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Mary Rose Oakar (b. 1940) —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Ohio, March 5,
1940.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Ohio 20th District, 1977-93; defeated, 1992;
member, Rules Committee, Democratic National
Convention, 2008.
Female.
She and two nephews were indicted
in 1995 over a scheme to evade campaign
finance limits and put money into her campaign under the names of
fake donors; she was also charged
with obtaining money through bad checks on the House
bank; pleaded not guilty to seven felonies, and challenged the
validity of the charges; in 1998, pleaded
guilty to two misdemeanor campaign
finance violations.
Still living as of 2009.
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Thomas Joseph O'Brien (1878-1964) —
also known as Thomas J. O'Brien; "Blind
Tom" —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April 30,
1878.
Son of Thomas O'Brien and Mary (Murphy) O'Brien.
Democrat. Accountant;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1907-10, 1929-32; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 6th District, 1933-39, 1943-64; died
in office 1964; arrested
in a police raid on a gambling
establishment, 1935; Cook
County Sheriff, 1939-42; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Illinois, 1960.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Died in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., April 14,
1964 (age 85 years, 350
days).
Interment at Queen
of Heaven Cemetery, Hillside, Ill.
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Elmer B. O'Hara —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan,
1932;
Wayne
County Clerk, 1933-36; Michigan
Democratic state chair, 1935-36; tried and
convicted,
along with State Sen. A.
J. Wilkowski and others, on vote
fraud charges
in 1936; sentenced
to four to five years in prison;
also convicted
on charges
of bribing
the Macomb County Drain Commissioner.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Edson Baldwin Olds (1802-1869) —
also known as Edson B. Olds —
of Circleville, Pickaway
County, Ohio; Lancaster, Fairfield
County, Ohio.
Born in Marlboro, Windham
County, Vt., June 3,
1802.
Democrat. Physician;
member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1842-43, 1845-46, 1862-66; member of Ohio state
senate, 1846-48; U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1849-55 (9th District 1849-53, 12th
District 1853-55); defeated, 1854; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Ohio, 1864.
Arrested
for alleged disloyalty
to the Union and imprisoned
in Fort Lafayette in 1862.
Died in Lancaster, Fairfield
County, Ohio, January
24, 1869 (age 66 years, 235
days).
Interment at Forest
Cemetery, Circleville, Ohio.
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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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Nehemiah George Ordway (1828-1907) —
also known as Nehemiah G. Ordway —
of Warner, Merrimack
County, N.H.
Born in Warner, Merrimack
County, N.H., November
10, 1828.
Republican. New Hampshire
Republican state chair, 1860; member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives from Warner, 1875-77;
member of New
Hampshire state senate 9th District, 1879-80; Governor of
Dakota Territory, 1880-84.
Indicted
on corruption
charges
in 1883; his criminal trial in
1884 was cut short by a jurisdiction ruling; removed from
office by President Arthur.
Died July 1,
1907 (age 78 years, 233
days).
Interment at Pine
Grove Cemetery, Warner, N.H.
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Samuel Orr (b. 1890) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Russia,
1890.
Socialist. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Bronx County 4th District, 1918, 1920, 1921;
defeated, 1918; expelled 1920; delegate to Socialist National
Convention from New York, 1920; candidate for New York
state senate, 1922 (22nd District), 1928 (22nd District), 1933
(21st District); candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 23rd District, 1926, 1930, 1934.
Expelled
from the New York State Assembly over alleged disloyalty,
along with the other four Socialist members, April 1, 1920.
Burial
location unknown.
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Henry Osborne (1751-1800) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Camden
County, Ga.
Born in Newton-Limavady, Ireland (now Limavady, Northern
Ireland), August
21, 1751.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1786; justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1787-89; superior court judge in
Georgia, 1789-91.
Removed
from offices he held in Pennsylvania in June 1783 following the
supreme executive council's determination that he was a bigamist;
convicted
by the Georgia senate in December 1791 of election
fraud.
Died in St. Simons Island, Glynn
County, Ga., November
9, 1800 (age 49 years, 80
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Thomas Mott Osborne (1859-1926) —
also known as Thomas M. Osborne; "Tom
Brown" —
of Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y.
Born in Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y., September
23, 1859.
Son of David
M. Osborne.
Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1896,
1924;
Independent candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1898; mayor of
Auburn, N.Y., 1903-05.
Son of the founder of International Harvester; prison reformer; New
York State Public Service Commissioner; New York State Fish and Game
Commissioner, 1911; warden of Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, N.Y.,
1914-16; indicted
by a grand jury in 1915 for alleged perjury
and neglect
of duty; tried,
but the charges were dismissed; commander of naval prison,
Portsmouth, N.H., 1917-20.
Died October
20, 1926 (age 67 years, 27
days).
Interment at Fort
Hill Cemetery, Auburn, N.Y.
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John Louis O'Sullivan (1813-1895) —
also known as John L. O'Sullivan —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born, of American parents, in the North
Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Gibraltar, November
15, 1813.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly, 1841-42; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1844;
U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Portugal, 1854; U.S. Minister to Portugal, 1854-58.
Episcopalian;
later Catholic.
Cofounder and editor of The United States Magazine
and Democratic Review, a journal that published the works of
Emerson, Hawthorne and Whitman, as well as political essays on
Jacksonian Democracy, 1837-46. Early advocate in 1840s for abolition
of the death penalty. Invented the term "manifest destiny" to explain
and justify the westward expansion of the United States. Took part in
the failed expedition of Narcisco Lopez to take Cuba from Spanish
rule; as a result, was charged
in federal court in New York with violation
of the Neutrality Act; tried and
acquitted in March 1852.
Died, of influenza
and the effects of an earlier stroke, in
a residential hotel in
New York, New York
County, N.Y., March 24,
1895 (age 81 years, 129
days).
Interment at Moravian
Cemetery, New Dorp, Staten Island, N.Y.
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