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Ernest George Nagel (b. 1893) —
also known as Ernest G. Nagel —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Switzerland,
March
3, 1893.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War I; automotive
engineer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1933-40; defeated in primary, 1952; member of Michigan
state senate 1st District, 1941-42; defeated in primary, 1942,
1944; charged
on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state
legislators) with accepting
bribes; tried, convicted,
and sentenced
to 3-5 years in prison;
also charged
on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting
bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the entire case
collapsed when the star prosecution witness, Charles
F. Hemans, refused to testify.
Member, Freemasons;
American
Legion.
Burial
location unknown.
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Jacob P. Nathanson (1901-1986) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Lake Worth, Palm Beach
County, Fla.
Born in Russia,
February
21, 1901.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 14th District, 1927-33; defeated
in primary, 1933.
Jewish.
Charged
in 1930 with professional
misconduct by the Brooklyn Bar Association, over his handling of
a client's $500 bail payment; suspended
from the practice of law in 1931, and ordered to pay
restitution. Indicted
in October and November 1938 on charges
of forgery,
grand
larceny, and subornation
of perjury, over his involvement in fraudulent
bail bonds; pleaded
guilty to subornation
of perjury, and testified against other conspirators; disbarred
in 1939.
Died in Palm Beach
County, Fla., March 2,
1986 (age 85 years, 9
days).
Interment somewhere
in Palm Beach County, Fla.
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Thomas J. Navin —
of Adrian, Lenawee
County, Mich.
Mayor
of Adrian, Mich., 1881-82.
Absconded
after forging
city bonds; arrested
in El Paso, Texas.
Burial
location unknown.
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Claude E. Negley —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Marion
County, Ind.
Republican. Mayor
of Indianapolis, Ind., 1927.
Pleaded
guilty in 1927 to bribery
charges
and fined.
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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David Nelson (b. 1962) —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born, in a hospital
at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, April 7,
1962.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Utah, 1996,
2000.
Gay.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; National Rifle
Association.
Convicted
on a misdemeanor act of civil
disobedience, 1995 Recipient of Democratic National Committee's
Lawrence O'Brien Achievement Award, 1998.
Still living as of 2004.
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Irving Daniel Neustein (1901-1979) —
also known as Irving D. Neustein —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
30, 1901.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 6th District, 1931-37;
member, New York Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, 1938-41; when
his political activities came under investigation
by the U.S. Civil Service Commission as violating the Hatch
Act, he resigned;
though he was no longer a member, his ouster
from the appeal board was ordered two years later.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons;
Tammany
Hall.
Died, in Jewish Home
for the Aged, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
7, 1979 (age 78 years, 7
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Truman Handy Newberry (1864-1945) —
also known as Truman H. Newberry —
of Grosse Pointe Farms, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., November
5, 1864.
Son of John
Stoughton Newberry and Helen Parmelee (Handy) Newberry.
Republican. Paymaster and agent, Detroit, Bay City and Alpena Railway,
1885-87; president and treasurer, Detroit Steel and
Spring Co., 1887-1901; director, Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co.;
director, Grace Hospital;
served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1908-09; U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1919-22.
Presbyterian.
Tried
and convicted
in 1921 of overspending
on his campaign (federal laws at that time set an unrealistically
low limit); his conviction was reversed by Supreme Court; following
an investigation, the Senate declared him entitled to his seat but expressed
disapproval of the sum spent
on his election; resigned
under pressure.
Died in Grosse Pointe, Wayne
County, Mich., October
3, 1945 (age 80 years, 332
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson (1808-1876) —
also known as A. O. P. Nicholson —
of Tennessee.
Born in Tennessee, 1808.
Democrat. Member of Tennessee state legislature; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1840-42, 1859-61; chief
justice of Tennessee state supreme court, 1870-76.
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 1876
(age about
68 years).
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Columbia, Tenn.
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Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994) —
also known as Richard M. Nixon; "Tricky
Dick"; "Searchlight" —
of Whittier, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Yorba Linda, Orange
County, Calif., January
9, 1913.
Son of Francis Anthony 'Frank' Nixon (1878-1956) and Hannah (Milhous)
Nixon (1885-1967).
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from California 12th District, 1947-50; U.S.
Senator from California, 1950-53; appointed 1950; resigned 1953;
delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1952,
1956;
Vice
President of the United States, 1953-61; President
of the United States, 1969-74; defeated, 1960; candidate for Governor of
California, 1962; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1964.
Quaker.
Member, American
Legion.
Discredited by the Watergate scandal,
as many of his subordinates were charged with crimes; in July 1974,
the U.S. House Judiciary Committee voted three articles of
impeachment against him, over obstruction
of justice, abuse
of power, and contempt
of Congress; soon after, a tape recording emerged which directly
implicated
him in the Watergate
break-in; with impeachment certain, he resigned;
pardoned
in 1974 by President Gerald
R. Ford.
Died, from a stroke, at
New
York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 22,
1994 (age 81 years, 103
days).
Interment at Richard
Nixon Library and Birthplace, Yorba Linda, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Francis Anthony 'Frank' Nixon (1878-1956) and Hannah (Milhous)
Nixon (1885-1967); married, June 21,
1940, to Thelma
Catherine Ryan; father of Julie Nixon (granddaughter-in-law of Dwight
David Eisenhower; daughter-in-law of John
Sheldon Doud Eisenhower). See Eisenhower-Nixon
family. |
| | | Cross-reference: Maurice
H. Stans — John
H. Holdridge — Clark
MacGregor — Harry
L. Sears — Harry S.
Dent — Christian
A. Herter, Jr. — John
N. Mitchell — G.
Bradford Cook — Raymond
Moley — Patrick
J. Buchanan — Nils
A. Boe — Murray
M. Chotiner — Richard
Blumenthal |
| | | Campaign slogan (1968): "Nixon's the
One!" |
| | | Epitaph: "The greatest honor history
can bestow is the title of peacemaker." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by Richard M. Nixon: RN
: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (1978) — Beyond
Peace (1994) — 1999:
Victory Without War (1988) — Leaders
(1982) — Memoirs —
Six
Crises (1962) — The
Challenges We Face (1960) — In
the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat and Renewal
(1990) — No
More Vietnams (1985) — The
Poetry of Richard Milhous Nixon (1974) — Real
Peace (1984) — The
Real War (1980) — Seize
The Moment: America's Challenge in a One-Superpower World
(1992) |
| | | Books about Richard M. Nixon: Melvin
Small, The
Presidency of Richard Nixon — Joan Hoff, Nixon
Reconsidered — Jonathan Aitken, Nixon
: A Life — Garry Wills, Nixon
Agonistes : The Crisis of the Self-Made Man — Thomas
Monsell, Nixon
on Stage and Screen : The Thirty-Seventh President As Depicted in
Films, Television, Plays and Opera — Stephen E.
Ambrose, Nixon
: Education of a Politician, 1913-1962 — Richard
Reeves, President
Nixon: Alone in the White House — Roger Morris, Richard
Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician —
Robert Mason, Richard
Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority — Jules
Witcover, Very
Strange Bedfellows : The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Richard Nixon
& Spiro Agnew |
| | | Critical books about Richard M. Nixon:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents — Lance Morrow,
The
Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948:
Learning the Secrets of Power |
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Oliver Laurence North (b. 1943) —
also known as Oliver L. North; Ollie North —
of Virginia.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., October
7, 1943.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War;
central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal
of 1986; he was in charge of a secret (and illegal) government
operation to sell
weapons to Iran and provide the profits to the then-unrecognized
Nicaraguan "contras", who were fighting a civil war against the
"Sandinista" government there; convicted
in 1989 on federal charges of obstructing
Congress, destroying documents, and accepting an illegal
gratuity; an appeals court later overturned the guilty verdict;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1994; host of a radio talk
show in 1995-2003, and is a television
commentator.
Member, National Rifle
Association.
Still living as of 2009.
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Jesse M. Norwood —
of Prichard, Mobile
County, Ala.
Mayor
of Prichard, Ala., 1996-2000.
Convicted
of willful
neglect of duty as mayor and removed from office on March 17,
2000.
Still living as of 2000.
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Francis J. Nowak (1915-1976) —
also known as Frank Nowak —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., November
14, 1915.
Democrat. Member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1939-44; removed 1944; charged
on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state
legislators) with accepting
bribes; tried, convicted,
and sentenced
to 3-5 years in prison;
charged
on December 6, 1944 (along with four other legislators) with accepting
bribes from naturopathic physicians; tried in
1945, but the jury was unable to reach a verdict; retried
and convicted;
charged
on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting
bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the last set of
charges were dismissed when he agreed to testify.
Died in 1976
(age about
60 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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