|
See the trouble and
disgrace main page, as well as the FAQ and the Political
Graveyard privacy policy, for important explanations and
disclaimers.
in chronological order
| | 
Theophilus Washington Smith (1784-1845) —
also known as Theophilus W. Smith —
of Edwardsville, Madison
County, Ill.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
28, 1784.
Studied law in the office of Aaron
Burr; lawyer; newspaper
editor; candidate for Illinois
state attorney general, 1820; member of Illinois
state senate, 1823-26; advocated the legalization of slavery in
Illinois; justice of
Illinois state supreme court, 1825-42; impeached
by the Illinois Legislature in 1833, on charges
of oppressive conduct and corruption;
the Senate acquitted him on a vote of 12-10 (two-thirds required).
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 6,
1845 (age 60 years, 220
days).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Rosehill
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
|
| |
Tunis George Campbell (1812-1891) —
also known as Tunis G. Campbell —
of McIntosh
County, Ga.
Born in Middlebrook (unknown
county), N.J., April 1,
1812.
Minister;
abolitionist; delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1867; member of Georgia
state senate, 1868, 1869-72; expelled 1868; defeated, 1872; expelled
from the Georgia State Senate in 1868 based on the claim that only
whites could serve; charged
with falsely imprisoning white men as Justice of of the Peace,
and served a year of hard
labor in Georgia's brutal leased labor system.
Methodist.
African
ancestry.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
4, 1891 (age 79 years, 247
days).
Burial location unknown.
|
| |
Albert Cardozo (1828-1885) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
21, 1828.
Lawyer;
a close ally of corrupt New York City political boss William
M. Tweed; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1868-72; resigned 1872; in
1872, an effort was made to impeach
him, along with Justice George
G. Barnard, on charges
that they abused judicial power in various ways to serve Boss
Tweed, as well as "robber barons" Jay Gould and Jim Fisk; rather than
go through an impeachment trial, Cardozo resigned
from the bench; meanwhile, Barnard's impeachment went forward, and he
was unanimously convicted.
Jewish.
Portugese
ancestry.
Died, from Bright's
disease, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
8, 1885 (age 56 years, 322
days).
Interment at Cypress
Hills National Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
|
| |
George Gardner Barnard (c.1829-1879) —
also known as George G. Barnard —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y., about 1829.
Democrat. Lawyer; a
close ally of corrupt New York City political boss William
M. Tweed; Recorder, New York City, 1858-60; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1861-72; removed 1872; impeached
by the New York legislature in 1872, on charges
that he abused his judicial power through the takeover of
several railroads,
putting them under the control of receivers who were allied with
"robber barons" Jay Gould and Jim Fisk; the Union Pacific and other
railroads had to relocate their headquarters away from New York City
to evade the jurisdiction of Barnard and Justice Albert
Cardozo; Barnard was unanimously convicted
by the Court of Impeachment, and also barred
from holding office of any kind.
Died, from Bright's
disease, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
27, 1879 (age about 50
years).
Entombed at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
|
 |
Herman Methfessel (1900-1963) —
of Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.; Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
23, 1900.
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Richmond County 2nd District, 1935-38; Richmond
County District Attorney, 1948-51.
In September 1951, the New York State Crime Commission, investigating
rackets on the Staten Island waterfront, heard testimony from Mrs.
Anna Wentworth that she had seen District Attorney Methfessel in a gambling
house, which implied that he was protecting
vice; in response, he ordered her arrest and charged her with
perjury. At the request of the Crime Commission, citing abuse of
power, Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey superseded him from all cases related to the
investigation; in the meantime, he was defeated for re-election. In
1952, he and a subordinate were charged
with official
misconduct, but found not guilty.
Injured in a one-car
accident, and died the next day, in North Shore Hospital,
Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla., July 7,
1963 (age 62 years, 226
days).
Burial location unknown.
|
 |
Joseph Raymond McCarthy (1908-1957) —
also known as Joseph R. McCarthy; Joe McCarthy;
"Tail-Gunner Joe" —
of Appleton, Outagamie
County, Wis.
Born in Grand Chute, Outagamie
County, Wis., November
14, 1908.
Republican. Lawyer;
circuit judge in Wisconsin 10th Circuit, 1940-46; served in the U.S.
Marine Corps during World War II; U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1947-57; died in office 1957; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, 1948;
speaker, 1952.
Catholic.
Claimed in a 1950 speech that he had a list of 205 Communists
employed in the U.S. State Department; went on to conduct hearings
and investigations into alleged subersive activities and Communist
influence on society; with his sensationalist tactics and disregard
for fairness and due process, he dominated the American political
scene for a period of time, now called the McCarthy Era; public
opinion turned against him when he tried to investigate the Army; in
December 1953, the Senate voted 67-22 to censure
him for "contemptuous
conduct" and abuse of select committee privilege.
Died of a liver
ailment at Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., May 2,
1957 (age 48 years, 169
days).
Interment at St.
Mary's Cemetery, Appleton, Wis.
|
| |
Terry Doyle Schrunk (b. 1913) —
also known as Terry D. Schrunk —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in Stayton, Marion
County, Ore., March
10, 1913.
Democrat. Fire
fighter; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; Multnomah
County Sheriff, 1949-56; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Oregon, 1952;
mayor
of Portland, Ore., 1957-72; indicted
in March, 1957 on bribery
and perjury
charges;
tried
and found not guilty; another indictment,
for conspiracy to obtain wiretaps and other related charges,
was dismissed in September, 1957.
Presbyterian.
Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Purple
Heart; Elks; Eagles;
Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
| |  |
Relatives: Son
of James Schrunk and Pearl Margaret (Doyle) Schrunk; married, May 17,
1936, to Virginia Dorothy Price. |
|
 |
Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994) —
also known as Richard M. Nixon; "Tricky
Dick"; "Searchlight" —
of Whittier, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Yorba Linda, Orange
County, Calif., January
9, 1913.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from California 12th District, 1947-50; U.S.
Senator from California, 1950-53; appointed 1950; resigned 1953;
delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1952
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1956;
Vice
President of the United States, 1953-61; President
of the United States, 1969-74; defeated, 1960; candidate for Governor of
California, 1962; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1964.
Quaker.
Member, American
Legion; Order of
the Coif.
Discredited by the Watergate scandal,
as many of his subordinates were charged with crimes; in July 1974,
the U.S. House Judiciary Committee voted three articles of
impeachment against him, over obstruction
of justice, abuse of power, and contempt
of Congress; soon after, a tape recording emerged which directly
implicated
him in the Watergate
break-in; with impeachment certain, he resigned;
pardoned
in 1974 by President Gerald
R. Ford.
Died, from a stroke,
at New York
Hospital/Cornell Medical Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
22, 1994 (age 81 years, 103
days).
Interment at Richard
Nixon Library and Birthplace, Yorba Linda, Calif.
| | |
Relatives: Son
of Francis Anthony 'Frank' Nixon and Hannah (Milhous) Nixon; married,
June
21, 1940, to Thelma
Catherine Ryan; father of Julie Nixon (daughter-in-law of John
Sheldon Doud Eisenhower; granddaughter-in-law of Dwight
David Eisenhower); second cousin of John
Duffy Alderson. |
| | | Political families: Lee-Randolph
family; Carroll
family of Maryland; Eisenhower-Nixon
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Maurice
H. Stans — John
H. Holdridge — Clark
MacGregor — Harry
L. Sears — Harry
S. Dent — Christian
A. Herter, Jr. — John
N. Mitchell — G.
Bradford Cook — Raymond
Moley — Patrick
J. Buchanan — Nils
A. Boe — Murray
M. Chotiner — Richard
Blumenthal — G.
Gordon Liddy — Robert
D. Sack — Edward
G. Latch — William
O. Mills — Meyer
Kestnbaum |
| | | Campaign slogan (1968): "Nixon's the
One!" |
| | | Epitaph: "The greatest honor history
can bestow is the title of peacemaker." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Richard M. Nixon: RN
: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (1978) — Beyond
Peace (1994) — 1999:
Victory Without War (1988) — Leaders
(1982) — Memoirs —
Six
Crises (1962) — The
Challenges We Face (1960) — In
the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat and Renewal
(1990) — No
More Vietnams (1985) — The
Poetry of Richard Milhous Nixon (1974) — Real
Peace (1984) — The
Real War (1980) — Seize
The Moment: America's Challenge in a One-Superpower World
(1992) |
| | | Books about Richard M. Nixon: Melvin
Small, The
Presidency of Richard Nixon — Joan Hoff, Nixon
Reconsidered — Jonathan Aitken, Nixon
: A Life — Garry Wills, Nixon
Agonistes : The Crisis of the Self-Made Man — Thomas
Monsell, Nixon
on Stage and Screen : The Thirty-Seventh President As Depicted in
Films, Television, Plays and Opera — Stephen E.
Ambrose, Nixon
: Education of a Politician, 1913-1962 — Richard
Reeves, President
Nixon: Alone in the White House — Roger Morris, Richard
Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician —
Robert Mason, Richard
Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority — Jules
Witcover, Very
Strange Bedfellows : The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Richard Nixon
& Spiro Agnew |
| | | Critical books about Richard M. Nixon:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents — Lance Morrow,
The
Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948:
Learning the Secrets of Power — Don Fulsom, Nixon's
Darkest Secrets: The Inside Story of America's Most Troubled
President |
| | | Image source: United States Mint
engraving |
|
| |
Lafayette Christopher Thomas (1926-2000) —
also known as Fate C. Thomas —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., September
23, 1926.
Democrat. Candidate for Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1954; Davidson
County Sheriff, 1972-90.
Catholic.
Indicted
in federal court in 1990 on 54 counts of abusing his power as
sheriff; pleaded
guilty to theft
and mail fraud; sentenced
to five years in prison;
released in 1994.
Died, following heart
bypass surgery, in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., July 25,
2000 (age 73 years, 306
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
|
| |
Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua (1923-2012) —
also known as Anthony Bevilacqua —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Wynnewood, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 17,
1923.
Republican. Catholic
priest; bishop of Pittsburgh, 1983-88; archbishop of
Philadelphia, 1988-2003; cardinal from 1991; offered prayer, Republican National Convention,
2000 ; accused
in 2003-04 of protecting
priests who were suspected of sexually
abusing children; later, it was found
that he had ordered a subordinate to destroy
a list of 35 abusive priests, and that he had punished a
priest who had raised concerns about possible abuse.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Died in Wynnewood, Montgomery
County, Pa., January
31, 2012 (age 88 years, 228
days).
Entombed at Cathedral
Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul, Philadelphia, Pa.
|
| |
James Elton West (1951-2006) —
also known as James E. West; Jim West —
of Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash.
Born in Salem, Marion
County, Ore., March
28, 1951.
Republican. Deputy
sheriff; member of Washington
state house of representatives, 1982-86; member of Washington
state senate 6th District, 1986-2003; mayor
of Spokane, Wash., 2004-05.
Member, Rotary;
Gay.
Following a scandal
involving use of his position to obtain
sex with young men, and an FBI investigation,
he was recalled
from office as mayor in 2005.
Died, from complications of colon
cancer, in the University of Washington Medical
Center, Seattle, King
County, Wash., July 22,
2006 (age 55 years, 116
days).
Burial location unknown.
|
| |
Rod R. Blagojevich (b. 1956) —
also known as Rod Blagojevich;
"Blago" —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., December
10, 1956.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1993-96; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 5th District, 1997-2003; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 2000,
2004,
2008;
Governor
of Illinois, 2003-09; solicited
bribes from potential candidates for appointment to Barack
Obama's vacant U.S. Senate seat; arrested
by federal agents in December 2008, and set for trial on
federal corruption charges; in January 2009, based on charges
that he abused his authority and attempted to sell
authorizations, vetoes, and appointments, he was impeached
by the Illinois House, convicted
by a unanimous vote of the Illinois Senate, and prohibited
from holding public office in the state; tried in
federal court in 2010-11, and after a mistrial, was ultimately found
guilty on eighteen counts, including bribery
and extortion;
sentenced
to 14 years in federal prison; an appeal later overturned five of the
eighteen convictions, but did not change his prison sentence.
Serbian
ancestry.
Still living as of 2019.
|
| |
David Wildstein (b. 1961) —
also known as "Wally Edge" —
of Livingston, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in 1961.
Mayor
of Livingston, N.J., 1987-88; in September 2013, as a senior
official of the Port Authority, which manages the George Washington
Bridge, he ordered two of the three lanes from Fort Lee to be closed,
resulting in major traffic congestion; the direction to close the
lanes (an abuse of power which appeared to be political
retaliation against Fort Lee mayor Mark
Sokolich) came from the office of New Jersey Governor Chris
Christie; Wildstein cooperated with federal prosecutors and pleaded
guilty in 2015 to two federal charges.
Still living as of 2016.
|
|
|
![[Amazon.com]](https://politicalgraveyard.com/images/a150X70b.gif)