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Cuthbert Bullitt (1740-1791) —
Born in Prince
William County, Va., 1740.
Lawyer;
planter;
shot and killed John
Baylis in a duel
on September 24, 1765; later tried for
the killing and acquitted; delegate to
Virginia state constitutional convention, 1776.
Anglican;
later Episcopalian.
Died in Prince
William County, Va., 1791
(age about
51 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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David Matthews —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Lawyer;
mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1776-84.
In 1776, the New York Provincial Congress ordered his arrest
over his involvement
in a plot to poison Gen. George
Washington; continued serving as mayor during British occupation
of the city; in 1783, he fled to
Nova Scotia with other Loyalists.
Burial
location unknown.
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John Rowan (1773-1843) —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born near York, York
County, Pa., July 12,
1773.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to
Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1799; secretary of
state of Kentucky, 1804-08; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 3rd District, 1807-09; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1813-17, 1822-24; Judge,
Kentucky Court of Appeals, 1819-21; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1825-31.
Built the mansion "Federal Hill", later made famous by his cousin,
the songwriter Stephen Foster, in the song "My Old Kentucky Home."
Fought a duel
about 1801 with an acquaintance, James Chambers, in which the latter
was killed; arrested
and tried on
murder charges,
but acquitted.
Died in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., July 13,
1843 (age 70 years, 1
days).
Interment at Bardstown
Cemetery, Bardstown, Ky.
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Joseph Hamilton Daviess (1774-1811) —
also known as Joe Daviess —
of Danville, Boyle
County, Ky.; Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Bedford
County, Va., March 4,
1774.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for Kentucky, 1800-06; major in the U.S. Army during the
War of 1812.
Welsh
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Around 1801, he served as a second to John
Rowan in his duel
with James Chambers; after Chambers was killed, he fled
to avoid
prosecution as accomplice to murder, and became a fugitive,
but when Rowan was arrested, he returned to act as Rowan's legal
counsel.
Shot
and killed
in the Battle of Tippecanoe, in what is now Tippecanoe
County, Ind., November
7, 1811 (age 37 years, 248
days).
Interment at Tippecanoe
Battlefield Park, Battle Ground, Ind.
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Henry Stuart Foote (1804-1880) —
Born in Fauquier
County, Va., February
28, 1804.
U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1847-52; Governor of
Mississippi, 1852-54; Representative
from Tennessee in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65.
Fought four duels;
fled
Alabama in 1830 to escape
prosecution for dueling. Exchanged blows with Thomas
Hart Benton on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Expelled
from the Confederate Congress in early 1865 for going North on an unauthorized
peace mission.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., May 20,
1880 (age 76 years, 82
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
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Robert Potter (c.1800-1842) —
of Oxford, Granville
County, N.C.
Born near Williamsboro, Vance
County, N.C., about 1800.
Member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1826, 1834-35; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 6th District, 1829-31; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Nacogdoches, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; Texas
Republic Secretary of the Navy, 1836; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Red River and Fannin, 1840-42;
died in office 1842.
Resigned
from the U.S. Congress in 1831 after maiming two men in a
jealous rage; convicted,
and sentenced
to six months in prison.
Expelled
in 1835 from the North Carolina House for cheating
at cards.
Shot
and killed by
members of an opposing faction who surrounded his home, in Harrison
County (part now in Marion
County), Tex., March 2,
1842 (age about 42
years).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Marion County, Tex.; reinterment in
1928 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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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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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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Albert Lewis Stuart (1819-1876) —
also known as Albert L. Stuart —
Born in Connecticut, June 25,
1819.
Lawyer;
member of Arkansas
state house of representatives, 1850-51.
Methodist.
During an election dispute in Gainsville, Ark., in the early 1850s,
he shot and killed Riley Vaughn; charged
with murder, tried,
and acquitted.
Died in Powell Township, Craighead
County, Ark., March 16,
1876 (age 56 years, 265
days).
Interment at Woods
Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery, Paragould, Ark.
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Relatives:
Great-grandson of Marlin Stuart (pro baseball
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Edward Allen Hannegan (1807-1859) —
also known as Edward A. Hannegan —
of Covington, Fountain
County, Ind.
Born in Hamilton
County, Ohio, June 25,
1807.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1832-33, 1841-42; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 7th District, 1833-37; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1843-49; U.S. Minister to Prussia, 1849-50.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
In May, 1852, during a drunken
argument, he stabbed his brother-in-law, Captain Duncan, who
died the
next day.
Died from overdose of
morphine (probably suicide),
in St.
Louis, Mo., February
25, 1859 (age 51 years, 245
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
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Laurence Massillon Keitt (1824-1864) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Orangeburg
County, S.C., October
4, 1824.
Democrat. Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1848; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 3rd District, 1853-55,
1855-56, 1856-60; censured
by the House in 1856 for aiding Rep. Preston
S. Brooks in his caning attack on Sen. Charles
Sumner; resigned; re-elected to his seat within a month; Delegate
from South Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress,
1861-62; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Mortally
wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, and died the next day, near
Richmond (unknown
county), Va., June 4,
1864 (age 39 years, 244
days).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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Preston Smith Brooks (1819-1857) —
also known as Preston S. Brooks —
of South Carolina.
Born in Edgefield, Edgefield District (now Edgefield
County), S.C., August 5,
1819.
Son of Whitefield Brooks and Mary P. (Carroll) Brooks.
Lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1844; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 4th District, 1853-56,
1856-57; died in office 1857.
Suffered a hip wound in a duel
with Louis
T. Wigfall, 1839, and could walk only with
a cane for the rest of his life. In May, 1856, furious over an
anti-slavery speech, he went to the Senate and beat Senator Charles
Sumner with a cane, causing severe injuries; an attempt to
expel
him from Congress failed for lack of the necessary two-thirds vote,
but he resigned;
re-elected to his own vacancy.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
27, 1857 (age 37 years, 175
days).
Interment at Willow
Brook Cemetery, Edgefield, S.C.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Philemon Thomas Herbert (1825-1864) —
also known as Philemon T. Herbert —
of Mariposa, Mariposa
County, Calif.; El Paso, El Paso
County, Tex.
Born in Pine Apple, Wilcox
County, Ala., November
1, 1825.
Democrat. Member of California
state assembly, 1853-55 (10th District 1853-54, 6th District
1854-55); U.S.
Representative from California at-large, 1855-57; in 1856, drunk
at breakfast, he shot and killed Thomas Keating, a waiter at
the Willard Hotel in Washington; charged
with murder, twice tried,
and eventually acquitted; colonel in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War.
Wounded at the Battle of Mansfield, April 8, 1864, and died in
Kingston, DeSoto
Parish, La., July 23,
1864 (age 38 years, 265
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Kingston, La.
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Daniel Edgar Sickles (1819-1914) —
also known as Daniel E. Sickles; "Devil
Dan" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
20, 1819.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1847; member of New York
state senate 3rd District, 1856-57; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1857-61, 1893-95 (3rd District
1857-61, 10th District 1893-95); defeated, 1894; general in the Union
Army during the Civil War; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1868;
U.S. Minister to Spain, 1869-74; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1892.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Shot and killed Philip
Barton Key, his wife's lover and the son of the author of the
national anthem, at Lafayette Park, Washington, D.C, 1859; charged
with murder, but with the help of his attorney Edwin
M. Stanton, was acquitted after the first
successful plea of temporary insanity in U.S. legal history.
Received the Medal
of Honor in 1897 for action at the Battle of Gettysburg, July 2,
1863; lost a
leg in that battle; his amputated leg was displayed at the Army
Medical Museum, where he frequently visited it in later years.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 3,
1914 (age 94 years, 195
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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David Smith Terry (1823-1889) —
also known as David S. Terry —
of Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Stockton, San Joaquin
County, Calif.
Born in Christian County (part now in Todd
County), Ky., March 8,
1823.
Son of Joseph Royal Terry (1792-1877) and Sarah David (Smith) Terry
(1793-1837).
Lawyer;
went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; advocated the extension of
slavery to California; justice of
California state supreme court, 1855-59; chief
justice of California state supreme court, 1857-59; killed U.S.
Senator David
C. Broderick in a duel
near San Francisco in 1859; tried for
murder, but acquitted; served in the Confederate Army during
the Civil War; delegate
to California state constitutional convention, 1878-79; candidate
for Presidential Elector for California, 1880;
his wife Sarah Althea Hill claimed to be the widow and heir of
wealthy U.S. Senator William
Sharon; in September, 1888, when her claim was finally rejected
by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen
J. Field (acting as a Court of Appeals judge for California), she
and Terry caused an altercation in the courtroom and were jailed
six months for contempt
of court.
Five months after his release from jail, he encountered Justice Field
and slapped him in the face; he was then shot
through the heart and killed by
U.S. Deputy Marshal David Neagle, the justice's bodyguard, in the train
station dining
room at Lathrop, San Joaquin
County, Calif., August
14, 1889 (age 66 years, 159
days). Neagle was arrested by local authorities, but later
released on the demand of the U.S. government.
Interment at Stockton
Rural Cemetery, Stockton, Calif.
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Judah Philip Benjamin (1811-1884) —
also known as Judah P. Benjamin; Philippe Benjamin;
"Poo Bah of the Confederacy" —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.; London, England;
Paris, France.
Born in Christiansted, St. Croix, Virgin
Islands, August 6,
1811.
Son of Philip Benjamin and Rebecca (de Mendes) Benjamin.
Lawyer;
member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1842-44; delegate to
Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1845; Presidential
Elector for Louisiana, 1848;
U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1853-61; Confederate
Attorney General, 1861; Confederate
Secretary of War, 1861-62; Confederate
Secretary of State, 1862-65.
Jewish.
His portrait appeared on the Confederate States two-dollar
note in 1861-64. He fled
to Europe in 1865 to avoid
arrest by Union forces; he was suspected of involvement in the
assassination of President Abraham
Lincoln.
Fell
from a tram car
about 1880, and suffered multiple injuries; also developed kidney and
heart
problems, and died in Paris, France,
May 6,
1884 (age 72 years, 274
days).
Interment at Père
la Chaise Cemetery, Paris, France.
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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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Robert Augustus Toombs (1810-1885) —
also known as Robert Toombs; Bob Toombs —
of Washington, Wilkes
County, Ga.
Born in Wilkes
County, Ga., July 2,
1810.
Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1837-43; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 8th District, 1845-53; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1853-61; delegate
to Georgia secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62; Confederate
Secretary of State, 1861; general in the Confederate Army during
the Civil War; fled
to Europe in 1865 to avoid
arrest by Union
forces; he was suspected of involvement in the
assassination of President Abraham
Lincoln; later returned to Georgia; delegate to
Georgia state constitutional convention, 1877.
One of the greatest orators of his time.
Died in Washington, Wilkes
County, Ga., December
15, 1885 (age 75 years, 166
days).
Interment at Rest
Haven Cemetery, Washington, Ga.
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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 |
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article |
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of Reviews, February 1902 |
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John Doyle Lee (1812-1877) —
also known as John D. Lee —
Born in Kaskaskia, Randolph
County, Ill., September
12, 1812.
Member of Utah
territorial House of Representatives, 1858.
Mormon.
Involved in the Mountain Meadows massacre on September 11, 1857, when
a Mormon militia and/or Paiute Indian tribesmen (accounts differ)
slaughtered about 120 settlers who had been traveling through Utah by
wagon train; indicted
for murder almost twenty years later, and tried in
1875; the first trial ended in a hung jury; retried
in 1876; convicted
and sentenced to
death; released for a time in order to settle his business
affairs; executed
by firing squad, at Mountain Meadows, Washington
County, Utah, March 23,
1877 (age 64 years, 192
days).
Interment at Panguitch
Cemetery, Panguitch, Utah.
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John Henry Johnston —
of Danville,
Va.
Mayor
of Danville, Va., 1882-84; defeated (Independent), 1884; shot
and killed Chief of Police John E. Hatcher, during a disagreement
over the use of collected fines, on September 9, 1882; indicted
for murder but released on $5,000 bail; tried in
December, and acquitted.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Cassius Goodloe (1841-1889) —
also known as W. Cassius Goodloe —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Madison
County, Ky., June 27,
1841.
Son of D. I. Goodloe.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
publisher; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Kentucky, 1868,
1872
(delegation chair), 1884,
1888;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1871; defeated, 1867; member of
Republican
National Committee from Kentucky, 1872-; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1873; candidate for Kentucky
state attorney general, 1875; U.S. Minister to Belgium, 1878-80.
Episcopalian.
Member, Loyal
Legion.
During a violent encounter in the lobby of the Lexington Post
Office, he repeatedly stabbed and ultimately killed a
political enemy, Col. Armistead Swope, who meanwhile shot and
badly
wounded him; before any prosecution
could ensue, he died of his own wounds two days later, in the Phoenix
Hotel,
Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., November
8, 1889 (age 48 years, 134
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Stephen Johnson Field (1816-1899) —
also known as Stephen J. Field —
of Yuba
County, Calif.
Born in Haddam, Middlesex
County, Conn., November
4, 1816.
Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state assembly 14th District, 1851-52; justice of
California state supreme court, 1857-63; chief
justice of California state supreme court, 1859-63; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1863-97; arrested
in San Francisco, August 16, 1889, on charges
of being party to the alleged murder of David
S. Terry; released on bail; ultimately the killing was ruled to
be justifiable homicide.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April 9,
1899 (age 82 years, 156
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926) —
also known as Eugene V. Debs —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., November
5, 1855.
Son of Daniel Debs and Marguerite (Betterich) Debs.
Locomotive
fireman on the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad;
secretary-treasurer
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in 1880-93; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1885; founder in
1893 and president
(1893-97) of the American Railway Union; arrested
during a strike
in 1894 and charged
with conspiracy to commit murder; the charges were dropped,
but he was jailed
for six months for contempt
of court; became a Socialist while incarcerated; candidate for President
of the United States, 1900 (Social Democratic), 1904 (Socialist),
1908 (Socialist), 1912 (Socialist), 1920 (Socialist); in 1905, was a
founder of
the Industrial Workers of the World ("Wobblies"), which hoped to
organize all workers in "One Big Union"; convicted
under the Sedition
and Espionage Act for an anti-war
speech he made in 1918, and sentenced
to ten years in federal prison;
released in 1921.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died in Lindlahr Sanitarium,
Elmhurst, DuPage
County, Ill., October
20, 1926 (age 70 years, 349
days).
Interment at Highland
Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
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William Stanley Hollis (1866-1930) —
also known as W. Stanley Hollis —
of Massachusetts; Chevy Chase, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Chelsea, Suffolk
County, Mass., April 4,
1866.
Son of Capt. George Fearing Hollis and Eliza A. (Simmons) Hollis.
U.S. Consul in Mozambique Island, 1894; Lourenco Marques, 1898-1909; Dundee, 1909-10; U.S. Consul General in Beirut, 1911-17; London, 1919-20; Lisbon, 1920-27.
In September, 1894, in Mozambique, he shot and wounded a local
resident who he thought was a burglar; arrested
and tried by
Portugese authorities, convicted
of homicide, and sentenced
to six months in prison.
Died, following a stroke, in
Chevy Chase, Montgomery
County, Md., June 8,
1930 (age 64 years, 65
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Capt. George Fearing Hollis and Eliza A. (Simmons) Hollis; married
1898 to Lena
Cogswell Hobbs; married 1918 to Alice
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Bert McMullin —
of Yell
County, Ark.
Member of Arkansas
state senate, 1897.
Arrested
on May 15, 1897, after he shot at and barely missed J. N.
Smithee, editor of the Arkansas Gazette, who refused to
apologize for critical editorials.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Sylvester Taylor (1853-1928) —
also known as William S. Taylor; W. S. Taylor;
"Hogjaw" —
of Morgantown, Butler
County, Ky.
Born in Butler
County, Ky., October
10, 1853.
Republican. Lawyer;
state court judge in Kentucky, 1886; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Kentucky, 1888,
1900;
Kentucky
state attorney general, 1896-99; Governor of
Kentucky, 1899-1900.
Indicted
in 1900 as a conspirator in the assassination of William
J. Goebel; fled
to Indiana; never extradited; pardoned
in 1909 by Gov. Augustus
E. Willson.
Died August 2,
1928 (age 74 years, 297
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Charles Finley (1865-1941) —
of Williamsburg, Whitley
County, Ky.
Born in Williamsburg, Whitley
County, Ky., March 26,
1865.
Son of Hugh
Franklin Finley and Jennie Renfro (Moss) Finley.
Republican. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1894; secretary of
state of Kentucky, 1896-1900; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 11th District, 1930-33.
Member, Junior
Order; Rotary; Freemasons;
Shriners.
Among those charged
in 1900 with the murder of Gov. William
J. Goebel; pardoned
in 1909.
Died in Williamsburg, Whitley
County, Ky., March 18,
1941 (age 75 years, 357
days).
Interment at Highland
Cemetery, Williamsburg, Ky.
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Caleb Powers (1869-1932) —
of Barbourville, Knox
County, Ky.
Born in Whitley
County, Ky., February
1, 1869.
Republican. Lawyer; secretary of
state of Kentucky, 1900; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 11th District, 1911-19; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Kentucky, 1916.
Prosecuted
and thrice convicted
for the murder of Gov. William
J. Goebel and spent eight years in prison;
pardoned
in 1908 by Gov. Augustus
E. Willson.
Died July 25,
1932 (age 63 years, 175
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Barbourville, Ky.
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James Henderson Hargis (1862-1908) —
also known as James H. Hargis; "Big
Jim" —
of Jackson, Breathitt
County, Ky.
Born in Jackson, Breathitt
County, Ky., October
13, 1862.
Son of John
Seldon Hargis.
Democrat. County judge in Kentucky; member of Kentucky
Democratic State Central Committee, 1899-1907.
Tried
and acquitted for the 1902-03 murders of J.
B. Marcum and two others, but found liable for plotting the
killings in a 1904 civil suit for money damages by surviving
family members.
Shot
and killed by
his son, Beech Hargis, in the Hargis Brothers general
store, Jackson, Breathitt
County, Ky., February
6, 1908 (age 45 years, 116
days).
Interment at Hargis
Family Cemetery, Jackson, Ky.
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Eugene S. Blease (born c.1877) —
of Newberry, Newberry
County, S.C.
Born about 1877.
Democrat. Justice of
South Carolina state supreme court, 1927-31; chief
justice of South Carolina state supreme court, 1931-34; resigned
1934; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1942; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from South Carolina, 1944.
On September 8, 1905, he shot and killed his brother-in-law,
Joe Ben Coleman, in Saluda, S.C.; charged
with murder, he pleaded self-defense and was found not guilty.
Burial
location unknown.
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George Kent Favrot (1868-1934) —
also known as George K. Favrot —
of Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Parish, La.
Born in Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Parish, La., November
26, 1868.
Democrat. Lawyer;
district attorney, 22nd District, 1892-96, 1900-04; delegate to
Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1898; district judge
in Louisiana, 1904-06, 1926-34 (22nd District 1904-06, 19th District
1926-34); died in office 1934; on November 6, 1906, he shot and
killed Dr. Robert H. Aldrich, because the latter had insulted his
wife; arrested
and imprisoned
for five months awaiting indictment and trial; however, the grand
jury refused to indict him, and he was released in April, 1907.; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 6th District, 1907-09, 1921-25;
member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1912-16.
Died in Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Parish, La., December
26, 1934 (age 66 years, 30
days).
Interment at Roselawn
Memorial Park, Baton Rouge, La.
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William Bruce MacMaster, Jr. (1875-1912) —
also known as William B. MacMaster, Jr. —
of New York.
Born, of American parents, in Colombia,
June
28, 1875.
Son of William
Bruce MacMaster.
Rancher;
U.S. Vice Consul in Cartagena, 1904-08; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Cartagena, 1908-12, died in office 1912; stabbed
by two Colombians in the summer of 1909; pressed charges against his
attackers, one of whom was an influential newspaper editor; arrested
by Colombian authorities in June 1910 on charges
that, years earlier, he shot a a Colombian citizen, in what he
said was self-defense; initially acquitted, then found
guilty, then exonerated by a higher court.
While hunting
alone, was shot
multiple times and killed by
an unknown assassin, near Cartagena, Colombia,
August
11, 1912 (age 37 years, 44
days).
Interment at Church
and Convent of Santo Domingo, Cartagena, Colombia.
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John Looney (1865-1947) —
also known as Patrick John Looney —
of Rock Island, Rock Island
County, Ill.
Born in Ottawa, La Salle
County, Ill., October
5, 1865.
Son of Patrick Looney and Margaret Looney.
Lawyer;
newspaper
publisher; indicted
with others in 1897 over a scheme to defraud
the city of Rock Island in connection with a storm drain construction
project; convicted,
but the verdict was overturned on appeal; candidate for Illinois
state house of representatives, 1900; created and led a crime
syndicate in northwest Illinois, with interests in gambling,
prostitution,
extortion,
and eventually bootlegging
and automobile
theft; indicted
in 1907 on 37 counts of bribery,
extortion,
and libel,
but acquitted; shot
and wounded by hidden snipers on two occasions in 1908; on February
22, 1909, he was shot
and wounded in a gunfight with business rival W. W. Wilmerton; on
March 22, 1912, after publishing
personal attacks on Rock Island Mayor Henry
M. Schriver, he was arrested,
brought to the police station, and severely
beaten by the mayor himself; subsequent rioting killed two men
and injured nine others; resumed control of the Rock Island rackets
in 1921; in 1922, he was indicted
for the murder of saloon keeper William Gabel, who had
provided evidence against Looney to federal agents; arrested
in Belen, N.M., in 1924, and later convicted
of conspiracy and murder; sentenced
to 5 years in prison
for conspiracy and 14 years for murder; served 8 1/2 years.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, of tuberculosis,
in a sanitarium
at El Paso, El Paso
County, Tex., 1947
(age about
81 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Henry H. Denhardt (1876-1937) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Warren
County, Ky., 1876.
Democrat. Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1923-27.
Shot
and injured on Election Day 1931. After his girlfriend was killed in
November 1936, he was charged
with murder and tried in
LaGrange, Ky.; the jury could not reach a verdict.
Before he could be tried a second time, he was shot and
killed,
at the Armstrong Hotel,
Shelbyville, Shelby
County, Ky., September
20, 1937 (age about 61
years).
Interment at Fairview
Cemetery, Bowling Green, Ky.
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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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Edward Moore Kennedy (1932-2009) —
also known as Edward M. Kennedy; Ted Kennedy;
"Lion of the Senate" —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born, in St. Margaret's Hospital,
Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
22, 1932.
Son of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy (1890-1995).
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1962-2009; died in office 2009;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1980;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Pleaded
guilty to leaving the
scene of an accident after his car plunged off the Dike Bridge,
on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing passenger
Mary Jo Kopechne, on July 18, 1969.
Died, from brain
cancer, in Hyannis Port, Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass., August
25, 2009 (age 77 years, 184
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives:
Grandson of Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929) and John
Francis Fitzgerald; son of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy (1890-1995);
brother of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Jr., John
Fitzgerald Kennedy, Eunice Mary Kennedy (1921-2009; who married
Robert
Sargent Shriver, Jr.), Patricia
Kennedy Lawford, Robert
Francis Kennedy and Jean
Kennedy Smith; married, November
29, 1958, to Virginia
Joan Bennett (1936-); married, November
30, 1958, to Virginia Joan Bennett (divorced 1982); married, July 3,
1992, to Victoria Anne Reggie (daughter of Edmund
M. Reggie); uncle of Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend, Joseph
Patrick Kennedy II and Mark
Kennedy Shriver; father of Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (1967-). See Kennedy
family of Massachusetts and New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: Murray
M. Chotiner |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — votes
in Congress from the Washington Post — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Edward M. Kennedy: Adam
Clymer, Edward
M. Kennedy: A Biography — Richard E. Burke, The
Senator : My Ten Years With Ted Kennedy |
| | | Critical books about Edward M. Kennedy:
Bernard Goldberg, 100
People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken Is
#37) |
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Lloyd Davis (c.1915-2001) —
of South Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., about 1915.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
superior court judge in California, 1967-70.
Catholic.
Member, Sierra
Club.
On October 26, 1969, he stabbed his wife, Mary Troja Davis,
with a 9-inch butcher knife; she recovered. Charged
with felony assault to commit murder; tried in
1970 and found not guilty by reason of insanity. Years later, he
attributed the incident to a skin cancer drug.
Died in South Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
22, 2001 (age about 86
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Angela Yvonne Davis (b. 1944) —
also known as Angela Davis —
Born in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., January
26, 1944.
Daughter of Sallye E. Davis.
Communist. Following a violent escape
attempt at the Marin County (California) Hall of Justice, August
7, 1970, in which several people were killed, she was implicated
as an accomplice and fled;
later arrested
in New York, tried,
and acquitted in 1972; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1980, 1984; during the Communist
coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991, she supported Gorbachev, and
subsequently left the Communist Party; university
professor.
Female.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2011.
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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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Leonard Peltier (b. 1944) —
Born in Grand Forks, Grand Forks
County, N.Dak., September
12, 1944.
Son of Leo Peltier and Alvina (Robideau) Peltier.
American Indian activist and member of the American Indian Movement;
alleged to have been involved in a shoot-out at the Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation in South Dakota, June 26, 1975, in which three died,
including two FBI agents; fled
South Dakota, was arrested
in Canada, and extradited
to the U.S.; tried and
convicted
of murder in 1977, and sentenced
to two life terms in prison;
Peace and Freedom candidate for President
of the United States, 2004.
American
Indian ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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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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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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Carl Thomas Rowan (1925-2000) —
also known as Carl T. Rowan —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Ravenscroft, White
County, Tenn., August
11, 1925.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S. Ambassador to Finland, 1963-64.
African
ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Widely syndicated newspaper
columnist,
author,
biographer,
television
and radio
commentator, founder of the Project Excellence scholarship program.
In 1988, he shot and wounded an intruder in his backyard in
Washington, D.C.; he was arrested,
charged
with a weapons
violation, and tried;
the jury was unable to reach a verdict, and a mistrial was declared.
Died, of heart and
kidney
ailments and diabetes,
at the Washington Hospital
Center, Washington,
D.C., September
23, 2000 (age 75 years, 43
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Jack Kevorkian (1928-2011) —
also known as "Dr. Death" —
Born in Pontiac, Oakland
County, Mich., May 26,
1928.
Son of Levon Kevorkian.
Physician;
euthanasia advocate whose campaign of assisted suicides of
terminally ill patients in 1989-99 brought him national publicity;
his medical license was revoked
in 1990; he faced numerous murder charges
starting in 1993; acquitted by juries several times; convicted
in 1999 and sentenced
to 10 to 25 years in prison;
released in 2007; Independent candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 9th District, 2008.
Atheist.
Armenian
ancestry.
Died, from kidney and
heart
problems, in Beaumont Hospital,
Royal Oak, Oakland
County, Mich., June 3,
2011 (age 83 years, 8
days).
Interment at White
Chapel Memorial Cemetery, Troy, Mich.
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Scott Winfield Davis —
also known as Scott W. Davis —
of Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif.
Arrested
in 1996, in Atlanta, Georgia, and charged
with killing David Coffin and setting
fire to his home; the charges were later dropped for lack of
evidence; Independent candidate for Governor of
California, 2003.
Still living as of 2003.
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Byron Low Tax Looper (b. 1964) —
also known as Byron Anthony Looper —
of Cookeville, Putnam
County, Tenn.
Born in Putnam
County, Tenn., September
15, 1964.
Democratic candidate for Georgia
state house of representatives, 1987; Republican candidate for Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1992; Republican candidate for Tennessee
state senate, 1998.
Changed his middle name from Anthony to Low Tax. He was indicted
in March, 1998, on 14 counts of official
misconduct as Putnam County Tax Assessor. On October 19, 1998, he
shot and killed Tommy
Burks, his opponent for a state senate seat; he was arrested
soon after and charged
with murder. He lost the November 1998 senate election to
Burks' widow, who ran as a write-in candidate with the support of
both parties. In August, 2000, he was tried for
murder, convicted,
and sentenced
to life in prison
without parole.
Still living as of 2008.
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Abraham J. Hirschfeld (born c.1920) —
also known as Abe Hirschfeld —
of New York.
Born about 1920.
Real
estate developer; candidate in Democratic primary for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1974, 1976; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1992 (Independent
Fusion), 1994 (Democratic primary); Independence candidate for New York
state comptroller, 1998.
In 1998, offered Paula Jones $1 million to drop her sexual harassment
lawsuit against President Bill
Clinton; later sued by Jones when he tried to back out of the
offer. Convicted
in 2000 of trying to hire a hit man to kill his
business partner; also charged
with tax
evasion; jailed
for violating
a court order against discussing the trial with the media.
Still living as of 2000.
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William John Janklow (b. 1939) —
also known as William J. Janklow; Bill
Janklow —
of South Dakota.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
13, 1939.
Republican. South
Dakota state attorney general, 1975-79; Governor of
South Dakota, 1979-87, 1995-2002; Presidential Elector for South
Dakota, 1996,
2000;
U.S.
Representative from South Dakota at-large, 2003-04; resigned 2004.
Lutheran.
Involved in a traffic accident in 2003 when he ran a stop
sign and hit a motorcyclist; convicted
of second-degree manslaughter; sentenced
to 100 days in jail and
three years probation.
Still living as of 2009.
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John Stozich (c.1927-2004) —
of Findlay, Hancock
County, Ohio.
Born in Mingo Junction, Jefferson
County, Ohio, about 1927.
Republican. Member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1983-91; director, Ohio Department of
Industrial Relations, 1991-95; mayor of
Findlay, Ohio, 1996-2000; convicted
of vehicular
manslaughter in May, 2004 for a traffic accident in which a
woman died; sentenced
to three years probation;
a jail term was suspended.
Catholic.
Died, in Blanchard Valley Regional Health
Center, Findlay, Hancock
County, Ohio, July 5,
2004 (age about 77
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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