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Joseph J. Cahill —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Saloon
keeper; member of New York
state assembly, 1891-94 (Kings County 1st District 1891-92, Kings
County 4th District 1893-94).
Convicted
of perjury,
December 8, 1905, in an election
fraud case.
Burial
location unknown.
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Róger Calero (b. 1969) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Nicaragua,
1969.
Not U.S. citizen; meat packer;
journalist;
convicted
of sale
of marijuana, 1988; arrested
in 2002, at the Houston airport, while returning from Cuba, and jailed,
while deportation
proceedings were started, but released in 2003; Socialist Workers
candidate for President
of the United States, 2004, 2008; Socialist Workers candidate for
U.S.
Senator from New York, 2006.
Nicaraguan
ancestry.
Still living as of 2008.
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Miles M. Callaghan (1868-1944) —
of Reed City, Osceola
County, Mich.
Born in Portland, Ionia
County, Mich., October
7, 1868.
Republican. Hardware
dealer; fruit
farmer; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Osceola District, 1929-36,
1943-44; resigned 1944; member of Michigan
state senate 28th District, 1937-40; defeated in primary, 1940;
charged
on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state
legislators) with accepting
bribes; pleaded
guilty and testified against others.
Suffered a stroke,
and died, in Reed City, Osceola
County, Mich., August
22, 1944 (age 75 years, 320
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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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.
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James N. Canham —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Lawyer;
circuit
judge in Michigan 3rd Circuit, 1961-77; appointed 1961.
Acted as a go-between between Michigan Court of Appeals Judge S.
Jerome Bronson and an attorney from whom a bribe was
solicited. Arrested
in November 1986; in return for immunity from prosecution, he helped
to implicate Judge Bronson, who killed himself the same day he was
arrested. Because he aided and
abetted bribery, Canham's license to practice law was
subsequently revoked.
Still living as of 1986.
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George Quayle Cannon (1827-1901) —
also known as George Q. Cannon —
of Utah.
Born in Liverpool, England,
January
11, 1827.
Son of George Cannon (1794-1844) and Ann (Quayle) Cannon (1798-1842).
Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member Utah
territorial council, 1865-66, 1869-72; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Utah Territory, 1873-81.
Mormon.
Had five wives and 32 children; spent six months in federal penitentiary
for cohabitation.
Died in Monterey, Monterey
County, Calif., April 12,
1901 (age 74 years, 91
days).
Interment at Salt
Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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James Patrick Cannon (1890-1974) —
also known as James P. Cannon —
of New York.
Born in Rosedale (now part of Kansas City), Wyandotte
County, Kan., 1890.
Candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1922 (Workers, 10th District), 1928
(20th District); Workers candidate for Governor of
New York, 1924; Trotskyist Anti-War candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1941.
Irish
ancestry.
Became an open supporter of Leon Trotsky's opposition to Stalin about
1928, and was expelled from the Communist Party; became a major
Trotskyist leader and theoretician, and one of the founders of the
Socialist Workers Party. Arrested
in 1941 and charged
under the Smith
Act; convicted
in 1943, and served sixteen months in federal prison.
Died in 1974
(age about
84 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Albert Cardozo (1828-1885) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
21, 1828.
Lawyer;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court; implicated
in a judicial corruption
scandal in 1868, and resigned
from the bench.
Jewish.
Portugese
ancestry.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
8, 1885 (age 56 years, 322
days).
Interment at Cypress
Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Mary Carey (b. 1981) —
also known as Mary Ellen Cook —
of California.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, June 15,
1981.
Actress
in pornographic
movies;
Independent candidate for Governor of
California, 2003; arrested
in April 2005 during a raid on a strip
club in Lakewood, Wash.; charged
with touching
herself while dancing; pleaded
guilty and received a suspended
sentence.
Female.
Still living as of 2008.
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Peter B. Carey (1886-1943) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., November
3, 1886.
Democrat. President, Chicago Board of Trade, 1932-35; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1932,
1936,
1940;
delegate
to Illinois convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; Cook
County Sheriff, 1942-43.
Died, amidst a scandal
in his department, from a heart
ailment, in Sacred Heart Sanitarium,
Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., November
1, 1943 (age 56 years, 363
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Mary Frances Angsten. |
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Tito Carinci (1928-2006) —
of Newport, Campbell
County, Ky.; Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born December
15, 1928.
President and manager of the Glenn Hotel and
the Tropicana bar and
casino; arrested
in 1961 on obstruction
of justice charges;
candidate in primary for mayor of
Newport, Ky., 1963.
Died November
12, 2006 (age 77 years, 332
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Logan Cashin, Jr. (1928-2011) —
also known as John L. Cashin, Jr. —
of Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala., April 16,
1928.
Dentist;
candidate for mayor
of Huntsville, Ala., 1964; National Democratic candidate for Governor of
Alabama, 1970.
African
ancestry.
Convicted
of theft and
perjury
in 1982; served 17 months in federal
prison.
Died, of renal
failure and pneumonia,
in Specialty Hospital
of Washington-Hadley, Washington,
D.C., March 21,
2011 (age 82 years, 339
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Joseph Cassidy (c.1866-1920) —
also known as "Curley Joe"; "The King of
Queens" —
of Long Island City (now part of Queens), Queens
County, N.Y.; Far Rockaway, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born about 1866.
Democrat. Borough
president of Queens, New York, 1902-05; defeated, 1905, 1909;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1904;
leader of
Queens County Democratic Party, 1910-11; indicted
in 1912 for selling
a nomination for for Supreme Court Justice to William
Willett; convicted
in 1914, and sentenced
to one year to eighteen months in prison;
released in 1916.
Suffered a stroke of
apoplexy, and died soon after, in Far Rockaway, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., November
21, 1920 (age about 54
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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William T. Casto (1824-1862) —
Born January
24, 1824.
Son of Abijah Casto.
Lawyer;
mayor
of Maysville, Ky.; arrested
in 1861 and imprisoned
for allegedly aiding
the Confederacy; released in 1862.
Blamed Col. Leonidas Metcalfe (son of Gov. Thomas
Metcalfe) for his imprisonment; challenged him to a duel; the
weapons were Colt rifles at 60 yards; Casto was shot dead
on the first fire, in Bracken
County, Ky., May 8,
1862 (age 38 years, 104
days).
Interment at Maysville
Cemetery, Maysville, Ky.
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Epitaph: "A
Patriot, his Country's firm unwavering friend, he was willing to die
for his Principles and as a man of Honor nobly fell a Veteran of the
sacred and invincible right of personal liberty." |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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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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Ralph W. Chandless —
of Bergen
County, N.J.
Member of New Jersey
state senate from Bergen County, 1929-30.
Expelled
from the state senate, December 5, 1930.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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John Winthrop Chanler (1826-1877) —
also known as John W. Chanler —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
14, 1826.
Son of John White Chanler (1785-1853) and Elizabeth Sheriffe
(Winthrop) Chanler (1791-1866).
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 10th District, 1858-59; U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1863-69.
On May 14, 1866, he offered a resolution defending President Andrew
Johnson's veto of Reconstruction
enactments, which he called "the wicked and revolutionary acts of a
few malignant and mischievous men." On motion of Rep. Robert
C. Schenck, he was censured
for insulting
the House of Representatives.
Died in Barrytown, Dutchess
County, N.Y., October
19, 1877 (age 51 years, 35
days).
Interment at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Samuel Chase (1741-1811) —
of Maryland.
Born near Princess Anne, Somerset
County, Md., April 17,
1741.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1774-78, 1781-82, 1783-85;
signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; state court judge in Maryland,
1788; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1796-1811; died in office 1811.
Episcopalian.
Articles of impeachment
were filed against him in 1804 on charges of malfeasance
in office; tried by
the Senate in 1805 and acquitted of all charges.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 19,
1811 (age 70 years, 63
days).
Interment at Old
St. Paul's Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Simon M. Cherivtch (1914-2001) —
also known as "Uncle Simon" —
of Millville, Cumberland
County, N.J.
Born April 16,
1914.
Butcher; automobile
dealer; mayor
of Millville, N.J., 1948-53.
Charged
in 1949 with federal
income tax evasion, based on his underreporting of income in
1944-45; tried, convicted,
and sentenced
to a year and a day in federal prison;
released after five months.
Died March 26,
2001 (age 86 years, 344
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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James Chesnut, Jr. (1815-1885) —
of South Carolina.
Born near Camden, Kershaw
County, S.C., January
18, 1815.
Democrat. Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1842; member of South
Carolina state senate, 1854; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1858-60; delegate
to South Carolina secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from South Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress,
1861-62; candidate for Senator
from South Carolina in the Confederate Congress, 1861; general in
the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from South Carolina, 1868.
When the Civil War began, he left Washington but did not resign his
seat in the Senate; one of ten Southern
senators expelled
in absentia on July 11, 1861.
Died in Camden, Kershaw
County, S.C., February
1, 1885 (age 70 years, 14
days).
Interment at Knights
Hill Cemetery, Camden, S.C.
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W. D. Childers (born c.1934) —
Born about 1934.
Member of Florida
state senate; Escambia
County Commissioner.
Convicted
in 2002 of violating the Florida Sunshine
Law by discussing public business in private with other other
county commissioners; served 38 days in prison;
convicted
in 2003 of bribery;
sentenced
to 3.5 years in prison;
free pending appeal.
Still living as of 2006.
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Vincent Cianci (born c.1941) —
also known as Buddy Cianci —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born about 1941.
Mayor
of Providence, R.I., 1974-84, 1991-2002.
Pleaded no
contest in 1984 to charges
that he beat
his estranged
wife's lover with a fireplace log. Charged
with twelve federal counts of bribery,
conspiracy and racketeering; convicted
in June, 2002 on two counts.
Still living as of 2002.
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Henry J. Cianfrani (1923-2002) —
also known as "Buddy Brown"; "The
Pizza" —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in a hospital,
Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March 19,
1923.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1956,
1960,
1964;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1963-66; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 1st District, 1967-78.
Catholic.
Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Sons of
Italy.
Convicted
in 1977 on federal charges of racketeering and mail fraud for padding
his Senate payroll; sentenced
to five years in federal prison;
served 27 months; released in 1980.
Died, following a stroke, in
Hahnemann University Hospital,
Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 3,
2002 (age 79 years, 106
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Henry Gabriel Cisneros (b. 1947) —
also known as Henry G. Cisneros —
of San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., June 11,
1947.
Son of George Cisneros and Elvira Cisneros.
Mayor
of San Antonio, Tex., 1981-89; U.S.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1993-97.
Hispanic
ancestry.
In 1995, an independent counsel was appointed to investigate
allegations that he had made false
statements to the FBI about payments he made to his mistress;
indicted
in 1997 on 18 counts of conspiracy, making false
statements, and obstruction
of justice; pleaded
guilty to a misdemeanor count of lying to
the FBI, and was fined
$10,000; pardoned
in 2001 by President Bill
Clinton.
Still living as of 2009.
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August Claessens (1885-1954) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Russia,
1885.
School
teacher; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 17th District, 1918-20, 1922;
expelled 1920; defeated, 1920 (New York County 17th District), 1922
(New York County 17th District), 1923 (New York County 17th
District), 1925 (Bronx County 4th District), 1937 (Kings County 4th
District), 1938 (Kings County 14th District), 1954 (Kings County 14th
District); delegate to Socialist National Convention from New York,
1920; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1924 (Socialist, 23rd District),
1928 (Socialist, 14th District), 1934 (Socialist, at-large), 1946
(Liberal, 10th District), 1948 (Liberal, 8th District), 1950
(Liberal, 8th District); American Labor candidate for New York
state senate 11th District, 1940.
Expelled
from the New York State Assembly over alleged disloyalty,
along with the other four Socialist members, April 1, 1920.
Died, following a heart
attack, at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
9, 1954 (age about 69
years).
Interment at Cedar
Grove Cemetery, Flushing, Queens, N.Y.
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Michael J. Clancy (b. 1913) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in County Clare, Ireland,
September
9, 1913.
Democrat. Member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1937-40; defeated in primary, 1942; charged
on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state
legislators) with accepting
bribes, but not tried and convicted with the others.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Charles Clark (1810-1877) —
of Mississippi.
Born February
19, 1810.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Mississippi, 1860;
general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Governor of
Mississippi, 1863-65.
Physically removed from
office by U.S. troops at the end of the Civil
War, and imprisoned
at Fort Pulaski, Savannah, Ga.
Died in Bolivar
County, Miss., December
18, 1877 (age 67 years, 302
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Bolivar County, Miss.
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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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Clement Claiborne Clay, Jr. (1816-1882) —
of Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala.
Born in Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala., December
13, 1816.
Son of Clement
Comer Clay.
Democrat. Member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1842; state court judge in
Alabama, 1846; U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1853-61; Senator
from Alabama in the Confederate Congress, 1862-64.
His portrait appeared on Confederate States one-dollar
notes in 1862-64. Suspected of conspiring with other Confederates
to assassinate
President Abraham
Lincoln, he was imprisoned
for nearly a year after the war.
Died near Gurley, Madison
County, Ala., January
3, 1882 (age 65 years, 21
days).
Interment at Maple
Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, Ala.
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Thomas Lanier Clingman (1812-1897) —
also known as Thomas L. Clingman; "The Prince of
Politicians" —
of Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C.
Born in Huntsville, Yadkin
County, N.C., July 27,
1812.
Democrat. Member of North Carolina state legislature; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1843-45, 1847-58 (1st
District 1843-45, 1847-53, 8th District 1853-58); U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1858-61; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from North Carolina, 1868,
1876
(member, Resolutions
Committee).
When the Civil War began, he left Washington but did not resign his
seat in the Senate; one of ten Southern
senators expelled
in absentia on July 11, 1861. Clingman's Dome in the Great Smoky
Mountains is named for
him.
Died in Morganton, Burke
County, N.C., November
3, 1897 (age 85 years, 99
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Asheville, N.C.
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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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David Keith Cobb (b. 1962) —
also known as David Cobb —
Born in San Leon, Galveston
County, Tex., December
24, 1962.
Green. Lawyer;
candidate for Texas
state attorney general, 2002; candidate for President
of the United States, 2004.
Arrested,
in St. Louis, Mo., on October 8, 2004, along with Libertarian Party
presidential nominee Michael
Bednarik, while protesting
their exclusion from presidential debates.
Still living as of 2004.
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Helen Cobb (c.1922-1999) —
of San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan., about 1922.
Candidate in primary for mayor
of San Diego, Calif., 1963.
Female.
Member, League
of Women Voters.
Indicted
in 1970 on bribery
conspiracy charges
in connection with the "Yellow Cab Scandal";
acquitted.
Died, from complications of emphysema
and diabetes,
at Chase Medical
Center, El Cajon, San Diego
County, Calif., March 8,
1999 (age about 77
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Beryl W. Cohen (born c.1935) —
of Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born about 1935.
Democrat. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1964;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1965-70; won fame for his representation of
long-term residents of a Massachusetts institution for the mentally
retarded; censured
in 1983 and disciplined
in 1988 for attorney misconduct, over neglect
of probate matters.
Still living as of 2007.
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John J. Condon —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Son of John J. Condon and Ellen Condon (c.1872-1941).
Republican. Auditor for the New York Central Railroad;
mayor
of Yonkers, N.Y., 1940-41; defeated, 1935; in December 1940, he
was named
as a conspirator in the indictment of Patrick Fitzgerald, who was
charged with seeking a $3,000 bribe
from pinball operators.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Benn Conger (d. 1922) —
of Groton, Tompkins
County, N.Y.
President, Corona Typewriter Co.; member of New York
state assembly from Tompkins County, 1900-01; member of New York
state senate 41st District, 1909-10; resigned 1910.
In 1910, he accused
Sen. Jotham
P. Allds, the majority leader, of accepting a bribe from bridge
companies; Allds was investigated and ultimately resigned. Conger,
who had also taken part in the bribery
scheme, was criticized for not coming forward sooner; facing a likely
attempt to expel
him, he resigned
a few days later.
Died in Groton, Tompkins
County, N.Y., February
28, 1922.
Interment at Groton
Rural Cemetery, Groton, N.Y.
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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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Maurice E. Connolly (1881-1935) —
of Corona, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Forest Hills Gardens, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Corona, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., 1881.
Son of Maurice Connolly and Mary Jane Connolly.
Democrat. Lawyer; borough
president of Queens, New York, 1911-28; resigned 1928; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1912,
1916,
1924;
resigned
as borough president in April, 1928 during an investigation
of a sewer graft scandal;
convicted
in October 1928 of conspiracy to defraud
the city; sentenced
to one year in prison
and fined
$500; following an unsuccessful appeal, he served the prison
sentence in 1930-31.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Forest Hills Gardens, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., November
24, 1935 (age about 54
years).
Interment at Mount
St. Mary Cemetery, Flushing, Queens, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Maurice Connolly and Mary Jane Connolly; married to Helen M.
Connell; father of Helen F. Connolly (daughter-in-law of Leander
B. Faber). |
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Theophilus Eugene Connor (1897-1973) —
also known as Bull Connor —
of Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.
Born in Selma, Dallas
County, Ala., July 11,
1897.
Son of Hugh King Connor Connor and Molly (Godwin) Connor.
Democrat. Sports
reporter on Birmingham radio;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1935-37; Birmingham Commissioner
of Public
Safety, 1936-52, 1956-63; candidate in primary for Governor of
Alabama, 1940, 1954; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Alabama, 1948,
1956,
1960,
1964,
1968;
arrested
on December 26, 1951, on being found having a tryst
in a hotel room with his secretary, Christina Brown; convicted
of adultery,
fined
and sentenced
to jail, but
the conviction was overturned in 1952; member of Democratic
National Committee from Alabama, 1960-63; an ardent white
supremacist; his use of police dogs and fire hoses against civil
rights demonstrators in 1962-63 provoked national outrage;
candidate for mayor
of Birmingham, Ala., 1963.
Died in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., March 10,
1973 (age 75 years, 242
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Birmingham, Ala.
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John Conyers, Jr. (b. 1929) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., May 16,
1929.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Michigan, 1965-2003 (1st District 1965-93,
14th District 1993-2003); delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Michigan, 1972,
1984,
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
arrested
during an anti-apartheid
protest outside the South African Embassy in Washington, 1984;
candidate for mayor of
Detroit, Mich., 1989.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; American Civil
Liberties Union; Kappa
Alpha Psi; Americans
for Democratic Action; Council on
Foreign Relations; Pi
Sigma Alpha.
Still living as of 2009.
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George Bradford Cook (b. 1936) —
also known as G. Bradford Cook —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb., 1936.
Son of George Brash Cook (born 1910; insurance executive).
Chair, U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission, 1973; resigned
under fire from the SEC, following disclosure that he had modified
a commission complaint to delete references to a secret $200,000 campaign
contribution to President Richard
Nixon's re-election campaign from fugitive
financier Robert Vesco; admitted that he testified
falsely to a Senate committee and to a grand jury investigating
the matter; his license to practice law in Illinois and Nebraska was
suspended
for three years.
Still living as of 1975.
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Relatives: Son
of George Brash Cook (born 1910; insurance executive); married to Jo
Anne Thatcher and Laura Armour. |
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Louis P. Cooke (1811-1849) —
of Texas.
Born in Tennessee, 1811.
Colonel in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence;
member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1838-39, 1841-42; Texas
Republic Secretary of the Navy, 1839-41.
Charged
in 1843 with the murder
of Captain Mark Lewis; at trial,
the jury deadlocked, and he escaped
before a second trial could be held. Wounded in an Indian raid on
Corpus Christi in 1844 and lost an
eye.
Died, of cholera,
in Brownsville, Cameron
County, Tex., 1849
(age about
38 years).
Interment somewhere
in New Orleans, La.
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Jerry Cosentino (c.1932-1997) —
of Palos Heights, Cook
County, Ill.
Born about 1932.
Democrat. Illinois
state treasurer, 1979-83, 1987-91; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Illinois, 1980;
candidate for secretary of
state of Illinois, 1982, 1990.
Pleaded
guilty to bank
fraud in April 1992; fined
$5,000, and sentenced
to nine months home
confinement.
Died of a heart
attack, in Naples, Collier
County, Fla., April 3,
1997 (age about 65
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Hyman Costrell (b. 1890) —
also known as Jack Robbins —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; New York.
Born in Kurenitz, Russia (now Belarus),
October
19, 1890.
Communist. Arrested
in 1905 in Russia and jailed
three months for demonstrating
and distributing
circulars against the Czarist government; naturalized U.S.
citizen; plumber;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 8th District, 1934.
Jewish.
Burial
location unknown.
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Charles Tyrone Courtney (b. 1952) —
also known as Ty Courtney —
of Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C.
Born in Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C., January
4, 1952.
Lawyer;
municipal judge in South Carolina, 1981-82; member of South
Carolina state senate, 1991-2000.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Jaycees;
Lions.
Tried
and convicted
in June 2000 on federal charges
of bank
fraud, mail fraud, and making false
statements in a loan application.
Still living as of 2000.
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John Cowdery (b. 1930) —
of Anchorage,
Alaska.
Born in Adrian, Bates
County, Mo., February
11, 1930.
Republican. Contractor;
member of Alaska
state house of representatives, 1983-84, 1997-2000; member of Alaska
state senate, 2000-09 (District I 2000-03, District O 2003-09);
indicted
in July 2008 and charged
with accepting
bribes from VECO Corporation; convicted
in March 2009; sentenced
to six months house
arrest and fined
$25,000.
Still living as of 2009.
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George B. Cox —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1900,
1904,
1908.
Political boss of Cincinnati at the turn of the century. Indicted
on corruption charges in 1906, but never convicted.
Burial
location unknown.
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Major B. Coxson (c.1929-1973) —
of Camden, Camden
County, N.J.
Born about 1929.
Convicted
10 times on fraud and
larceny
charges,
most related to automobile
theft; served 22 months in federal prison;
candidate for mayor of
Camden, N.J., 1973.
African
ancestry.
Admitted four men to his house, who bound and gagged him and his
family, and shot each
one, killing
him and wounding the others, in Cherry Hill, Camden
County, N.J., June 9,
1973 (age about 44
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Brian J. Coyle (1944-1991) —
of Moorhead, Clay
County, Minn.; Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Great Falls, Cascade
County, Mont., June 25,
1944.
College
instructor; in 1968, he was indicted
and tried for
his refusal to comply with the military
draft, but was acquitted as a conscientious objector; Independent
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1978; candidate for mayor
of Minneapolis, Minn., 1979; president, Minneapolis city council.
Gay.
One of Minnesota's first openly-gay politicians.
Died, from AIDS-related
complications, August
23, 1991 (age 47 years, 59
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Larry Edwin Craig (b. 1945) —
also known as Larry Craig —
of Midvale, Washington
County, Idaho; Payette, Payette
County, Idaho.
Born in Council, Adams
County, Idaho, July 20,
1945.
Republican. Member of Idaho
state senate, 1975-81; U.S.
Representative from Idaho 1st District, 1981-91; U.S.
Senator from Idaho, 1991-2009.
Methodist.
Member, National Rifle
Association.
Arrested
for soliciting
sex in a men's bathroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International
Airport, June 11, 2007; charged
with disorderly conduct; pleaded
guilty, and was fined.
Still living as of 2009.
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Daniel Bever Crane (b. 1936) —
also known as Dan Crane —
of Illinois.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., January
10, 1936.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1979-85 (22nd District 1979-83,
19th District 1983-85).
Censured
by the House of Representatives in 1983 for having sexual
relations with a teenage House page in 1980.
Still living as of 2009.
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Alan MacGregor Cranston (1914-2000) —
also known as Alan Cranston —
of Los Altos Hills, Santa Clara
County, Calif.; Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.; Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif., June 19,
1914.
Son of William Cranston and Carol (Dixon) Cranston.
Democrat. Journalist;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; real estate
business; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1956,
1960,
1964,
1972,
1988
(speaker);
California
state controller, 1959-67; U.S.
Senator from California, 1969-93; defeated in primary, 1964;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1984.
Protestant.
Member, United
World Federalists.
Sued by Adolf Hitler over his unexpurgated translation into English
of Mein Kampf. Reprimanded
by the Senate in 1991 over his dealings with Lincoln Savings and Loan
president Charles Keating.
Died in Los Altos, Santa Clara
County, Calif., December
31, 2000 (age 86 years, 195
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John H. Crary —
of Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Connecticut, 1932;
Waterbury city assessor.
Charged
in May, 1938, along with Mayor T.
Frank Hayes and 25 others, with conspiracy to cheat
and defraud the city of Waterbury of more than a million dollars;
tried
in 1938-39 and convicted;
sentenced
to two months in jail and
fined
$500.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Bobby E. Crittendon —
of Dayton, Campbell
County, Ky.
Mayor
of Dayton, Ky., 1991-2000; appointed 1991; removed 2000; Impeached and
removed from office, by unanimous vote of the city council, over
misconduct
including his attempts to intimidate
the police chief on behalf of his son-in-law.
Still living as of 2000.
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George William Crockett, Jr. (1909-1997) —
also known as George W. Crockett, Jr. —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., August
10, 1909.
Democrat. Recorder's court judge in Michigan, 1966-78; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 13th District, 1980-91; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1984;
arrested
during an anti-apartheid
protest outside the South African Embassy
in Washington, 1984.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi; National
Lawyers Guild.
Served four months in federal prison
for contempt
of court in 1950, following his defense of a Communist leader on
trial in New York for advocating the overthrow of the government.
Among the founders of the nation's first
interracial law firm.
Ill with bone
cancer in 1997, he suffered a stroke and
died five days later, in Washington Home and Hospice,
Washington,
D.C., September
7, 1997 (age 88 years, 28
days).
Cremated.
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Richard Welsted Croker (1841-1922) —
also known as Richard Croker —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; County Dublin, Ireland.
Born in Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland,
November
23, 1841.
Son of Eyre Coote Croker (1800-1881) and Frances Laura (Welsted)
Croker (1807-1894).
Democrat. Railroad
mechanic; charged
with the murder
of a political enemy in 1874; tried and
found not guilty; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
York, 1888,
1892.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Tammany
Hall.
Leader of Tammany Hall from 1886 until 1901.
Suffered exposure during a snowstorm,
was ill for months, and subsequently died, in County Dublin, Ireland,
April
29, 1922 (age 80 years, 157
days).
Original interment at Glencairn
House Grounds, County Dublin, Ireland; reinterment in 1939 at Kilgobbin
Cemetery, County Dublin, Ireland.
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Relatives: Son
of Eyre Coote Croker (1800-1881) and Frances Laura (Welsted) Croker
(1807-1894); married, November
1, 1873, to Elizabeth Frazer (1853-1914); married, November
26, 1914, to Bula Benton Edmonson (1884-1957). |
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Woltman |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, February 1902 |
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Hugh W. Cross (b. 1896) —
of Jerseyville, Jersey
County, Ill.
Born in Jerseyville, Jersey
County, Ill., August
24, 1896.
Republican. Member of Illinois
state house of representatives 38th District, 1933-40; Speaker of
the Illinois State House of Representatives, 1939-40; Lieutenant
Governor of Illinois, 1941-49; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1944,
1948;
member, Interstate Commerce
Commission, 1949-55; resigned
under fire from the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1955,
following a unanimous vote of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations to open an
inquiry into the propriety
of his actions influencing the award of a Chicago transportation
contract; the committee later reported that he had "made a
mistake and acted
indiscreetly".
Member, American
Legion; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Jesters;
Elks; Alpha
Tau Omega; Phi
Delta Phi.
Burial
location unknown.
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Gentry Crowell (1932-1989) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Chestnut Mound, Smith
County, Tenn., December
10, 1932.
Democrat. Member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1969-77; secretary of
state of Tennessee, 1977-89; died in office 1989.
His office was a target of the federal "Operation Rocky Top" investigation
into fraudulent
charity bingo games; his administrative assistant admitted to
longtime embezzlement.
In reaction to the scandal, he attempted to commit suicide
on December 12, 1989, by gunshot;
he died eight days later in Vanderbilt Hospital,
Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., December
20, 1989 (age 57 years, 10
days).
Interment at Cedar
Grove Cemetery, Lebanon, Tenn.
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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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Randall Cunningham (b. 1941) —
also known as Randy Cunningham;
"Duke" —
of Del Mar, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
8, 1941.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War; U.S.
Representative from California, 1991-2005 (44th District 1991-93,
51st District 1993-2003, 50th District 2003-05); resigned 2005; pleaded
guilty on Federal conspiracy and tax
evasion charges,
November 28, 2005; subsequently resigned
from Congress.
Christian.
Still living as of 2009.
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James Michael Curley (1874-1958) —
also known as James M. Curley; "The Rascal
King" —
of Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
20, 1874.
Son of Michael Curley and Sarah (Clancy) Curley.
Democrat. Real
estate and insurance
business; president, Hibernia Savings Bank;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1902-03; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1911-14, 1943-47 (10th
District 1911-13, 12th District 1913-14, 11th District 1943-47);
resigned 1914; mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1914-17, 1922-25, 1930-33, 1946-49; defeated,
1917, 1937, 1941, 1949, 1951, 1955; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1928,
1936,
1940,
1944,
1948,
1952,
1956;
Governor
of Massachusetts, 1935-37; defeated, 1924, 1938; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1936; member of Democratic
National Committee from Massachusetts, 1941-54; indicted
in federal court in 1943, with Donald
W. Smith and others, over his participation in Engineers Group,
Inc., which fraudulently
obtained war contracts; re-indicted
in 1944; tried in
1945-46 and convicted;
sentenced
to six to eighteen months in prison
and fined
$1,000; released in November 1947 when his sentence was commuted by
President Harry
Truman.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Eagles; Moose; Elks; Knights
of Columbus; Ancient
Order of Hibernians.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
12, 1958 (age 83 years, 357
days).
Interment at Old
Calvary Cemetery, Roslindale, Boston, Mass.
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Frank E. Curran —
of San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.
Mayor
of San Diego, Calif., 1963-71.
Indicted
in 1970 on bribery
and conspiracy charges
in connection with the "Yellow Cab Scandal".
Still living as of 1971.
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Richard Cutts (1771-1845) —
of Pepperell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Saco, York
County, Maine, June 28,
1771.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts state legislature; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1801-13 (at-large 1801-05,
14th District 1805-13); imprisoned
for debt, 1828.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April 7,
1845 (age 73 years, 283
days).
Original interment at St.
John's Church Cemetery, Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.;
reinterment in 1857 at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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