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John George Jackson (1777-1825) —
also known as John G. Jackson —
of Clarksburg, Harrison
County, Va. (now W.Va.).
Born in Buckhannon, Upshur
County, Va. (now W.Va.), September
22, 1777.
Son of George
Jackson.
Democrat. Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1798-1801, 1811-12; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1803-10, 1813-17 (at-large 1803-07,
1st District 1807-10, 1813-17); U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, 1819-25;
died in office 1825.
In November, 1807, leaving the courthouse in Clarksburg, has was
attacked and suffered a skull fracture. While in Congress,
fought a duel
with Joseph
Pearson of North Carolina, and on the second fire was wounded in
the hip.
Died in Clarksburg, Harrison
County, Va (now W.Va.), March 28,
1825 (age 47 years, 187
days).
Interment at Old
Jackson Cemetery, Clarksburg, W.Va.
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Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) —
also known as "Old Hickory"; "The Farmer of
Tennessee"; "King Andrew the
First" —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born, in a log
cabin, in The Waxhaws, Lancaster
County, S.C., March 15,
1767.
Son of Andrew Jackson (1730-1767) and Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Jackson
(1737-1781).
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for Tennessee, 1790-97; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1796-97; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1797-98, 1823-25; justice of
Tennessee state supreme court, 1798; general in the U.S. Army
during the War of 1812; Governor of
Florida Territory, 1821; President
of the United States, 1829-37.
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Killed Charles Dickinson in a pistol duel,
May 30, 1806; also dueled
with Thomas
Hart Benton and Waightstill
Avery. Censured
by the U.S. Senate in 1834 over his removal of federal deposits from
the Bank of the United States. On January 30, 1835, while attending
funeral services at the Capitol Building for Rep. Warren
R. Davis of South Carolina, he was shot at with two guns
-- which both misfired -- by Richard Lawrence, a house painter (later
found not guilty by reason of insanity).
Died, of dropsy (congestive
heart failure), in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., June 8,
1845 (age 78 years, 85
days). Elected in 1910 to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans. His portrait appears on the U.S. $20
bill; from the 1860s until 1927, his portrait appeared on on U.S.
notes
and certificates of various denominations from $5
to $10,000. In 1861, his portrait appeared on Confederate States
$1,000
notes.
Interment at The
Hermitage, Nashville, Tenn.; statue erected 1853 at Lafayette
Park, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1856 at Jackson
Square, New Orleans, La.
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Relatives: Son
of Andrew Jackson (1730-1767) and Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Jackson
(1737-1781); married, January
17, 1794, to Rachel (Donelson) Robards (1767-1828; aunt of Andrew
Jackson Donelson). See Donelson-Smith-Jackson
family of Tennessee. |
| | | Cross-reference: Francis
P. Blair |
| | | Jackson counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Mich., Miss., Mo., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Tenn., Tex., W.Va. and Wis., and Hickory County,
Mo., are named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Andrew
J. Donelson
— Andrew
Jackson Miller
— Andrew
J. Faulk
— Andrew
Jackson Titus
— Andrew
Jackson Isacks
— Andrew
Jackson Hamilton
— Andrew
Jackson Harlan
— Andrew
J. Kuykendall
— Andrew
J. Thayer
— Elam
A. J. Greeley
— Andrew
Jackson Ingle
— Andrew
J. Ogle
— Andrew
Jackson Carr
— Andrew
Jackson Bryant
— Andrew
J. Bentley
— Andrew
J. Rogers
— William
A. J. Sparks
— Andrew
Jackson Poppleton
— Andrew
J. Hunter
— A.
J. Clements
— Andrew
Jackson Baker
— Andrew
J. Felt
— A. J.
King
— Andrew
J. Sawyer
— Andrew
Jackson Caldwell
— Andrew
Jackson Gahagan
— Andrew
Jackson Biship
— Andrew
Jackson Houston
— Andrew
J. Cobb
— Andrew
J. Montague
— Andrew
J. Barchfeld
— Andrew
J. Kirk
— Andrew
J. Livingston
— Andrew
Jackson Stewart
— Andrew J.
May
— Andrew
J. McConnico
— Andrew
J. Brewer
— Andrew
Bettwy
— Andrew
J. Transue
— Andrew
Jackson Graves
— Andrew
Jackson Gilbert
— Andrew
J. Hinshaw
— Andy
Young
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| | | Campaign slogan: "Let the people
rule." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Andrew Jackson: Robert
Vincent Remini, The
Life of Andrew Jackson — Robert Vincent Remini, Andrew
Jackson : The Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832 —
Robert Vincent Remini, Andrew
Jackson : The Course of American Democracy,
1833-1845 — Robert Vincent Remini, Andrew
Jackson : The Course of American Empire, 1767-1821 —
Andrew Burstein, The
Passions of Andrew Jackson — David S. Heidler & Jeanne
T. Heidler, Old
Hickory's War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for
Empire — Donald B. Cole, The
Presidency of Andrew Jackson — H. W. Brands, Andrew
Jackson : His Life and Times |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810-1903) —
also known as Cassius M. Clay; "The Lion of White
Hall" —
of Madison
County, Ky.
Born in Madison
County, Ky., October
19, 1810.
Son of Green
Clay.
Probably the best-known Southern emancipationist; freed his own
slaves in 1844 and edited the only Southern antislavery newspaper
in 1845-47.; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1835-37, 1840; delegate to Whig
National Convention from Kentucky, 1839 (speaker); shot
point-blank during a speech in 1843, he used a Bowie knife to cut off
the attacker's ear and nose and cut out one eye; tried for
mayhem
and found not guilty; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War;
candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1860;
U.S. Minister to Russia, 1861-62, 1863-69; general in the Union Army during the
Civil War.
Died, of kidney
failure, in Madison
County, Ky., July 22,
1903 (age 92 years, 276
days).
Interment at Richmond
Cemetery, Richmond, Ky.
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Benjamin Franklin Terry (1821-1861) —
also known as Frank Terry —
Born in Russellville, Logan
County, Ky., February
18, 1821.
Son of Joseph Royal Terry (1792-1877) and Sarah David (Smith) Terry
(1793-1837).
Planter;
in 1844, he was attacked by two rebellious slaves with knives
and axes; railroad
builder; delegate
to Texas secession convention, 1861; colonel in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War.
Shot
and killed in
action while leading Terry's Texas Rangers at the battle of
Woodsonville (also called Rowlett's Station), in Hart
County, Ky., December
17, 1861 (age 40 years, 302
days).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Fort Bend County, Tex.; reinterment
in 1880 at Glenwood
Cemetery, Houston, Tex.
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William Miner —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly; attacked by six men, in the bar-room at
the Carlton Hotel, March 26, 1854, and suffered serious injuries;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1860.
Burial
location unknown.
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John W. Dawson (1820-1877) —
of Fort Wayne, Allen
County, Ind.
Born in Cambridge, Dearborn
County, Ind., October
21, 1820.
Farmer;
lawyer;
newspaper
editor; candidate for Indiana
state house of representatives, 1854; candidate for secretary of
state of Indiana, 1856; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1858; Governor of
Utah Territory, 1861.
In December, 1861, after less than a month as territorial governor,
fled
Utah amid controversy and scandal.
Just east of Salt Lake City, he was attacked by three men and
badly injured.
Died in Indiana, September
10, 1877 (age 56 years, 324
days).
Interment at Lindenwood
Cemetery, Fort Wayne, Ind.
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William Henry Seward (1801-1872) —
also known as William H. Seward —
of Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y.
Born in Florida, Orange
County, N.Y., May 16,
1801.
Son of Daniel S. Seward (physician).
Lawyer;
co-founded (with Thurlow
Weed), the Albany Evening Journal newspaper
in 1830; member of New York
state senate 7th District, 1831-34; Governor of
New York, 1839-43; defeated (Whig), 1834; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1849-61; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1856,
1860;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1861-69.
Survived an assassination attempt on April 14, 1865 (the same
night Abraham
Lincoln was shot), when Lewis Payne, an associate of John Wilkes
Booth, broke into his bedroom and stabbed him repeatedly. Payne was
arrested, tried with the other conspirators, and hanged. As
Secretary of State in 1867, made a treaty with Russia for the
purchase of Alaska; critics dubbed the territory "Seward's Folly".
His portrait appeared on the $50
U.S. Treasury Note in the 1890s.
Died in Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y., October
16, 1872 (age 71 years, 153
days).
Interment at Fort
Hill Cemetery, Auburn, N.Y.; statue at Madison
Square Park, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Volunteer
Park, Seattle, Wash.
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James Milton Turner (1840-1915) —
also known as J. Milton Turner —
Born in slavery
in St.
Louis, Mo., 1840.
U.S. Minister to Liberia, 1871-78; stabbed in the chest by George W.
Medley, in St. Louis, October 9, 1872.
African
ancestry.
Died, as the result of a railroad
tank car explosion,
in Ardmore, Carter
County, Okla., 1915
(age about
75 years).
Interment at Father
Dickson's Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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David S. Paige —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Proprietor of Paige's Hotel;
owner, Fort Leo Line of steamboats;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 5th District, 1872.
Shot twice and injured on May 5, 1875, by Samuel Decker, an
unemployed bartender.
Burial
location unknown.
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Thomas J. R. Swafford (d. 1884) —
Democrat. Member of Tennessee
state senate, 1884; died in office 1884; shot through his
arm by Jeff Dibrell, brother of George
G. Dibrell; injured in several other gun and knife fights,
in one of which he wounded two attackers and accidentally killed his
father-in-law.
Shot
and killed
during an armed confrontation with Monroe Hudson, shopkeeper, who had
ordered him to leave his store, in
Sparta, White
County, Tenn., October
17, 1884.
Burial
location unknown.
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Robert D. McKune (c.1823-1894) —
of Scranton, Lackawanna
County, Pa.; Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne
County, Pa.
Born about 1823.
Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; mayor
of Scranton, Pa., 1877.
While attempting to quell a riot in 1877, he was attacked, and
his skull was fractured.
Died, of heart
failure, in Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y., October
9, 1894 (age about 71
years).
Interment somewhere
in Scranton, Pa.
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Isaac Smith Kalloch (1832-1887) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Rockland, Knox
County, Maine, July 10,
1832.
Pastor;
mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1879-81.
Indicted
for adultery,
in East Cambridge, Mass., 1857; tried,
but the jury was unable to agree on a verdict. Shot and
wounded, on August 23, 1879, by newspaper editor Charles DeYoung.
A few months later, before DeYoung was to be tried for the shooting,
Kalloch's son, I. M. Kalloch, shot and killed DeYoung in his office.
Died, of diabetes,
in Whatcom (now part of Bellingham), Whatcom
County, Wash., December
9, 1887 (age 55 years, 152
days).
Interment at Bayview
Cemetery, Bellingham, Wash.
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Frederick Cocheu —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 7th District, 1873.
Shot while attempting to capture a thief, in New York, on
November 2, 1880; the bullet passed through his coat sleeve but did
not injure him; the thief escaped.
Burial
location unknown.
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Patrick McQuaid (c.1849-1892) —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.
Born in Ireland,
about 1849.
Wholesale grain and
flour merchant; mayor
of Jacksonville, Fla., 1886-87, 1888-91; active community leader
during the 1888 yellow fever epidemic; on June 17, 1890, he was
brutally assaulted by City Marshal Stephen Wiggins, who
clubbed him repeatedly on the head until he lost consciousness.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., February
21, 1892 (age about 43
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Russell Sage (1816-1906) —
also known as "The Sage of Troy"; "The Money
King"; "Father of Puts and Calls";
"Old Straddle" —
of Troy, Rensselaer
County, N.Y.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Verona, Oneida
County, N.Y., August 4,
1816.
Son of Prudence (Risley) Sage (1778-1865) and Elisha Sage, Jr.
(1779-1854).
Whig. Merchant;
banker;
Rensselaer
County Treasurer; delegate to Whig National Convention from New
York, 1848; U.S.
Representative from New York 13th District, 1853-57; railroad
builder; arrested
in 1869 and charged
with violation of New York usury
laws by charging high interest rates on loans; fined and
sentenced
to five days in prison,
which was later suspended.
On December 4, 1891, Henry Norcross, a stockbroker, brought a bomb to
Sage's office in New York City as part of an extortion scheme; when
his demands were refused, he detonated the bomb, but Sage
suffered only minor injuries.
Died in Lawrence, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., July 22,
1906 (age 89 years, 352
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Troy, N.Y.
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Curtis Guild, Jr. (1860-1915) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
2, 1860.
Son of Curtis Guild (born 1827) and Sarah C. Guild.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; member of Massachusetts
Republican State Committee, 1884; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1896;
colonel in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1903-06; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1906-09; candidate for Republican nomination for
Vice President, 1908;
U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 1911-13.
Member, Freemasons;
Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; American
Forestry Association.
In 1907, John A. Steele came to the State House with a revolver, and
attempted to kill Gov. Guild; he was subdued and arrested
after shooting two people.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April 6,
1915 (age 55 years, 63
days).
Interment at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
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John Looney (1865-1947) —
also known as Patrick John Looney —
of Rock Island, Rock Island
County, Ill.
Born in Ottawa, La Salle
County, Ill., October
5, 1865.
Son of Patrick Looney and Margaret Looney.
Lawyer;
newspaper
publisher; indicted
with others in 1897 over a scheme to defraud
the city of Rock Island in connection with a storm drain construction
project; convicted,
but the verdict was overturned on appeal; candidate for Illinois
state house of representatives, 1900; created and led a crime
syndicate in northwest Illinois, with interests in gambling,
prostitution,
extortion,
and eventually bootlegging
and automobile
theft; indicted
in 1907 on 37 counts of bribery,
extortion,
and libel,
but acquitted; shot and wounded by hidden snipers on two
occasions in 1908; on February 22, 1909, he was shot and
wounded in a gunfight with business rival W. W. Wilmerton; on March
22, 1912, after publishing
personal attacks on Rock Island Mayor Henry
M. Schriver, he was arrested,
brought to the police station, and severely beaten by the
mayor himself; subsequent rioting killed two men and injured nine
others; resumed control of the Rock Island rackets in 1921; in 1922,
he was indicted
for the murder
of saloon keeper William Gabel, who had provided evidence against
Looney to federal agents; arrested
in Belen, N.M., in 1924, and later convicted
of conspiracy and murder;
sentenced
to 5 years in prison
for conspiracy and 14 years for murder;
served 8 1/2 years.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, of tuberculosis,
in a sanitarium
at El Paso, El Paso
County, Tex., 1947
(age about
81 years).
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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William Jay Gaynor (1848-1913) —
also known as William J. Gaynor —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Whitestown, Oneida
County, N.Y., 1848.
Democrat. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1894-1907; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1910-13; died in office 1913.
Shot in the throat by James J. Gallagher, a former city
employee, on August 9, 1910. Died, from a heart
attack, on board the steamship
Baltic, in the North
Atlantic Ocean, September
10, 1913 (age about 65
years).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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William Wesley Canada (1850-1921) —
also known as William W. Canada —
of Winchester, Randolph
County, Ind.
Born in Stony Creek Township, Randolph
County, Ind., June 8,
1850.
Son of David Canada and Mary Ann (Moore) Canada.
Republican. Lawyer; chair of
Randolph County Republican Party, 1890-97; U.S. Consul in Veracruz, 1897-1918.
Member, Odd
Fellows.
During the Felix Diaz uprising in 1912, he was shot in the leg
while riding a horse near the consulate.
Died, of heart
disease, in Winchester, Randolph
County, Ind., May 17,
1921 (age 70 years, 343
days).
Interment at Fountain
Park Cemetery, Winchester, Ind.
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Albert Cole Fach (1882-1972) —
also known as Albert C. Fach —
of West New Brighton, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.
Born in Stapleton, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., January
14, 1882.
Son of John Fach.
Democrat. Lawyer; Richmond
County District Attorney, 1910-19, 1924-31; Presidential Elector
for New York, 1932;
delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
On the morning of August 19, 1912, in his office, he was shot
three times and badly wounded, by Mrs. Elizabeth Edmunds, a
disgruntled former client.
Died June 3,
1972 (age 90 years, 141
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Harry M. Schriver —
of Rock Island, Rock Island
County, Ill.
Mayor
of Rock Island, Ill., 1911-15, 1919-23; on March 22, 1912, angry
over personal attacks published by newspaper publisher and crime
syndicate boss John
Looney, he had Looney brought to the Rock Island police station
and gave him a severe
beating; during a riot on March 27, a sniper shot at the
mayor in his office; convicted
in 1923 on vice
protection conspiracy charges.
Burial
location unknown.
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) —
also known as "T.R."; "Teddy";
"The Colonel"; "The Hero of San Juan
Hill"; "The Rough Rider";
"Trust-Buster"; "The Happy
Warrior"; "The Bull Moose" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
27, 1858.
Son of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. (1831-1878) and Martha (Bulloch)
Roosevelt (1835-1884).
Member of New York
state assembly from New York County 21st District, 1882-84;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1884,
1900;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1886; colonel in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; Governor of
New York, 1899-1901; Vice
President of the United States, 1901; President
of the United States, 1901-09; defeated (Progressive), 1912;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1916.
Christian
Reformed. Dutch
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Alpha
Delta Phi; Union
League.
Received the Medal
of Honor for leading a charge up San Juan Hill during battle
there, July 1, 1898. While campaigning for president in Milwaukee,
Wis., on October 14, 1912, was shot in the chest by John F.
Schrank; despite the injury, he continued his speech for another hour
and a half before seeking medical attention. Awarded Nobel
Peace Prize in 1906; elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1950.
Died in Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., January
6, 1919 (age 60 years, 71
days).
Interment at Youngs
Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Second great-grandson of Archibald
Bulloch; second cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Roosevelt, Jr.; third cousin twice removed of Martin
Van Buren; grandnephew of James
I. Roosevelt; nephew of Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt; son of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. (1831-1878)
and Martha (Bulloch) Roosevelt (1835-1884); brother of Anna L.
Roosevelt (1855-1931; who married William
Sheffield Cowles (1847-1923)); married, October
27, 1880, to Alice Hathaway Lee (1861-1884); married, December
2, 1886, to Edith Kermit Carow (1861-1948); fourth cousin once
removed of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945); uncle of Theodore
Douglas Robinson, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962; who married
Franklin
Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)), Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), Corinne
Robinson Alsop and William
Sheffield Cowles (1898-1986); father of Alice
Lee Roosevelt (who married Nicholas
Longworth) and Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr.; granduncle of James
Roosevelt, Elliott
Roosevelt, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, Jr. and John
deKoven Alsop; great-grandfather-in-law of William
Floyd Weld. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: Gifford
Pinchot — David
J. Leahy — William
Barnes, Jr. — Oliver
D. Burden — William
J. Youngs — George
B. Cortelyou — Mason
Mitchell — Frederic
MacMaster — John
Goodnow — William
Loeb, Jr. |
| | | Roosevelt counties in Mont. and N.M. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Theodore
Bassett
— Theodore
R. McKeldin
— Theodore
R. Kupferman
— Theodore
Roosevelt Britton, Jr.
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| | | Personal motto: "Speak softly and carry
a big stick." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Theodore Roosevelt: James
MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, The
Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed
America — H. W. Brands, T.R
: The Last Romantic — Edmund Morris, Theodore
Rex — Edmund Morris, The
Rise of Theodore Roosevelt — John Morton Blum, The
Republican Roosevelt — Richard D. White, Jr., Roosevelt
the Reformer : Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner,
1889-1895 — Frederick W. Marks III, Velvet
on Iron : The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt — James
Chace, 1912
: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the
Country — Patricia O'Toole, When
Trumpets Call : Theodore Roosevelt After the White
House — Candice Millard, The
River of Doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest
Journey — Lewis Einstein, Roosevelt
: His Mind in Action (out of print) |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, October 1901 |
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John Purroy Mitchel (1879-1918) —
of New York.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 19,
1879.
Son of James Mitchel and Mary (Purroy) Mitchel.
Republican. Lawyer; law
partner of George
V. Mullan, 1902-13; U.S.
Collector of Customs, 1913; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1914-17; defeated in primary, 1917; on
April 17, 1914, at Park Row, New York, he was shot at by an M.
P. Mahoney, an unemployed carpenter; the bullet missed the mayor, but
struck and wounded Frank L. Polk, the city's Corporation Counsel.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Killed in a plane
crash during World War
I military training, at Gerstner Field, near Holmwood, Calcasieu
Parish, La., July 6,
1918 (age 38 years, 352
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Myron Timothy Herrick (1854-1929) —
also known as Myron T. Herrick —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Huntington, Lorain
County, Ohio, October
9, 1854.
Son of Timothy Robinson Herrick and Mary L. Herrick.
Republican. Lawyer; banker;
secretary-treasurer and president, Society for Savings,
Cleveland; director and board chairman of railroad;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1888,
1892,
1896,
1904,
1908,
1920;
Presidential Elector for Ohio, 1892;
member of Republican
National Committee from Ohio, 1901; Governor of
Ohio, 1904-06; U.S. Ambassador to France, 1912-14, 1921-29, died in office 1929; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1916; on October 19, 1921, a bomb, sent in a
package to the Ambassador's residence, exploded when his valet
opened it.
Member, American
Bankers Association.
Died of a heart
attack in Paris, France,
March
31, 1929 (age 74 years, 173
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Michael Kinney (born c.1875) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born about 1875.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Missouri
state senate, 1913-65 (31st District 1913-48, 5th District
1949-65); delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri,
1928,
1940,
1944,
1948,
1952,
1956,
1960.
Shot and wounded by two unidentified men in a car, at Oakwood,
Mo., June 3, 1924.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Brother-in-law of Willie Egan (gangster, killed
1921). |
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David J. Leahy —
of Raton, Colfax
County, N.M.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
an officer in the Rough Riders under Theodore
Roosevelt; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from New Mexico Territory, 1900;
U.S.
Attorney for New Mexico, 1907-12; district judge in New Mexico,
1922-25.
In August 1925, he assaulted Carl Magee, editor of the New Mexico
State Tribune, knocking him down and kicking him; Magee, from the
floor, shot him with a revolver, injuring Leahy and
accidentally killing a bystander.
Interment at Masonic
Cemetery, Las Vegas, N.M.
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Henry H. Denhardt (1876-1937) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Warren
County, Ky., 1876.
Democrat. Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1923-27.
Shot and injured on Election Day 1931. After his girlfriend
was killed in November 1936, he was charged
with murder
and tried in
LaGrange, Ky.; the jury could not reach a verdict.
Before he could be tried a second time, he was shot and
killed,
at the Armstrong Hotel,
Shelbyville, Shelby
County, Ky., September
20, 1937 (age about 61
years).
Interment at Fairview
Cemetery, Bowling Green, Ky.
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Roy T. Yates (1895-1960) —
of Passaic
County, N.J.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J., August 8,
1895.
Republican. Banker;
member of New Jersey
Republican State Committee, 1925-27; member of New Jersey
state senate from Passaic County, 1928-31; resigned 1931.
Member, Freemasons;
Junior
Order; Patriotic
Order Sons of America.
Shot in the abdomen, on August 14, 1931, by Miss Ruth Cranmer,
in her apartment in Manhattan, New York; this incident led to the
discovery that Miss Cranmer, apparently his mistress,
had also received checks from the State of New Jersey; the New Jersey
State Senate Judiciary committee began an investigation
into whether Sen. Yates should be impeached;
but then he resigned.
Died, of a heart
ailment, in Doctors Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 8,
1960 (age 64 years, 213
days).
Interment somewhere
in Easton, Conn.
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Relatives:
Married to Elsie Southrope. |
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Culver Bryant Chamberlain (born c.1901) —
also known as Culver B. Chamberlain —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in Princeton, Gibson
County, Ind., about 1901.
U.S. Vice Consul in Canton, 1923-24; Tientsin, 1925; Swatow, 1925-27; Yunnanfu, 1929; U.S. Consul in Harbin, 1931-32.
Assaulted and beaten by Japanese soldiers in Mukden, China,
January 1932.
Burial
location unknown.
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Bernard Ades (1903-1986) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Maryland, July 3,
1903.
Son of Harry Ades and Fannie Ades.
Communist. Lawyer; accountant;
defense attorney for Euel Lee (alias "Orphan Jones") in his 1932-33
trial for the murder of the Davis family; during the trial, Ades was
attacked and injured by a mob in Snow Hill, Maryland; later,
he was disbarred
for casting
aspersions on the judicial system; candidate for Governor of
Maryland, 1934; fought in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the
Spanish Civil War, 1937.
Jewish.
Died in New York, May 27,
1986 (age 82 years, 328
days).
Interment at Cemetery
of Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, Baltimore, Md.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) —
also known as Franklin D. Roosevelt;
"F.D.R." —
of Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y., January
30, 1882.
Son of James Roosevelt (1828-1900) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt
(1854-1941).
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 26th District, 1911-13; resigned 1913; U.S.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913-20; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1920; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1920,
1924,
1928;
contracted polio in the early 1920s; as a result, his legs were
paralyzed for the rest of his life; Governor of
New York, 1929-33; President
of the United States, 1933-45; died in office 1945; on February
15, 1933, in Miami, Fla., he and Chicago mayor Anton
J. Cermak were shot at by Guiseppe Zangara; Cermak was hit
and mortally wounded.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa; Elks; Grange; Knights
of Pythias.
Served as president during the Depression and World War II. His
portrait appears on the U.S. dime
(ten
cent coin).
Died of a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Warm Springs, Meriwether
County, Ga., April 12,
1945 (age 63 years, 72
days).
Interment at Roosevelt
Home, Hyde Park, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Second great-grandson of Edward
Hutchinson Robbins; son of James Roosevelt (1828-1900) and Sara
(Delano) Roosevelt (1854-1941); fourth cousin once removed of Theodore
Roosevelt (1858-1919); half-uncle of Helen
Roosevelt Robinson; married, March 17,
1905, to Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt (niece of Theodore
Roosevelt (1858-1919); first cousin of Corinne
Douglas Robinson); second cousin of Caroline Astor Drayton (who
married William
Phillips); first cousin of Warren
Delano Robbins and Katharine
Price Collier St. George; father of James
Roosevelt (1907-1991), Elliott
Roosevelt and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, Jr.. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: Ross
T. McIntire — Milton
Lipson — W.
W. Howes — Bruce
Barton — Hamilton
Fish, Jr. — Joseph
W. Martin, Jr. — Samuel
I. Rosenman — Rexford
G. Tugwell — Raymond
Moley — Adolf
A. Berle — George
E. Allen — Lorence
E. Asman — Grenville
T. Emmet |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Franklin D. Roosevelt:
James MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, The
Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed
America — Doris Kearns Goodwin, No
Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in
World War II — Joseph Alsop & Roland Gelatt, FDR
: 1882-1945 — Bernard Bellush, Franklin
Roosevelt as Governor of New York — Robert H. Jackson,
That
Man : An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt —
Jonas Klein, Beloved
Island : Franklin & Eleanor and the Legacy of
Campobello — Conrad Black, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt : Champion of Freedom — Charles
Peters, Five
Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of
1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World —
Steven Neal, Happy
Days Are Here Again : The 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence
of FDR--and How America Was Changed Forever — Karen
Bornemann Spies, Franklin
D. Roosevelt (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Franklin D.
Roosevelt: Jim Powell, FDR's
Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great
Depression — John T. Flynn, The
Roosevelt Myth |
| | | Fiction about Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Philip Roth, The
Plot Against America: A Novel |
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Willis Gaylord Clark Bagley (1873-1943) —
also known as Willis G. C. Bagley; W. G. C.
Bagley —
of Mason City, Cerro Gordo
County, Iowa.
Born in Magnolia, Rock
County, Wis., October
29, 1873.
Son of Shepherd Stephen Bagley and Louisa (Cain) Bagley.
Republican. Banker; in
1934, during a bank robbery, John Dillinger shot at him and
missed; Iowa state
treasurer, 1939-43; died in office 1943.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Woodmen;
Moose;
Maccabees;
American
Bankers Association; Lions.
Died in Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa, October
20, 1943 (age 69 years, 356
days).
Interment at Elmwood-St. Joseph Cemetery, Mason City, Iowa.
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Robert Ferdinand Wagner (1877-1953) —
also known as Robert F. Wagner —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Nastatten, Hessen-Nassau, Germany,
June
8, 1877.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1905, 1907-08 (New York County 30th District
1905, New York County 22nd District 1907-08); member of New York
state senate 16th District, 1909-18; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1912
(alternate), 1916,
1928
(alternate), 1936,
1940,
1944;
Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1913-14; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 16th District, 1915;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1919-26; Justice of the
Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, 1924-26; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1927-49; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1938.
Catholic.
Member, Elks; Phi
Sigma Kappa.
Introduced Social Security Act, National Labor Relations Act, Railway
Pension Law, and other social and economic legislation in the U.S.
Senate. On July 18, 1934, he while touring port facilities in Oregon
during a labor dispute, he and his party were fired on (ten
shots) by guards.
Died May 4,
1953 (age 75 years, 330
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
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William W. Voisine (1897-1959) —
also known as Wilfred William Voisine —
of Ecorse, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Michigan, November
20, 1897.
Son of Abel Voisine (1859-1930) and Eugenia Jennie (Blais) Voisine
(1870-1909).
Steel
executive; village
president of Ecorse, Michigan, 1936-37; members of a steelworker
terrorist group, the Black Legion, repeatedly attempted to
kill him in 1936; Jesse Pettijohn and Lawrence Madden were later
convicted of conspiracy to commit murder; mayor of
Ecorse, Mich., 1948-49, 1954-57.
French
Canadian ancestry.
Convicted
in April, 1950, of falsely
testifying to a Congressional committee in 1948 that he had
received only the regular price for steel; sentenced
to two years in federal prison.
In October, 1956, a warrant
was issued for his arrest,
along with several members of the city council, for knowingly permitting
illegal gambling in Ecorse, in return for bribes and
gratuities; Gov. G.
Mennen Williams initiated removal
proceedings against the officials.
Died in 1959
(age about
61 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Jason Elihu Payne (1874-1941) —
also known as Jason E. Payne —
of Vermillion, Clay
County, S.Dak.
Born in Clay
County, S.Dak., January
22, 1874.
Son of Byron Spencer Payne (1839-1925) and Charlotte Elizabeth
(Woodworth) Payne (1846-1926).
Republican. Lost his
right arm as a youth, in an accident with a runaway team of
horses; college
instructor; lawyer; law
professor; member of South
Dakota state senate 2nd District, 1903-06.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Delta Theta; Delta
Theta Phi; American Bar
Association.
An enraged litigant, Ozzie Kirby, tried to kill him in in
1940; Kirby also shot and killed Payne's law partner.
Injured in an automobile
accident, and died several weeks later as a result, in a hospital
at Vermillion, Clay
County, S.Dak., September
11, 1941 (age 67 years, 232
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Byron Spencer Payne (1839-1925) and Charlotte Elizabeth
(Woodworth) Payne (1846-1926); married, July 20,
1905, to Iwae E. Sheppard; brother of Byron
Samuel Payne. |
| | | Image source: South Dakota Legislative
Manual, 1903 |
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William E. Wallace (d. 1998) —
U.S. Vice Consul in Vladivostok, 1943; Moscow, 1944; Shanghai, 1946; Chungking, 1947; Addis Ababa, 1948.
Captured by the Japanese during World War II; released in a
diplomatic prisoner exchange; survived two assassination
attempts in Russia; his Russian wife was taken prisoner by the
Soviets.
Died in 1998.
Interment somewhere
in Philadelphia, Pa.
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Joseph Flack (1894-1955) —
of Grenoble, Bucks
County, Pa.; Doylestown, Bucks
County, Pa.
Born in Grenoble, Bucks
County, Pa., December
5, 1894.
U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia, 1946-49; Costa Rica, 1949-50; Poland, 1950-55; shot at, and nearly hit, at the U.S.
Embassy in La Paz, Bolivia, during the 1946 revolution.
Died, from a coronary
thrombosis, aboard the
ocean liner United States, in the North
Atlantic Ocean, May 8,
1955 (age 60 years, 154
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Anthony Tony Tarracino (1916-2008) —
also known as Tony Tarracino; "Captain Tony";
"The Conscience of Key West" —
of Key West, Monroe
County, Fla.
Born in Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., August
10, 1916.
Beaten and left for dead by Mafia colleagues in New Jersey in
the 1940s; charter
boat captain; saloon
keeper; mayor of
Key West, Fla., 1989-91; defeated, 1991.
Italian
ancestry.
Died, from a heart and
lung
condition, in Lower Keys Medical
Center, Key West, Monroe
County, Fla., November
1, 2008 (age 92 years, 83
days).
Cremated.
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Ellsworth Brewer Buck (1892-1970) —
also known as Ellsworth B. Buck —
of Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., July 3,
1892.
Son of Orlando Jacob Buck and Lillian Louisa (Brewer) Buck.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; business
executive; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1944-49 (11th District 1944-45,
16th District 1945-49); shot and seriously wounded, by Charles
Van Newkirk, at the Richmond Borough Hall, April 5, 1949; chair of
Richmond County Republican Party, 1951-52; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1952.
Member, Delta
Tau Delta; Elks; American
Legion.
Died in Stephenson town, Marinette
County, Wis., August
14, 1970 (age 78 years, 42
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Thunder
Mountain Ranch Cemetery, Stephenson town, Marinette County, Wis.
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Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) —
also known as "Give 'Em Hell Harry" —
of Independence, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in Lamar, Barton
County, Mo., May 8,
1884.
Son of John Anderson Truman (1851-1914) and Martha Ellen (Young)
Truman (1852-1947).
Democrat. Major in the U.S. Army during World War I; county judge in
Missouri, 1922-24, 1926-34; U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1935-45; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Missouri, 1940,
1944,
1952,
1960;
Vice
President of the United States, 1945; President
of the United States, 1945-53; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1952.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Knights
Templar; American
Legion; Eagles; Elks; Lambda
Chi Alpha; Phi
Alpha Delta.
Two members of a Puerto Rican nationalist group, Griselio Torresola
and Oscar Collazo, tried to shoot their way into Blair House,
temporary residence of the President, as part of an attempted
assassination, November 1, 1950. Torresola and a guard, Leslie
Coffelt, were killed. Collazo, wounded, was arrested, tried, and
convicted of murder.
Died at Research Hospital
and Medical Center, Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., December
26, 1972 (age 88 years, 232
days).
Interment at Truman
Presidential Library and Museum, Independence, Mo.; statue at Independence
Square, Independence, Mo.
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Kenneth Allison Roberts (1912-1989) —
also known as Kenneth A. Roberts —
of Anniston, Calhoun
County, Ala.
Born in Piedmont, Calhoun
County, Ala., November
1, 1912.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Alabama
state senate; elected 1942; served in the U.S. Navy during World
War II; U.S.
Representative from Alabama, 1951-65 (4th District 1951-63,
at-large 1963-65); defeated, 1964; shot and wounded in an
attack on the U.S. House by Puerto Rican nationalists, 1954.
Baptist.
Member, Lions; Freemasons;
Order of the
Eastern Star; Woodmen;
American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Elks; Alpha
Tau Omega; Phi
Alpha Delta.
Died in Potomac, Montgomery
County, Md., May 9,
1989 (age 76 years, 189
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Alvin Morell Bentley (1918-1969) —
also known as Alvin M. Bentley —
of Owosso, Shiawassee
County, Mich.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, August
30, 1918.
Son of Alvin Morell Bentley and Helen (Patterson) Bentley.
Republican. Foreign Service officer; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 8th District, 1953-61; defeated,
1962; wounded in an attack by Puerto Rican nationalists on the
floor of the House of Representatives, March 1, 1954; candidate for
U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1960; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from 15th Senatorial
District, 1961-62; candidate for Michigan
state board of education, 1964; member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1966-69; appointed 1966; died in
office 1969.
Congregationalist.
Member, Elks; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Exchange
Club; Theta
Delta Chi; Optimist
Club; Rotary; Kiwanis.
Died in Tucson, Pima
County, Ariz., April 10,
1969 (age 50 years, 223
days).
Entombed at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Owosso, Mich.
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James F. Reynolds (born c.1899) —
of Everett, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born about 1899.
Mayor
of Everett, Mass., 1948; attacked and brutally beaten in
his office, by an unknown assailant, in November 1955; hospitalized
for head injuries.
Burial
location unknown.
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James Tierney (1905-1981) —
of Garden City, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Jackson, Jackson
County, Mich., November
24, 1905.
Democrat. Employee, Ford Motor
Company; mayor
of Garden City, Mich., 1956-60; member of Michigan
state house of representatives 36th District, 1965-72.
Baptist.
Member, Optimist
Club.
On July 25, 1957, following a Planning Commission meeting, he was
shot six times by building contractor Lester Ellerhorst, who
was angered by city officials' criticism of his work on the Garden
City police station.
Died in 1981
(age about
75 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Joseph Echols Lowery (b. 1921) —
also known as Joseph E. Lowery —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala., October
6, 1921.
Democrat. Pastor;
leader in the civil rights movement; co-founder of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference; escaped death in 1963 when his hotel
room in Birmingham, Ala., was bombed, and in 1979 when
Klansmen in Decatur, Ala., opened fire on Lowery and other
protesters; arrested
while demonstrating
in support of a garbage workers' strike in Atlanta, 1968; arrested
during protests
in Cullman, Ala., 1978; arrested
while protesting
apartheid at the South African Embassy
in Washington, D.C., 1984; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Georgia, 2008;
speaker, 1988;
delivered eulogies at the funerals of Rosa Parks and Coretta
Scott King.
Methodist.
African
ancestry.
Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard in Atlanta is named for
him.
Still living as of 2008.
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John Bowden Connally, Jr. (1917-1993) —
also known as John B. Connally —
of Fort Worth, Tarrant
County, Tex.
Born near Floresville, Wilson
County, Tex., February
27, 1917.
Son of John Bowden Connally, Sr. and Lela (Wright) Connally.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Texas, 1956,
1964;
Governor
of Texas, 1963-69; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1971-72; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1980.
Methodist.
Shot and wounded in Dallas, Tex., November 22, 1963, in the
same volley of gunfire that killed President John
F. Kennedy. Prosecuted
for bribery
conspiracy in connection with milk price supports; acquitted.
Died of pulmonary
fibrosis, in Methodist Hospital,
Houston, Harris
County, Tex., June 15,
1993 (age 76 years, 108
days).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.; statue at Sam
Houston Park, Houston, Tex.
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John T. Gregorio (born c.1927) —
of Linden, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., about 1927.
Democrat. Mayor of
Linden, N.J., 1968-83; shot at in his car, in March 1968;
two days later, his house was firebombed; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly 21st District, 1974-77; indicted
in April 1975 on perjury
and fraud charges,
over his purchase of a vacant lot from Elizabethtown Gas Company,
while conspiring to falsify
documents to conceal
his involvement as buyer; later charged
with extorting
a $25,000 kickback
from a building contractor on a high school project; following jury
selection, the charges were dismissed in February 1976; member of New Jersey
state senate, 1978-83; indicted
in September 1981 on charges
of income
tax evasion, concealing
his interest in two "go-go bars", and for failing to
enforce state alcohol laws; convicted
in December 1982 of conspiracy to commit official
misconduct, but found not guilty on other charges.
Still living as of 1983.
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Ural Alexis Johnson (1908-1997) —
also known as U. Alexis Johnson —
of Washington,
D.C.; California.
Born in Falun, Saline
County, Kan., October
17, 1908.
Son of Carl Theodore Johnson and Ellen (Forsse) Johnson.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Seoul, 1938; Rio de Janeiro, 1943; U.S. Consul in Yokohama, 1947; U.S. Consul General in Yokohama, 1949; U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1953-58; Thailand, 1958-61; Japan, 1966-69; , 1973-77.
Survived a car bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Rex Convalescent
Center, Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., March 24,
1997 (age 88 years, 158
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Robert Strange McNamara (b. 1916) —
also known as Robert S. McNamara —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., June 9,
1916.
Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; president, Ford Motor
Company, 1960-61; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1961-68; received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, 1968; president, World Bank,
1968-81; on September 29, 1972, an attacker tried to throw him
overboard from a ferry to Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2009.
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George Corley Wallace, Jr. (1919-1998) —
also known as George C. Wallace —
of Clayton, Barbour
County, Ala.; Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala.
Born in Clio, Barbour
County, Ala., August
25, 1919.
Son of George C. Wallace and Mozell (Smith) Wallace.
Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; lawyer;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1947-53; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Alabama, 1948
(alternate), 1956;
circuit judge in Alabama, 1953-58; Governor of
Alabama, 1963-67, 1971-72, 1972-79, 1983-87; defeated in
Democratic primary, 1958; candidate for Democratic nomination for
President, 1964,
1972,
1976;
American Independent candidate for President
of the United States, 1968.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Order of the
Eastern Star; Shriners;
Moose;
Elks; Woodmen;
Civitan;
American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans.
Worked as a professional boxer in
the late 1930s. While campaigning in Maryland on May 15, 1972, was
shot by Arthur Bremer; the injury paralyzed
both legs. Along with Ohio's James
A. Rhodes, he was the longest serving state governor in U.S.
history.
Died in Jackson Hospital,
Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala., September
13, 1998 (age 79 years, 19
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Montgomery, Ala.
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Relatives: Son
of George C. Wallace and Mozell (Smith) Wallace; married, May 21,
1943, to Lurleen
Burns; married, June 4,
1971, to Cornelia Ellis Snively (divorced 1978; niece of James
Elisha Folsom; first cousin of James
Elisha Folsom, Jr.); married 1981 to Lisa
Taylor (divorced 1987); father of George
C. Wallace, Jr.. See Wallace-Folsom
family of Alabama. |
| | | Cross-reference: Seybourn
H. Lynne |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books about George C. Wallace: Stephan
Lesher, George
Wallace : American Populist — Dan T. Carter, The
Politics of Rage : George Wallace, the Origins of the New
Conservatism, and the Transformation of American
Politics — Lloyd Rohler, George
Wallace : Conservative Populist |
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Arthur Christ Agnos (b. 1938) —
also known as Art Agnos —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., September
1, 1938.
Son of Christ Agnos and Mary A. Agnos.
Democrat. Member of California
state assembly, 1976-87; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1988-92; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1988.
Greek
Orthodox. Greek
ancestry.
Shot twice on December 13, 1973, by one of the "Death Angels",
perpetrators of racially motivated killings in San Francisco during
1973-74.
Still living as of 2009.
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Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (1913-2006) —
also known as Gerald R. Ford; Jerry Ford; Leslie
Lynch King, Jr.; "Passkey" —
of Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.; Rancho Mirage, Riverside
County, Calif.
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., July 14,
1913.
Son of Leslie Lynch King, Sr. (1884-1941) and Dorothy Ayer (Gardner)
King Ford (1892-1967).
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Michigan, 1948,
1960,
1964;
U.S.
Representative from Michigan 5th District, 1949-73; resigned
1973; member, President's
Commission on the Assassination of President KNDY, 1963-64; Vice
President of the United States, 1973-74; President
of the United States, 1974-77; defeated, 1976.
Episcopalian.
English
and Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners;
American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Amvets; Sons of
the American Revolution; Forty and
Eight; Jaycees;
Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Phi
Delta Phi; Humane
Society; Elks; American Bar
Association.
Shot at in two separate incidents in San Francisco in
September 1975. On September 5, Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme, follower
of murderous cult leader Charles Manson, got close to the President
with a loaded pistol, and squeezed the trigger at close range; the
gun misfired. On September 22, Sara Jane Moore fired a shot
at him, but a bystander deflected her aim. Both women were convicted
and sentenced to life in prison. Received the Medal
of Freedom in 1999.
Died in Rancho Mirage, Riverside
County, Calif., December
26, 2006 (age 93 years, 165
days).
Interment at Gerald
R. Ford Museum, Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Leslie Lynch King, Sr. (1884-1941) and Dorothy Ayer (Gardner) King
Ford (1892-1967); step-son of Gerald Rudolph Ford, Sr. (1890-1962);
married, October
15, 1948, to Elizabeth Ann 'Betty' (Bloomer) Warren (1918-2011);
half-brother of Thomas
G. Ford, Sr.. |
| | | Cross-reference: Richard
M. Nixon — L.
William Seidman |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books by Gerald R. Ford: A
Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford
(1983) |
| | | Books about Gerald R. Ford: John Robert
Greene, The
Presidency of Gerald R. Ford — Edward L. Schapsmeier,
Gerald
R. Ford's Date With Destiny: A Political Biography —
James Cannon, Time
and Chance : Gerald Ford's Appointment With History —
Douglas Brinkley, Gerald
R. Ford |
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Larry Flynt (b. 1942) —
also known as "The King of Smut" —
of California.
Born in Salyersville, Magoffin
County, Ky., November
1, 1942.
Democrat. Owner of night
clubs; publisher of Hustler, a pornographic
magazine;
convicted
in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1977 on obscenity
and organized
crime charges,
and sentenced
to 25 years in prison,
but the verdict was overturned on appeal; shot by a sniper in
Lawrenceville, Georgia, 1978, and paralyzed
from the waist down; candidate for Governor of
California, 2003.
Atheist.
Still living as of 2009.
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Karen Lorraine Jacqueline Speier (b. 1950) —
also known as Jackie Speier —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., May 14,
1950.
Democrat. Lawyer;
staff member for U.S. Rep. Leo J.
Ryan, 1973-78; traveled on a mission to Guyana in 1978, to
investigate allegations of abuse and coercion in the People's Temple
settlement there; shot five times by security guards, who also
shot and killed Congressman Ryan and four others; member of California
state assembly 19th District, 1986-98; member of California
state senate 8th District, 1998-2006; candidate in primary for Lieutenant
Governor of California, 2006; U.S.
Representative from California 12th District, 2008-; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 2008.
Female.
Armenian
and Jewish
ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. (1924-2010) —
also known as Alexander M. Haig, Jr. —
Born in Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery
County, Pa., December
2, 1924.
Son of Alexander Meigs Haig, Sr. and Regina Anne (Murphy) Haig.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict;
served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; target of an
assassination attempt in Belgium, June 25, 1979; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1981-82; candidate for Republican nomination
for President, 1988;
host, World Business Review television
news show.
Catholic.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, from an infection,
at John Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore,
Md., February
20, 2010 (age 85 years, 80
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) —
also known as Ronald Reagan; "Dutch";
"The Gipper"; "The Great
Communicator"; "The Teflon President";
"Rawhide" —
of Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.; Bel Air, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Tampico, Whiteside
County, Ill., February
6, 1911.
Son of John Reagan and Nellie (Wilson) Reagan.
Republican. Worked as a sports
broadcaster
in Iowa in the 1930s, doing local radio broadcast
of Chicago Cubs baseball
games; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; professional actor
in 1937-64; appeared in dozens of films
including Kings Row, Dark Victory, Santa Fe
Trail, Knute Rockne, All American, and The Winning
Team; president of
the Screen Actors Guild, 1947-52, 1959-60; member of California
Republican State Central Committee, 1964-66; delegate to
Republican National Convention from California, 1964
(alternate), 1972
(delegation chair); Governor of
California, 1967-75; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1968,
1976;
Presidential Elector for California, 1968;
President
of the United States, 1981-89; on March 30, 1981, outside the
Washington Hilton hotel, he and three others were shot and
wounded by John Hinkley, Jr.; received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, 1993.
Disciples
of Christ. Member, Screen
Actors Guild; Lions; American
Legion; Tau
Kappa Epsilon.
Died, from pneumonia
and Alzheimer's
disease, in Bel Air, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 5,
2004 (age 93 years, 120
days).
Interment at Ronald
Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of John Reagan and Nellie (Wilson) Reagan; married, January
25, 1940, to Jane Wyman (actress;
divorced 1948); married, March 4,
1952, to Nancy Davis (born 1923; actress);
father of Maureen
Elizabeth Reagan. |
| | | Cross-reference: Katherine
Hoffman Haley — Dana
Rohrabacher — Donald
T. Regan — Henry
Salvatori — L.
William Seidman — Christopher
Cox — Patrick
J. Buchanan — Bay
Buchanan — Edwin
Meese III |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by Ronald Reagan: Ronald
Reagan : An American Life |
| | | Books about Ronald Reagan: Lou Cannon,
President
Reagan : The Role of a Lifetime — Lou Cannon, Governor
Reagan : His Rise to Power — Peter Schweizer, Reagan's
War : The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph
Over Communism — Lee Edwards, Ronald
Reagan: A Political Biography — Paul Kengor, God
and Ronald Reagan : A Spiritual Life — Mary Beth
Brown, Hand
of Providence: The Strong and Quiet Faith of Ronald
Reagan — Edmund Morris, Dutch:
A Memoir of Ronald Reagan — Peggy Noonan, When
Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan — Peter
J. Wallison, Ronald
Reagan: The Power of Conviction and the Success of His
Presidency — Dinesh D'Souza, Ronald
Reagan : How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary
Leader — William F. Buckley, Jr., Ronald
Reagan: An American Hero — Craig Shirley, Reagan's
Revolution : The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It
All — Richard Reeves, President
Reagan : The Triumph of Imagination |
| | | Critical books about Ronald Reagan:
Haynes Johnson, Sleepwalking
Through History: America in the Reagan Years |
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George Pratt Shultz (b. 1920) —
also known as George P. Shultz —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
13, 1920.
Son of Birl E. Shultz and Margaret Lennox (Pratt) Shultz.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; economist;
university
professor; U.S.
Secretary of Labor, 1969-70; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1972-74; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1982-89.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Economic Association.
Survived an assassination attempt in South America, August
1988; received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1989.
Still living as of 2009.
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Alfred Charles Sharpton, Jr. (b. 1954) —
also known as Al Sharpton —
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
3, 1954.
Son of Alfred Charles Sharpton, Sr. and Ada Sharpton.
Democrat. Minister;
civil rights activist; radio talk show
host; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1988, 1992, 1994; stabbed in the
chest as he was about to lead a protest march in the Bensonhurst
neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., January 12, 1991; candidate in
primary for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1997; candidate for Democratic nomination
for President, 2004.
Pentecostal;
later Baptist.
African
and Cherokee
Indian ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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William Jefferson Clinton (b. 1946) —
also known as Bill Clinton; William Jefferson Blythe
IV; "Slick Willie"; "Bubba";
"Elvis"; "Eagle"; "The Big
Dog" —
of Arkansas; Chappaqua, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Hope, Hempstead
County, Ark., August
19, 1946.
Son of William Jefferson Blythe II and Virginia (Cassidy) Clinton
(1923-1994).
Democrat. Rhodes
scholar; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 3rd District, 1974; Arkansas
state attorney general, 1977-79; Governor of
Arkansas, 1979-81, 1983-92; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Arkansas, 1996,
2000;
speaker, 1984,
1988;
President
of the United States, 1993-2001; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 2004,
2008.
Baptist.
Member, Trilateral
Commission; Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Beta Kappa; Pi
Sigma Alpha; Phi
Alpha Delta; American Bar
Association.
On October 29, 1994, Francisco Duran fired 27 shots from the sidewalk
at the White House in an apparent assassination attempt
against President Clinton. Impeached
by the House of Representatives in December 1998 over allegations of
perjury
and obstruction
of justice in connection with his sexual
contact with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, but acquitted
by the Senate.
Still living as of 2011.
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Relatives: Third
cousin twice removed of James
Alexander Lockhart; son of William Jefferson Blythe II and
Virginia (Cassidy) Clinton (1923-1994); step-son of Roger Clinton;
married, October
11, 1975, to Hillary
Diane Rodham (sister of Hugh
Edwin Rodham); father of Chelsea Clinton (daughter-in-law of Edward
Maurice Mezvinsky and Marjorie
Margolies-Mezvinsky). See Polk-Ashe
family of North Carolina. |
| | | Cross-reference: Abraham
J. Hirschfeld — Kenneth
W. Starr — Rahm
Emanuel — Henry
G. Cisneros — Maria
Echaveste — Thurgood
Marshall, Jr. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Bill Clinton: Between
Hope and History : Meeting America's Challenges for the 21st
Century (1996) — My
Life (2004) |
| | | Books about Bill Clinton: David
Maraniss, First
in His Class : The Biography of Bill Clinton — Joe
Conason, The
Hunting of the President : The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and
Hillary Clinton — Gene Lyons, Fools
for Scandal : How the Media Invented Whitewater —
Sidney Blumenthal, The
Clinton Wars — Dewayne Wickham, Bill
Clinton and Black America — Joe Klein, The
Natural : The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill
Clinton — Nigel Hamilton, Bill
Clinton: An American Journey — Bob Woodward, The
Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House — George
Stephanopolous, All
Too Human — John F. Harris, The
Survivor : Bill Clinton in the White House — Mark
Katz, Clinton
& Me: A Real Life Political Comedy — Tim O'Shei, Bill
Clinton (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Bill Clinton:
Barbara Olson, The
Final Days : The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White
House — Meredith L. Oakley, On
the Make : The Rise of Bill Clinton — Robert
Patterson, Dereliction
of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Endangered
America's Long-Term National Security — Ambrose
Evans-Pritchard, The
Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories —
Ann Coulter, High
Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill
Clinton — Dick Morris & Eileen McGann, Because
He Could — Jack Cashill, Ron
Brown's Body : How One Man's Death Saved the Clinton Presidency and
Hillary's Future — Christopher Hitchens, No
One Left To Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family —
Rich Lowry, Legacy:
Paying the Price for the Clinton Years — Richard
Miniter, Losing
Bin Laden : How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global
Terror |
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Jello Biafra (b. 1958) —
also known as Eric Reed Boucher; "Occupant";
"Count Ringworm" —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Boulder, Boulder
County, Colo., June 17,
1958.
Son of Stanley Boucher and Virginia Boucher.
Co-founder, lead singer,
and songwriter
for the punk
rock band Dead Kennedys (1978-86); founder of the Alternative
Tentacles record
label; candidate for mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1979; charged,
in Los Angeles in 1986, with distributing obscene
"harmful matter" in the form of a sexually
explicit print distributed with a Dead Kennedys record album;
following a trial,
the jury deadlocked, a mistrial was declared, and charges were
dismissed; Biafra went on to become a spoken
word performer; on May 7, 1994, he was assaulted and
injured at a music club in Berkeley, Calif., by five or six
attackers who called him a "sellout".
Atheist.
Still living as of 2009.
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Robert Charles Krueger (b. 1935) —
also known as Bob Krueger —
of New Braunfels, Comal
County, Tex.
Born in New Braunfels, Comal
County, Tex., September
19, 1935.
Democrat. University
professor; U.S.
Representative from Texas 21st District, 1975-79; U.S. Ambassador
to , 1979-81; Burundi, 1994-95; Botswana, 1996; Texas
railroad commissioner, 1991-93; U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1993; defeated, 1978; appointed 1993;
defeated, 1993.
On June 14, 1995, he survived an assassination attempt in
Burundi.
Still living as of 2009.
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Mary Rose Wilcox (b. 1949) —
also known as Mary Rose Garrido —
of Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Superior, Pinal
County, Ariz., November
21, 1949.
Daughter of John Garrido and Betty (Nunez) Garrido.
Democrat. Special assistant to U.S. Sen. Dennis
DeConcini, 1977-83; member Phoenix City Council, 1983-93; Maricopa
County Commissioner, 1993-; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Arizona, 1996,
2000,
2004
(alternate), 2008;
shot and wounded on August 13, 1997, by Larry Marvin Naman,
who was angry over her support for a quarter-cent sales tax to fund a
sports stadium; newspaper
publisher; restaurant
owner.
Female.
Catholic.
Mexican
ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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Relatives:
Married 1971
to Earl V. Wilcox. |
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