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Richard Valentine Morris (1768-1815) —
also known as Richard V. Morris —
of Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Morrisania, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, Bronx
County), N.Y., March 8,
1768.
Son of Lewis
Morris.
U.S. Navy Captain, starting in 1798; criticized
by his superiors for his inaction as commander during an
attempted blockade of Tripoli in 1803; he faced a Naval Court of Inquiry
in 1804 and was dismissed
from the Navy; member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County, 1813-14.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 13,
1815 (age 47 years, 66
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Hull (1753-1825) —
Born in Derby, New Haven
County, Conn., June 24,
1753.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Massachusetts
state senate, 1798-1805; Governor of
Michigan Territory, 1805-12; general in the U.S. Army during the
War of 1812.
Following his surrender of Detroit to the British in 1812, was found
guilty by a court-martial of cowardice, neglect
of duty, and unofficerlike conduct, and sentenced
to death; President Madison accepted this decision but remitted the
sentence.
Died in Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
29, 1825 (age 72 years, 158
days).
Interment at Newton
Cemetery, Newton, Mass.
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John Charles Frémont (1813-1890) —
also known as "The Pathfinder"; "The
Champion of Freedom" —
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., January
21, 1813.
Son of Jean Charles Frémont and Ann Whiting (Pryor)
Frémont.
Republican. Explorer;
Military
Governor of California, 1847; arrested
for mutiny, 1847; court-martialed;
found
guilty of mutiny, disobedience, and conduct
prejudicial to order; penalty remitted by Pres. James
K. Polk; U.S.
Senator from California, 1850-51; candidate for President
of the United States, 1856; general in the Union Army during the
Civil War; Governor of
Arizona Territory, 1878-81; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1888.
Episcopalian.
French
ancestry.
Died, of peritonitis,
in a hotel
room at New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 13,
1890 (age 77 years, 173
days).
Original interment at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1891 at Rockland
Cemetery, Nyack, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Jean Charles Frémont and Ann Whiting (Pryor)
Frémont; married, October
19, 1841, to Jessie Benton (daughter of Thomas
Hart Benton). |
| | | Cross-reference: Selah
Hill |
| | | Fremont County,
Colo., Fremont County,
Idaho, Fremont County,
Iowa and Fremont County,
Wyo. are named for him. |
| | | Politician named for him: John F.
Hill
|
| | | Campaign slogan (1856): "Free Soil,
Free Men, Fremont." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by John C. Fremont: Memoirs
of My Life and Times |
| | | Books about John C. Fremont: Tom
Chaffin, Pathfinder:
John Charles Fremont and the Course of American
Empire — David Roberts, A
Newer World : Kit Carson, John C. Fremont and the Claiming of the
American West — Andrew Rolle, John
Charles Fremont: Character As Destiny |
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Charles Edward Travis (1829-1860) —
also known as Charles E. Travis —
Born in Alabama, August 8,
1829.
Son of Rosanna (Cato) Travis and William
Barret Travis.
Member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1853-54.
Court-martialed
and discharged
from the U.S. Cavalry, on charges of conduct unbecoming an
officer and a gentleman, based on incidents of alleged slander,
unauthorized absence, and cheating
at cards.
Died, of consumption
(tuberculosis)
in Washington
County, Tex., 1860
(age about
30 years).
Interment at Masonic
Cemetery, Chappell Hill, Tex.
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Robert William Wilcox (1855-1903) —
also known as Robert W. Wilcox —
of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii.
Born in Kahalu, Honuaula, Island of Maui, Maui
County, Hawaii, February
15, 1855.
Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Hawaii Territory, 1900-03.
Leader of the Hawaiian revolution of 1889; tried for
treason,
but acquitted by a jury. Was involved in the rebellion
of 1895 and subsequently court-martialed, found
guilty, and sentenced to
death; the sentence was later commuted to 35 years; pardoned
by the Hawaiian president in 1898.
Died in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, October
23, 1903 (age 48 years, 250
days).
Interment at Catholic
Cemetery, Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Hawaii.
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Benjamin Franklin Tilley (1848-1907) —
also known as B. F. Tilley —
Born in Bristol, Bristol
County, R.I., March 29,
1848.
Son of Benjamin Tilley and Sarah W. (Esterbrooks) Tilley.
U.S. Navy commander; Governor of
American Samoa; court
martialed in 1901 on charges of immorality
and drunkenness;
tried
and found not guilty.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March 18,
1907 (age 58 years, 354
days).
Interment at Naval
Academy Cemetery, Annapolis, Md.
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James Harrison Oliver (1857-1928) —
also known as J. H. Oliver —
of Charles
City County, Va.
Born in Houston
County, Ga., January
15, 1857.
Son of Thaddeus Oliver and Sarah Penelope (Lawson) Oliver.
As a naval commander, he was arrested
and court-martialed
over his role in a 1904 collision in Delaware Bay; acquitted
and reinstated; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands.
Died, of heart
disease, in Charles City
County, Va., April 6,
1928 (age 71 years, 82
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William F. Kruse (1894-1952) —
also known as Bill Kruse —
of Illinois.
Born in Hoboken, Hudson
County, N.J., 1894.
Socialist. Bookkeeper;
indicted
in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. Victor
L. Berger, and three others, for making speeches
that encouraged disloyalty
and obstructed military recruitment; tried and
convicted;
sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
the conviction was later overturned; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 6th District, 1918, 1920; delegate
to Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920; candidate for
secretary
of state of Illinois, 1921.
German
and Danish
ancestry.
Died in 1952
(age about
58 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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J. Louis Engdahl (1884-1932) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., November
11, 1884.
Writer
and editor for Socialist and Communist newspapers;
indicted
in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. Victor
L. Berger, and three others, for making speeches
that encouraged disloyalty
and obstructed military recruitment; tried and
convicted;
sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
the conviction was later overturned; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1918; delegate to
Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1924 (Workers), 1926 (Workers Communist);
Communist candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1930; Communist candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1931.
Swedish
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Moscow, Russia,
November
21, 1932 (age 48 years, 10
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Irwin St. John Tucker —
of Illinois.
Socialist. Lecturer;
indicted
in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. Victor
L. Berger, and three others, for making speeches
that encouraged disloyalty
and obstructed military recruitment; tried and
convicted;
sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
the conviction was later overturned; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 10th District, 1918; delegate to
Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920.
Burial
location unknown.
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Adolph Germer (1881-1964) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Wehlau, East Prussia (now Znamensk, Kaliningrad
Oblast), January
15, 1881.
Socialist. Miner; union
official in various capacities for the United Mine Workers of
America, 1906-16; candidate for Illinois
state house of representatives, 1912; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1914; National Executive Secretary,
Socialist Party of America, 1916-19; indicted
in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. Victor
L. Berger, and three others, for making speeches
that encouraged disloyalty
and obstructed military recruitment; tried and
convicted;
sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
the conviction was later overturned; candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 16th District, 1921.
Member, United
Mine Workers.
Died in Rockford, Winnebago
County, Ill., 1964
(age about
83 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Clark Daniel Stearns (b. 1870) —
of Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.
Born in 1870.
U.S. Navy officer; Governor of
American Samoa; in 1921, he was relieved of
duty as commander of the U.S. Navy ship Michigan, for
allowing the men under his command to organize
committees; in 1923, he was chief of emergency relief work
following an earthquake in Japan, and received a medal from the
Japanese Red Cross; after the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941, he sent
the medal back to Japan.
Burial
location unknown.
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Smedley Darlington Butler (1881-1940) —
also known as Smedley Butler; "The Fighting
Quaker"; "Old Gimlet Eye" —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in West Chester, Chester
County, Pa., July 30,
1881.
Son of Thomas
Stalker Butler and Maud Mary (Darlington) Butler.
Republican. Major general in U.S. Marine Corps; received a Medal
of Honor for the capture of Veracruz, Mexico, 1914; received
another for the capture of Fort Riviere, Haiti, 1915; Philadelphia police
commissioner, 1924-25; arrested
and court-martialed
in 1931 over his unauthorized disclosure
of an incident unflattering to Italian dictator Italian Benito
Mussolini; retired from the service rather than apologize to
Mussolini; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1932.
Quaker.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., June 21,
1940 (age 58 years, 327
days).
Interment at Oaklands
Cemetery, West Chester, Pa.
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Felix L. Sparks —
of Colorado.
Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; one of the heroes of
the Anzio beachhead in 1944; on April 29, 1945, he captured the
Dachau concentration camp, and under orders to permit no one in or
out, refused entry to a brigadier general from another unit;
court-martial
charges were drawn up, and Sparks was arrested;
the charges were dismissed by General Patton; justice of
Colorado state supreme court, 1956.
Still living as of 1957.
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Elliott Roosevelt (1910-1990) —
of Fort Worth, Tarrant
County, Tex.; Buford, Rio Blanco
County, Colo.; Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.; Miami Beach, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.; Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Palm Springs, Riverside
County, Calif.; Scottsdale, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
23, 1910.
Son of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt and Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1940;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; investigated
and called to testify by a U.S. Senate subcommittee in 1947 over lavish
entertainment in Hollywood and Manhattan, many paid
escorts, and paid hotel
bills provided to Roosevelt and others, in a successful effort to
persuade them to recommend Hughes reconnaissance aircraft for
purchase by the U.S. military; owned a radio
station in Texas; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Colorado, 1960;
mayor
of Miami Beach, Fla., 1965-69.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, in Scottsdale, Maricopa
County, Ariz., October
27, 1990 (age 80 years, 34
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Second cousin five times removed of Nicholas
Roosevelt, Jr.; second great-grandnephew of James
I. Roosevelt; great-grandnephew of Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt; grandnephew of Theodore
Roosevelt; son of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt and Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt; first cousin once removed of Alice
Lee Roosevelt Longworth, Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr. and William
Sheffield Cowles; brother of James
Roosevelt and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, Jr.; married, January
16, 1932, to Elizabeth Browning Donner (divorced 1933); married,
July
22, 1933, to Ruth Josephine Googins (divorced 1944); married, December
3, 1944, to Faye Margaret Emerson (divorced 1950); married, March 15,
1951, to Minnewa (Bell) Gray Burnside Ross (divorced 1960);
married, November
3, 1960, to Patricia (Peabody) Whithead. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Bobby Seale (b. 1936) —
also known as Robert George Seale —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., October
22, 1936.
Joined U.S. Air Force in 1955; charged
with insubordination and being AWOL, and dishonorably
discharged; sheet metal
worker; co-founder, with Huey Newton, of the Black Panther Party,
1966; one of eight defendants charged
in 1969 with crossing state lines to incite a
riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago; the
judge ordered him bound and
gagged during the trial, and sentenced
him to four years in prison
for contempt
of court; Peace and Freedom candidate for California
state assembly 17th District, 1968; in 1970, he was charged
in New Haven, Conn., with ordering
the murder of Alex Rackley, a Black Panther who had confessed to
being a police informant; the jury was unable to reach a verdict, and
the charges were eventually dropped; candidate for mayor of
Oakland, Calif., 1973.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2011.
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Maurice Larry Lawrence (1926-1996) —
also known as M. Larry Lawrence —
of San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.; Coronado, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August
16, 1926.
Son of Sidney A. Lawrence and Tillie P. Astor Lawrence.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1964,
1968,
1972;
candidate for Presidential Elector for California, 1972;
U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, 1994-96, died in office 1996.
Jewish.
Member, Zeta
Beta Tau.
Falsely
claimed to have served and been injured in the Merchant
Marine during World War II; this was discovered
a year after his death.
Died, of leukemia
and blood
dyscrasia, in Berne, Switzerland,
January
9, 1996 (age 69 years, 146
days).
Original interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.; reinterment in 1997 at El
Camino Cemetery, San Diego, Calif.
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Robert W. Levy (b. 1947) —
also known as Bob Levy —
of Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J.
Born in Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., May 16,
1947.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; mayor
of Atlantic City, N.J., 2005-07; resigned 2007.
Falsely
claimed to have served in the U.S. Army U.S. Army Special
Forces (Green Berets); admitted
that he used false information in his service record to obtain
benefits; disappeared
on September 26, 2007; his lawyer announced on October 10 that he had
resigned;
pleaded
guilty in November to defrauding
the Department of Veterans Affairs, sentenced
to three years probation,
fined,
and ordered to pay restitution.
Still living as of 2008.
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