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Politicians Killed by Blunt Force

Very incomplete list! in chronological order   Moore Conger (1819-1890) — of Ira, Cayuga County, N.Y.; Chicago, Cook County, Ill. Born in Cayuga County, N.Y., May 21, 1819. Lawyer; member of New York state assembly from Cayuga County 1st District, 1855; livestock commission business. Accidentally struck by a gate at the Chicago stockyards, suffered a head injury, and died two weeks later, in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., November 8, 1890 (age 71 years, 171 days). Interment at Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.   Relatives: Son of Benjamin Conger and Margaret (Carr) Conger; first cousin once removed of Hugh Conger; second cousin of Omar Dwight Conger, Chauncey Stewart Conger (1838-1916) and Frederick Ward Conger; second cousin once removed of Edwin Hurd Conger, Franklin Barker Conger and Chauncey Stewart Conger (1882-1963); second cousin thrice removed of Ralph Waldo Hungerford; third cousin of Anson Griffith Conger and Harmon Sweatland Conger; third cousin twice removed of Edward Augustus Conger; third cousin thrice removed of Robert John Conger; fourth cousin of James Lockwood Conger and Charles Franklin Conger; fourth cousin once removed of Abraham Bogart Conger, James W. Conger and Benn Conger.   Political families: Conger family of New York; Conger-Hungerford family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Nicholas Fish (1848-1902) — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., February 19, 1848. Republican. Lawyer; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Switzerland, 1877-81; U.S. Minister to Belgium, 1882-85; banker; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York. Member, Society of the Cincinnati. Quarreled with Thomas J. Sharkey, a private detective, on the second floor of the Ehrhardt Brothers saloon; Sharkey struck him, so that he fell down the stairs into the street with a skull fracture; died the next day, without regaining consciousness, at Roosevelt Hospital, Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., September 16, 1902 (age 54 years, 209 days). Sharkey was later convicted of second-degree manslaughter and sentenced to ten years in prison. Interment at St. Philip's Cemetery, Garrison, N.Y.   Relatives: Son of Hamilton Fish (1808-1893) and Julia (Kean) Fish; brother of Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936); married to Clemence S. Smith-Bryce; father of Hamilton Fish (1874-1898; sergeant in the U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, the "Rough Riders", in the Spanish-American war; killed in battle); uncle of Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991); grandson of Nicholas Fish (1758-1833); granduncle of Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996); great-grandson of John Kean (1756-1795); great-grandnephew of Robert Gilbert Livingston and Philip Peter Livingston; great-granduncle of Hamilton Fish (born 1951) and Alexa Fish Ward; second great-grandson of Gilbert Livingston and Peter Van Brugh Livingston; second great-grandnephew of John Livingston, Robert Livingston (1688-1775), Robert Livingston (1708-1790), Philip Livingston and William Livingston; third great-grandson of Robert Livingston the Elder and James Alexander; third great-grandnephew of Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724) and Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747); fourth great-grandson of Pieter Stuyvesant and Pieter Van Brugh; fourth great-grandnephew of Abraham de Peyster, Johannes Cuyler and Johannes de Peyster; first cousin of John Kean (1852-1914) and Hamilton Fish Kean; first cousin once removed of Robert Winthrop Kean; first cousin twice removed of Philip Van Cortlandt, Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr., Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873) and Thomas Howard Kean; first cousin thrice removed of Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775), Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter Livingston, John Stevens III, Henry Brockholst Livingston and Thomas Howard Kean Jr.; first cousin four times removed of Robert Livingston the Younger and Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin five times removed of Nicholas Bayard (c.1644-1707), David Davidse Schuyler, Myndert Davidtse Schuyler, Johannes DePeyster, Cornelis Cuyler and John Cruger Jr.; second cousin once removed of Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright; second cousin twice removed of James Jay, John Jay, Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), Frederick Jay, Edward Livingston (1764-1836), Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Rensselaer Westerlo, Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer and William Jay; second cousin thrice removed of Stephanus Bayard, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Philip John Schuyler, Philip P. Schuyler and Stephen John Schuyler; second cousin four times removed of Matthew Clarkson, Henry Cruger and Henry Rutgers; third cousin of Gilbert Livingston Thompson; third cousin once removed of Philip Schuyler, Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward Livingston (1796-1840), William Duer, Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard and John Jay II; third cousin twice removed of Nicholas Bayard (1736-1802), Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer, Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792), James Livingston, Peter Samuel Schuyler, Philip Jeremiah Schuyler, James Parker, Guy Vernor Henry and Montgomery Schuyler Jr.; third cousin thrice removed of Philip DePeyster; fourth cousin of John Jacob Astor III, Kiliaen Van Rensselaer and Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); fourth cousin once removed of Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin Livingston, James Alexander Hamilton, George Washington Schuyler, John Cortlandt Parker, Philip N. Schuyler, William Waldorf Astor, Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Robert Reginald Livingston, Bronson Murray Cutting and Brockholst Livingston.   Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary   Robert Whitney Imbrie (1883-1924) — also known as Robert W. Imbrie — of Baltimore, Md. Born in Washington, D.C., April 23, 1883. Lawyer; volunteer ambulance driver during World War I; U.S. Vice Consul in Petrograd, 1917-18; Viborg, 1919-20; Constantinople, 1921; Angora, 1922-23; Teheran, 1924, died in office 1924. Beaten to death by a murderous mob in Teheran, Persia (now Tehran, Iran), July 18, 1924 (age 41 years, 86 days). Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.   Relatives: Son of Jeremiah Imbrie and Leila (Whitney) Imbrie; married, December 26, 1922, to Katherine Helene Gillespie.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — Arlington National Cemetery unofficial website

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