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Robert Alphonso Taft II (b. 1942) —
also known as Bob Taft II —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
8, 1942.
Son of Robert
Taft, Jr..
Republican. Served
in the Peace Corps; member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1977-81; Hamilton
County Commissioner, 1981-90; secretary of
state of Ohio, 1991-99; Governor of
Ohio, 1999-2007; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Ohio, 2004;
in 2005, he pleaded no
contest to four misdemeanors involving failure
to disclose gifts, and was fined
$4,000; subsequently reprimanded
by the Ohio Supreme Court.
Methodist.
Still living as of 2009.
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Benjamin Tappan (1773-1857) —
of Ohio.
Born in Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass., May 25,
1773.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Ohio state
senate from Trumbull County, 1803-04; served in the U.S. Army
during the War of 1812; common pleas court judge in Ohio, 1816-23;
candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1826; Presidential Elector for Ohio, 1832;
U.S.
District Judge for Ohio, 1833; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1839-45.
Censured
by the Senate on May 10, 1844, over his disclosure
to the New York Evening Post of a secret
message from President John
Tyler outlining terms for the annexation of Texas.
Died in Steubenville, Jefferson
County, Ohio, April 20,
1857 (age 83 years, 330
days).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, Steubenville, Ohio.
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Greg Tarver —
of Louisiana.
Member of Louisiana
state senate.
Tried
and acquitted in 2000 on federal racketeering charges.
Still living as of 2000.
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James W. Tate (b. 1831) —
also known as "Honest Dick" —
of Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky.
Born in Franklin
County, Ky., January
2, 1831.
Kentucky
state treasurer, 1868-.
Absconded
from the state treasurer's office in March, 1888; Gov. Simon
Buckner said Tate had embezzled
almost $250,000 from the state. Impeached
in absentia by the Kentucky House; convicted
and removed from
office by the Senate.
He never
returned, and his fate is unknown.
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Glen Hearst Taylor (1904-1984) —
also known as Glen H. Taylor —
of Pocatello, Bannock
County, Idaho.
Born in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., April 12,
1904.
Son of Pleasant John Taylor and Olive Oatman (Higgins) Taylor.
Country-western
singer; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Idaho, 1938; U.S.
Senator from Idaho, 1945-51; defeated (Democratic), 1940, 1942;
Progressive candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1948.
Member, United
World Federalists.
Arrested
on May 1, 1948, in Birmingham, Alabama, for attempting
to use a door reserved for Negroes, rather than the whites-only door;
convicted
in 1949 of disorderly conduct.
Died April 28,
1984 (age 80 years, 16
days).
Interment at Skylawn
Memorial Park, San Mateo, Calif.
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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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Arthur E. Teele (1946-2005) —
also known as Art Teele —
of Florida.
Born in Prince
George's County, Md., May 14,
1946.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; lawyer;
director, U.S. Urban Mass Transportation Administration, 1981-83;
Presidential Elector for Florida, 1992;
as Miami city commissioner in 1997-2004, he chaired the Community
Redevelopment Agency (CRA); an investigation
of corruption in the agency, started in 2003, led to charges
that he had accepted $135,000 in kickbacks
from two construction companies; as a result, he was removed from
office in 2004 by Gov. Jeb
Bush; in August, 2004, when he and his wife were under
surveillance, he drove his
car at a police detective in an attempt to run him
over, and also threatened
to kill police officers who had been following his wife during
the investigation; convicted
in March 2005 on charges
related to this incident; indicted
on July 14, 2005, on federal conspiracy and money
laundering charges, over a scheme to fraudulently obtain
contracts for electrical work at the Miami International Airport
through a "minority-owned" shell company; published police reports
revealed that he had put his mistress
on the CRA payroll, that he regularly bought and used cocaine,
and that he frequently made use of a male prostitute.
Church
of God in Christ. African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi; NAACP; Freemasons.
Came to the offices
of the Miami Herald newspaper, and shot himself
in the head with a semiautomatic pistol; he died two hours later in
the trauma unit of Jackson Memorial Hospital,
Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., July 27,
2005 (age 59 years, 74
days).
Interment at Culley's MeadowWood Memorial Park, Tallahassee, Fla.
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Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz (1890-1963) —
also known as Rudolph G. Tenerowicz —
of Hamtramck, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Budapest, Hungary,
of Polish parents, June 14,
1890.
Son of John Tenerowicz and Antoinette (Gall) Tenerowicz.
Physician;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; mayor
of Hamtramck, Mich., 1928-32, 1936-39; resigned 1932; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 1st District, 1939-43; defeated,
1942 (Democratic primary), 1946 (Republican primary), 1948
(Republican), 1950 (Republican), 1952 (Republican), 1954 (Republican).
Polish
ancestry.
Tried
and convicted
on vice
conspiracy charges
in 1932; freed from prison when pardoned
by Gov. William
A. Comstock.
Died in Hamtramck, Wayne
County, Mich., August
31, 1963 (age 73 years, 78
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Warren Jay Terhune (1869-1920) —
also known as Warren J. Terhune —
of Hackensack, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in Midland Park, Bergen
County, N.J., May 3,
1869.
Served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War; U.S. Navy
commander; Governor of
American Samoa; died in office 1920.
Three days before he was to face an inquiry
into charges
against his
administration, he shot himself
in the heart, in a bathroom of the Executive
Mansion, Utulei, American
Samoa, November
3, 1920 (age 51 years, 184
days); later, the Navy exonerated him; his accuser, Lieutenant
Commander Creed H. Boucher, was courtmartialed and found guilty of
fomenting unrest among the Samoans.
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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Charles Wheeler Thayer (1910-1969) —
also known as Charles W. Thayer —
of Villanova, Delaware
County, Pa.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Villanova, Delaware
County, Pa., February
9, 1910.
Son of George C. Thayer and Gertrude May (Wheeler) Thayer
(c.1870-1964).
U.S. Vice Consul in Moscow, 1937, 1940; Berlin, 1937-38; Hamburg, 1939-40; Kabul, 1943; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; head
of the State Department's international broadcasting division,
including the "Voice of America", 1947-49; U.S. Consul General in Munich, 1952-53; in March 1953, when attacks on his loyalty
by U.S. Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy inspired a State Department investigation
into his diplomatic
career, he resigned
from the Foreign Service; writer.
Died, during heart
surgery, in Salzburg, Austria,
August
27, 1969 (age 59 years, 199
days).
Interment at Church
of the Redeemer Cemetery, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
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W. Stephen Thayer III (b. 1946) —
of Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H.
Born in 1946.
U.S.
Attorney for New Hampshire, 1981-84; justice of
New Hampshire state supreme court, 1986-2000.
Allegedly asked Chief Justice David
A. Brock not to appoint a certain lower court judge to a panel of
judges that would hear the appeal of his divorce case; following an
investigation, he was forced to
resign in 2000 from the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
Still living as of 2000.
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Edwin Stark Thomas (1872-1952) —
also known as Edwin S. Thomas —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Woodstock, McHenry
County, Ill., November
11, 1872.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1899; secretary of
Connecticut Democratic Party, 1902-12; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Connecticut, 1908
(alternate), 1912;
executive secretary to Gov. Simeon
Baldwin, 1911-13; U.S.
District Judge for Connecticut, 1913-39; resigned 1939.
During an investigation
of his financial affairs and actions in certain cases by a federal
grand jury, prompted by connections to the bribery
case of another federal judge, Martin
T. Manton, he resigned,
citing illness.
Died in Columbia, Tolland
County, Conn., January
21, 1952 (age 79 years, 71
days).
Interment at Grove
Cemetery, Eastford, Conn.
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John Parnell Thomas (1895-1970) —
also known as J. Parnell Thomas —
of Allendale, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., January
16, 1895.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly, 1935-37; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 7th District, 1937-50; defeated,
1954.
Pleaded no
contest to embezzlement;
resigned
from Congress and sentenced
to prison.
Died in St. Petersburg, Pinellas
County, Fla., November
19, 1970 (age 75 years, 307
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Elm
Grove Cemetery, Mystic, Stonington, Conn.
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Lafayette Christopher Thomas (1926-2000) —
also known as Fate C. Thomas —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., September
23, 1926.
Democrat. Candidate for Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1954; Davidson
County Sheriff, 1972-90.
Catholic.
Indicted
in federal court in 1990 on 54 counts of abusing
his power as sheriff; pleaded
guilty to theft and
mail fraud; sentenced
to five years in prison;
released in 1994.
Died, following heart
bypass surgery, in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., July 25,
2000 (age 73 years, 306
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
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Randal Tye Thomas (b. 1978) —
also known as Tye Thomas; Skip Thomas —
of Gun Barrel City, Henderson
County, Tex.; The Colony, Denton
County, Tex.
Born in a hospital
at Terrell, Kaufman
County, Tex., August
23, 1978.
Republican. Mayor, Gun Barrel City, Tex., 2000-2001, resigned 2001;
Presidential Elector for Texas, 2000;
youngest mayor in Texas; indicted
for misdemeanor perjury,
and arrested
for public
intoxication, 2001.
Methodist.
Still living as of 2003.
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Frank Thompson, Jr. (1918-1989) —
of Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., July 26,
1918.
Son of Frank Thompson and Beatrice (Jameson) Thompson.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly, 1950-54; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 4th District, 1955-80; defeated,
1980; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1964.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Implicated
in the Abscam sting, in which FBI agents impersonating Arab
businessmen offered bribes
to political figures; indicted
on June 18 and convicted
on December 3, 1980, on bribery
and conspiracy charges; sentenced
to three years in prison.
Died in 1989
(age about
70 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Joseph Williams Thorne (b. 1816) —
also known as J. Williams Thorne —
of Chester
County, Pa.; Warren
County, N.C.
Born in Pennsylvania, December
25, 1816.
Republican. Delegate to
North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1875; member of
North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1875; expelled 1875;
member of North
Carolina state senate; elected 1876.
Expelled
in 1875 from the North Carolina House as an "infidel," reportedly for
his support of Darwin's theory of evolution.
Interment at Longwood
Cemetery, Longwood, Pa.
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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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Kenneth O. Tompkins (born c.1907) —
of Johnstown, Cambria
County, Pa.
Born about 1907.
Republican. Mayor
of Johnstown, Pa., 1964-71; resigned 1971; indicted
in January 1971 on bribery-conspiracy
charges
over acceptance
of money from Teleprompter Corporation for a cable television
franchise; pleaded
guilty and testified against others.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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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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James Anthony Traficant, Jr. (b. 1941) —
also known as James A. Traficant, Jr. —
of Warren, Trumbull
County, Ohio.
Born in Youngstown, Mahoning
County, Ohio, May 8,
1941.
Sheriff;
U.S.
Representative from Ohio 17th District, 1985-2002; removed 2002;
defeated, 2002; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio,
1996,
2000.
As sheriff in the 1980s, was charged
with accepting
bribes, tried and
acquitted. In May, 2001, he was indicted
on ten counts of bribery
and racketeering; tried and
convicted;
sentenced
to prison;
expelled
from the U.S. House of Representatives, July 24, 2002.
Still living as of 2009.
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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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James W. Treffinger —
of Essex
County, N.J.
Republican. Essex
County Executive; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 2000, 2002.
Pleaded
guilty in 2003 to corruption and fraud charges;
ordered to pay $30,000 restitution,
and sentenced
to 13 months in federal prison.
Still living as of 2003.
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David H. Trembley (b. 1858) —
of Rahway, Union
County, N.J.
Born in New Jersey, 1858.
Carriage
painter; mayor of
Rahway, N.J., 1918-22; on May 31, 1919, he prevented a Socialist
orator, Frederick
Harwood, from speaking, by spraying him and his audience with a
fire hose; subsequently arrested
and charged
with assault
and inciting to
riot; retaliated by arresting Justice of the Peace Gustav
Theimer, who had indicted him, and arraigned him on a charge of
improper procedure.
French
Huguenot ancestry.
Burial
location unknown.
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George Alfred Trenholm (1807-1876) —
also known as George A. Trenholm —
of South Carolina.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., February
25, 1807.
Democrat. Banker;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1852-56, 1874; Confederate
Secretary of the Treasury, 1864-65.
Arrested
by Union
forces in 1865, and imprisoned
at Fort Pulaski, Tennessee, until October.
Died in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., December
9, 1876 (age 69 years, 288
days).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Near Charleston, Charleston County, S.C.
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Clark E. Tucker (1897-1971) —
of Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan.
Born December
1, 1897.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer; mayor
of Kansas City, Kan., 1947-55; indicted
in 1952, along with two city commissioners, on charges
related to city procurement of asphalt.
Died December
18, 1971 (age 74 years, 17
days).
Interment at Highland
Park Cemetery, Kansas City, Kan.
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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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James Guy Tucker, Jr. (b. 1943) —
also known as Jim Guy Tucker, Jr. —
of Arkansas.
Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla., June 13,
1943.
Democrat. Arkansas
state attorney general, 1973-77; U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 2nd District, 1977-79; candidate
for U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1978; Lieutenant
Governor of Arkansas, 1991-92; Governor of
Arkansas, 1992-96.
Presbyterian.
Resigned
in July 1996 after his conviction
on federal charges
brought by independent counsel Kenneth
Starr.
Still living as of 2009.
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Walter Rayford Tucker III (b. 1957) —
also known as Walter R. Tucker III —
of Compton, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Compton, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 28,
1957.
Son of Walter
R. Tucker, Jr..
Democrat. Lawyer; ordained
minister; mayor of
Compton, Calif., 1991-92; U.S.
Representative from California 37th District, 1993-95; resigned
1995.
Baptist.
African
ancestry.
Sentenced
in 1996 to 27 months in prison
for extortion
and tax
evasion.
Still living as of 2009.
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William Magear Tweed (1823-1878) —
also known as William M. Tweed; William Marcy Tweed;
"Boss Tweed" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 3,
1823.
Son of Richard Tweed and Eliza (Magear) Tweed.
Democrat. Chairmaker;
fire
fighter; U.S.
Representative from New York 5th District, 1853-55; member of New York
state senate 4th District, 1868-73.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Odd
Fellows; Freemasons.
Convicted
of embezzlement
and sentenced
to twelve years in prison;
escaped;
captured
in Spain and brought back to New York.
Died in
prison, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 12,
1878 (age 55 years, 9
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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John Tyler (1790-1862) —
also known as "The Accidental
President" —
of Williamsburg,
Va.
Born in Charles City
County, Va., March 29,
1790.
Son of John
Tyler (1747-1813) and Mary (Armistead) Tyler.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1811-16, 1823-25, 1839-40; served in
the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 23rd District, 1817-21; Governor of
Virginia, 1825-27; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1827-36; delegate to
Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829-30; delegate to
Whig National Convention from Virginia, 1839 (Convention
Vice-President); Vice
President of the United States, 1841; defeated, 1836; President
of the United States, 1841-45; delegate
to Virginia secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Virginia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
died in office 1862.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry.
A bill to impeach
him was defeated in the House of Representatives in January 1843.
Died, probably from a stroke, in
a hotel
room at Richmond,
Va., January
18, 1862 (age 71 years, 295
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Tyler (1747-1813) and Mary (Armistead) Tyler; son-in-law of David
Gardiner; married, March 20,
1813, to Letitia Christian; married, June 26,
1844, to Julia Gardiner (1820-1889); father of David
Gardiner Tyler. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: Benjamin
Tappan |
| | | Tyler County,
Tex. is named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: John
T. Rich
— John
T. Cutting
— John
Tyler Cooper
— John
Tyler Hammons
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about John Tyler: Oliver P.
Chitwood, John
Tyler : Champion of the Old South — Norma Lois
Peterson, Presidencies
of William Henry Harrison and John Tyler — Jane C.
Walker, John
Tyler : A President of Many Firsts — Edward P. Crapol,
John
Tyler, the Accidental President |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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