Nebraska.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 12th District, 1908; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1912;
U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Liège, 1913-14; U.S. Vice Consul in Petrograd, 1914-15; arrested
in August, 1916, in Russia, on suspicion
of being a German spy;
freed in 1917.
Burial
location unknown.
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David C. Kerr —
U.S. Vice Consul in Birmingham, 1917; arrested
in Washington, D.C. in May 1924, and charged
with accepting
bribes while vice consul at Vancouver, to issue
visas to Chinese, so they could enter the
U.S. illegally.
Burial
location unknown.
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Smedley Darlington Butler (1881-1940) —
also known as Smedley Butler; "The Fighting
Quaker"; "Old Gimlet Eye" —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in West Chester, Chester
County, Pa., July 30,
1881.
Son of Thomas
Stalker Butler and Maud Mary (Darlington) Butler.
Republican. Major general in U.S. Marine Corps; received a Medal
of Honor for the capture of Veracruz, Mexico, 1914; received
another for the capture of Fort Riviere, Haiti, 1915; Philadelphia police
commissioner, 1924-25; arrested
and court-martialed
in 1931 over his unauthorized
disclosure
of an incident unflattering to Italian dictator Italian Benito
Mussolini; retired from the service rather than apologize to
Mussolini; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1932.
Quaker.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., June 21,
1940 (age 58 years, 327
days).
Interment at Oaklands
Cemetery, West Chester, Pa.
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Samuel Insull (1859-1938) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Kenilworth, Cook
County, Ill.; near Libertyville, Lake
County, Ill.
Born in London, England,
November
11, 1859.
Son of Samuel Insull and Emma (Short) Insull.
Republican. Associate of Thomas Edison and executive of electric
utilities; one of the founders of the company that became General
Electric; also had major holdings in railroads;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1904;
when his utility holding company collapsed, wiping out the
stockholders, he fled
the country; indicted
in 1932 on fraud and
embezzlement
charges;
ultimately extradited
from Turkey in 1934; tried in
Chicago and found not guilty.
Congregationalist.
Member, Union
League.
Died from a heart
attack, in the Place de la Concorde station
on the Paris Métro subway system, Paris, France,
July
16, 1938 (age 78 years, 247
days).
Interment at Putney
Vale Cemetery, London, England.
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Ernest Lee Jahncke (1877-1960) —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., October
13, 1877.
Son of Frederick Jahncke and Margaret (Lee) Jahncke.
Republican. Engineer;
president, Jahncke Dry Docks,
New Orleans; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Louisiana, 1932,
1936
(alternate).
Episcopalian.
German
ancestry. Member, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy in the Hoover Administration. Expelled
from the International Olympic Committee in July 1936 after taking a
strong
stand against the Nazi-organized Berlin Games.
Died November
16, 1960 (age 83 years, 34
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Metairie
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
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Relatives: Son
of Frederick Jahncke and Margaret (Lee) Jahncke; married to Cora Van
Voorhis Stanton (granddaughter of Edwin
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Felix L. Sparks —
of Colorado.
Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; one of the heroes of
the Anzio beachhead in 1944; on April 29, 1945, he captured the
Dachau concentration camp, and under orders to permit no one in or
out, refused
entry to a brigadier general from another unit; court-martial
charges
were drawn up, and Sparks was arrested;
the charges were dismissed by General Patton; justice of
Colorado state supreme court, 1956.
Still living as of 1957.
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John Stewart Service (1909-1999) —
also known as John S. Service —
Born in Chengdu, China,
August
3, 1909.
U.S. Consul in Wellington, 1947.
One of several U.S. diplomats whose wartime reports from China
detailed the weakness and corruption of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist
government, and and accurately predicted the triumph of the Chinese
Communists in the ensuing civil war. These reports were held against
him as evidence of disloyalty,
notably by Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy, who in 1950 called him "a known associate and
collaborator with Communists." Under pressure from McCarthy, the
State Department dismissed
him in 1951; he was reinstated by a unanimous ruling of the U.S.
Supreme Court in 1956.
Died in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., February
3, 1999 (age 89 years, 184
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Gus Hall (1910-2000) —
also known as Arvo Kustaa Halberg —
of Youngstown, Mahoning
County, Ohio; Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Virginia, St. Louis
County, Minn., October
8, 1910.
Communist. Steelworker;
union
organizer and one of the leaders of the steelworkers' strike in
1937; candidate for mayor
of Youngstown, Ohio, 1937; served in the U.S. Navy during World
War II; indicted
in 1948, and convicted
in 1949, under the Smith
Act, of conspiring to teach the violent
overthrow of the U.S. government; fled
to Mexico; arrested
in 1951 and sent back; spent eight years in prison;
candidate for President
of the United States, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984.
Finnish
ancestry.
Died, of complications from diabetes,
in Lenox Hill Hospital,
New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
13, 2000 (age 90 years, 5
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
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Charles Wheeler Thayer (1910-1969) —
also known as Charles W. Thayer —
of Villanova, Delaware
County, Pa.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Villanova, Delaware
County, Pa., February
9, 1910.
Son of George C. Thayer and Gertrude May (Wheeler) Thayer
(c.1870-1964).
U.S. Vice Consul in Moscow, 1937, 1940; Berlin, 1937-38; Hamburg, 1939-40; Kabul, 1943; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; head
of the State Department's international broadcasting division,
including the "Voice of America", 1947-49; U.S. Consul General in Munich, 1952-53; in March 1953, when attacks on his loyalty
by U.S. Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy inspired a State Department investigation
into his diplomatic
career, he resigned
from the Foreign Service; writer.
Died, during heart
surgery, in Salzburg, Austria,
August
27, 1969 (age 59 years, 199
days).
Interment at Church
of the Redeemer Cemetery, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
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Deane Roesch Hinton (b. 1923) —
also known as Deane R. Hinton —
of Illinois.
Born in Fort Missoula, Missoula
County, Mont., March 12,
1923.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Ambassador to Zaire, 1974-75; El Salvador, 1981; Pakistan, 1983-86; Costa Rica, 1987-90; Panama, 1990-94; declared
persona
non grata by the government of Zaire, June 18, 1975.
Still living as of 2009.
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Oliver Laurence North (b. 1943) —
also known as Oliver L. North; Ollie North —
of Virginia.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., October
7, 1943.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War;
central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal
of 1986; he was in charge of a secret (and illegal) government
operation to sell
weapons to Iran and provide the profits to the then-unrecognized
Nicaraguan "contras", who were fighting a civil war against the
"Sandinista" government there; convicted
in 1989 on federal charges of obstructing
Congress, destroying documents, and accepting an illegal
gratuity; an appeals court later overturned the guilty verdict;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1994; host of a radio talk
show in 1995-2003, and is a television
commentator.
Member, National Rifle
Association.
Still living as of 2009.
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William A. Wilson (b. 1914) —
of California.
Born in 1914.
U.S. Ambassador to Vatican, 1984-86; reprimanded
by the State Department for his unauthorized
diplomatic mission to Libya.
Still living as of 1991.
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Tom Metzger —
of California; Warsaw, Kosciusko
County, Ind.
Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 43rd District, 1980; candidate in
Democratic primary for U.S.
Senator from California, 1982; convicted
in 1991 of burning a
cross (as a form of hate speech
or intimidation) and sentenced
to prison;
in 1992, he was arrested
in Canada for violating immigration
laws.
Member, John
Birch Society; Ku Klux Klan.
Still living as of 2012.
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