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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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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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Thomas Edward Watson (1856-1922) —
also known as Thomas E. Watson —
of Thomson, McDuffie
County, Ga.
Born in Columbia
County, Ga., September
5, 1856.
Son of John S. Watson and Ann Eliza (Maddox) Watson.
Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1882-83; Presidential Elector for
Georgia, 1888;
U.S.
Representative from Georgia 10th District, 1891-93; candidate for
Vice
President of the United States, 1896; Populist candidate for President
of the United States, 1904, 1908; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Georgia, 1912;
controversial for his writings attacking the Catholic Church;
arrested
in 1912 on obscenity
charges
over three chapters in his book The Catholic Hierarchy; tried and
acquitted in 1916; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1921-22; died in office 1922.
Died September
26, 1922 (age 66 years, 21
days).
Interment at Thomson
Cemetery, Thomson, Ga.
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Henry Ford (1863-1947) —
of Dearborn, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Greenfield Township (now part of Detroit), Wayne
County, Mich., July 30,
1863.
Son of William Ford (1826-1905) and Mary (Litogot) Ford
(c.1839-1876).
Engineer;
inventor;
founder, Ford Motor
Company, 1903; candidate for Republican nomination for President,
1916;
Democratic candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1918.
Episcopalian.
Scotch-Irish
and Belgian
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Publisher, in 1919-27, of the Dearborn Independent newspaper,
which promoted anti-Semitic ideas through articles such as
"The International Jew: The World's Problem," which were reprinted as
pamphlets and books. In 1927, a libel
lawsuit against Ford over these writings led him to shut down
the paper and publicly recant
its contents.
Died, from a stroke, in
Dearborn, Wayne
County, Mich., April 7,
1947 (age 83 years, 251
days).
Interment at Ford
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of William Ford (1826-1905) and Mary (Litogot) Ford (c.1839-1876);
married, April 11,
1888, to Clara Jane Bryant (1866-1950); uncle of Clarence
M. Ford. |
| | | Cross-reference: James
Couzens — Herman
Bernstein — Alfred
J. Murphy — Martin
C. Ansorge |
| | | Personal motto:
"Efficiency." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books about Henry Ford: Douglas
Brinkley, Wheels
for the World : Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress,
1903-2003 — William A. Levinson, Henry
Ford's Lean Vision — Pat McCarthy, Henry
Ford : Building Cars for Everyone (for young
readers) — David Weitzman, Model
T : How Henry Ford Built a Legend (for young
readers) |
| | | Critical books about Henry Ford: Max
Wallace, The
American Axis : Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the
Third Reich — Neil Baldwin, Henry
Ford and the Jews : The Mass Production of Hate |
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John L. Duvall (1874-1962) —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Tazewell
County, Ill., November
29, 1874.
Republican. Mayor
of Indianapolis, Ind., 1926-27; resigned 1927.
Convicted
in 1927 of violating the state corrupt practices act by taking
bribes from Ku Klux Klan leader leader D. C. Stephenson;
sentenced
to 30 days in jail, fined
$1,000, and forced to
resign as mayor.
Died February
25, 1962 (age 87 years, 88
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Charles E. Bowles (1884-1957) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Yale, St. Clair
County, Mich., March 24,
1884.
Son of Alfred Bowles and Mary (Lutz) Bowles.
Republican. Lawyer;
recorder's court judge in Michigan, 1926-29; resigned 1929; mayor of
Detroit, Mich., 1930; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 15th District, 1932, 1934;
candidate for circuit
judge in Michigan 3rd Circuit, 1941; candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1950, 1952.
Member, Optimist
Club.
Recalled
from office as Mayor in 1930 over charges that he had sold out to
gangsters
and the Ku Klux Klan.
Died July 30,
1957 (age 73 years, 128
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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William Dudley Pelley (1890-1965) —
of Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C.; Noblesville, Hamilton
County, Ind.
Born in Lynn, Essex
County, Mass., March 12,
1890.
Son of Grace (Goodale) Pelley (born 1861) and William George Apsey
Pelley (1867-1920).
Hollywood screenwriter
in 1917-29 for about 12 films,
including The Light in the Dark and The Shock, both
starring Lon Chaney; founder (1933) and leader of the
anti-Semitic Silver Legion of America organization (the
"Silver Shirts", explicitly modeled after Adolf Hitler's
Brownshirts); Christian candidate for President
of the United States, 1936; arrested
in April 1942 and charged
with criminal
sedition; convicted
and sentenced
to fifteen years in prison;
released in 1950.
Died in Noblesville, Hamilton
County, Ind., July 1,
1965 (age 75 years, 111
days).
Interment at Crownland
Cemetery, Noblesville, Ind.
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Joseph Ellsberry McWilliams (1904-1996) —
also known as Joe McWilliams —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Hitchcock, Blaine
County, Okla., 1904.
Gave street-corner
speeches in New York City, in which he denounced Jews and
praised Adolf Hitler; arrested
in 1940 when one of his speeches caused a riot; charged
with sedition
in 1944, as part of an alleged Nazi conspiracy; tried
along with many others, but after seven months, a mistrial was
declared; candidate in Republican primary for U.S.
Representative from New York 18th District, 1940.
Died in 1996
(age about
92 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Edward Elwell Spafford (1878-1941) —
also known as Edward E. Spafford —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Brewster, Putnam
County, N.Y.
Born in Springfield, Windsor
County, Vt., March 12,
1878.
Son of Hiram Duncan Spafford (1841-1912) and Georgia F. Spafford.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
National Commander, American Legion, 1927-28; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1930.
Member, American
Legion.
In 1941, during divorce proceedings, he was accused
of conspiring with German
agents in America; in an interview published in 1943 by
journalist John Roy Carlson, he espoused strongly antisemitic
and pro-Hitler views.
Died, in the Naval Academy Hospital,
Annapolis, Anne Arundel
County, Md., November
13, 1941 (age 63 years, 246
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Hiram Duncan Spafford (1841-1912) and Georgia F. Spafford;
married, May 22,
1912, to Lucille M. Stevens (died 1914); married 1922 to Lillian
Mercer Pierce. |
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Lorence Elmer Asman (b. 1924) —
also known as Lorence E. Asman; Larry
Asman —
of Kent
County, Mich.
Born in St. Louis, Gratiot
County, Mich., January
29, 1924.
Republican. In 1941, he became a follower and associate of
anti-Semitic leader Gerald
L. K. Smith; arrested
by the Secret Service in 1943 for writing a "scurrilous" (presumably
threatening)
letter to President Franklin
D. Roosevelt; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; author
of a inflammatory leaflet in 1946 titled 20,000 Little Brown
Bastards which was widely distributed to stir up racial
hatred against African-Americans; candidate in primary for Michigan
state senate 16th District, 1960.
Still living as of 1960.
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Gerald Burton Winrod (1900-1957) —
also known as Gerald B. Winrod —
Born in Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan., March 7,
1900.
Republican. One of the founders, in 1925, of the group Defenders of
the Christian Faith; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1938; sympathized with the Adolf Hitler and
the Nazis, and and blamed the Depression and World War II on
Jews, Catholics, and Communists; indicted
in July 1942, with others, for sedition
over an alleged conspiracy to cause insubordination in the Armed
Forces in wartime; a mistrial was declared and charges were dropped.
Died in Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan., November
11, 1957 (age 57 years, 249
days).
Interment at White
Chapel Memorial Gardens, Wichita, Kan.
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Gerald Lyman Kenneth Smith (1898-1976) —
also known as Gerald L. K. Smith —
of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Eureka Springs, Carroll
County, Ark.
Born in Pardeeville, Columbia
County, Wis., February
27, 1898.
Son of Lyman Z. Smith and Sarah Smith.
Pastor;
orator;
political administrator and organizer for Huey P.
Long, 1934-35; as a white supremacist, he joined and
organized for William
Dudley Pelley's Silver Shirts of America, an organization modeled
directly on Adolf Hitler's Brownshirts; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1942 (Republican primary), 1942; founder
of the America First party; charged
with sedition
in 1944, as part of an alleged Nazi conspiracy; tried
along with many others, but after seven months, a mistrial was
declared; America First candidate for President
of the United States, 1944; founder of the Christian Nationalist
Crusade; advocated deportation from the U.S. of Jews and
African-Americans.
Disciples
of Christ.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Glendale, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April 15,
1976 (age 78 years, 48
days).
Interment at Christ
of the Ozarks Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Ark.
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Charles J. Anderson, Jr. —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 6th District, 1944; delegate to the
openly anti-Semitic America First Party convention in 1944,
which nominated Gerald
L. K. Smith for president.
Pleaded
guilty in Chicago, 1946 to a charge of
assault
with intent to kill.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Theodore Gilmore Bilbo (1877-1947) —
also known as Theodore G. Bilbo —
of Poplarville, Pearl River
County, Miss.
Born near Poplarville, Pearl River
County, Miss., October
13, 1877.
Son of James Oliver Bilbo and Beedy (Wallace) Bilbo.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer; farmer;
member of Mississippi
state senate, 1908-12; Lieutenant
Governor of Mississippi, 1912-16; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Mississippi, 1912
(alternate), 1916
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1928,
1936,
1940,
1944;
Governor
of Mississippi, 1916-20, 1928-32; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1935-47; died in office 1947.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Odd
Fellows.
Author
of the book Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization,
which advocated deportation of all American blacks to Africa. During
the 1946 campaign, in a radio address, he called on "every
red-blooded Anglo-Saxon man in Mississippi to resort to any means to
keep hundreds of Negroes from the polls in the July 2 primary. And if
you don't know what that means, you are just not up to your
persuasive measures." After he won re-election, the Senate, appalled
at his racist views and tactics, refused to
seat him, and started an investigation.
Died, of mouth
cancer, in a hospital
at New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., August
21, 1947 (age 69 years, 312
days).
Interment at Juniper
Grove Cemetery, Near Poplarville, Pearl River County, Miss.
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George Lincoln Rockwell (1918-1967) —
of Arlington, Arlington
County, Va.
Born in Bloomington, McLean
County, Ill., March 9,
1918.
Son of George Lovejoy 'Doc' Rockwell (vaudeville and radio comedian)
and Claire (Schade) Rockwell.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; served in the U.S. Navy
during the Korean conflict; founder, in 1959, of the National
Committee to Free America from Jewish Domination (later known
as the American Nazi Party); arrested
at various demonstrations
during the 1960s; American Nazi candidate for Governor of
Virginia, 1965.
Shot
and killed by
a sniper, later identified as John Patler, while driving his
car in the parking lot of Dominion Hills Shopping
Center, Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., August
25, 1967 (age 49 years, 169
days); Patler was convicted of the murder and sentenced to 20
years in prison. Rockwell's funeral procession was not allowed into
Culpeper National Cemetery because of Nazi emblems worn by his
supporters.
Cremated.
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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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Earl Lauer Butz (1909-2008) —
also known as Earl L. Butz —
of West Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind.
Born in Albion, Noble
County, Ind., July 3,
1909.
Son of Herman Lee Butz and Ada Tillie (Lower) Butz.
Economist;
university
professor; U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture, 1971-76.
Member, Alpha
Gamma Rho; Sigma
Xi; Sigma
Delta Chi; Tau
Kappa Alpha; Alpha
Zeta; Kiwanis.
Resigned
in 1976 following a furor
over a racist joke. In 1981, he pleaded
guilty to income
tax evasion; sentenced
to five years in prison
(served 30 days) and fined
$10,000.
Died in Kensington, Montgomery
County, Md., February
2, 2008 (age 98 years, 214
days).
Interment at Tippecanoe
Memory Gardens, West Lafayette, Ind.
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John George Schmitz (1930-2001) —
also known as John G. Schmitz —
of California.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., August
12, 1930.
Member of California
state senate, 1965-70, 1979; U.S.
Representative from California 35th District, 1970-73; defeated
in Republican primary, 1972, 1976, 1984; American Independent
candidate for President
of the United States, 1972; reprimanded
by the California Senate in 1982 over a press release issued by his
office, which characterized a critic and her supporters with crude
slurs; candidate in Republican primary for U.S.
Senator from California, 1982.
Catholic.
Member, Young
Americans for Freedom; John
Birch Society; American
Legion; Knights
of Columbus; National Rifle
Association; Military
Order of the World Wars; Toastmasters.
Died, of prostate
cancer, in the National
Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., January
10, 2001 (age 70 years, 151
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives:
Father of Mary Kay LeTourneau (Seattle teacher; convicted of child
rape over her affair with a 13-year-old student). |
| | | Campaign slogan: "When you're out of
Schmitz, you're out of gear." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — NNDB
dossier |
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Frederick Waldron Phelps (b. 1929) —
also known as Fred Phelps —
of Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan.
Born in Meridian, Lauderdale
County, Miss., November
13, 1929.
Son of Frederick Wade Phelps (1893-1977) and Catherine Idalette
(Johnson) Phelps (c.1907-1935).
Democrat. Lawyer; disbarred
by the state of Kansas in 1979 over harassment
of a court reporter and perjury
during the proceedings; in 1985, nine Federal judges filed a
disciplinary complaint against him over alleged false
accusations, which led to an agreement that he cease law
practice in Federal court; pastor of
the Westboro Baptist Church, which is widely
reviled for its extreme hatred of homosexuals, and its
tactics, such as picketing at military funerals; candidate in primary
for Governor of
Kansas, 1990, 1994, 1998; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1992; candidate for mayor of
Topeka, Kan., 1993, 1997.
Baptist.
Still living as of 2011.
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Tom Metzger —
of California; Warsaw, Kosciusko
County, Ind.
Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 43rd District, 1980; candidate in
Democratic primary for U.S.
Senator from California, 1982; convicted
in 1991 of burning a
cross (as a form of hate speech or intimidation) and sentenced
to prison;
in 1992, he was arrested
in Canada for violating immigration
laws.
Member, John
Birch Society; Ku Klux Klan.
Still living as of 2012.
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