Very incomplete list!
in chronological order
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Abraham Bedford Venable (1758-1811) —
of Virginia.
Born in Prince
Edward County, Va., November
20, 1758.
U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1791-99 (6th District 1791-93, 7th
District 1793-97, at-large 1797-99); U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1803-04.
Slaveowner.
Perished in a theater
fire in Richmond,
Va., December
26, 1811 (age 53 years, 36
days).
Interment at Monumental
Church, Richmond, Va.
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George William Smith (1762-1811) —
of Virginia.
Born in 1762.
Governor
of Virginia, 1811; died in office 1811.
Killed in a theater
fire in Richmond,
Va., December
26, 1811 (age about 49
years).
Interment at Monumental
Church, Richmond, Va.
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Josiah Stoddard Johnston (1784-1833) —
also known as Josiah S. Johnston —
of Alexandria, Rapides
Parish, La.
Born in Salisbury, Litchfield
County, Conn., November
24, 1784.
Democrat. Member of Orleans
territorial legislature, 1805; state court judge in Louisiana,
1812; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana at-large, 1821-23; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1824-33; died in office 1833.
Slaveowner.
Killed by an explosion on the steamboat
Lioness, on the Red River, in Louisiana, May 19,
1833 (age 48 years, 176
days).
Interment at Rapides
Cemetery, Pineville, La.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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George L. Kinnard (1803-1836) —
of Indiana.
Born in Pennsylvania, 1803.
Democrat. Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1827; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 6th District, 1833-36; died in office
1836.
Died from injuries received in an explosion on the steamer
Flora on the Ohio River, November
26, 1836 (age about 33
years).
Interment at Presbyterian
Burying Ground, Cincinnati, Ohio; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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William Beatty Rochester (1789-1838) —
also known as William B. Rochester —
of Bath, Steuben
County, N.Y.
Born in Hagerstown, Washington
County, Md., January
29, 1789.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly from Allegany and Steuben counties, 1816-18; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1821-23 (20th District 1821-23,
28th District 1823); candidate for Governor of
New York, 1826.
One of 128 people who perished
on the the steam packet ship Pulaski, en route from Charleston
to Baltimore, when it suffered a boiler explosion and sank in the
North
Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina, June 14,
1838 (age 49 years, 136
days); his remains were never
recovered.
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Thomas Walker Gilmer (1802-1844) —
of Virginia.
Born in Gilmerton, Albemarle
County, Va., April 6,
1802.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1829-36, 1838-39; Speaker of
the Virginia State House of Delegates, 1838-39; Governor of
Virginia, 1840-41; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1841-44 (12th District 1841-43, 5th
District 1843-44); U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1844; died in office 1844.
Slaveowner.
Among those killed in the explosion when a cannon
accidentally
burst on
board the U.S.S. Princeton, on the Potomac River near Fort
Washington, Prince
George's County, Md., February
28, 1844 (age 41 years, 328
days).
Originally entombed at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at a
private or family graveyard, Albemarle County, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of George Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson (Hudson) Gilmer; married to
Anne Elizabeth Baker; nephew of Mildred Gilmer (who married William
Wirt); grandnephew of John
Walker and Francis
Walker; second cousin once removed of Meriwether
Lewis; second cousin twice removed of Aylett
Hawes; third cousin once removed of Robert
Brooke, George
Madison, Richard
Aylett Buckner, Richard
Hawes and Albert
Gallatin Hawes; third cousin twice removed of Hubbard
T. Smith; third cousin thrice removed of Archer
Woodford; fourth cousin of Zachary
Taylor, Francis
Taliaferro Helm, Aylette
Buckner, David
Shelby Walker and Aylett
Hawes Buckner; fourth cousin once removed of John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton, Charles
John Helm, Hubbard
Dozier Helm, James
David Walker, David
Shelby Walker Jr. and Harry
Bartow Hawes. |
| | | Political families: Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg
family of Virginia; Jackson-Lee
family; Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis
family of New Jersey; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph
family; Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown
family of Kentucky; Washington-Walker
family of Virginia; Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland; Clay
family of Kentucky; Lewis-Pollard
family of Texas (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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W.Va. is named for him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Abel Parker Upshur (1790-1844) —
of Virginia.
Born in Northampton
County, Va., June 17,
1790.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1812-13, 1824-27; state court judge in
Virginia, 1826-41; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829-30; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1841-43; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1843-44; died in office 1844.
Episcopalian.
Among those killed in the explosion when a cannon
accidentally
burst on
board the U.S.S. Princeton, on the Potomac River near Fort
Washington, Prince
George's County, Md., February
28, 1844 (age 53 years, 256
days).
Originally entombed at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1874 at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Virgil Maxcy (1785-1844) —
of Maryland.
Born in Attleboro, Bristol
County, Mass., May 5,
1785.
Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state executive council, 1815; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1820; member of Maryland
state senate, 1820; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Belgium, 1837-42.
Among those killed in the explosion when a cannon
accidentally
burst on
board the U.S.S. Princeton, on the Potomac River near Fort
Washington, Prince
George's County, Md., February
28, 1844 (age 58 years, 299
days).
Originally entombed at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at a
private or family graveyard, Anne Arundel County, Md.
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David Gardiner (1784-1844) —
of New York.
Born in East Hampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., May 29,
1784.
Member of New York
state senate 1st District, 1824-27.
Among those killed in the explosion when a cannon
accidentally
burst on
board the U.S.S. Princeton, on the Potomac River near Fort
Washington, Prince
George's County, Md., February
28, 1844 (age 59 years, 275
days).
Originally entombed at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; later interred at South
End Cemetery, East Hampton, Long Island, N.Y.
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Richard Ellis (1781-1846) —
Born in Virginia, February
14, 1781.
Delegate
to Alabama state constitutional convention, 1819; associate
justice of Alabama state supreme court, 1819; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Red River, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Red River, 1836-39.
Slaveowner.
Reportedly "came to his death suddenly by his clothes taking
fire", at his home in Bowie
County, Tex., December
20, 1846 (age 65 years, 309
days).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment in
1929 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Stephen Allen (1767-1852) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born July 2,
1767.
Mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1821-24; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1826; member of New York
state senate 1st District, 1829-32.
Killed when the steamboat
Henry Clay burned and sank,
killing about eighty passengers, in the Lower
Hudson River, next to what is now the Riverdale section of the
Bronx, July 28,
1852 (age 85 years, 26
days).
Entombed at New
York City Marble Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Alexander Anderson (c.1812-1855) —
of California.
Born about 1812.
Member of California
state senate, 1852; justice of
California state supreme court, 1852-53.
Killed by the explosion of the river
steamer Pearl, January
27, 1855 (age about 43
years).
Burial location unknown.
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John B. Macy (1799-1856) —
of Fond du Lac, Fond du
Lac County, Wis.
Born in Nantucket, Nantucket
County, Mass., March
25, 1799.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 3rd District, 1853-55.
Lost his life in the burning and sinking
of the steamer
Niagara, a few miles from Port Washington, Wisconsin, in Lake
Michigan, September
24, 1856 (age 57 years, 183
days). His remains were not
found.
Cenotaph at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Stephen Clarendon Phillips (1801-1857) —
also known as Stephen C. Phillips —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., November
4, 1801.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1824-29; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1830; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1834-38; mayor of
Salem, Mass., 1838-42; Free Soil candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1848, 1849.
He was among 253 passengers and crew who perished in the
burning of the steamship
Montreal, on the St. Lawrence River, near Quebec City, Quebec,
June
26, 1857 (age 55 years, 234
days). His remains were never
recovered.
Cenotaph at Harmony
Grove Cemetery, Salem, Mass.
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Charles Tillinghast James (1805-1862) —
also known as Charles T. James —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in West Greenwich Center, West Greenwich, Kent
County, R.I., September
15, 1805.
U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1851-57.
Died of wounds that he received from the accidental
explosion of a cannon
shell of his own manufacture, with which he was experimenting, at
Sag Harbor, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., October
17, 1862 (age 57 years, 32
days).
Interment at Swan
Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
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William Cannon (1809-1865) —
of Bridgeville, Sussex
County, Del.
Born near Bridgeville, Sussex
County, Del., March
15, 1809.
Delaware
state treasurer, 1851-55; Governor of
Delaware, 1863-65; died in office 1865.
Methodist.
Became ill helping to put out a fire, and subsequently died,
in Bridgeville, Sussex
County, Del., March 1,
1865 (age 55 years, 351
days).
Interment at Bridgeville
Cemetery, Bridgeville, Del.
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James B. Blake (1827-1870) —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born June 19,
1827.
Republican. Mayor
of Worcester, Mass., 1866-70; died in office 1870.
Injured in a gas-works explosion, and died a few days later,
in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., December
18, 1870 (age 43 years, 182
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Matthew Fenton (1808-1871) —
also known as William M. Fenton —
of Fenton, Genesee
County, Mich.; Flint, Genesee
County, Mich.
Born in Norwich, Chenango
County, N.Y., December
19, 1808.
Democrat. Merchant;
lawyer;
member of Michigan
state senate 6th District, 1846-47; Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, 1848-51; register
of U.S. Land Office at Genesee, Michigan, 1853-57; mayor of
Flint, Mich., 1858-59; served in the Union Army during the Civil
War; candidate for Governor of
Michigan, 1864.
Injured while fire-fighting, and subsequently died, in Flint,
Genesee
County, Mich., May 12,
1871 (age 62 years, 144
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Flint, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Seneca Fenton and Sarah (Thompson) Fenton; married 1835 to
Adelaide Birdsall; second cousin thrice removed of Walter
Samuel Fenton. |
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Thomas Howell Crawford (1803-1871) —
also known as Thomas H. Crawford —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Rockbridge
County, Va., March 1,
1803.
Real
estate agent; mayor
of Louisville, Ky., 1859-61; defeated (Union), 1863; banker.
Died as a result of a gas explosion at his home, in
Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., June 17,
1871 (age 68 years, 108
days).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Joseph I. Stein (d. 1880) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 20th District, 1877.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
One of dozens killed in the wreck of the
steamboat Seawanhaka, which burned and sank in
the East
River, June 28,
1880.
Interment at Linden
Hill Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens, N.Y.
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Hiland R. Hulburd (1829-1880) —
of Great Neck, Queens County (now Nassau
County), Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Ohio, 1829.
Lawyer;
U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, 1867-72.
One of dozens killed in the wreck of the
steamboat Seawanhaka, which burned and sank in
the East
River, June 29,
1880 (age about 50
years).
Interment at Oak
Dale Cemetery, Urbana, Ohio.
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A. C. Rand (1832-1885) —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
31, 1832.
Republican. Mayor
of Minneapolis, Minn., 1878-82.
Drowned
in a boat
explosion on Lake Minnetonka, July 12,
1885 (age 52 years, 193
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Whitridge (1869-1895) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., December
28, 1869.
Banker;
Vice-Consul
for Denmark in Baltimore,
Md., 1892-95; Consul
for Chile in Baltimore,
Md., 1892-95.
Member, Delta
Phi.
When his house was on fire, he and his wife, attempting to
escape through a window onto a ladder, fell to
their deaths twenty feet below, in Baltimore,
Md., January
15, 1895 (age 25 years, 18
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Charles Adams (1845-1895) —
also known as Karl Adam Schwanbeck —
of Colorado Springs, El Paso
County, Colo.; Manitou Springs, El Paso
County, Colo.
Born in Pomerania, Germany,
December
19, 1845.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Minister to Bolivia, 1880-82.
Member, Freemasons.
Killed in the disaster at the Gumry Hotel,
when a boiler explosion caused most of the building to collapse
and burn, killing 22 people, in Denver,
Colo., August
19, 1895 (age 49 years, 243
days).
Interment at Crystal Valley Cemetery, Manitou Springs, Colo.
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Gaston Ahi Robbins (1858-1902) —
also known as Gaston A. Robbins —
of Selma, Dallas
County, Ala.
Born in Goldsboro, Wayne
County, N.C., September
26, 1858.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 4th District, 1893-96, 1899-1900.
During the fire that destroyed the Park Avenue Hotel,
already burned, he jumped from a sixth story window, and fell to
his death, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
22, 1902 (age 43 years, 149
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Statesville, N.C.
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Thomas Theodore Prentis (1844-1902) —
also known as Thomas T. Prentis —
Born in Waitsfield, Washington
County, Vt., June 17,
1844.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Consul in Seychelles, 1871-80; Port Louis, 1880-94; St. Pierre, 1900-02, died in office 1902.
Killed in the volcanic
eruption of Mount Pelée, when a fast-moving cloud of ash
and hot gases burned about eight square miles, killing an
estimated 30,000 people, in St. Pierre, Martinique,
May
8, 1902 (age 57 years, 325
days).
Interment somewhere in Fort-de-France, Martinique.
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Jacob Ptacnik Birder (1858-1904) —
also known as Jacob P. Birder —
of Park River, Walsh
County, N.Dak.
Born in Bohemia (now part of Czechia),
June
2, 1858.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from North Dakota, 1904.
As a passenger on a Wabash Railroad train headed for St. Louis, Mo.,
he was killed when the train
derailed on an open switch, fell from the tracks, and
burned, in Litchfield, Montgomery
County, Ill., July 3,
1904 (age 46 years, 31
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Frank Steunenberg (1861-1905) —
of Caldwell, Canyon
County, Idaho.
Born in Keokuk, Lee
County, Iowa, August
8, 1861.
Democrat. Governor of
Idaho, 1897-1901.
Murdered
by a bomb wired to his front yard gate, in Caldwell, Canyon
County, Idaho, December
30, 1905 (age 44 years, 144
days).
Interment at Canyon
Hill Cemetery, Caldwell, Idaho; statue at State
Capitol Grounds, Boise, Idaho.
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Isaac Eli Lambert (1854-1909) —
also known as Isaac E. Lambert; Ike
Lambert —
of Emporia, Lyon
County, Kan.
Born in Peoria, Peoria
County, Ill., August
18, 1854.
Republican. Lawyer; race horse
owner; postmaster at Emporia,
Kan., 1889-94; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Kansas, 1896
(member, Credentials
Committee); member of Kansas
state house of representatives 47th District, 1897; U.S.
Attorney for Kansas, 1897-1901.
Methodist.
Killed in the fire at the Copeland Hotel,
Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan., January
14, 1909 (age 54 years, 149
days).
Interment at Maplewood
Memorial Lawn Cemetery, Emporia, Kan.
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Relatives: Son
of Martin D. Lambert and Adaline (Johnson) Lambert; married 1877 to
Harriet Stowe 'Hattie' Barnes; married 1907 to
Millison Slayton Cutler. |
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memorial |
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David Albaugh DeArmond (1844-1909) —
also known as David A. DeArmond —
of Greenfield, Dade
County, Mo.; Butler, Bates
County, Mo.
Born in Altoona, Blair
County, Pa., March
18, 1844.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Missouri
state senate 20th District, 1879-82; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Missouri; circuit judge in Missouri 22nd Circuit,
1886-90; U.S.
Representative from Missouri, 1891-1909 (12th District 1891-93,
6th District 1893-1909); died in office 1909; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Missouri, 1904.
Killed in a house fire, Butler, Bates
County, Mo., November
23, 1909 (age 65 years, 250
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Butler, Mo.
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James Milton Turner (1840-1915) —
also known as J. Milton Turner —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.; St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in slavery
in St.
Louis, Mo., 1840.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Minister to Liberia, 1871-78; stabbed
in the chest by George W. Medley, in St. Louis, October 9, 1872.
African
ancestry.
First
African-American to serve as a U.S. diplomat.
Died, as the result of a railroad
tank car explosion, in Ardmore, Carter
County, Okla., November
1, 1915 (age about 75
years).
Interment at Father
Dickson's Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Max David Kirjassoff (1888-1923) —
also known as Max D. Kirjassoff —
of Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia,
March
2, 1888.
U.S. Vice Consul in Yokohama, as of 1916; U.S. Consul in Taihoku, as of 1917-19; Dairen, as of 1921; U.S. Consul General in Yokohama, 1922-23, died in office 1923.
Jewish.
One of more than 100,000 people killed during the Great Kanto Earthquake,
probably in the collapse
of the consulate building or the fire that followed, in
Yokohama, Japan,
September
1, 1923 (age 35 years, 183
days).
Interment at Negishi Foreign Cemetery, Yokohama, Japan.
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Paul E. Jenks (c.1863-1923) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born about 1863.
U.S. Vice Consul in Yokohama, 1917-23, died in office 1923.
One of more than 100,000 people killed during the Great Kanto Earthquake,
probably in the collapse
of the consulate building or the fire that followed, in
Yokohama, Japan,
September
1, 1923 (age about 60
years).
Burial location unknown.
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John Edward Hopley (1850-1927) —
also known as John E. Hopley —
of Bucyrus, Crawford
County, Ohio.
Born in Elkton, Todd
County, Ky., August
25, 1850.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; lawyer;
campaign manager and then private secretary to U.S. Rep. Stephen
R. Harris, 1895-97; U.S. Consul in Southampton, 1898-1903; Montevideo, 1903-05; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Ohio; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Ohio 8th District, 1914.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Royal
and Select Masters; Order of the
Eastern Star; Knights
Templar; Elks.
As a bedridden invalid, smoking a pipe, he accidentally dropped the
pipe, his clothes caught fire, and he was badly burned; his
burns became infected,
leading to his death a few days later, in Bucyrus, Crawford
County, Ohio, July 10,
1927 (age 76 years, 319
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Bucyrus, Ohio.
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John Thomas Fancher (1891-1928) —
also known as Jack T. Fancher —
of Washington.
Born in Manila (now Espanola), Spokane
County, Wash., May 13,
1891.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War I;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Washington 5th District, 1926.
Wounded by the premature explosion of a bomb was destroying,
in an empty field at the newly-opened Wenatchee airport,
and died soon after in the hospital
at Wenatchee, Chelan
County, Wash., April
30, 1928 (age 36 years, 353
days).
Interment at Riverside
Memorial Park, Spokane, Wash.
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Truman A. Potter (1871-1931) —
also known as T. A. Potter —
of Britt, Hancock
County, Iowa; Mason City, Cerro
Gordo County, Iowa.
Born in Lawler, Chickasaw
County, Iowa, February, 1871.
Republican. Real estate
business; delegate to Republican National Convention from Iowa,
1912.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Killed in a fire which destroyed his home, in Mason City, Cerro Gordo
County, Iowa, March 6,
1931 (age 60 years, 0
days).
Interment somewhere
in Waucoma, Iowa.
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Relatives: Son
of Stephen Addison Potter and Ann Louisa (Seeber) Potter; married, February
10, 1892, to Lotta Schriver. |
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D. Knox Hanna (d. 1934) —
of Tuscola
County, Mich.
Republican. Tuscola
County Sheriff, 1911-14; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Tuscola County, 1933-34; died
in office 1934.
Killed in the Kerns Hotel
fire, Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., December
13, 1934.
Burial location unknown.
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David Wilmer Steele (1899-1940) —
also known as David W. Steele —
of Ocean View, Sussex
County, Del.
Born in Sussex
County, Del., 1899.
Republican. Poultry
raiser; banker;
member of Delaware
state senate from Sussex County 4th District, 1937-40; died in
office 1940.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Tall
Cedars of Lebanon.
While fishing
off the coast of Ocean City, Maryland, he and his wife were killed in
an explosion and fire aboard their cruiser,
the Lure, in the North
Atlantic Ocean, October
7, 1940 (age about 41
years).
Interment at Mariners Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Ocean View,
Del.
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Carl Frederick Zeidler (1908-1942) —
also known as Carl Zeidler; "Singing Mayor";
"Boy Mayor" —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., January
4, 1908.
Mayor
of Milwaukee, Wis., 1940-42; resigned 1942; served in the U.S.
Navy during World War II.
Killed
when the munitions ship La
Salle was struck by torpedos, exploded, and sank,
about 350 miles southeast of the Cape of Good Hope, in the Indian
Ocean, November
7, 1942 (age 34 years, 307
days); his remains were never
found.
Cenotaph at Forest
Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis.
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Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. (1915-1944) —
also known as Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Hull, Plymouth
County, Mass., July 25,
1915.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1940;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
Catholic.
Killed
when his Liberator bomber
exploded, over the English
Channel, August
12, 1944 (age 29 years, 18
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Allison De France Gibbs (1868-1945) —
also known as Allison D. Gibbs —
Born in Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn., April 3,
1868.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Philippine
Islands, 1920.
While a prisoner
of the Japanese during World War II, was killed
by Allied bombing of the hospital
where he was held, in Baguio, Benguet Province, Philippines,
March
15, 1945 (age 76 years, 346
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mt.
Olivet Columbarium, Colma, Calif.
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William Tudor Gardiner (1892-1953) —
also known as William T. Gardiner —
of Gardiner, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 12,
1892.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1921-26; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1925-26; Governor of
Maine, 1929-33; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Maine, 1932;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; he and Gen. Maxwell
Taylor landed in Italy in 1943, before the American invasion,
traveled to Rome undetected, and held a conference with the Italian
High Command, obtaining information helpful to the Allies.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Military
Order of the World Wars; Sons
of Union Veterans; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Grange;
American Bar
Association.
Killed when his Beechcraft Bonanza airplane exploded in
midair, and crashed
in Schnecksville, Lehigh
County, Pa., August
2, 1953 (age 61 years, 51
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Cemetery, Gardiner, Maine.
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Edward E. Chase (d. 1953) —
of Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Delegate
to Maine convention to ratify 21st amendment from Cumberland
County, 1933; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1940; member of Maine
state senate, 1953; died in office 1953.
Killed in an airplane explosion and crash,
along with former Governor William
Tudor Gardiner, in Schnecksville, Lehigh
County, Pa., August
2, 1953.
Burial location unknown.
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John Robert Britten (1898-1955) —
also known as John R. Britten —
of Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind.
Born in Reading, Hamilton
County, Ohio, December
16, 1898.
Republican. Lawyer; Wayne
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1935-39; mayor
of Richmond, Ind., 1939-44.
Christian.
Member, Freemasons;
Order of the
Eastern Star; Grotto;
Shriners;
Knights
of Pythias; Eagles;
Moose;
Junior
Order; Elks; Kiwanis.
Suffered severe burns to his feet and toes from overnight
application of an electric pad, leading to a pulmonary
embolism and ultimately death, in Reid Hospital,
Spring Grove, Wayne
County, Ind., February
25, 1955 (age 56 years, 71
days).
Interment at Earlham
Cemetery, Richmond, Ind.
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Jesse Lynn Webb Jr. (1923-1956) —
also known as Jesse L. Webb, Jr. —
of Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Parish, La.
Born December
8, 1923.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Louisiana, 1948;
mayor-president
of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, 1953-56; died in office
1956.
En route to a conference, he was killed with two others when their private
plane exploded and burned, near Grand Ledge, Eaton
County, Mich., April
28, 1956 (age 32 years, 142
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Harvey L. Schwamm (c.1905-1958) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Riverdale, Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born about 1905.
Republican. Real estate
broker; banker;
candidate for New York
state senate 15th District, 1938, 1940; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1940;
major in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York.
Jewish.
Killed when a Northeast Airlines plane, landing in heavy
fog, crashed
and burned, about 300 yards short of the airport
runway, in Nantucket, Nantucket
County, Mass., August
15, 1958 (age about 53
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1924 to
Lillian Tverskoi. |
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Gordon Evans Dean (1905-1958) —
also known as Gordon E. Dean —
Born in Seattle, King
County, Wash., December
28, 1905.
Newspaper
reporter; lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; law
professor; member, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1949-53; chair,
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1950-53.
Killed when a Northeast Airlines plane, landing in heavy
fog, crashed
and burned, about 300 yards short of the airport
runway, in Nantucket, Nantucket
County, Mass., August
15, 1958 (age 52 years, 230
days).
Interment at Fort
Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, Md.
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Donald Grant Nutter (1915-1962) —
also known as Donald G. Nutter —
of Montana.
Born November
28, 1915.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; lawyer; Montana
Republican state chair, 1958-60; Governor of
Montana, 1961-62; died in office 1962.
Flying from Helena to Cut Bank, he was killed, along with Edward
C. Wren and four others, when the twin-engine C-47 plane crashed
into a mountain and burned, during a snowstorm,
near Wolf Creek, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont., January
25, 1962 (age 46 years, 58
days).
Interment at Sidney
City Cemetery, Sidney, Mont.
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Edward C. Wren (1918-1962) —
of Cascade
County, Mont.
Born in Great Falls, Cascade
County, Mont., September
28, 1918.
Republican. Baking plant
manager; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; rancher;
candidate for Montana
state house of representatives, 1954, 1956, 1958; Montana state
agriculture commissioner, 1961-62.
Member, Reserve
Officers Association.
Flying from Helena to Cut Bank, he was killed, along with Gov. Donald
G. Nutter and four others, when the twin-engine C-47 plane crashed
into a mountain and burned, during a snowstorm,
near Wolf Creek, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont., January
25, 1962 (age 43 years, 119
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Great Falls, Mont.
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Harry Hines Woodring (1890-1967) —
also known as Harry H. Woodring —
of Neodesha, Wilson
County, Kan.; Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan.
Born in Elk City, Montgomery
County, Kan., May 31,
1890.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Governor of
Kansas, 1931-33; defeated, 1932, 1946; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Kansas, 1936,
1940,
1948;
U.S.
Secretary of War, 1936-40.
Congregationalist.
Member, American
Legion.
Suffered a stroke
while recovering from burns, and died in Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan., September
9, 1967 (age 77 years, 101
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Topeka, Kan.
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James Vernon Smith (1926-1973) —
of Oklahoma.
Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla., July 23,
1926.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Oklahoma 6th District, 1967-69.
Died in a wheat field fire at his farm, near Chickasha, Grady
County, Okla., June 23,
1973 (age 46 years, 335
days).
Interment at Fairlawn
Cemetery, Chickasha, Okla.
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Dutton Brookfield (d. 1979) —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.
Republican. Kansas City police
commissioner; candidate for Presidential Elector for Missouri;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Missouri, 1968.
Died, from injuries suffered in a house fire, 1979.
Burial location unknown.
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Arnold Lewis Raphel (1943-1988) —
also known as Arnold L. Raphel —
of New Jersey.
Born in 1943.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, 1987-88, died in office 1988.
Killed when a plane
in which he was a passenger was blown up in midair by terrorists,
near Bahawalpur, Pakistan,
August
17, 1988 (age about 45
years).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Robert Smith Vance (1931-1989) —
also known as Bob Vance —
of Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.; Mountain Brook, Jefferson
County, Ala.
Born in Talladega, Talladega
County, Ala., May 10,
1931.
Democrat. Lawyer; Alabama
Democratic state chair, 1966-77; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Alabama, 1968,
1972
(alternate); Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, 1977-81; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, 1981-89; died in
office 1989.
Assassinated
by way of a mail bomb, in Mountain Brook, Jefferson
County, Ala., December
16, 1989 (age 58 years, 220
days). Walter Leroy Moody, Jr., who sent the bomb, was convicted
of murder, sentenced to death, and executed in 2018.
Cremated;
ashes interred at St. Lukes Episcopal Columbarium, Mountain Brook, Ala.
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Robert C. Frasure (1942-1995) —
of Falls
Church, Va.
Born in Morgantown, Monongalia
County, W.Va., April
20, 1942.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Estonia, 1992-94.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Killed when the vehicle he was riding in plunged
down a ravine and exploded, on Mount Igman, near Sarajevo,
Bosnia
and Herzegovina, August
19, 1995 (age 53 years, 121
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Basil W. Brown (1927-1997) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Highland Park, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Vandalia, Cass
County, Mich., March
20, 1927.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
member of Michigan
state senate, 1957-88 (3rd District 1957-64, 6th District
1965-74, 3rd District 1975-82, 2nd District 1983-88); resigned 1988;
in 1985, a prostitute working for the police went to visit him
several times, and exchanged
sex for marijuana
and cocaine;
arrested
November 8, 1985; pleaded
guilty in 1987 and resigned
from the Senate; sentenced
to six months in jail, fines, and probation; his law license was also
suspended; the state supreme court threw out the conviction in 1991.
Episcopalian.
African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi; Elks; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Amvets;
NAACP.
Injured in a fire at his home, while also suffering cancer,
and died two weeks later, in Harper Hospital,
Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., October
28, 1997 (age 70 years, 222
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Jasper Baxter (1957-2001) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
28, 1957.
Democrat. Candidate for Pennsylvania
state house of representatives 186th District, 1986.
African
ancestry.
Was conducting a seminar on the 93rd floor of 2 World Trade Center,
when an airliner hijacked by terrorists was deliberately
crashed
into the building, causing an explosion, fire, and collapse
of the structure, killing almost 3,000, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
11, 2001 (age 44 years, 226
days).
Cenotaph at National September 11 Memorial, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Jay Gordon (1930-2007) —
of Montpelier, Washington
County, Vt.
Born October
10, 1930.
Democrat. Accountant;
Vermont
state auditor of accounts, 1965-68; university
professor.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Moose;
Elks; American
Legion.
Killed, along with his wife, in a house fire, in Montpelier,
Washington
County, Vt., December
4, 2007 (age 77 years, 55
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Joan Plumpton. |
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Rickey Lee Davis (1951-2014) —
also known as Rick Davis —
of Caruthersville, Pemiscot
County, Mo.
Born, in Tunica County Hospital,
Tunica, Tunica
County, Miss., February
8, 1951.
Mayor
of Caruthersville, Mo., 1994-98, 2014; died in office 2014.
Presbyterian.
Member, Rotary.
Died, from smoke
inhalation during a fire at his home, Caruthersville, Pemiscot
County, Mo., July 23,
2014 (age 63 years, 165
days).
Burial location unknown.
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