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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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Joseph J. Cahill —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Saloon
keeper; member of New York
state assembly, 1891-94 (Kings County 1st District 1891-92, Kings
County 4th District 1893-94).
Convicted
of perjury,
December 8, 1905, in an election fraud case.
Burial
location unknown.
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Albert P. Beebe (c.1843-1932) —
of Parma town, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born about 1843.
Republican. Member of New York
state assembly from Monroe County 4th District, 1906-07.
Indicted
on April 9, 1906 on a charge of
vote-buying.
Died in Parma town, Monroe
County, N.Y., November
30, 1932 (age about 89
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Paul C. Barth (1858-1907) —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., 1858.
Mayor
of Louisville, Ky., 1905-07.
Removed
from office over alleged vote fraud in 1907.
Committed
suicide by gunshot,
in the lavatory of his office,
Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., August
21, 1907 (age about 49
years).
Interment at St.
Louis Catholic Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Roy Lloyd Shattuck (1871-1915) —
also known as Roy Shattuck —
of Brazil, Clay
County, Ind.
Born in Clay
County, Ind., June 2,
1871.
Son of Volney B. Shattuck and Henrietta Bessie (Pearce) Shattuck.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana 5th District, 1914.
Arrested
in February 1915, and arraigned
in federal court in Indianapolis, along with four other 1914
candidates, for attempting to corrupt the election in Vigo
County; pleaded not guilty, but died before he could be tried.
Died in Brazil, Clay
County, Ind., August
15, 1915 (age 44 years, 74
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Frank Frankel (1886-1975) —
of Long Beach, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Houston, Harris
County, Tex.; Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born October
2, 1886.
Mayor
of Long Beach, N.Y., 1924, 1930-33; defeated, 1925 (Democratic
primary), 1925 (Republican), 1929 (Democratic primary); founder of
Long Beach Memorial Hospital
indicted
in September 1927 on charges
of maintaining a gambling
place; the charges were later dropped; in December 1929, his right to
take office as mayor was unsuccessfully challenged
by the Long Beach police chief, based on vote fraud (for which
many had been arrested and prosecuted) and the expectation that
Frankel would tolerate
gambling in the city; indicted
in January 1933 for fraud
over his transfer of $90,000 in city funds to the Long Beach Trust
Company, which subsequently closed; the indictment was dismissed in
February; indicted
again in May 1933, along with two city council members, over the
diversion of $750,000 of state and county tax revenue to city
projects; pleaded not guilty; no trial was held; the indictment was
dismissed in 1937; oil producer.
Died, in a hospital
at Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 12,
1975 (age 88 years, 253
days).
Interment somewhere
in Houston, Tex.
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Anthony J. Wilkowski (b. 1898) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., April 16,
1898.
Son of Anton Wilkowski and Veronica (Skelnik) Wilkowski.
Democrat. Hardware store
owner; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan,
1932
(alternate), 1936,
1940;
member of Michigan
state senate 2nd District, 1933-38, 1945-46, 1949-50; defeated in
primary, 1942 (3rd District), 1946 (2nd District), 1951 (2nd
District), 1952 (2nd District), 1955 (2nd District); chair of
Wayne County Democratic Party, 1934; tried and
convicted,
along with Democratic state chairman Elmer
B. O'Hara, on vote fraud charges
in 1936, and sentenced
to four to five years in prison;
member of Michigan
Democratic State Central Committee, 1939; candidate in primary
for Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, 1940; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from Wayne County 9th
District, 1961-62.
Catholic.
Polish
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Columbus; Polish
National Alliance.
Burial
location unknown.
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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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Edward Fretwell Prichard, Jr. (1915-1984) —
also known as E. F. Prichard, Jr.;
"Prich" —
of Paris, Bourbon
County, Ky.; Versailles, Woodford
County, Ky.
Born in Paris, Bourbon
County, Ky., 1915.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky,
1948,
1960,
1964;
in 1949, he was convicted
of vote fraud in federal court, over ballot-box
stuffing in Bourbon County, Kentucky; served five months in prison.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died in 1984
(age about
69 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Daniel W. West —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan,
1960,
1964
(alternate); member of Michigan
state house of representatives, 1963-65 (Wayne County 6th
District 1963-64, 24th District 1965); defeated in primary, 1954
(Wayne County 6th District), 1956 (Wayne County 6th District), 1958
(Wayne County 6th District), 1960 (Wayne County 6th District), 1965
(24th District).
Convicted
of various crimes, including burglary,
larceny,
and forgery,
in Minnesota, Iowa, and Washington, D.C., and was sentenced to prison in
those places; came to Michigan and assumed the identity of a deceased
New York attorney of the same name; indicted
in late 1964 on state charges
of voter registration fraud and federal charges
of income
tax fraud and forgery;
in January 1965, his seat in the Michigan House was declared
vacant.
Still living as of 1965.
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David Lee Walters (b. 1951) —
also known as David Walters —
of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla.
Born in Canute, Washita
County, Okla., November
20, 1951.
Democrat. Governor of
Oklahoma, 1991-95; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Oklahoma, 2002; member, Rules Committee, Democratic National
Convention, 2008.
While Governor, pleaded
guilty to a misdemeanor election law violation.
Still living as of 2009.
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John Hugh Dyer, Jr. —
also known as Buddy Dyer —
of Orlando, Orange
County, Fla.
Born in Orlando, Orange
County, Fla.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Florida
state senate, 1993-2003; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Florida, 1996,
2004,
2008;
candidate for Florida
state attorney general, 2002; mayor of
Orlando, Fla., 2003-05, 2005-; indicted
March 10, 2005, for illegally paying a campaign worker to
collect absentee ballots in the 2004 mayoral election; suspended
from office as mayor; on April 20, the charges were dropped, and he
was reinstated.
Member, Order of the
Coif; Phi
Delta Phi.
Still living as of 2009.
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