Very incomplete list!
in chronological order
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John Baylis (c.1727-1765) —
of Dumfries, Prince
William County, Va.
Born in Manassas,
Va., about 1727.
Lawyer;
planter;
member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1761-65.
Anglican.
Killed in a duel with
Cuthbert
Bullitt, in Prince
William County, Va., September
24, 1765 (age about 38
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Baylis; married 1754 to Jane
Blackburn. |
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Button Gwinnett (1735-1777) —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Down Hatherly, Gloucestershire, England,
March
3, 1735.
Planter;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1776; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1777; Governor of
Georgia, 1777.
Mortally wounded in a duel with
Lachlan
McIntosh, on May 16, 1777, and died three days later, near
Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., May 19,
1777 (age 42 years, 77
days).
Interment at Colonial
Park Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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George Wells (1744-1780) —
of Georgia.
Born in Queen
Anne's County, Md., March 3,
1744.
Physician;
served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Governor of
Georgia, 1780; died in office 1780.
Mortally wounded in a duel with
James
Jackson, and died soon after, in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., February
15, 1780 (age 35 years, 349
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Adam Treutlen (1734-1782) —
also known as John A. Treutlen; Hans Adam
Treuettlen —
of Georgia.
Born in Kürnbach, Germany,
January
16, 1734.
Merchant;
planter;
justice of the peace; Governor of
Georgia, 1777-78.
Lutheran.
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Seized and murdered by a group of men, probably in Savannah,
Chatham
County, Ga., March 1,
1782 (age 48 years, 44
days).
Cenotaph at Veterans Park of Effingham County, Springfield, Ga.
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Richard Dobbs Spaight (1758-1802) —
of Craven
County, N.C.
Born in New Bern, Craven
County, N.C., March
25, 1758.
Democrat. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1781; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1783-85; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; Governor of
North Carolina, 1792-95; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1798-1801 (10th District
1798-99, at-large 1799-1801); member of North
Carolina state senate, 1801.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Mortally wounded in in a duel with
John
Stanly, his opponent and successor in Congress, and died in New
Bern, Craven
County, N.C., September
6, 1802 (age 44 years, 165
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Craven County, N.C.
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Charles James Air (1775-1803) —
Born in 1775.
Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Christ Church,
1797-1803; died in office 1803.
Murdered by a highway robber, at Awendaw, Charleston
County, S.C., March 5,
1803 (age about 27
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) —
also known as "Alexander the
Coppersmith" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Charles Town, Nevis,
January
11, 1757.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1782-83; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1786-87; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; delegate
to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from New York
County, 1788; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1789-95.
Episcopalian.
Scottish
and French
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Society
of the Cincinnati.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1915.
Shot
and mortally wounded in a duel with
Aaron
Burr, on July 11, 1804, and died the next day in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 12,
1804 (age 47 years, 183
days).
Interment at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Treasury
Building Grounds, Washington, D.C.; statue at Commonwealth Avenue Mall, Boston, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of James Hamilton and Rachel (Faucette) Hamilton; married, December
14, 1780, to Elizabeth Schuyler (daughter of Philip
John Schuyler; sister of Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler); father of Alexander
Hamilton Jr., James
Alexander Hamilton and William
Stephen Hamilton; great-grandfather of Robert
Ray Hamilton; second great-grandfather of Laurens
M. Hamilton; ancestor *** of Robert
Hamilton Woodruff. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; VanRensselaer
family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Nathaniel
Pendleton — Robert
Troup — John
Tayler — William
P. Van Ness |
| | | Hamilton counties in Fla., Ill., Ind., Kan., Neb., N.Y., Ohio and Tenn. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Hamilton,
Ohio, is named for
him. — Hamilton Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at
Harvard University
Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Alexander
H. Buell
— Alexander
H. Holley
— Hamilton
Fish
— Alexander
H. Stephens
— Alexander
H. Bullock
— Alexander
H. Bailey
— Alexander
H. Rice
— Alexander
Hamilton Jones
— Alexander
H. Waterman
— Alexander
H. Coffroth
— Alexander
H. Dudley
— Alexander
H. Revell
— Alexander
Hamilton Hargis
— Alexander
Hamilton Phillips
— Alex
Woodle
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. $10 bill; from the 1860s to the 1920s, his
portrait also appeared on U.S. notes and certificates of various
denominations from $2 to $1,000. |
| | | Personal motto: "Do it better
yet." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Historical
Society of the New York Courts |
| | | Books about Alexander Hamilton: Richard
Brookhiser, Alexander
Hamilton, American — Forrest McDonald, Alexander
Hamilton: A Biography — Gertrude Atherton, Conqueror
: Dramatized Biography of Alexander Hamilton — Ron
Chernow, Alexander
Hamilton — Thomas Fleming, Duel:
Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of
America — Arnold A. Rogow, A
Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr —
Willard Sterne Randall, Alexander
Hamilton: A Life — John Harper, American
Machiavelli : Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign
Policy — Stephen F. Knott, Alexander
Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth — Charles Cerami,
Young
Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men. Their Impossible Plan and
The Revolution That Created The Constitution — Donald
Barr Chidsey, Mr.
Hamilton and Mr. Jefferson |
| | | Critical books about Alexander
Hamilton: Thomas DiLorenzo, Hamilton's
Curse : How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution
-- and What It means for Americans Today |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1957) |
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George Wythe (1726-1806) —
of York
County, Va.
Born in Elizabeth City County, Va. (now part of Hampton,
Va.), December
3, 1726.
Member of Virginia state legislature, 1758-68; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-77; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; state court judge in Virginia,
1777; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from York
County, 1788.
Episcopalian.
Apparently murdered — poisoned
by his grandnephew — and died two weeks later, in Richmond,
Va., June 8,
1806 (age 79 years, 187
days).
Interment at St.
John's Churchyard, Richmond, Va.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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John Ward Gurley (c.1787-1808) —
of Louisiana.
Born in Lebanon, New London
County, Conn., about 1787.
Orleans
territory attorney general, 1803.
Killed in a duel with
Philip L. Jones, in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., March 3,
1808 (age about 21
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) —
of Missouri.
Born near Ivy, Albemarle
County, Va., August
18, 1774.
Governor
of Louisiana (Missouri) Territory, 1807-09; died in office 1809.
English
and Welsh
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Commanded expedition with William
Clark to Oregon, 1803-04.
Died from gunshot
wounds under mysterious
circumstances (murder or suicide?)
at Grinder's Stand, an inn on
the Natchez Trace near Hohenwald, Lewis
County, Tenn., October
11, 1809 (age 35 years, 54
days).
Interment at Meriwether
Lewis Park, Near Hohenwald, Lewis County, Tenn.
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Relatives: Son
of William Lewis and Lucy (Meriwether) Lewis; first cousin once
removed of Howell
Lewis, John
Walker, David
Meriwether (1755-1822), James
Meriwether (1755-1817), Francis
Walker and George
Rockingham Gilmer; first cousin five times removed of Arthur
Sidney Demarest; second cousin of James
Meriwether (1788-1852), David
Meriwether (1800-1893) and James
Archibald Meriwether; second cousin once removed of George
Washington, Howell
Cobb (1772-1818), Thomas
Walker Gilmer, David
Shelby Walker and Reuben
Handy Meriwether; second cousin twice removed of Howell
Cobb (1815-1868), Thomas
Reade Rootes Cobb, James
David Walker and David
Shelby Walker Jr.; second cousin thrice removed of Hubbard
T. Smith; second cousin four times removed of Archer
Woodford; third cousin of Theodorick
Bland, Robert
Brooke, Bushrod
Washington, George
Madison and Richard
Aylett Buckner; third cousin once removed of John
Randolph of Roanoke, Henry
St. George Tucker, John
Thornton Augustine Washington, Zachary
Taylor, Francis
Taliaferro Helm and Aylette
Buckner; third cousin twice removed of John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton, Aylett
Hawes Buckner, Charles
John Helm, Thomas
Leonidas Crittenden, Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker and Hubbard
Dozier Helm; third cousin thrice removed of James
Francis Buckner Jr., Key
Pittman, Claude
Pollard and Vail
Montgomery Pittman; fourth cousin once removed of Henry
Rootes Jackson. |
| | | Political families: Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis
family of New Jersey; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: George
F. Shannon |
| | | Lewis counties in Idaho, Ky., Mo., Tenn. and Wash. are
named for him; Lewis and Clark
County, Mont. is named partly for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Meriwether
Lewis Randolph
— Meriwether
Lewis Walker
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared (along with Clark's) on the $10 U.S. Note from 1898 to
1927. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about Meriwether Lewis: Thomas C.
Danisi, Uncovering
the Truth About Meriwether Lewis — Donald Barr
Chidsey, Lewis
and Clark: The Great Adventure |
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David Ramsay (1749-1815) —
of Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C.
Born in Lancaster
County, Pa., April 2,
1749.
Physician;
author;
served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate
to Continental Congress from South Carolina, 1782-83, 1785-86;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from St. Philip & St.
Michael, 1783-90; member of South
Carolina state senate from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1790-1800.
Shot
and mortally wounded by a crazed patient, and died two days
later, in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., May 8,
1815 (age 66 years, 36
days).
Interment at Circular
Congregational Church Burying Ground, Charleston, S.C.
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Thomas K. Harris (c.1777-1816) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Tennessee, about 1777.
Democrat. Member of Tennessee
state senate, 1809-11; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1813-15.
Died from wounds received in an encounter with Col. John
Simpson, on the old Kentucky Road at Shells Ford of Collins River,
near McMinnville, Warren
County, Tenn., March
18, 1816 (age about 39
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Armistead Thomson Mason (1787-1819) —
also known as Armistead T. Mason —
of Virginia.
Born in Louisa
County, Va., August
4, 1787.
Democrat. Colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1816-17.
Slaveowner.
As a result of a bitter election campaign, was killed in a duel with
Col. John Mason McCarty, at Bladensburg, Prince
George's County, Md., February
6, 1819 (age 31 years, 186
days).
Interment at Episcopal
Churchyard, Leesburg, Va.
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Joshua Barton (1792-1823) —
of Missouri.
Born in Jefferson
County, Tenn., July 28,
1792.
Secretary
of state of Missouri, 1820-21; resigned 1821; U.S.
Attorney for Missouri, 1822-23.
Killed in a duel with
Thomas C. Rector, on Bloody Island, St.
Louis, Mo., June 30,
1823 (age 30 years, 337
days).
Interment somewhere
in St. Charles, Mo.
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Joseph Selden (1787-1824) —
of Arkansas.
Born in Henrico
County, Va., May 7,
1787.
Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; justice of
Arkansas territorial supreme court, 1820-24; died in office 1824.
Killed in a duel with
Andrew
Scott, on an island in the Mississippi River, near Helena (now
part of Helena-West Helena), Phillips
County, Ark., May 26,
1824 (age 37 years, 19
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Solomon P. Sharp (1780-1825) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Abingdon, Washington
County, Va., 1780.
Democrat. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1809; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky, 1813-17 (at-large 1813-15, 6th
District 1815-17); Kentucky
state attorney general, 1821-25.
Slaveowner.
Stabbed
and killed, by Jereboam O. Beauchamp, in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., November
7, 1825 (age about 45
years).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Robert Brank Vance (1793-1827) —
of Nashville, Nash
County, N.C.
Born near Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C., 1793.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 12th District, 1823-25.
Slaveowner.
Mortally wounded in a duel with
Samuel
P. Carson, who had defeated him for Congress; died the next day
at a hotel in
Henderson
County, N.C., 1827
(age about
34 years).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Buncombe County, N.C.
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Henry Wharton Conway (1793-1827) —
also known as Henry W. Conway —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born near Greeneville, Greene
County, Tenn., March
18, 1793.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; postmaster at Little
Rock, Ark., 1821-23; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Arkansas Territory, 1823-27; died in office
1827.
Mortally wounded in a duel with
Robert
Crittenden on October 29, 1827, and died at Arkansas Post, Arkansas
County, Ark., November
9, 1827 (age 34 years, 236
days).
Interment at Scull
Cemetery, Arkansas Post, Ark.
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Spencer Darwin Pettis (1802-1831) —
also known as Spencer D. Pettis —
of Fayette, Howard
County, Mo.
Born in Culpeper
County, Va., 1802.
Democrat. Secretary
of state of Missouri, 1826-28; U.S.
Representative from Missouri at-large, 1829-31; died in office
1831.
The fierce campaign of 1830 led to a quarrel and ultimately a duel with
Maj. Thomas Biddle, in which both fell mortally wounded; died
the next day, in St.
Louis, Mo., August
28, 1831 (age about 29
years).
Interment at Old
City Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Jonathan Cilley (1802-1838) —
of Thomaston, Knox
County, Maine.
Born in Nottingham, Rockingham
County, N.H., July 2,
1802.
Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1831-36; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1835-36; U.S.
Representative from Maine 3rd District, 1837-38; died in office
1838.
Killed in a duel by
Representative William
J. Graves of Kentucky, on the Marlboro Pike, in Prince
George's County, Md., February
24, 1838 (age 35 years, 237
days).
Interment at Elm
Grove Cemetery, Thomaston, Maine; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Augustus A. Alston (1805-1839) —
of Georgia.
Born in Hancock
County, Ga., 1805.
Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1828-29.
Killed in a duel with
Gen. Leigh Read, in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., 1839
(age about
34 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Potter (c.1800-1842) —
of Oxford, Granville
County, N.C.
Born near Williamsboro, Vance
County, N.C., about 1800.
Member of North
Carolina house of commons from Granville County, 1828, 1834; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 6th District, 1829-31; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Nacogdoches, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; Texas
Republic Secretary of the Navy, 1836; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Red River and Fannin, 1840-42;
died in office 1842.
Resigned
from the U.S. Congress in 1831 after maiming
two men in a jealous rage; convicted,
and sentenced
to six months in prison.
Expelled
in 1834 from the North Carolina House for cheating
at cards.
Shot
and killed by members of an opposing faction who surrounded
his home, in Harrison County (part now in Marion
County), Tex., March 2,
1842 (age about 42
years).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Marion County, Tex.; reinterment in
1928 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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William Hester Patton (1808-1842) —
of Texas.
Born in Hopkinsville, Christian
County, Ky., 1808.
Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member
of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1837-38.
Murdered, June 12,
1842 (age about 33
years).
Burial location unknown.
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George Augustus Waggaman (c.1782-1843) —
also known as George A. Waggaman —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Caroline
County, Md., about 1782.
Lawyer;
sugar
cane planter;
served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; circuit judge in
Louisiana, 1818; secretary
of state of Louisiana, 1830-32; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1831-35.
Slaveowner.
Mortally wounded in a duel, and
died in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., March
31, 1843 (age about 61
years).
Original interment at Girod
Street Cemetery (which no longer exists), New Orleans, La.;
reinterment in 1957 at Hope
Mausoleum, New Orleans, La.
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John M. Hansford (c.1800-1844) —
of Texas.
Born about 1800.
Member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1838-40; judge of Texas
Republic, 1840-42.
Resigned
as judge in 1842 while being impeached
over his handling
of a trial arising out of the "Regulator-Moderator War" in East
Texas.
Killed by members of the Regulators who had seized his home,
in Texas, 1844
(age about
44 years).
Burial location unknown.
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John Gordon Chalmers (1803-1847) —
also known as John G. Chalmers —
of La Grange, Fayette
County, Tex.
Born in Halifax
County, Va., August
25, 1803.
Newspaper
editor; member of Virginia state legislature, 1830; Texas
Republic Secretary of the Treasury, 1841.
During a fight with Joshua Holden, he was Stabbed
and mortally wounded; he died soon after, January
1, 1847 (age 43 years, 129
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Moses W. Formwalt (1820-1852) —
of Atlanta, DeKalb County (now Fulton
County), Ga.
Born in Tennessee, 1820.
Tinsmith;
mayor
of Atlanta, Ga., 1848-49; deputy
sheriff.
Stabbed
and killed by a prisoner he was escorting, in May, 1852
(age about
31 years).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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Edward Gilbert (c.1819-1852) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Cherry Valley, Otsego
County, N.Y., about 1819.
Democrat. Printer;
newspaper
editor; delegate
to California state constitutional convention from San Francisco
District, 1849; U.S.
Representative from California at-large, 1850-51.
Killed in a duel with
Col. James W. Denver, near Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., August
2, 1852 (age about 33
years).
Original interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment to unknown location.
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Solomon Weathersbee Downs (1801-1854) —
also known as Solomon W. Downs —
of Louisiana.
Born in Montgomery
County, Tenn., 1801.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, 1845-46; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1847-53; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1853.
Slaveowner.
Mortally wounded in a duel, and
subsequently died, at Crab Orchard Springs, Lincoln
County, Ky., August
14, 1854 (age about 53
years).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Ouachita Parish, La.; reinterment at
Riverview
Cemetery, Monroe, La.
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Philip Barton Key (1818-1859) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Georgetown, Washington,
D.C., April 5,
1818.
U.S.
Attorney for the District of Columbia, 1853-59; died in office
1859.
Shot
and killed by Daniel
E. Sickles, in retaliation
for Key's affair
with his wife Teresa, at Lafayette Park, Washington,
D.C., February
27, 1859 (age 40 years, 328
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; cenotaph at Westminster
Burying Ground, Baltimore, Md.
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Robert Simpson Neighbors (1815-1859) —
of Texas.
Born in Virginia, November
3, 1815.
Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member
of Texas
state house of representatives, 1852-53; Federal Superintendent
of Indians.
Shot
and killed by Edward Cornett, at Fort Belknap (now Belknap),
Young
County, Tex., September
14, 1859 (age 43 years, 315
days).
Interment at Fort
Belknap Civilian Cemetery, Belknap, Tex.
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David Colbreth Broderick (1820-1859) —
also known as David C. Broderick —
of New York; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
4, 1820.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1846; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state senate, 1850-52; Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1851-52; U.S.
Senator from California, 1857-59; died in office 1859.
Irish
ancestry.
Mortally wounded in a duel on
September 13, 1859 with David
S. Terry, chief justice of the California Supreme Court, and died
in San
Francisco, Calif., September
16, 1859 (age 39 years, 224
days).
Original interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment in 1942 at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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John C. Bell (c.1831-1860) —
of El
Dorado County, Calif.
Born about 1831.
Member of California
state assembly 18th District, 1860; died in office 1860.
During an argument just outside the Assembly
session in the California
State Capitol, was shot and
stabbed
by Dr. W. H. Stone, mortally wounded, and died four days
later, in Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., April
15, 1860 (age about 29
years).
Interment at Sacramento
City Cemetery, Sacramento, Calif.
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William Augustus Lake (1808-1861) —
Born near Cambridge, Dorchester
County, Md., January
6, 1808.
Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1831; member of Mississippi
state senate, 1848; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 4th District, 1855-57; member of
Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1859.
Slaveowner.
Killed in a duel by Henry
Cousins Chambers, his opponent for Confederate Congress, at
Hopefield, Crittenden
County, Ark., October
15, 1861 (age 53 years, 282
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, Miss.
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William T. Casto (1824-1862) —
Born January
24, 1824.
Lawyer;
mayor
of Maysville, Ky., 1850; arrested
in 1861 and imprisoned
for allegedly aiding
the Confederacy; released in 1862.
Blamed Col. Leonidas Metcalfe (son of Gov. Thomas
Metcalfe) for his imprisonment; challenged him to a duel; the
weapons were Colt rifles at 60 yards; Casto was shot and
killed on the first fire, in Bracken
County, Ky., May 8,
1862 (age 38 years, 104
days).
Interment at Maysville
Cemetery, Maysville, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Abijah Casto. |
| | | Epitaph: "A Patriot, his Country's firm
unwavering friend, he was willing to die for his Principles and as a
man of Honor nobly fell a Veteran of the sacred and invincible right
of personal liberty." |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Joshua Chilton (1818-1862) —
of Shannon
County, Mo.
Born in Wayne
County, Tenn., September
28, 1818.
Democrat. Member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Shannon County, 1846-55;
member of Missouri
state senate 24th District, 1860-61.
Member, Freemasons.
Arrested
by Union troops as an alleged Southern
sympathizer, and while a prisoner,
was shot and
killed, near Rolla, Phelps
County, Mo., August
28, 1862 (age 43 years, 334
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Johnson (1802-1865) —
of Kansas.
Born in 1802.
Member of Kansas
territorial legislature, 1855.
Robbed and murdered, 1865
(age about
63 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Alfred Walker Bethea (1816-1865) —
also known as Alfred W. Bethea —
of Reedy Creek, Marion District (now Dillon
County), S.C.
Born November
12, 1816.
Physician;
delegate
to South Carolina secession convention from Marion, 1860-62.
Shot
and killed by a deserter, February
18, 1865 (age 48 years, 98
days).
Interment at Sweet Swamp Cemetery, Dillon County, S.C.
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Relatives: Son
of John Bethea and Hannah (Walker) Bethea; married to Flora Jane
Bethea. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) —
also known as "Honest Abe"; "Old
Abe"; "The Rail-Splitter"; "The
Illinois Baboon" —
of New Salem, Menard
County, Ill.; Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in a log
cabin, Hardin County (part now in Larue
County), Ky., February
12, 1809.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; postmaster;
lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1834-41; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1847-49; candidate for
Republican nomination for Vice President, 1856;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1858; President
of the United States, 1861-65; died in office 1865; His election
as president in 1860 precipitated the Civil War; determined to
preserve the Union, he led the North to victory on the battlefield,
freed the slaves in the conquered states, and in doing this,
redefined American nationhood. He was.
English
ancestry.
Elected in 1900 to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans.
Shot
by the assassin John Wilkes Booth, during a play at
Ford's Theater,
in Washington,
D.C., April 14, 1865; died at Peterson's Boarding
House, across the street, the following day, April
15, 1865 (age 56 years, 62
days).
Interment at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.; memorial monument at National
Mall, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1868 at Judiciary
Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy (Hanks) Lincoln; married, November
4, 1842, to Mary
Ann Todd (sister-in-law of Ninian
Wirt Edwards; half-sister-in-law of Nathaniel
Henry Rhodes Dawson and Benjamin
Hardin Helm; half-sister of Emilie
Pariet Todd; aunt of Martha
Dee Todd; grandniece of David
Rittenhouse Porter); father of Robert
Todd Lincoln; second cousin four times removed of Richard
Henry Lee, Francis
Lightfoot Lee and Arthur
Lee; third cousin twice removed of Levi
Lincoln; third cousin thrice removed of Thomas
Sim Lee, Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, Edmund
Jennings Lee and Zachary
Taylor; fourth cousin once removed of Levi
Lincoln Jr. and Enoch
Lincoln. |
| | | Political families: Lincoln-Lee
family; Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown
family of Kentucky; Edwards-Cook
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Clement
Claiborne Clay, Jr. — Isham
N. Haynie — William
M. Stone — John
Pitcher — Stephen
Miller — John
T. Stuart — William
H. Seward — Henry
L. Burnett — Judah
P. Benjamin — Robert
Toombs — Richard
Taylor Jacob — George
W. Jones — James
Adams — John
G. Nicolay — Edward
Everett — Stephen
T. Logan — Francis
P. Blair — John
Hay — Henry
Reed Rathbone — James
A. Ekin — Frederick
W. Seward — John
H. Surratt — John
H. Surratt, Jr. — James
Shields — Emily
T. Helm — John
A. Campbell — John
Merryman — Barnes
Compton |
| | | Lincoln counties in Ark., Colo., Idaho, Kan., La., Minn., Miss., Mont., Neb., Nev., N.M., Okla., Ore., Wash., W.Va., Wis. and Wyo. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Lincoln,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — Lincoln Memorial University,
in Harrogate,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — Lincoln University,
in Jefferson
City, Missouri, is named for
him. — Lincoln University,
near Oxford,
Pennsylvania, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Abraham
L. Keister
— Abraham
L. Tucker
— Abraham
L. Brick
— Abraham
L. Kellogg
— Abraham
Lincoln Bernstein
— A.
Lincoln Reiley
— A.
L. Helmick
— Abraham
L. Sutton
— A.
Lincoln Acker
— Abraham
L. Osgood
— Abraham
L. Witmer
— Abraham
L. Phillips
— Abraham
L. Payton
— A.
L. Auth
— A.
Lincoln Moore
— A.
Lincoln Niditch
— Abraham
L. Rubenstein
— Abraham
L. Davis, Jr.
— Abraham
L. Freedman
— A.
L. Marovitz
— Lincoln
Gordon
— Abraham
L. Banner
— Abraham
Lincoln Tosti
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
has appeared on the U.S. penny (one cent coin) since 1909, and on
the $5 bill since 1913. From the 1860s until 1927, his portrait
also appeared on U.S. notes and certificates of various
denominations from $1 to $500. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Abraham Lincoln: David
Herbert Donald, Lincoln —
George Anastaplo, Abraham
Lincoln : A Constitutional Biography — G. S. Boritt,
ed., The
Lincoln Enigma : The Changing Faces of an American
Icon — Albert J. Beveridge, Abraham
Lincoln 1809-1858 — Geoffrey Perret, Lincoln's
War : The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander
in Chief — David Herbert Donald, We
Are Lincoln Men : Abraham Lincoln and His Friends —
Edward Steers, Jr., Blood
on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln —
Mario Cuomo, Why
Lincoln Matters : Today More Than Ever — Michael W.
Kauffman, American
Brutus : John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln
Conspiracies — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln —
Joshua Wolf Shenk, Lincoln's
Melancholy : How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His
Greatness — John Channing Briggs, Lincoln's
Speeches Reconsidered — Ronald C. White, Jr., The
Eloquent President : A Portrait of Lincoln Through His
Words — Harold Holzer, Lincoln
at Cooper Union : The Speech That Made Abraham Linco ln
President — Michael Lind, What
Lincoln Believed : The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest
President — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln —
Michael Burlingame, ed., Abraham
Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John
Hay — Thomas J. Craughwell, Stealing
Lincoln's Body — Roy Morris, Jr., The
Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen
Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America — John
Stauffer, Giants:
The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham
Lincoln — Karen Judson, Abraham
Lincoln (for young readers) — Maira Kalman, Looking
at Lincoln (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Abraham Lincoln:
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, The
Real Lincoln : A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an
Unnecessary War |
| | | Fiction about Abraham Lincoln: Gore
Vidal, Lincoln:
A Novel |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Aaron H. Conrow (1824-1865) —
of Missouri.
Born near Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, June 19,
1824.
Delegate
from Missouri to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
Representative
from Missouri in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65; served in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Killed along with M.
M. Parsons and four others, by bandits in Nuevo
León, August
15, 1865 (age 41 years, 57
days).
Interment at Shotwell
Cemetery, Richmond, Mo.
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Mosby Monroe Parsons (1822-1865) —
also known as M. M. Parsons —
of Missouri.
Born in Charlottesville,
Va., May 21,
1822.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, 1857-58; general
in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Killed, along with Aaron
H. Conrow and four others, by bandits in Nuevo
León, August
15, 1865 (age 43 years, 86
days).
Interment somewhere
in Nuevo León; cenotaph at Maplewood
Cemetery, Charlottesville, Va.; cenotaph at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Jefferson City, Mo.
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Caleb Claiborne Herbert (c.1814-1867) —
of Texas.
Born in Goochland
County, Va., about 1814.
Member of Texas
state senate, 1857-59; Representative
from Texas in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65.
Shot
and killed outside a saloon
in Columbus, Colorado
County, Tex., July 5,
1867 (age about 53
years).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Colorado County, Tex.
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Cornelius Springer Hamilton (1821-1867) —
of Union
County, Ohio.
Born in Gratiot, Muskingum
County, Ohio, January
2, 1821.
Republican. Delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention from Union County,
1850-51; member of Ohio
state senate, 1856-57; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 8th District, 1867; died in office 1867.
Killed by his insane son, in Marysville, Union
County, Ohio, December
22, 1867 (age 46 years, 354
days).
Interment at Oakdale
Cemetery, Marysville, Ohio; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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George W. Ashburn (c.1814-1868) —
of Muscogee
County, Ga.
Born about 1814.
Hotelier;
cotton
broker; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; opposed
to secession, and led a regiment of Southern loyalists; delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1867.
Shot
and killed by a group of masked men, in a boarding
house at Columbus, Muscogee
County, Ga., March
31, 1868 (age about 54
years).
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Macon, Ga.
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Thomas Carmichael Hindman (1828-1868) —
also known as Thomas C. Hindman —
of Mississippi; Helena (now part of Helena-West Helena), Phillips
County, Ark.
Born in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., January
28, 1828.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of
Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1852; U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 1st District, 1859-61; general in
the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Slaveowner.
Shot
through a window of his home, by an unknown assassin, and died
eight hours later, in Helena (now part of Helena-West Helena), Phillips
County, Ark., September
27, 1868 (age 40 years, 243
days).
Interment at Maple
Hill Cemetery, Helena-West Helena, Ark.
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James Martin (d. 1868) —
of Abbeville
County, S.C.
Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Abbeville County,
1868; died in office 1868.
Murdered, October
5, 1868.
Burial location unknown.
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Benjamin Franklin Randolph (d. 1868) —
also known as Benjamin F. Randolph —
of Orangeburg
County, S.C.
Delegate
to South Carolina state constitutional convention from Orangeburg
County, 1868; member of South
Carolina state senate from Orangeburg County, 1868; died in
office 1868.
African
ancestry.
Murdered as he stepped
off a train, October
16, 1868.
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Randolph
Cemetery, Columbia, S.C.
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James Hinds (1833-1868) —
of Arkansas.
Born near Salem, Washington
County, N.Y., December
5, 1833.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 2nd District, 1868; died in office
1868.
Shot
and killed by George A. Clark, who was drunk at the time, near
Indian Bay, Monroe
County, Ark., October
22, 1868 (age 34 years, 322
days).
Interment somewhere
in East Norwich, Long Island, N.Y.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Thomas Haughey (1826-1869) —
of Elyton (now part of Birmingham), Jefferson
County, Ala.; Decatur, Morgan
County, Ala.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland,
1826.
Republican. Physician;
surgeon;
delegate
to Alabama state constitutional convention, 1867; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 6th District, 1868-69.
Slaveowner.
While making a political
speech, he was assaulted by A. B. Collins, who shot and
mortally wounded him; he died six days later, in Courtland, Lawrence
County, Ala., August
5, 1869 (age about 43
years).
Interment at Green
Cemetery, Pinson, Ala.
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John Huyler (1808-1870) —
of Hackensack, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 9,
1808.
Democrat. Member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Bergen County, 1850-52; Speaker of
the New Jersey State House of Assembly, 1851; Judge, New Jersey
Court of Errors and Appeals, 1854-57; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 4th District, 1857-59; defeated,
1858; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1860.
Assassinated in Hackensack, Bergen
County, N.J., January
9, 1870 (age 61 years, 275
days).
Interment at Maple
Grove Park Cemetery, Hackensack, N.J.
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Edward Dexter Holbrook (1836-1870) —
also known as Edward D. Holbrook —
of Idaho City, Boise
County, Idaho.
Born in Elyria, Lorain
County, Ohio, May 6,
1836.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Idaho Territory, 1865-69.
Censured
by the House of Representatives in 1869 for use of unparliamentary
language.
Shot
and mortally wounded by Charles H. Douglas, and died the next
day, in Idaho City, Boise
County, Idaho, June 18,
1870 (age 34 years, 43
days).
Interment at Masonic
Burial Ground, Idaho City, Idaho.
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Alexander Parker Crittenden (1816-1870) —
also known as Alexander P. Crittenden —
of Santa
Clara County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Virginia City, Storey
County, Nev.
Born in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., January
14, 1816.
Lawyer;
went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state assembly, 1849-51, 1852-53 (Los Angeles District 1849-51,
5th District 1852-53).
Shot
and mortally wounded by his ex-lover, Laura D. Fair, on board a
ferry boat in San Francisco Bay, and died two days later, in San
Francisco, Calif., November
5, 1870 (age 54 years, 295
days). Fair was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death, but
the state supreme court ordered a new trial, and she was acquitted.
Interment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Lewis Holmes Kenan (1833-1871) —
of Georgia.
Born in Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga., 1833.
Member of Georgia
state senate 20th District, 1867-68.
Shot
and killed in Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga., 1871
(age about
38 years).
Interment somewhere
in Milledgeville, Ga.
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James Holt Clanton (1827-1871) —
also known as James H. Clanton —
of Alabama.
Born in Columbia
County, Ga., January
8, 1827.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; lawyer;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1850; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Alabama; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil
War; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Alabama, 1868.
In a hostile encounter with attorney David Nelson, son of T. A.
R. Nelson, on Gay Street in front of the Lamar House Hotel and
the St. Nicholas Saloon,
Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., Nelson, who was intoxicated, shot and
killed him, September
27, 1871 (age 44 years, 262
days). Nelson was charged with murder, but a jury found not
guilty.
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Montgomery, Ala.
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Joseph R. Waldrop (1825-1872) —
of Alabama.
Born in Mississippi, 1825.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1869.
Methodist.
Member, Ku
Klux Klan.
Shot
and killed while getting off his horse in front of a boarding
house in Escatawpa, Washington
County, Ala., 1872
(age about
47 years).
Interment at Old
Escatawpa Cemetery, Escatawpa, Ala.
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J. Goldsteen Dupree (d. 1873) —
of Montgomery
County, Tex.
Member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1870.
African
ancestry.
Allegedly killed by white vigilantes who opposed his campaigning
for Gov. Edmund
J. Davis, 1873.
Burial location unknown.
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Edwin Stanton McCook (1837-1873) —
Born in Carrollton, Carroll
County, Ohio, March
26, 1837.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; secretary
of Dakota Territory, 1872-73; died in office 1873.
Member, Freemasons.
Shot
and killed by Peter P. Wintermute, a banker and political
adversary, at a saloon
in Yankton, Yankton
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.), September
11, 1873 (age 36 years, 169
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Thomas Neel Stilwell (1830-1874) —
also known as Thomas N. Stilwell —
of Anderson, Madison
County, Ind.
Born in Stilwell, Butler
County, Ohio, August
29, 1830.
Republican. Lawyer; banker;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1856; served in the Union Army
during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 11th District, 1865-67; U.S. Minister
to Venezuela, 1867-68.
During an argument over financial matters, he drew his pistol and
fired at John E. Corwin, wounding him in the leg; Corwin then shot
Stilwell in the head, killing him, in Anderson, Madison
County, Ind., January
14, 1874 (age 43 years, 138
days).
Interment at Maplewood Cemetery, Anderson, Ind.
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Harvey Myers (1828-1874) —
of Kentucky.
Born February
10, 1828.
Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 6th District, 1872.
Shot
and killed by Col. William G. Terrell, whose wife he had
represented in a divorce case, in the Stevenson & Myers law
office, Greer Building, Covington, Kenton
County, Ky., March
28, 1874 (age 46 years, 46
days).
Interment at Highland
Cemetery, Fort Mitchell, Ky.
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Benjamin Long (1838-1877) —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born March 7,
1838.
Mayor
of Dallas, Tex., 1868-70, 1872-74; defeated, 1874.
Killed when he attempted to stop three people from leaving a
saloon
without paying, June 23,
1877 (age 39 years, 108
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Dallas, Tex.
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Robert Augustus Alston (1832-1879) —
also known as Robert A. Alston —
of DeKalb
County, Ga.
Born in Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga., 1832.
Lawyer;
farmer;
newspaper
publisher; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1878-79; died in office 1879.
Methodist.
A farmer named Ed Cox, angry over the sale of a prison labor lease
which Alston had negotiated, armed himself, announced he would
kill Alston, sought him in the Georgia state
capitol building, and found him in the State Treasurer's office.
Both men drew their pistols. Alston was mortally wounded by a shot to
the head, and died later that day, in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., March
11, 1879 (age about 46
years). Cox was also shot and injured, but recovered, was
convicted of murder, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Interment at Decatur
Cemetery, Decatur, Ga.
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John Milton Elliott (1820-1879) —
also known as John M. Elliott —
of Prestonsburg, Floyd
County, Ky.
Born in Scott
County, Va., May 20,
1820.
Democrat. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1847, 1860-61; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 6th District, 1853-59; Delegate
from Kentucky to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
Representative
from Kentucky in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65; circuit judge
in Kentucky, 1868-74; Judge,
Kentucky Court of Appeals, 1876-79; died in office 1879.
Expelled
from the Kentucky legislature in 1861 for supporting
the Confederacy.
Slaveowner.
Shot
and killed by Col. Thomas Buford, in front of the ladies'
entrance to the Capitol Hotel, in
Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., March
26, 1879 (age 58 years, 310
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.; statue at Boyd
County Courthouse Grounds, Catlettsburg, Ky.
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John Strong Sr. (1798-1881) —
of Greenfield Township (now part of Detroit), Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Wroxton, Oxfordshire, England,
November
26, 1798.
Democrat. Farmer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County, 1835-36.
Episcopalian.
Attacked by a burglar, wounded, and died as a result, in
Greenfield Township (now part of Detroit), Wayne
County, Mich., February
23, 1881 (age 82 years, 89
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) —
also known as James A. Garfield —
of Hiram, Portage
County, Ohio.
Born in a log
cabin near Orange, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, November
19, 1831.
Republican. Lawyer; college
professor; president,
Eclectic University (now Hiram College); member of Ohio
state senate, 1859-61; general in the Union Army during the Civil
War; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 19th District, 1863-81; President
of the United States, 1881; died in office 1881.
Disciples
of Christ. English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Delta
Upsilon.
Shot
by the assassin Charles J. Guiteau, in the Baltimore & Potomac
Railroad
Station, Washington, D.C., July 2, 1881, and died from the
effects of the wound and infection,
in Elberon, Monmouth
County, N.J., September
19, 1881 (age 49 years, 304
days).
Entombed at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio; statue erected 1887 at Garfield
Circle, Washington, D.C.; statue at Golden
Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Abram Garfield and Elizabeth (Ballou) Garfield; married, November
11, 1858, to Lucretia
Rudolph; father of Harry
Augustus Garfield and James
Rudolph Garfield; fourth cousin of Eli
Thayer; fourth cousin once removed of John
Alden Thayer. |
| | | Political families: Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: William
S. Maynard |
| | | Garfield counties in Colo., Mont., Neb., Okla., Utah and Wash. are
named for him. |
| | | Garfield Mountain,
in the Cascade Range, King
County, Washington, is named for
him. — The city
of Garfield,
New Jersey, is named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: James
G. Stewart
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $20 gold certificate in 1898-1905.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about James A. Garfield: Allan
Peskin, Garfield:
A Biography — Justus D. Doenecke, The
Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A.
Arthur |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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Henry Clay Cole (1838-1881) —
also known as Henry C. Cole —
of Kokomo, Howard
County, Ind.
Born in Ripley
County, Ind., 1838.
Physician;
mayor
of Kokomo, Ind., 1881; died in office 1881.
Shot
and killed by a sheriff's
posse, allegedly while he was attempting to rob and
burn
a grist mill, in Kokomo, Howard
County, Ind., September
19, 1881 (age about 43
years). The shooters were personal enemies of his, so some
suspected a conspiracy. Four members of the posse were indicted for
manslaughter by a grand jury, but the charges were later dismissed.
Interment at Crown
Point Cemetery, Kokomo, Ind.
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Alonzo William Slayback (1838-1882) —
also known as Alonzo W. Slayback; A. W.
Slayback —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born July 4,
1838.
Democrat. Lawyer;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1876;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Missouri 2nd District, 1876.
Member, Elks.
Shot
and killed by John Cockerill, editor of the
Post-Dispatch newspaper, in St.
Louis, Mo., October
13, 1882 (age 44 years, 101
days). Cockerill pleaded self-defense and was not indicted by the
grand jury.
Interment at Machpelah
Cemetery, Lexington, Mo.
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William Henry Haywood Tison (1822-1882) —
also known as W. H. H. Tison —
of Carrollville, Prentiss
County, Miss.
Born in Jackson
County, Ala., November
6, 1822.
Democrat. Farmer; lawyer; postmaster;
dry goods
merchant; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Mississippi, 1860,
1880;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Murdered, in Baldwyn, Lee
County, Miss., December
4, 1882 (age 60 years, 28
days).
Interment at Baldwyn
Masonic Cemetery, Baldwyn, Miss.
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Henry Cooper (1827-1884) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Columbia, Maury
County, Tenn., August
22, 1827.
Democrat. Member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1853; state court judge in
Tennessee, 1862; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1869; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1871-77.
Killed by bandits in Tierra Blanca, Guadelupe y Calvo, Chihuahua,
February
3, 1884 (age 56 years, 165
days).
Interment somewhere
in Mexico; cenotaph at City
Cemetery, Shelbyville, Tenn.
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Thomas James Roberson Swafford (1849-1884) —
also known as Thomas J. R. Swafford —
Born December
27, 1849.
Democrat. Member of Tennessee
state senate, 1884; died in office 1884; shot
through his arm by Jeff Dibrell, brother of George
G. Dibrell; injured
in several other gun and knife fights, in one of which he wounded two
attackers and accidentally killed his father-in-law.
Shot
and killed during an armed confrontation with Monroe Hudson,
shopkeeper, who had ordered him to leave his store, in
Sparta, White
County, Tenn., October
17, 1884 (age 34 years, 295
days).
Interment at Old
Sparta Cemetery, Sparta, Tenn.
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John B. Bowman (1832-1885) —
of East St. Louis, St. Clair
County, Ill.
Born in Germany,
1832.
Republican. Civil
engineer; lawyer; real estate
business; mayor
of East St. Louis, Ill., 1865-66, 1868, 1872-74, 1877-78.
German
ancestry.
Shot
and killed by an unknown assailant, in front of his home, in
East St. Louis, St. Clair
County, Ill., November
21, 1885 (age about 53
years). Two East St. Louis policemen were later charged with his
murder, but they were never tried.
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Joseph Castle J. C. Eversole (1853-1888) —
also known as J. C. Eversole —
of Hazard, Perry
County, Ky.
Born in Perry
County, Ky., July 26,
1853.
Republican. Lawyer; merchant;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky, 1884.
Shot
and killed, during the "French-Eversole War", in Perry
County, Ky., April
15, 1888 (age 34 years, 264
days).
Interment at Combs-Eversole Graveyard, Hazard, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Nancy (Duff) Eversole and John C. Eversole; married to Susan
Combs. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William Wirt Adams (1819-1888) —
also known as Wirt Adams —
of Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss.
Born in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., March
22, 1819.
Democrat. Member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1858-60; general in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; postmaster at Jackson,
Miss., 1885-88.
Shot
and killed in a street encounter with John H. Martin, a
newspaper editor with whom he had quarreled, in Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss., May 1,
1888 (age 69 years, 40
days). Martin was also killed.
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Jackson, Miss.; cenotaph at Confederate
Cemetery, Okolona, Miss.
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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.
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; 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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William Cassius Goodloe (1841-1889) —
also known as W. Cassius Goodloe —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Madison
County, Ky., June 27,
1841.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
publisher; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Kentucky, 1868,
1872
(delegation chair), 1884,
1888;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1871; defeated, 1867; member of
Republican
National Committee from Kentucky, 1872-; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1873; candidate for Kentucky
state attorney general, 1875; U.S. Minister to Belgium, 1878-80.
Episcopalian.
Member, Loyal
Legion.
During a violent encounter in the lobby of the Lexington Post
Office, he repeatedly
stabbed and ultimately killed a political enemy, Col. Armistead
Swope, who meanwhile shot and
badly wounded him; before any prosecution
could ensue, he died of his own wounds two days later, in the Phoenix
Hotel,
Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., November
8, 1889 (age 48 years, 134
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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William Preston Taulbee (1851-1890) —
also known as William P. Taulbee —
of Salyersville, Magoffin
County, Ky.
Born in Morgan
County, Ky., October
22, 1851.
Democrat. Ordained
minister; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 10th District, 1885-89.
Shot
and mortally wounded, by Charles E. Kincaid, a journalist with
whom he had quarreled, in the U.S.
Capitol Building, and died eleven days later at Providence Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., March
11, 1890 (age 38 years, 140
days). Kincaid pleaded self-defense and was found not guilty of
murder in 1891.
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Morgan County, Ky.
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William Lewis Couch (1850-1890) —
also known as William L. Couch —
of Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan.; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla.
Born in Wilkes
County, N.C., November
20, 1850.
Grocer; hardware
business; horse and
mule dealer; mayor
of Oklahoma City, Okla., 1889; resigned 1889.
Shot
in the leg in dispute over a land claim; the wound probably became infected,
and he subsequently died, in Oklahoma, April
21, 1890 (age 39 years, 152
days).
Interment at Fairlawn
Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Okla.
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Relatives: Son
of Meshach H. Couch and Mary 'Polly' (Bryan) Couch; married to
Cynthia Gordon. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: City of Oklahoma
City |
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John Adam Henneman (1835-1891) —
also known as J. A. Henneman —
of Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C.
Born in Kronach, Bavaria (now Germany),
1835.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; jeweler;
mayor
of Spartanburg, S.C., 1891; died in office 1891.
German
ancestry.
Shot
and killed by John Williams, in Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C., September
27, 1891 (age about 56
years). Williams was hanged for the murder on October 7, 1892.
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Spartanburg, S.C.
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Relatives:
Married to Louisa Rate. |
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R. D. McCotter (d. 1892) —
of Pamlico
County, N.C.
Member of North
Carolina state senate, 1892; died in office 1892.
Shot
and killed from ambush near his home, purportedly by the
"White Caps", in Pamlico
County, N.C., May 20,
1892.
Burial location unknown.
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Charles P. Miller (1853-1892) —
of South Omaha (now part of Omaha), Douglas
County, Neb.
Born January
29, 1853.
Mayor
of South Omaha, Neb., 1891-92; died in office 1892.
Member, Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias.
Found unconscious from an apparently self-inflicted
gunshot
wound, and died soon after, in Methodist Hospital,
Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., October
5, 1892 (age 39 years, 250
days). Later, two men were arrested and charged with
murdering him, but evidence did not support this, and charges
were dismissed.
Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery, Omaha, Neb.
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Carter Henry Harrison (1825-1893) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born near Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., February
15, 1825.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Illinois 2nd District, 1875-79; mayor
of Chicago, Ill., 1879-87, 1893; died in office 1893; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1880,
1884;
candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1884.
Slaveowner.
Shot
and killed at his home, by Patrick Eugene Prendergast, in
Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., October
28, 1893 (age 68 years, 255
days). Prendergast, who was defended by famed trial lawyer Clarence
Darrow, was tried for murder, convicted, sentenced to death, and
hanged.
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Relatives: Son
of Carter Henry Harrison (1796-1825) and Caroline Evaline (Russell)
Harrison; married to Sophonisba Grayson Preston (great-grandniece of
William
Smallwood); father of Carter
Henry Harrison II; grandson of William
Russell (1758-1825); great-grandson of William
Russell (1735-1793); great-grandnephew of Benjamin
Harrison (1726-1791) and William
Cabell; second great-grandnephew of Richard
Randolph; first cousin once removed of Joseph
Cabell Breckinridge, Benjamin
William Sheridan Cabell and Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge; first cousin twice removed of Thomas
Jefferson, Carter
Bassett Harrison, William
Cabell Jr., William
Henry Cabell and William
Henry Harrison (1773-1841); first cousin thrice removed of Richard
Bland, Peyton
Randolph (1721-1775) and Robert
Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); second cousin of John
Cabell Breckinridge, Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864), William
Lewis Cabell, Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge Jr., George
Craighead Cabell and William
Campbell Preston Breckinridge; second cousin once removed of Martha
Jefferson Randolph, Dabney
Carr, Frederick
Mortimer Cabell, John
Scott Harrison, Edward
Carrington Cabell, Clifton
Rodes Breckinridge, Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925), Benjamin
Earl Cabell, Levin
Irving Handy, Desha
Breckinridge and Henry
Skillman Breckinridge; second cousin twice removed of Theodorick
Bland, Edmund
Jenings Randolph, George
Nicholas, Beverley
Randolph, Wilson
Cary Nicholas, John
Nicholas, John
Randolph of Roanoke and Earle
Cabell; third cousin of Francis
Wayles Eppes, Dabney
Smith Carr, Benjamin
Franklin Randolph, Meriwether
Lewis Randolph, George
Wythe Randolph, John
William Leftwich and Benjamin
Harrison (1833-1901); third cousin once removed of John
Marshall, Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, James
Markham Marshall, Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander
Keith Marshall, Edmund
Jennings Lee, Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828), Henry
St. George Tucker, Robert
Carter Nicholas (1787-1857), Stanley
Matthews, Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge, Russell
Benjamin Harrison and Frederick
Madison Roberts; third cousin twice removed of Burwell
Bassett, John
Gardner Coolidge, Edith
Wilson and William
Henry Harrison (1896-1990); third cousin thrice removed of Charles
Carroll of Carrollton; fourth cousin of Thomas
Marshall, James
Keith Marshall, Peter
Myndert Dox, Edmund
Randolph and Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker; fourth cousin once removed of John
Wayles Eppes, Fitzhugh
Lee, Edmund
Randolph Cocke, Connally
Findlay Trigg, John
Augustine Marshall, Richard
Evelyn Byrd, Harry
Bartow Hawes, William
Welby Beverley and James
Harlan Cleveland Jr.. |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd
family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Walker-Randolph
family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Robert
E. Burke |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article |
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Newton Woodward Hall (1864-1893) —
also known as Newton W. Hall —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Birmingham, England,
1864.
Vice-Consul
for Ecuador in San
Francisco, Calif., 1891-93; Vice-Consul
for Honduras in San
Francisco, Calif., 1891-93.
English
ancestry.
During an altercation with Edward A. Gillespie, he fell or
was thrown down a flight of stairs, suffered a skull fracture,
and died soon after at Receiving Hospital,
San
Francisco, Calif., November
27, 1893 (age about 29
years). Gillespie was arrested and charged with murder, but
acquitted at trial in 1894. While in the hospital, Hall also received
a probably fatal dose of opium.
Burial location unknown.
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Peter R. Morrissey (1859-1895) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in St. Louis
County, Mo., August
14, 1859.
Democrat. Saloon
keeper; arrested
in December 1886 on federal charges
of vote
fraud; found
guilty in April 1887, but released because the indictment did not
specify that the ballots were for a federal office; indicted
again soon after, but the charges were dropped in November; indicted
for naturalization
fraud in 1889, but not convicted; member of Missouri
state senate 31st District, 1893-95; died in office 1895.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
While in bed, he was shot
twice with his own pistol, and killed, by his mistress,
Maud Lewis, in her "house of ill
repute", in St.
Louis, Mo., May 13,
1895 (age 35 years, 272
days). After a dramatic and highly publicized trial, Maud Lewis
was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to fifteen years
in prison; she was pardoned by Gov. Lon
Vest Stephens in January 1901.
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Albert Jennings Fountain (1838-1896) —
also known as Albert J. Fountain; Albert
Jennings —
of El Paso, El Paso
County, Tex.; Mesilla, Dona Ana
County, N.M.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., October
23, 1838.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Collector of Customs at El Paso; Assessor and Collector of Internal
Revenue for the Western District of Texas; member of Texas
state senate, 1869-70; fought a duel
with Frank Williams, and killed him; lawyer.
Presumed murdered near White Sands, Dona Ana
County, N.M., February
1, 1896 (age 57 years, 101
days). His body was never
found.
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Relatives: Son
of Solomon Jennings and Catherine (de la Fontaine) Jennings; married
1862 to
Mariana Perez. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article |
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Caleb Dorsey (1833-1896) —
of Pike
County, Mo.; Stanislaus
County, Calif.
Born in Patapsco, Anne
Arundel County, Md., September
7, 1833.
Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; livestock
raiser; bank
director; member of California
state assembly 5th District, 1877-80.
Member, Freemasons.
Shot
and killed by his mining partner, J. T. Newcomer, at Snell
Mine, near Columbia, Tuolumne
County, Calif., April
21, 1896 (age 62 years, 227
days). Newcomer claimed self-defense, but was convicted of murder
and sentenced to prison.
Interment at Stockton
Rural Cemetery, Stockton, Calif.
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Frazier B. Baker (c.1857-1898) —
of Lake City, Florence
County, S.C.
Born about 1857.
Republican. School
teacher; postmaster at Lake
City, S.C., 1897-98; his appointment as postmaster aroused
strenuous opposition among white residents; U.S. Senators Ben
Tillman and John
L. McLaurin, and U.S. Rep. James
Norton all demanded his removal from office "because of his
color"; many violent incidents followed.
African
ancestry.
Late at night, a mob of armed white men surrounded his home and post
office, and set it on fire; when the family awoke and attempted
to escape, they were met with a hail of bullets; Baker was shot and
killed, in Lake City, Florence
County, S.C., February
22, 1898 (age about 41
years). Federal prosecutors pressed charges against eleven men,
none of whom were convicted.
Burial location unknown.
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James Balbirnie (1838-1899) —
of Muskegon, Muskegon
County, Mich.
Born in Ontario,
1838.
Republican. Merchant;
mayor
of Muskegon, Mich., 1899; died in office 1899.
Scottish
ancestry.
Shot
and killed by John W. Tayer, who had been ousted as city poor
director, in his store in
his store at Muskegon, Muskegon
County, Mich., June 29,
1899 (age about 60
years). Tayer died by suicide at the scene; he shot himself, then
swallowed carbolic acid.
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Muskegon, Mich.
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Herbert Best Fellows (1860-1899) —
also known as Herbert B. Fellows —
of Scarsdale, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Clifton Park, Saratoga
County, N.Y., November
20, 1860.
Democrat. Express
agent; postmaster at Scarsdale,
N.Y., 1894-99.
shot,
killed, and robbed, in Scarsdale, Westchester
County, N.Y., December
4, 1899 (age 39 years, 14
days). A 19-year-old named Edgar C. Burnz confessed to the
crime, was arrested, and held at the county jail in White Plains,
where, in July 1900, he led about 100 prisoners in an unsuccessful
escape attempt. Burnz smoked as many as eighty cigarettes a day, and
the press dubbed him the "Cigarette Boy Murderer". At his murder
trial in December 1900, his defense was that cigarette smoking had
made him insane. He was convicted, sentenced to life in prison, but
released about 1920, and became an Episcopal minister.
Burial location unknown.
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William Justus Goebel (1856-1900) —
also known as William J. Goebel; "Boss Bill";
"The Kenton King"; "William the
Conqueror" —
of Kentucky.
Born in Sullivan
County, Pa., January
4, 1856.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state senate, 1887-99; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Kentucky, 1888;
delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1890-91; Governor of
Kentucky, 1900; died in office 1900.
In 1895, he killed a factional rival, John Stanford, in a political
quarrel; never tried.
While contesting the outcome of a gubernatorial election, was shot and
mortally wounded in front of the old Kentucky State
Capitol; he was declared elected and sworn in as Governor before
he died four days later, in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., February
3, 1900 (age 44 years, 30
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.; statue at Old
State Capitol Grounds, Frankfort, Ky.
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William H. Mattox (1836-1900) —
of Elbert
County, Ga.
Born in Elbert
County, Ga., 1836.
Planter;
merchant;
served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1865-66; delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1877; member of Georgia
state senate, 1880-81.
Shot
and killed by his son-in-law J. B. Jones, Jr., during a
gunfight, in Elbert
County, Ga., November
17, 1900 (age about 64
years).
Interment at Elmhurst
Cemetery, Elberton, Ga.
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William McKinley Jr. (1843-1901) —
also known as "Idol of Ohio" —
of Canton, Stark
County, Ohio.
Born in Niles, Trumbull
County, Ohio, January
29, 1843.
Republican. Major in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1877-84, 1885-91 (17th District
1877-79, 16th District 1879-81, 17th District 1881-83, 18th District
1883-84, 20th District 1885-87, 18th District 1887-91); delegate to
Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1884,
1888;
Governor
of Ohio, 1892-96; President
of the United States, 1897-1901; died in office 1901.
Methodist.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Loyal
Legion; Freemasons;
Grand
Army of the Republic; Knights
of Pythias; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Shot
by the assassin Leon Czolgosz, at a reception
in the Temple of Music, at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo,
N.Y., September 6, 1901, and died eight days later, in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., September
14, 1901 (age 58 years, 228
days).
Originally entombed at West
Lawn Cemetery, Canton, Ohio; re-entombed in 1907 at McKinley
Monument, Canton, Ohio; statue at Lucas
County Courthouse Grounds, Toledo, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of William McKinley and Nancy Campbell (Allison) McKinley; married to
Ida
Saxton; first cousin of William
McKinley Osborne; fourth cousin once removed of Henry
Prather Fletcher. |
| | | Political family: McKinley
family of Canton, Ohio. |
| | | Cross-reference: Albert
Halstead — Loran
L. Lewis — George
B. Cortelyou — John
Goodnow |
| | | McKinley County,
N.M. is named for him. |
| | | Mount
McKinley (the highest peak in North America, now known by its
traditional name, Denali), in Denali
Borough, Alaska, was named for
him. — McKinley High
School, in Honolulu,
Hawaii, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: William
McKinley Thomas
— William
McKinley Thomas
— William
M. Bell
— William
M. Branch
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $500 bill in 1928-46. |
| | | Campaign slogan (1896): "The Full
Dinner Pail." |
| | | Campaign slogan (1896): "The Advance
Agent of Prosperity." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about William McKinley: Lewis L.
Gould, The
Presidency of William McKinley — Kevin Phillips, William
McKinley — H. Wayne Morgan, William
McKinley and His America |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, October 1901 |
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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.
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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 |
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Hale Johnson (1847-1902) —
of Newton, Jasper
County, Ill.
Born in Montgomery
County, Ind., August
21, 1847.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
mayor of Newton, Ill.; Prohibition candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1896.
Disciples
of Christ.
While attempting to collect a debt from a farmer, the debtor, Harry
Harris, shot and
killed him, in Bogota, Jasper
County, Ill., November
4, 1902 (age 55 years, 75
days). Harris was arrested that day, but poisoned himself on the
way to jail.
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Newton, Ill.
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Relatives: Son
of John B. Johnson; married 1871 to Mary
E. Loofbourrow. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: The Parties and The Men
(1896) |
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James Buchanan Marcum (1858-1903) —
also known as J. B. Marcum —
of Kentucky.
Born January
9, 1858.
Republican. Kentucky
Republican state chair, 1903.
Shot
and killed, by Curtis Jett and Tom White, at the behest of
county judge James
H. Hargis, on the steps of the Breathitt County
Courthouse, Jackson, Breathitt
County, Ky., May 4,
1903 (age 45 years, 115
days).
Interment at Sewell
Cemetery, Jackson, Ky.
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Andrew Haswell Green (1820-1903) —
also known as Andrew H. Green; "Father of Greater New
York"; "Handy Andy" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born near Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., October
6, 1820.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1880;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 13th District, 1894.
Protestant.
Guided creation of Central Park in New York, and Niagara State
Preserve (first
state park in the U.S.); led crusade to consolidate the five boroughs
into today's New York City; helped create the New York Public
Library, the Bronx Zoo, and other cultural institutions.
Shot
and killed, by a murderer who mistook him for someone else, in
front of his home, on Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
13, 1903 (age 83 years, 38
days).
Interment at Worcester
Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
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Charles Harmon Kungle (1829-1904) —
also known as Charles H. Kungle —
of Yuba
County, Calif.
Born in Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa., December
19, 1829.
Member of California
state assembly 15th District, 1860-62.
Murdered on a mining claim, near Carson City (unknown
county), Nev., November
15, 1904 (age 74 years, 332
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Jose Francisco Chaves (1833-1904) —
also known as J. Francisco Chaves —
of Santa Fe, Santa Fe
County, N.M.
Born in Los Padillas, Bernalillo
County, N.M., June 27,
1833.
Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from New Mexico Territory, 1865-67, 1869-71; member New
Mexico territorial council, 1875; delegate
to New Mexico state constitutional convention, 1889; New Mexico
superintendent of public instruction, 1901-04; died in office
1904.
Slaveowner.
Assassinated in Pinos Wells, Torrance
County, N.M., November
26, 1904 (age 71 years, 152
days).
Interment at Santa
Fe National Cemetery, Santa Fe, N.M.
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John McPherson Pinckney (1845-1905) —
also known as John M. Pinckney —
of Hempstead, Waller
County, Tex.
Born near Hempstead, Grimes
County, Tex., May 4,
1845.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; state
court judge in Texas, 1900-03; U.S.
Representative from Texas 8th District, 1903-05; died in office
1905.
Assaulted and killed at a meeting
of the Waller County Prohibition League, Hempstead, Waller
County, Tex., April
24, 1905 (age 59 years, 355
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Hempstead, Tex.
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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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William H. Stuart (c.1857-1906) —
Born about 1857.
Not U.S. citizen; shipbroker;
exporter;
U.S. Vice Consul in Batum, 1904-06, died in office 1906.
Shot
and killed, by an unknown perpetrator, in Batum, Russia (now
Georgia),
May
20, 1906 (age about 49
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Arthur Brown (1843-1906) —
of Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo
County, Mich.; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo
County, Mich., March 8,
1843.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Senator from Utah, 1896-97; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Utah, 1896
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization; speaker);
his relationship with Mrs. Anna Bradley gave rise to scandal;
in 1902, the two were arrested
and charged
with adultery;
she pleaded guilty, but he pleaded not guilty, was tried, and
acquitted by a jury; he fathered two children with her, but refused
to marry her.
Shot
and killed, in his room at the Raleigh Hotel, by
his former
mistress Anna Bradley, in Washington,
D.C., December
12, 1906 (age 63 years, 279
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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William J. Donohue (1873-1907) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in 1873.
Republican. Member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 14th District, 1907; defeated,
1903; died in office 1907.
Shot
and killed
himself, or was murdered, in the lavatory of a saloon
in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
31, 1907 (age about 33
years).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
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Alexander Wild Thornely (1845-1908) —
also known as Alexander W. Thornely; John Alexander Wylde
Thornely —
of La Crosse, La Crosse
County, Wis.; Long Prairie, Todd
County, Minn.; Tacoma, Pierce
County, Wash.
Born in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales,
March, 1845.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; bookkeeper;
feed
and grain
business; customs
broker; secretary, Crescent Coal
Company; Vice-Consul
for Mexico in Tacoma,
Wash., 1906-08.
English
ancestry.
Shot
in the head by two robbers, and died four days later in Fannie
Paddock Hospital,
Tacoma, Pierce
County, Wash., January
24, 1908 (age 62 years, 0
days).
Interment at Tacoma
Cemetery, Tacoma, Wash.
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Relatives: Son
of Sarah (Roberts) Thornely and Robert Thornely; married, September
6, 1881, to Louise Lavinia Hinkley. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Tacoma News Tribune,
January 21, 1908 |
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James Henderson Hargis (1862-1908) —
also known as James H. Hargis; "Big
Jim" —
of Jackson, Breathitt
County, Ky.
Born in Jackson, Breathitt
County, Ky., October
13, 1862.
Democrat. County judge in Kentucky, 1890; member of Kentucky
Democratic State Central Committee, 1899-1907.
Tried
and acquitted for the 1902-03 murders
of J.
B. Marcum and two others, but found liable for plotting
the killings in a 1904 civil suit for money damages by surviving
family members.
Shot
and killed by his son, Beech Hargis, in the Hargis Brothers general
store, Jackson, Breathitt
County, Ky., February
6, 1908 (age 45 years, 116
days).
Interment at Hargis
Family Cemetery, Jackson, Ky.
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Edward Ward Carmack (1858-1908) —
also known as Edward W. Carmack —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born near Castalian Springs, Sumner
County, Tenn., November
5, 1858.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1885; editor of newspapers,
including the Nashville American, the Memphis
Commercial, and the Nashville Tennesseean; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1896,
1904
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee); U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 10th District, 1897-1901; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1901-07; candidate for nomination for Governor of
Tennessee, 1908.
Member, Freemasons.
Shot
and killed by Robin J. Cooper, whose father, Col. Duncan B.
Cooper, had been ridiculed in the Tennesseean, in Nashville,
Davidson
County, Tenn., November
9, 1908 (age 50 years, 4
days). Robin and Duncan Cooper were convicted of second-degree
murder and sentenced to prison, but Duncan Cooper was pardoned, and
Robin Cooper's conviction was overturned on appeal; in 1919, Robin
Cooper was himself murdered in an apparent robbery.
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Columbia, Tenn.; statue (now gone) at State
Capitol Grounds, Nashville, Tenn.
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John T. Carmody (1861-1909) —
of Cedar Rapids, Linn
County, Iowa.
Born in Ireland,
December, 1861.
Foundry
owner; mayor
of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1909; died in office 1909.
Shot
and badly wounded in the abdomen by a burglar on May 23, and
subsequently died, probably due to infection,
in Cedar Rapids, Linn
County, Iowa, August
7, 1909 (age 47 years, 0
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Armin Ernest Brunn (1860-1909) —
also known as Armin E. Brunn —
of South Woodstock, Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
18, 1860.
Republican. Physician;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Woodstock; elected 1906.
German
and Irish
ancestry.
Shot
by his brother, Constantine
F. Brunn, mortally wounded, and died the next day, in
South Woodstock, Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn., September
30, 1909 (age 48 years, 286
days). His sister, Freda Brunn, was also shot, and died
immediately; Constantine shot and killed himself at the scene.
Interment at Fair Lawn Memorial Cemetery, Fair Lawn, N.J.
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John E. Mullally (1875-1912) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in 1875.
Saloon
keeper; member of California
state assembly 30th District, 1911-12; died in office 1912.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Attacked by three masked holdup men in his saloon,
shot,
mortally wounded, and died soon after, in Central Emergency Hospital,
San
Francisco, Calif., January
15, 1912 (age about 36
years).
Interment at Holy
Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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William Bruce MacMaster Jr. (1875-1912) —
also known as William B. MacMaster, Jr. —
of New York.
Born, of American parents, in Colombia,
June
28, 1875.
Rancher;
U.S. Vice Consul in Cartagena, 1904-08; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Cartagena, 1908-12, died in office 1912; stabbed
by two Colombians in the summer of 1909; pressed charges against his
attackers, one of whom was an influential newspaper editor; arrested
by Colombian authorities in June 1910 on charges
that, years earlier, he shot
a Colombian citizen, in what he said was self-defense; initially
acquitted, then found
guilty, then exonerated by a higher court.
While hunting
alone, was shot
multiple times and killed by an unknown assassin, near
Cartagena, Colombia,
August
11, 1912 (age 37 years, 44
days).
Interment at Church
and Convent of Santo Domingo, Cartagena, Colombia.
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John Schuyler Crosby (1839-1914) —
of Montana.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., September
19, 1839.
Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Consul in Florence, 1876-82; Governor
of Montana Territory, 1883-84.
Attacked and beaten by a deranged servant, and died as a
result, in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., August
8, 1914 (age 74 years, 323
days).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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Jake Louis Hamon (1873-1920) —
also known as Jake L. Hamon —
of Ardmore, Carter
County, Okla.
Born in Grenola, Elk
County, Kan., June 5,
1873.
Republican. Lawyer; oil
business; member of Republican
National Committee from North Dakota, 1920.
Shot
and killed by Clara Smith Hamon, his secretary, mistress,
and the wife of his nephew, in Ardmore, Carter
County, Okla., November
26, 1920 (age 47 years, 174
days). The scandal
received national publicity. She was tried and found not guilty of
murder, on grounds of self-defense.
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Ardmore, Okla.
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Relatives: Son
of Nancy (Tuggle) Hamon and Franklin Hamon; married 1898 to
Georgia Worth Perkins. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: The Daily Ardmoreite
(Ardmore, Okla.), November 29, 1920 |
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William Henry Clark (1859-1921) —
also known as William H. Clark; "Senator
Bill" —
of McKee, Jackson
County, Ky.
Born in Clay
County, Ky., December
19, 1859.
Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state senate, 1900.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Shot
and killed by William Pearson, reportedly at a poker game,
near McKee, Jackson
County, Ky., November
6, 1921 (age 61 years, 322
days).
Interment at McKee Cemetery, McKee, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Jackson Clark and Patience (Bledsoe) Clark; married 1883 to
Demanda 'Demie' McQuire. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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W. Wallace Greene (1871-1923) —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born near Raytown, Jackson
County, Mo., October
13, 1871.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Missouri
state senate 7th District, 1909-20.
Shot
and killed by Ross Richardson, in the basement garage of his
home, in Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., June 30,
1923 (age 51 years, 260
days). Richardson was convicted of murder and sentenced to 99
years in prison.
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of Thaddeus Greene and Eliza Greene; married, July 22,
1903, to Edna L. Coleman. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Missouri Official Manual
1917 |
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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.
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Frank Bosworth Brandegee (1864-1924) —
also known as Frank B. Brandegee —
of New London, New London
County, Conn.
Born in New London, New London
County, Conn., July 8,
1864.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from New London, 1889, 1899-1900;
Speaker
of the Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1899-1900;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Connecticut, 1900;
member of Connecticut
Republican State Central Committee, 1901; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 3rd District, 1902-05; U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1905-24; died in office 1924.
Member, Union
League.
Killed
himself by inhaling from
a gaslight, in Washington,
D.C., October
14, 1924 (age 60 years, 98
days). Five years later, U.S. Sen. Cole
Blease of South Carolina received a letter from a woman alleging
that Brandegee had been murdered; the letter was turned over
to a Senate committee to investigate the mystery,
but nothing came of it.
Interment at Cedar
Grove Cemetery, New London, Conn.
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Albert Edward Bogdon (1891-1927) —
also known as Albert E. Bogdon —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Mahanoy City, Schuylkill
County, Pa., 1891.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Colorado
state senate 1st District, 1925-27; died in office 1927.
While visiting his mistress,
(scandalous
behavior at the time), he was shot and
killed by her estranged husband, Joseph S. Minter, in Denver,
Colo., June 10,
1927 (age about 35
years).
Entombed in mausoleum at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Wheat Ridge, Colo.
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Maurice Edgar Crumpacker (1886-1927) —
also known as Maurice E. Crumpacker —
of Oregon.
Born in Valparaiso, Porter
County, Ind., December
19, 1886.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Oregon 3rd District, 1925-27; died in office
1927.
Came to San Francisco with Nicholas
Longworth and others; left the group and was found by police,
sitting on a curb and claiming he had been poisoned
by someone trying to murder him; deemed paranoid, taken to a
hospital, and sedated; released at his insistence; walking near the
shoreline with a friend, he yelled "Tell everybody good-bye!", jumped
into the water, and drowned,
in San
Francisco Bay, July 24,
1927 (age 40 years, 217
days).
Interment at River
View Cemetery, Portland, Ore.
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John Festus Parrish (1887-1928) —
also known as John F. Parrish; Jaddo
Parrish —
of Lamar, Prowers
County, Colo.
Born in Colorado, July 8,
1887.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Colorado, 1928.
Shot
and killed, along with his father Amos
N. Parrish, by the Fleagle Gang, who were robbing the First
National Bank, in
Lamar, Prowers
County, Colo., May 23,
1928 (age 40 years, 320
days). The gang members were captured in 1929, tried, convicted,
sentenced to death and excuted.
Interment at Fairmount Cemetery, Lamar, Colo.
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Amos Newton Parrish (1851-1928) —
also known as A. Newton Parrish —
of Lamar, Prowers
County, Colo.
Born in Missouri, April 2,
1851.
Republican. Rancher; banker;
member of Colorado
state house of representatives, 1890; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Colorado, 1908
(alternate), 1912.
Shot
and killed, along with his son, John
F. Parrish, by the Fleagle Gang, who were robbing the First
National Bank, in
Lamar, Prowers
County, Colo., May 23,
1928 (age 77 years, 51
days). The gang members were captured in 1929, tried, convicted,
sentenced to death and excuted.
Interment at Fairmount Cemetery, Lamar, Colo.
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David Fulton Rice (1889-1929) —
of Centerville, Appanoose
County, Iowa.
Born near Exline, Appanoose
County, Iowa, September
13, 1889.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Iowa
state house of representatives, 1925.
Methodist.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; Freemasons;
American
Legion.
Shot
and killed by a disgruntled law client, George Domyancich, as
he was leaving the Appanoose County
Courthouse, Centerville, Appanoose
County, Iowa, February
28, 1929 (age 39 years, 168
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Centerville, Iowa.
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Harold Merriman Deane (1891-1929) —
also known as Harold M. Deane —
of Connecticut; Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn., October
24, 1891.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul in Valparaiso, 1925-27; Montreal, 1927-29, died in office 1929.
Found hanged
in his apartment -- the coroner's jury was unable
to decide whether his death was murder or suicide
-- in Montreal, Quebec,
August
28, 1929 (age 37 years, 308
days).
Interment somewhere
in Waterbury, Conn.
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Motley H. Flint (1864-1930) —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
19, 1864.
Republican. Postmaster at Los
Angeles, Calif., 1904-10; banker;
provided critical support for the Warner Brothers Movie
studio in its early years; one of the promoters of Julian
Petroleum Corporation, a Ponzi
scheme which collapsed in 1927; about 40,000 investors lost their
money; tainted by the scandal,
he moved to Europe for a time.
Member, Freemasons.
Called as a witness in a civil suit involving David
O. Selznick; after his testimony, as he returned to the audience
section of the courtroom,
in Los Angeles City
Hall, he was shot and
killed by Frank Keaton, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 14,
1930 (age 66 years, 145
days). Keaton, who had lost his money in Julian Petroleum, was
immediately arrested, and subsequently tried, convicted, and hanged.
Entombed in mausoleum at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Edward James Dennis (1877-1930) —
also known as E. J. Dennis —
of Berkeley
County, S.C.
Born in Macbeth, Berkeley
County, S.C., September
23, 1877.
Lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Berkeley County,
1900-04, 1916-18; member of South
Carolina state senate from Berkeley County, 1904-06, 1910-14,
1918-22, 1926-30; died in office 1930.
Methodist.
Tried
and acquitted in 1929 for conspiracy to violate the alcohol
prohibition law.
Shot
and mortally wounded by Webster Lee 'Sporty' Thornley, on the
street in front of the post
office in Moncks Corner, S.C., and died the next day in a hospital
at Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., July 25,
1930 (age 52 years, 305
days). Thornley was tried and convicted of murder; Glenn D.
McKnight, who allegedly hired Thornley to murder Dennis, was tried
and not convicted.
Interment at St.
John's Baptist Churchyard, Pinopolis, S.C.
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S. S. Mincey (d. 1930) —
of Ailey, Montgomery
County, Ga.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Georgia,
1908
(alternate), 1912,
1916,
1920.
African
ancestry.
Taken from his home by a group of Ku Klux Klan members, and
lynched, in Uvalda, Montgomery
County, Ga., July 29,
1930.
Interment at Live
Oak Baptist Church Cemetery, Ailey, Ga.
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A. J. Rosier (d. 1932) —
of Rawlins, Carbon
County, Wyo.
Lawyer;
member of Wyoming
state senate, 1932; died in office 1932.
Shot
and killed by Thomas Lacey, Rawlins, Carbon
County, Wyo., April
15, 1932. Lacey, who then killed himself, had been convicted of
gambling, and was angered by Rosier's refusal to file a lawsuit on
his behalf against county authorities.
Burial location unknown.
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William Montross Inglis (1875-1932) —
also known as William M. Inglis —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Clyde Township, St. Clair
County, Mich., January
7, 1875.
Republican. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Washington, 1924,
1928
(alternate).
Killed by a single gunshot
behind his ear, under mysterious
circumstances, and posthumously accused
of attempted murder, in Seattle, King
County, Wash., October
22, 1932 (age 57 years, 289
days). The only witness, Mary Nash, who shared the apartment,
said that he had been despondent and drinking
heavily; that she had hidden his pistol, but he had found it;
that without warning, he shot
her twice (she was badly injured but survived), and then
immediately killed
himself; investigators questioned her story, and thought he might
have been murdered, but she was not charged.
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Seattle, Wash.
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Relatives: Son
of John Jacob Inglis and Martha Ann (Montross) Inglis; married to
Anne Hughes. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Anton Josef Cermak (1873-1933) —
also known as Anton J. Cermak; "Pushcart
Tony" —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Kladno, Bohemia (now Czechia),
May
9, 1873.
Democrat. Member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1910; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Illinois, 1924,
1928,
1932;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1928; mayor
of Chicago, Ill., 1931-33; died in office 1933.
Bohemian
ancestry.
On February 15, 1933, while he was standing on the running board of
an open
car from which president-elect Franklin
D. Roosevelt had just given a speech, was shot and
badly wounded by Italian-American bricklayer Guiseppe Zangara,
who had aimed for Roosevelt; over the next month, the wound became infected,
and he died, in Jackson Memorial Hospital,
Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla., March 6,
1933 (age 59 years, 301
days).
Entombed at Bohemian
National Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935) —
also known as Huey P. Long; Hugh Pierce Long;
"The Kingfish" —
of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La.; New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born near Winnfield, Winn
Parish, La., August
30, 1893.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, 1928;
Governor
of Louisiana, 1928-32; member of Democratic
National Committee from Louisiana, 1928; impeached
by the Louisiana House in 1929 over multiple charges including his
attempt to impose an oil tax and his unauthorized demolition of the
governor's mansion, but not convicted by the Senate; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1932-35; died in office 1935.
Baptist.
Member, Elks.
Shot
and mortally wounded by Dr. Carl Weiss (who was immediately
killed at the scene), in the Louisiana State
Capitol Building, September 8, 1935, and died two days later at
Our Lady of the Lake Hospital,
Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Parish, La., September
10, 1935 (age 42 years, 11
days).
Interment at State
Capitol Grounds, Baton Rouge, La.
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Relatives: Son
of Hugh Pierce Long and Caledonia Palestine (Tison) Long; brother of
George
Shannon Long and Earl
Kemp Long (who married Blanche
B. Revere); married, April
12, 1913, to Rose
McConnell; father of Russell
Billiu Long; second cousin once removed of Gillis
William Long and Speedy
Oteria Long. |
| | | Political family: Long
family of Louisiana. |
| | | Cross-reference: Cecil
Morgan — John
H. Overton — Harvey
G. Fields — Gerald
L. K. Smith |
| | | The Huey P. Long - O.K. Allen Bridge
(opened 1940), which carries U.S. Highway 190 and a rail line over
the Mississippi River, between East Baton
Rouge Parish and West Baton
Rouge Parish, Louisiana, is partly named for
him. — Senador Huey Pierce Long, a street
in Asunsion,
Paraguay, is named for
him. |
| | | Campaign slogan: "Every Man a
King." |
| | | Campaign slogan: "Share Our
Wealth." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books by Huey P. Long: Every
Man a King : The Autobiography of Huey P. Long |
| | | Books about Huey P. Long: T. Harry
Williams, Huey
Long — Harnett T. Kane, Huey
Long's Louisiana Hayride: The American Rehearsal for Dictatorship
1928-1940 — Richard D. White, Kingfish:
The Reign of Huey P. Long — David R. Collins, Huey
P. Long : Talker and Doer (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: KnowLA Encyclopedia of
Louisiana |
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John W Martin (c.1890-1935) —
of Mena, Polk
County, Ark.
Born about 1890.
Postmaster at Mena,
Ark., 1933-35.
Shot
and killed during an apparent robbery of the post
office, in Mena, Polk
County, Ark., November
24, 1935 (age about 45
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Herman Denhardt (1876-1937) —
also known as Henry H. Denhardt —
of Bowling Green, Warren
County, Ky.
Born in Bowling Green, Warren
County, Ky., March 8,
1876.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1923-27; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Kentucky, 1924;
shot
and injured on Election Day 1931.; his girlfriend, Mrs. Verna Garr
Taylor, was found shot to death in November 1936; he was charged
with murder
and tried in
New Castle, Ky.; the jury could not reach a verdict.
Before he could be tried a second time, he was shot and
killed, at the Armstrong Hotel,
Shelbyville, Shelby
County, Ky., September
20, 1937 (age 61 years, 196
days).
Interment at Fairview
Cemetery, Bowling Green, Ky.
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James Theodore Marriner (1892-1937) —
also known as J. Theodore Marriner; Ted
Marriner —
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, May 17,
1892.
U.S. Consul General in Beirut, 1935-37, died in office 1937.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Shot
and killed by Mejardich Karayan, an Armenian who thought he
had been denied a U.S. visa, in Beirut, Syria (now Lebanon),
October
12, 1937 (age 45 years, 148
days). The killer was sentenced to death and hanged soon after.
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
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Eugene P. Booze (c.1880-1939) —
of Mound Bayou, Bolivar
County, Miss.
Born in Mississippi, about 1880.
Republican. Farmer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Mississippi, 1920,
1924,
1928,
1932,
1936.
Shot
by an unknown assailant as he was leaving his office,
and died the next day in a hospital
at Greenville, Washington
County, Miss., November
7, 1939 (age about 59
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Louis F. Edwards (c.1892-1939) —
of Long Beach, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born about 1892.
Democrat. Haberdashery
business; paint
manufacturer; mayor
of Long Beach, N.Y., 1938-39; died in office 1939.
Shot
and killed by disgruntled police patrolman Alvin Dooley, in
Long Beach, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., November
15, 1939 (age about 47
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Thaddeus Franklin Daniel (1900-1942) —
also known as T. Franklin Daniel —
of Lynchburg,
Va.
Born in Brunswick
County, Va., February
25, 1900.
Democrat. Member of Virginia
state house of delegates from Lynchburg city, 1934-42; died in
office 1942.
Methodist.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Tau
Kappa Alpha.
Shot
and killed, along with Lynchburg city attorney T. G. Hobbs, by
Warren Guy Myers, in his office,
in Lynchburg,
Va., June 30,
1942 (age 42 years, 125
days). Myers was judged to be insane, committed to the
Southwestern State Hospital, and died in 1963.
Interment at Macedonia United Methodist Church Cemetery, Brunswick County,
Va.
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Warren Green Hooper (1904-1945) —
also known as Warren G. Hooper —
of Albion, Calhoun
County, Mich.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 2,
1904.
Republican. Newspaper
reporter; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Calhoun County 1st District,
1939-44; member of Michigan
state senate 9th District, 1945; died in office 1945.
Episcopalian.
Member, Theta
Kappa Nu; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
During a grand jury investigation,
admitted
to taking
bribes and was given immunity
from prosecution in return for his testimony against others;
however, four days before the hearing, he was shot and
killed in his
car, alongside highway M-99, near Springport, Jackson
County, Mich., January
11, 1945 (age 40 years, 254
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Albion, Mich.
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Joseph Warren Tolbert (1865-1946) —
also known as Joseph W. Tolbert; "Tieless
Joe" —
of Greenwood, Greenwood
County, S.C.; Ninety Six, Greenwood
County, S.C.
Born in Abbeville District (now Abbeville
County), S.C., June 6,
1865.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from South
Carolina, 1900
(alternate), 1908,
1912,
1916,
1920,
1924,
1928,
1936
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee); member of Republican
National Committee from South Carolina, 1912-24; South
Carolina Republican state chair, 1925-31.
Hit by
a car (perhaps intentionally), in his front yard, and died
soon after, in Ninety Six, Greenwood
County, S.C., October
18, 1946 (age 81 years, 134
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Ninety Six, S.C.
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Thomas Campbell Wasson (1896-1948) —
also known as Thomas C. Wasson —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Great Falls, Cascade
County, Mont., February
8, 1896.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S. Vice Consul in Melbourne, 1925-29; Puerto Cortes, as of 1932; U.S. Consul in Florence, 1936; Lagos, as of 1938; U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem, 1948, died in office 1948.
Shot
by an unknown sniper, and died the next day, in Hadassah
English Mission Hospital,
Jerusalem, Israel,
May
23, 1948 (age 52 years, 105
days).
Entombed at Washington
National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
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Douglas Seymour Mackiernan (1913-1950) —
also known as Douglas Mackiernan —
Born in Mexico City (Ciudad de México), Distrito
Federal, of American parents, April
25, 1913.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S. Vice Consul in Tihwa, 1948-50, died in office 1950.
While fleeing the advance of Chinese Communist troops, traveling by
camel caravan, he was shot and
killed by border guards, in Tibet (now part of China),
April
13, 1950 (age 36 years, 353
days); Tibetan and American authorities both described the
killing as a mistake, and Tibet officially apologized.
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch, July 30, 1950 |
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Vincent Luke Palmisano (1882-1953) —
also known as Vincent L. Palmisano —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Termini, Sicily, Italy,
August
5, 1882.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates from Baltimore city 1st District,
1914-15; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 3rd District, 1927-39; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1940.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry. Member, Foresters.
Disappeared
from his home, and either died by suicide
or was murdered, January
12, 1953 (age 70 years, 160
days). His body was recovered from Baltimore Harbor, March 5,
1953.
Interment at New
Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Allison D. Wade (1902-1954) —
of Warren, Warren
County, Pa.
Born in Warren, Warren
County, Pa., September
17, 1902.
Republican. District judge in Pennsylvania 37th District, 1942-54;
died in office 1954; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1944.
Shot
and killed in his courtroom,
in the Warren County
Courthouse, by Norman W. Moon, Warren, Warren
County, Pa., January
13, 1954 (age 51 years, 118
days). Moon, who attempted suicide at the time of his arrest,
believed the judge was involved with his ex-wife, and would
personally benefit from ordering payment of alimony. Moon was
convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death; the sentence
was commuted to a mental institution by Gov. George
M. Leader, and then to life imprisonment.
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Warren, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Harrison Douglas Wade and Alice Cary (Jones) Wade; married to Ruth
Tillotson. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Albert Love Patterson (c.1891-1954) —
also known as Albert L. Patterson —
of Phenix City, Russell
County, Ala.
Born about 1891.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of Alabama
state senate, 1940; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Alabama, 1952;
elected Alabama
state attorney general 1954, but died before taking office.
Shot
and killed in his
car, by an unknown assailant, in Phenix City, Russell
County, Ala., June 18,
1954 (age about 63
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Paul Allen Wallace (1901-1958) —
also known as Paul A. Wallace —
of Wallace, Marlboro
County, S.C.
Born in Bennettsville, Marlboro
County, S.C., July 15,
1901.
Democrat. Member of South
Carolina state senate from Marlboro County, 1947-58; died in
office 1958; delegate to Democratic National Convention from South
Carolina, 1956.
On the night of the 1958 Democratic primary, he and others gathered
in the sheriff's office
at the Marlboro County
Courthouse to hear election returns on the radio; he had just
learned he had won renomination, when Court Clerk Henry A. Rogers
entered the room and shot him
four times; he died about twenty minutes later, in the
emergency room of a nearby hospital,
in Bennettsville, Marlboro
County, S.C., June 10,
1958 (age 56 years, 330
days). On June 27, Rogers hanged himself in the South Carolina
state mental hospital.
Interment at Wallace Baptist Church Cemetery, Wallace, S.C.
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Eunice A. Carreau (1901-1963) —
also known as Eunice A. Stevens —
of Merrick, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, September
14, 1901.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1944.
Female.
Shot
in the throat during a robbery, and died soon after, in Puesto
de Emergencia de Salas hospital,
Caracas, Venezuela,
March
24, 1963 (age 61 years, 191
days).
Interment at Long
Island National Cemetery, East Farmingdale, Long Island, N.Y.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) —
also known as John F. Kennedy; "J.F.K.";
"Lancer" —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., May 29,
1917.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 11th District, 1947-53; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1953-60; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1956;
candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1956;
received a 1957 Pulitzer
Prize for his book Profiles in Courage; President
of the United States, 1961-63; died in office 1963.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Columbus; American
Legion; Elks.
Kennedy was posthumously awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1963.
Shot
by a sniper, Lee Harvey Oswald, while riding in a
motorcade, and died in Parkland Hospital,
Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., November
22, 1963 (age 46 years, 177
days). Oswald was shot and killed two days later by Jack Ruby.
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.; memorial monument at John
F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza, Dallas, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy;
step-brother-in-law of Nina Gore Auchincloss (who married Newton
Ivan Steers Jr.); brother of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy Jr., Eunice Mary Kennedy (who married Robert
Sargent Shriver Jr.), Patricia
Kennedy Lawford (who married Peter
Lawford), Robert
Francis Kennedy, Jean
Kennedy Smith and Edward
Moore Kennedy (who married Virginia
Joan Bennett); married, September
12, 1953, to Jaqueline
Lee Bouvier (step-daughter of Hugh
Dudley Auchincloss; step-sister of Eugene
Luther Gore Vidal Jr. and Hugh
Dudley Auchincloss III); father of John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.; uncle of Maria Owings Shriver (who
married Arnold
Alois Schwarzenegger), Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend, Joseph
Patrick Kennedy II, Mark
Kennedy Shriver and Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (born 1967); grandson of Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929) and John
Francis Fitzgerald. |
| | | Political family: Kennedy
family. |
| | | Cross-reference: John
B. Connally — Henry
B. Gonzalez — Henry
M. Wade — Walter
Rogers — Gerry
E. Studds — James
B. McCahey, Jr. — Mark
Dalton — Waggoner
Carr — Theodore
C. Sorensen — Pierre
Salinger — John
Bartlow Martin — Abraham
Davenport |
| | | The John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge
(opened 1963), which carries southbound I-65 over the Ohio River from
Jeffersonville,
Indiana, to Louisville,
Kentucky, is named for
him. |
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. half dollar coin. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by John F. Kennedy: Profiles
in Courage (1956) |
| | | Books about John F. Kennedy:
Christopher Loviny & Vincent Touze, JFK
: Remembering Jack — Robert Dallek, An
Unfinished Life : John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 — Michael
O'Brien, John
F. Kennedy : A Biography — Sean J. Savage, JFK,
LBJ, and the Democratic Party — Thurston Clarke, Ask
Not : The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed
America — Thomas Reeves, A
Question of Character : A Life of John F. Kennedy —
Chris Matthews, Jack
Kennedy: Elusive Hero — Shelley Sommer, John
F. Kennedy : His Life and Legacy (for young
readers) |
| | | Critical books about John F. Kennedy:
Seymour Hersh, The
Dark Side of Camelot — Lance Morrow, The
Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948:
Learning the Secrets of Power — Victor Lasky, JFK:
the Man and the Myth |
| | | Image source: Warren Commission report
(via Wikipedia) |
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Leo Bernard (1938-1966) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., October
24, 1938.
Socialist. Socialist Workers candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 17th District, 1964; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Michigan.
Shot
and killed, by Edward Waniolek, a former taxicab driver who
wanted to "kill some Communists", in the offices
of the Socialist Workers Party, Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., May 16,
1966 (age 27 years, 204
days).
Burial location unknown.
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George Lincoln Rockwell (1918-1967) —
of Arlington, Arlington
County, Va.
Born in Bloomington, McLean
County, Ill., March 9,
1918.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; served in the U.S. Navy
during the Korean conflict; founder, in 1959, of the National
Committee to Free America from Jewish
Domination (later known as the American Nazi
Party); arrested
at various demonstrations
during the 1960s; American Nazi candidate for Governor of
Virginia, 1965.
Shot
and killed by a sniper, later identified as John Patler, while
driving
his car in the parking lot of Dominion Hills Shopping
Center, Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., August
25, 1967 (age 49 years, 169
days); Patler was convicted of the murder and sentenced to 20
years in prison. Rockwell's funeral procession was not allowed into
Culpeper National Cemetery because of Nazi emblems worn by his
supporters.
Cremated.
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Robert Francis Kennedy (1925-1968) —
also known as Robert F. Kennedy; Bobby Kennedy;
"R.F.K." —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass.; Glen Cove, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
20, 1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1956,
1960;
U.S.
Attorney General, 1961-64; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1965-68; died in office 1968; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1968.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion.
On June 5, 1968, while running
for president, having just won the California presidential primary,
was shot and
mortally wounded by Sirhan Sirhan, in the Ambassador Hotel,
and died the next day in in Good Samaritan Hospital,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 6,
1968 (age 42 years, 199
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy; brother of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy Jr., John
Fitzgerald Kennedy, Eunice Mary Kennedy (who married Robert
Sargent Shriver Jr.), Patricia
Kennedy Lawford (who married Peter
Lawford), Jean
Kennedy Smith and Edward
Moore Kennedy; married, June 17,
1950, to Ethel Skakel; father of Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend, Joseph
Patrick Kennedy II and Kerry Kennedy (who married Andrew
Mark Cuomo); uncle of John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr., Mark
Kennedy Shriver and Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (born 1967); grandson of Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929) and John
Francis Fitzgerald. |
| | | Political family: Kennedy
family. |
| | | Cross-reference: Benjamin
Altman — John
Bartlow Martin — Frank
Mankiewicz — Paul
Schrade |
| | | The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building
(opened 1935, renamed 2001), in Washington,
D.C., is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Robert F. Kennedy: Arthur
M. Schlesinger Jr., Robert
Kennedy and His Times — Evan Thomas, Robert
Kennedy : His Life — Joseph A. Palermo, In
His Own Right — Thurston Clarke, The
Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired
America — Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Some
of It Was Fun: Working with RFK and LBJ — Bill
Eppridge, A
Time it Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties |
| | | Critical books about Robert F. Kennedy:
Allen Roberts, Robert
Francis Kennedy: Biography of a Compulsive
Politician — Victor Lasky, RFK:
Myth and Man — Darwin Porter & Danforth Prince, The
Kennedys: All the Gossip Unfit for Print |
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John Gordon Mein (1913-1968) —
of Maryland.
Born in Cadiz, Trigg
County, Ky., September
10, 1913.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala, 1965-68, died in office 1968.
Shot
and killed by terrorists who ambushed his limousine,
in Guatemala City, Guatemala,
August
28, 1968 (age 54 years, 353
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Joseph A. Yablonski (1910-1969) —
also known as Jock Yablonski —
of East Bethlehem Township, Washington
County, Pa.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., March 3,
1910.
Democrat. Coal miner;
district
leader for the United Mine Workers, and candidate for union
president in 1969; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1956,
1960,
1964.
Shot
and killed, along with his wife and daughter, by three hit men
hired by United Mine Workers President Tony Boyle, in East Bethlehem
Township, Washington
County, Pa., December
31, 1969 (age 59 years, 303
days).
Interment at Washington
Cemetery, Washington, Pa.
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Fred B. Cohen (1913-1970) —
of Bremerton, Kitsap
County, Wash.
Born in Bremerton, Kitsap
County, Wash., February
8, 1913.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Washington,
1944
(alternate), 1948;
Kitsap
County Prosecutor.
Shot
and killed on his porch by an unknown gunman, in Bremerton, Kitsap
County, Wash., January
19, 1970 (age 56 years, 345
days).
Entombed at Miller-Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bremerton, Wash.
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Leon M. Jordan (1905-1970) —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., May 6,
1905.
Democrat. Police
officer; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Missouri, 1960;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1965-70 (Jackson County 4th
District 1965-66, 11th District 1967-70); died in office 1970.
Episcopalian.
African
ancestry. Member, Elks; Kappa
Alpha Psi.
During his campaign
for re-election, was shot and
killed while leaving the Green Duck Tavern,
which he owned and operated, in Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., July 15,
1970 (age 65 years, 70
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Fred Duckworth (1899-1972) —
also known as W. Fred Duckworth —
of Norfolk,
Va.
Born in Brevard, Transylvania
County, N.C., June 20,
1899.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; plant manager for Ford Motor
Company, 1933-42; automobile
dealer; mayor
of Norfolk, Va., 1950-62.
Member, Freemasons.
Shot
and killed by an unknown assailant, while walking on Major
Avenue, Norfolk,
Va., March 4,
1972 (age 72 years, 258
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Norfolk, Va.
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Relatives:
Married to Gertrude Summers. |
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William J. McGovern (1905-1972) —
of Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., August
25, 1905.
Democrat. Tavern
owner; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
Jersey, 1932
(alternate), 1944;
elected (Wet) delegate
to New Jersey convention to ratify 21st amendment from Hudson
County 1933.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Killed by armed robbers at his tavern,
in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., July 11,
1972 (age 66 years, 321
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, North Arlington, N.J.
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Silvio Joseph Failla (1910-1972) —
also known as Silvio J. Failla; Si Failla —
of Hoboken, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in New Jersey, May 23,
1910.
Democrat. Undertaker;
mayor
of Hoboken, N.J., 1965; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly District 12-C, 1972; died in
office 1972.
Italian
ancestry.
According to published
reports, he left a bar with
a prostitute,
Deborah Dell; just outside, he was robbed, shot
multiple times, and killed, in Neptune Township, Monmouth
County, N.J., September
16, 1972 (age 62 years, 116
days). Dell and an associate were later convicted of first-degree
murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Entombed in mausoleum at St.
Catharine Cemetery, Sea Girt, N.J.
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Cleo Allen Noel Jr. (1918-1973) —
also known as Cleo A. Noel, Jr. —
of Missouri.
Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla., August
6, 1918.
U.S. Ambassador to Sudan, 1972-73, died in office 1973.
Assassinated in Sudan,
March
2, 1973 (age 54 years, 208
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Major B. Coxson (c.1929-1973) —
of Camden, Camden
County, N.J.
Born about 1929.
Convicted
10 times on fraud
and larceny
charges,
most related to automobile
theft; served 22 months in federal prison;
candidate for mayor of
Camden, N.J., 1973.
African
ancestry.
Admitted four men to his house, who bound and gagged him and his
family, and shot
each one, killing him and wounding the others, in Cherry Hill,
Camden
County, N.J., June 9,
1973 (age about 44
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert L. Roberts (1922-1973) —
of Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan.
Born in Fort Worth, Tarrant
County, Tex., 1922.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; postmaster
at Kansas
City, Kan., 1959-68, 1970-73 (acting, 1959); served in the U.S.
Army during the Vietnam war.
Stabbed
and mortally wounded by Carroll Edward Noel, Jr., a former
mail handler, in the office
of the assistant postmaster, at the main post
office, and was dead on arrival at Bethany Medical
Center, Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan., November
29, 1973 (age about 51
years). Noel was tried for murder, and found not guilty by reason
of insanity.
Interment at Memorial
Park Cemetery, Kansas City, Kan.
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Rodger Paul Davies (1921-1974) —
Born in Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., May 7,
1921.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus, 1974, died in office 1974.
Assassinated in Cyprus,
August
19, 1974 (age 53 years, 104
days).
Interment at Sunset
View Cemetery, El Cerrito, Calif.
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Francis Edward Meloy Jr. (1917-1976) —
also known as Francis E. Meloy, Jr. —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Washington,
D.C., March
28, 1917.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Vice Consul in Dhahran, 1946; personal assistant to Secretary of State Dean
Acheson, 1946-53; U.S. Ambassador to Dominican Republic, 1969-73; Guatemala, 1973-76; Lebanon, 1976, died in office 1976.
Kidnapped from his car, along with two others, and shot to
death, in Beirut, Lebanon,
June
16, 1976 (age 59 years, 80
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Leo Joseph Ryan (1925-1978) —
also known as Leo J. Ryan —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; South San Francisco, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb., May 5,
1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; mayor
of South San Francisco, Calif., 1962; member of California
state assembly, 1963-73; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1964,
1968;
U.S.
Representative from California 11th District, 1973-78; died in
office 1978.
Killed by followers of Jim Jones' People's Temple cult, in an
ambush at the dirt airstrip
of Port Kaituma, Guyana,
November
18, 1978 (age 53 years, 197
days).
Interment at Golden
Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, Calif.
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George Richard Moscone (1929-1978) —
also known as George Moscone —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., November
24, 1929.
Democrat. Candidate for California
state assembly, 1960; member of California
state senate, 1966-75; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 1968,
1972;
mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1976-78; died in office 1978.
Shot
and killed, along with Supervisor Harvey Milk, by Supervisor
Dan White, in his office
in San Francisco City
Hall, San
Francisco, Calif., November
27, 1978 (age 49 years, 3
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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Adolph Dubs (1920-1979) —
of Maryland.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August
4, 1920.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, 1978-79, died in office 1979.
Assassinated in Afghanistan,
February
14, 1979 (age 58 years, 194
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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John Howland Wood Jr. (1916-1979) —
also known as John H. Wood, Jr.; "Maximum
John" —
of San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex.
Born in Rockport, Aransas
County, Tex., March
31, 1916.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Texas, 1960;
U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Texas, 1970-79; died
in office 1979.
Shot
and killed in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., May 29,
1979 (age 63 years, 59
days). The killer was Charles Harrelson, a contract killer who
was also the father of actor Woody Harrelson.
Burial location unknown.
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Allard Kenneth Lowenstein (1929-1980) —
also known as Allard K. Lowenstein —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Long Beach, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., January
16, 1929.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1960
(alternate), 1968,
1972;
U.S.
Representative from New York 5th District, 1969-71; defeated,
1970, 1972 (primary), 1972 (Liberal), 1974, 1976, 1978 (primary).
Jewish.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Shot
and mortally wounded by Dennis Sweeney, in his law
office in Rockefeller Center, and died about seven hours later,
in St. Clare's Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
14, 1980 (age 51 years, 58
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Russell G. Lloyd Sr. (1932-1980) —
of Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind.
Born in Kingston, Luzerne
County, Pa., March
29, 1932.
Republican. Lawyer; mayor
of Evansville, Ind., 1972-79; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Indiana, 1972.
Catholic.
Shot
and mortally wounded by Julia Van Orden; he died eight hours
later, in St. Mary's Hospital,
Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind., March
21, 1980 (age 47 years, 358
days). His killer was convicted of murder and sentenced to 40
years in prison.
Interment at St.
Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Evansville, Ind.
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Marion Price Daniel Jr. (1941-1981) —
of Texas.
Born June 8,
1941.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1969-78; Speaker of
the Texas State House of Representatives, 1973; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1974; candidate for Texas
state attorney general, 1978.
Shot
and killed by his estranged wife, Vickie, near Liberty, Liberty
County, Tex., January
19, 1981 (age 39 years, 225
days). She was arrested and indicted for his murder, but found
not guilty at trial.
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Liberty County, Tex.
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Aloysius J. Rumely (c.1911-1982) —
of LaPorte, LaPorte
County, Ind.
Born about 1911.
Mayor
of LaPorte, Ind., 1982.
On May 31, 1982, former city employee Harold Lang shot him
and his wife, leading to his death six months later, November
25, 1982 (age about 71
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Lawrence Patton McDonald (1935-1983) —
also known as Larry McDonald —
of Georgia.
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., April 1,
1935.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Georgia 7th District, 1975-83; died in office
1983.
Member, John
Birch Society.
Killed when the Korean
Airlines jet on which he was a passenger was shot down by
the Soviet military, over the Sea of
Japan, September
1, 1983 (age 48 years, 153
days). His remains were never
recovered.
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Richard Joseph Daronco (1931-1988) —
also known as Richard J. Daronco —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
1, 1931.
Lawyer;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court, 1979-87; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1987-88;
died in office 1988.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Shot
and killed, by Charles L. Koster, in Pelham Heights, Pelham,
Westchester
County, N.Y., May 21,
1988 (age 56 years, 294
days). Koster, a retired police officer, was angry over ruling
the judge had issued two days earlier; he killed himself at the scene.
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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Nelson Gerard Gross (1932-1997) —
also known as Nelson G. Gross —
of Hackensack, Bergen
County, N.J.; Saddle River, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born January
9, 1932.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Bergen County, 1962-63;
candidate for New
Jersey state senate District 13, 1965; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New Jersey, 1968;
chair
of Bergen County Republican Party, 1969; New Jersey
Republican state chair, 1969; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1970; real estate
developer; restaurant
owner.
Jewish.
Indicted
in May 1973 on charges
of falsifying
a $5,000 contribution to the 1969 campaign of Gov. William
T. Cahill, conspiring to commit tax
evasion by disguising the contribution as a business expense, and
counseling a witness to commit perjury;
convicted
in March 1974, and sentenced
to two years jail;
served six months.
Kidnapped in Edgewater, N.J., robbed of $20,000, taken to New York,
and stabbed
to death, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
17, 1997 (age 65 years, 251
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Tommy Burks (1940-1998) —
of near Monterey, Putnam
County, Tenn.
Born in Cookeville, Putnam
County, Tenn., May 22,
1940.
Farmer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1971-78; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1979-98; died in office 1998.
Church
of Christ. Member, Lions; Farm
Bureau.
Shot
and killed in his pickup
truck by his opponent for re-election, Byron
Low Tax Looper, near Monterey, Cumberland
County, Tenn., October
19, 1998 (age 58 years, 150
days).
Interment at Crestlawn
Memorial Cemetery, Cookeville, Tenn.
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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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