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William Warren Rose (1864-1931) —
also known as William W. Rose —
of Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan.
Born in Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., March 12,
1864.
Architect;
mayor
of Kansas City, Kan., 1905-06, 1906; defeated, 1897 (Fusion),
1907 (Democratic); delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Kansas, 1908,
1920.
Member, Freemasons.
An ouster
lawsuit was filed against him in 1905 over his refusal to
enforce the state's liquor prohibition law; fined
$1,000 for contempt
by the Kansas Supreme Court in 1907 for trying to hold office as
mayor.
Died May 4,
1931 (age 67 years, 53
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Kansas City, Kan.
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Edward Hull Crump (1874-1954) —
also known as Edward H. Crump; Ed Crump; "Boss
Crump" —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born near Holly Springs, Marshall
County, Miss., October
2, 1874.
Democrat. Head, E. H. Crump Buggy
Manufacturing Co.; president, E. H. Crump & Co. (involved in banking, real
estate, and insurance);
mayor
of Memphis, Tenn., 1910-16, 1940; resigned 1916; proceedings were
brought for his ouster as
mayor in 1915-16, based on charges
that he failed to
enforce state liquor laws; when the ouster suit was upheld
by the state supreme court, he resigned;
Shelby
County Treasurer, 1917-23; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Tennessee, 1924,
1928,
1932,
1936,
1940,
1944;
U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1931-35 (10th District 1931-33,
9th District 1933-35); member of Democratic
National Committee from Tennessee, 1936-45.
Died in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., October
16, 1954 (age 80 years, 14
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.
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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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John Wesley Langley (1868-1932) —
also known as John W. Langley —
of Prestonsburg, Floyd
County, Ky.; Pikeville, Pike
County, Ky.
Born in Floyd
County, Ky., January
14, 1868.
Republican. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1886-90; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Kentucky, 1888,
1900,
1916;
U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 10th District, 1907-26; defeated,
1896; resigned 1926.
Convicted
in 1924 of conspiracy to transport and sell liquor re-elected
while his appeal was pending, but resigned
from Congress in 1926; sentenced
to a term in federal prison.
Granted clemency by President Calvin
Coolidge.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Pikeville, Pike
County, Ky., January
17, 1932 (age 64 years, 3
days).
Interment at Langley
Cemetery, Middle Creek, Ky.
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Peter C. Jezewski —
of Hamtramck, Wayne
County, Mich.
Mayor
of Hamtramck, Mich., 1922-26, 1932-34; defeated, 1926.
Convicted
of bootlegging and other vice
crimes about 1926, and spent a year in Leavenworth federal prison.
Burial
location unknown.
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Magne Alfred Michaelson (1878-1949) —
also known as M. Alfred Michaelson; M. A.
Michaelson —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Kristiansand, Norway,
September
7, 1878.
Republican. Delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention 25th District,
1920-22; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1921-31; defeated,
1918, 1932.
Indicted
in 1928 on charges of violating the National Prohibition Act.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., October
26, 1949 (age 71 years, 49
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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E. J. Dennis (c.1876-1930) —
of Berkeley
County, S.C.
Born about 1876.
Member of South
Carolina state senate, 1910-30; died in office 1930.
Tried
and acquitted in 1929 for conspiracy to violate the alcohol
prohibition law.
Shot
and mortally
wounded by W. L. Thornley, on the street in front of the post
office in Moncks Corner, S.C., and died the next day in a hospital
at Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., July 25,
1930 (age about 54
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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William H. McKeighan —
of Flint, Genesee
County, Mich.
Republican. Political boss; mayor of
Flint, Mich., 1915-16, 1922-23, 1927-28, 1931-33; defeated, 1923;
candidate in primary for Governor of
Michigan, 1932; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Michigan, 1940;
political ally of Frank
D. McKay; charged
in 1945, along with McKay, with conspiracy to violate state liquor
laws; tried;
the judge directed a verdict of not guilty.
Burial
location unknown.
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Frank D. McKay (1883-1965) —
of Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.
Born in 1883.
Republican. Financier;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1920,
1928,
1932
(alternate), 1936,
1940,
1944;
Michigan
state treasurer, 1925-30; member of Republican
National Committee from Michigan, 1940-44.
Political boss who dominated Republican politics in Michigan for
decades. Investigated
by a grand jury in 1931 over his handling
of state funds while Treasurer. Subject of three federal grand
jury investigations
in 1940 over alleged fraud, extortion
and kickbacks.
Indicted
in 1944 for bribery;
the case collapsed when the star witness, Sen. Warren
G. Hooper was murdered. Charged
in 1945, along with William
McKeighan, with conspiracy to violate state liquor laws;
tried
in 1946; the judge directed a verdict of not guilty.
Died in Miami Beach, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., January
12, 1965 (age about 81
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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