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Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858) —
also known as "Old Bullion" —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born near Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C., March 14,
1782.
Son of Jesse Benton and Ann (Gooch) Benton.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1809; U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1821-51; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 1st District, 1853-55; candidate
for Governor of
Missouri, 1856.
Fought a duel
with Andrew
Jackson, who later became a political ally. In April, 1850, he
caused a scandal
with his attempt to assault Sen. Henry
Stuart Foote, of Mississippi, during debate on the Senate floor;
he was restrained by other senators. Foote had a cocked pistol in his
hand and undoubtedly would have shot him. His portrait appeared on
the U.S. $100
gold certificate from the 1880s until the 1920s.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April 10,
1858 (age 76 years, 27
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Joseph Barker (c.1806-1862) —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Allegheny
County, Pa., about 1806.
Mayor
of Pittsburgh, Pa., 1850-51; defeated, 1851, 1852.
In 1849, after an anti-Catholic
speech, he was arrested,
charged
with using obscene
language, obstructing
the streets, and causing a
riot, convicted,
and sentenced
to a year in prison;
elected mayor in 1850 while still incarcerated. While mayor, he was
twice arrested
on charges
of assault and battery. In 1851, he was convicted
of riot.
Struck and killed by a railroad
train, in Ross Township, Allegheny
County, Pa., August 2,
1862 (age about 56
years).
Interment at Allegheny
Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Alexander J. Bergen —
of Suffolk
County, N.Y.
Member of New York
state assembly from Suffolk County 2nd District, 1861.
Outraged by a criticism published in the newspaper, he
assaulted the editor of the Suffolk County Democrat, in
1861, and was later prosecuted
and fined $25.
Burial
location unknown.
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Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) —
also known as Robert G. Ingersoll; "The Great
Agnostic"; "American Infidel";
"Impious Pope Bob" —
of Peoria, Peoria
County, Ill.
Born in Dresden, Yates
County, N.Y., August
11, 1833.
Son of Rev. John Ingersoll (1792-1759) and Mary (Livingston)
Ingersoll (died 1835).
Lawyer;
Democratic candidate for Illinois
state house of representatives 5th District, 1860; colonel in the
Union Army during the Civil War; charged
about 1864 with assault and battery against the Peoria County
Sheriff; tried;
the jury was deadlocked and could not reach a verdict; the case was
dismissed before a new trial could be held; Illinois
state attorney general, 1867-69; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1876;
made the nominating speech which dubbed James
G. Blaine as "The Plumed Knight".
Agnostic.
Died in Dobbs Ferry, Westchester
County, N.Y., July 21,
1899 (age 65 years, 344
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.; statue at Glen
Oak Park, Peoria, Ill.
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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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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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David Dows (1885-1966) —
also known as "Big Dave" —
of Locust Valley, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Bradley, Greenwood
County, S.C.
Born in Irvington, Westchester
County, N.Y., August
12, 1885.
Son of David Dows (1857-1899) and Jane (Strahan) Dows (1859-1945).
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; worked in iron and steel
mills; supervised construction
of steel
mills overseas; studied foreign industries as representative of a
steamship
line; horse
breeder; bank
director; Nassau
County Sheriff, 1932-34; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1944;
member, New York State Racing Commission, 1944-49; delegate to
Republican National Convention from South Carolina, 1956;
candidate for Presidential Elector for South Carolina, 1956.
Convicted
of assault in 1913, over his treatment of a New York Times
reporter who was attempting to interview him.
Died in Hot Springs, Bath
County, Va., August
13, 1966 (age 81 years, 1
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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David H. Trembley (b. 1858) —
of Rahway, Union
County, N.J.
Born in New Jersey, 1858.
Carriage
painter; mayor of
Rahway, N.J., 1918-22; on May 31, 1919, he prevented a Socialist
orator, Frederick
Harwood, from speaking, by spraying him and his audience with a
fire hose; subsequently arrested
and charged
with assault and inciting to
riot; retaliated by arresting Justice of the Peace Gustav
Theimer, who had indicted him, and arraigned him on a charge of
improper procedure.
French
Huguenot ancestry.
Burial
location unknown.
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James B. Furber (c.1868-1930) —
of Rahway, Union
County, N.J.; Linden, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Allegan, Allegan
County, Mich., about 1868.
Traveling salesman for National Cash Register Company; newspaper
publisher; real estate
developer; lawyer; mayor of
Rahway, N.J., 1906, 1922-24; resigned 1906; charged
with assault in connection with his participation in a Socialist
rally in Rahway, N.J., May 31, 1919, which was ended by spraying
the speaker and audience with a fire hose; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 5th District, 1920; Progressive
candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey, 1924;
elected (Democratic) mayor of
Linden, N.J. 1930, but died before taking office.
Suffered a paralytic
stroke, while addressing a
meeting of the Parent Democratic Club, and died soon after in St.
Elizabeth Hospital,
Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., November
12, 1930 (age about 62
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Eugene C. Keyes (1900-1963) —
of Dearborn, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born August
23, 1900.
Republican. Lawyer; dentist; Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, 1943-44, 1947-48; defeated, 1940, 1944,
1948; candidate in primary for Governor of
Michigan, 1950, 1954; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1952.
Convicted,
in Dearborn municipal court in August 1944, of assaulting a
woman who came to his office to protest his slapping of her son
during an argument over campaign work; the sentence
was a $25 fine or
15 days in jail.
Died in 1963
(age about
62 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Bernard Hugo Goetz (b. 1947) —
also known as Bernard H. Goetz; Bernhard Goetz;
"Subway Vigilante" —
of New York City (unknown
county), N.Y.
Born in Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., November
7, 1947.
Fusion candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 2001.
German
and Jewish
ancestry.
On December 22, 1984, he shot
and wounded four young men who were about to rob him, and
subsequently fled
to New England, until he turned
himself in at Concord, N.H.; arraigned
on attempted
murder, assault, and weapons
charges;
convicted
only for carrying an
unlicensed gun; sentenced
to one year in jail;
served eight months.
Still living as of 2009.
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Henry Barbosa Gonzalez (1916-2000) —
also known as Henry B. Gonzalez —
of San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., May 3,
1916.
Democrat. Member of Texas
state senate, 1956-61; candidate in primary for Governor of
Texas, 1958; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1961; U.S.
Representative from Texas 20th District, 1961-99; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1964,
1996.
Catholic.
Hispanic
ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Was in the motorcade in Dallas, Tex., when President John
F. Kennedy was shot. In a San Antonio restaurant in 1986, he
punched a man who called him a communist; he was charged
with assault, but acquitted.
Died, in Downtown Baptist Hospital,
San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., November
28, 2000 (age 84 years, 209
days).
Interment at San
Fernando Cemetery #2, San Antonio, Tex.
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John T. Broderick, Jr. (b. 1947) —
of Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H.
Born in 1947.
Justice
of New Hampshire state supreme court, 1995-.
Investigated
in 2000 by the Judiciary Committee of the New Hampshire House of
Representatives in connection with the charges against Chief Justice
David
A. Brock and Justice W.
Stephen Thayer III, but articles of impeachment
against him were rejected by the House. Arrested
in October 2000 for assault against his 30-year-old son. but
charges were dropped.
Still living as of 2001.
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Arthur E. Teele (1946-2005) —
also known as Art Teele —
of Florida.
Born in Prince
George's County, Md., May 14,
1946.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; lawyer;
director, U.S. Urban Mass Transportation Administration, 1981-83;
Presidential Elector for Florida, 1992;
as Miami city commissioner in 1997-2004, he chaired the Community
Redevelopment Agency (CRA); an investigation
of corruption in the agency, started in 2003, led to charges
that he had accepted $135,000 in kickbacks
from two construction companies; as a result, he was removed from
office in 2004 by Gov. Jeb
Bush; in August, 2004, when he and his wife were under
surveillance, he drove his
car at a police detective in an attempt to run him over,
and also threatened
to kill police officers who had been following his wife during
the investigation; convicted
in March 2005 on charges
related to this incident; indicted
on July 14, 2005, on federal conspiracy and money
laundering charges, over a scheme to fraudulently obtain
contracts for electrical work at the Miami International Airport
through a "minority-owned" shell company; published police reports
revealed that he had put his mistress
on the CRA payroll, that he regularly bought and used cocaine,
and that he frequently made use of a male prostitute.
Church
of God in Christ. African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi; NAACP; Freemasons.
Came to the offices
of the Miami Herald newspaper, and shot himself
in the head with a semiautomatic pistol; he died two hours later in
the trauma unit of Jackson Memorial Hospital,
Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., July 27,
2005 (age 59 years, 74
days).
Interment at Culley's MeadowWood Memorial Park, Tallahassee, Fla.
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Andrew L. Cetraro (born c.1976) —
of Bozeman, Gallatin
County, Mont.
Born in Bozeman, Gallatin
County, Mont., about 1976.
Restaurant
owner; mayor of
Bozeman, Mont., 2004-05.
Arrested
at his home in November 2005; accused of assaulting his
pregnant wife while intoxicated;
arraigned
on misdemeanor charges;
pleaded not guilty.
Still living as of 2005.
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Kwame Malik Kilpatrick (b. 1970) —
also known as Kwame M. Kilpatrick —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., June 8,
1970.
Son of Bernard Kilpatrick and Carolyn
Cheeks Kilpatrick.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives 9th District, 1997-2001; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 2000,
2004,
2008;
mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 2002-08; resigned 2008; member of Democratic
National Committee from Michigan, 2004-08; charged
in 2008 with obstruction
of justice, perjury,
and misconduct
in office, in connection with his denial under oath of an affair
with his chief of staff, Christine Beatty, and misleading the city
council over a payment of $8.4 million to settle a whistleblower
lawsuit filed by two police officers, which included a secret deal to
prevent evidence of the affair from being disclosed; later charged
with assaulting two police officers who were serving a
subpoena; pleaded
guilty to two felony counts of obstruction
of justice and no
contest to one assault charge;
he also agreed to four months in jail,
payment of $1 million in restitution,
to resign as
mayor, and to give up his law license and pension.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP.
Still living as of 2009.
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