Very incomplete list!
in chronological order
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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 Gallagher Montgomery (1805-1857) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Northumberland, Northumberland
County, Pa., June 27,
1805.
Democrat. Member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1855; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 12th District, 1857; died in
office 1857.
While in Washington, D.C., for the inauguration of at a President James
Buchanan, he became ill with "National Hotel disease" (attributed
to poison, but probably dysentery),
and subsequently died, at Danville, Montour
County, Pa., April
24, 1857 (age 51 years, 301
days).
Interment at Episcopal
Cemetery, Danville, Pa.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John Anthony Quitman (1799-1858) —
also known as John A. Quitman —
of Mississippi.
Born in Rhinebeck, Dutchess
County, N.Y., September
1, 1799.
Democrat. Lawyer; cotton and
sugar planter;
member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1826-27; delegate
to Mississippi state constitutional convention, 1832; member of
Mississippi
state senate, 1835-36; Governor of
Mississippi, 1835-36, 1850-51; state court judge in Mississippi,
1838; general in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; candidate for
Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1848,
1856;
U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 5th District, 1855-58; died in
office 1858.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons.
Slaveowner.
While in Washington, D.C., for the inauguration of President James
Buchanan, he became ill with "National Hotel disease" (attributed
to poison, but probably dysentery),
and subsequently died, near Natchez, Adams
County, Miss., July 17,
1858 (age 58 years, 319
days).
Interment at Natchez
City Cemetery, Natchez, Miss.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Edward Allen Hannegan (1807-1859) —
also known as Edward A. Hannegan —
of Covington, Fountain
County, Ind.
Born in Hamilton
County, Ohio, June 25,
1807.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1832-33, 1841-42; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 7th District, 1833-37; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1843-49; U.S. Minister to Prussia, 1849-50.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
In May, 1852, during a drunken
argument, he stabbed
his brother-in-law, Captain Duncan, who died the
next day.
Died from overdose of morphine (probably suicide),
in St.
Louis, Mo., February
25, 1859 (age 51 years, 245
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
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David Fullerton Robison (1816-1859) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born near Greencastle, Franklin
County, Pa., May 28,
1816.
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 17th District, 1855-57.
While in Washington, D.C., for the inauguration of President James
Buchanan, he became ill with "National Hotel disease" (attributed
to poison, but probably dysentery),
and subsequently died, at Chambersburg, Franklin
County, Pa., June 24,
1859 (age 43 years, 27
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Greencastle, Pa.
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William Sumner Maynard (1802-1866) —
also known as William S. Maynard —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Berkshire
County, Mass., April
25, 1802.
Merchant;
village
president of Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1836-38, 1839-40; mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1856-58, 1865-66.
Congregationalist.
Suffering from severe depression, he killed
himself by an overdose of morphine or laudanum, in Ann
Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., June 18,
1866 (age 64 years, 54
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Henry Connelly (1800-1866) —
of New Mexico.
Born in Nelson County (part now in Spencer
County), Ky., 1800.
Member
New Mexico territorial council, 1851; Governor
of New Mexico Territory, 1861-66.
Catholic.
Died of an opium overdose, at Santa Fe, Santa Fe
County, N.M., August
12, 1866 (age about 66
years).
Interment at San
Rosario Cemetery, Santa Fe, N.M.
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John H. Fitzgerald (1834-1871) —
of Wickenburg, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., 1834.
Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of Arizona
territorial House of Representatives, 1871.
Killed
himself by swallowing strychnine, at Mill City (now part
of Phoenix), Maricopa
County, Ariz., July 22,
1871 (age about 37
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Benjamin F. Ferris (c.1806-1876) —
also known as B. F. Ferris; H. A. Johnson —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in New York, about 1806.
Justice of the Peace, 1853 to about 1860; mayor
of Oakland, Calif., 1865-66; banker.
While traveling under the pseudonym 'H. A. Johnson', aboard the
steamer Amador on the Sacramento River, he killed
himself by taking poison, tying his feet together, and
then jumping or falling overboard to drown
in the river, near Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., May 20,
1876 (age about 70
years).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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William W. Lee (c.1817-1882) —
of Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born about 1817.
Republican. Candidate for New
Jersey state house of assembly, 1879.
While depressed over the death of his wife, he killed
himself by taking an ounce and a half of laudanum, in
Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., December
19, 1882 (age about 65
years).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Henry C. Hoffman (c.1827-1883) —
of Chemung
County, N.Y.
Born about 1827.
Member of New York
state assembly from Chemung County, 1866, 1880-81.
Killed
himself, by taking strychnine, in Horseheads, Chemung
County, N.Y., August
26, 1883 (age about 56
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Jacques J. Stillwell (1827-1884) —
also known as J. J. Stillwell —
of Gravesend (now part of Brooklyn), Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in 1827.
Member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 12th District, 1881-82.
While suffering from an overdose of chloral hydrate, and
fearing the onset of insanity, he shot himself,
and died several days later, in Gravesend (now part of Brooklyn), Kings
County, N.Y., December
14, 1884 (age about 57
years).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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John Birdsall (1840-1891) —
also known as "John Williams" —
of Glen Cove, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Flatbush (now part of Brooklyn), Kings
County, N.Y., October
5, 1840.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; merchant;
farmer;
member of New York
state senate 1st District, 1880-81.
While registered under the assumed name "John Williams," he killed
himself with illuminating gas in his room at the United
States Hotel,
New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
14, 1891 (age 50 years, 191
days).
Interment at St. Paul's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Glen Cove, Long Island,
N.Y.
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Michael S. Tynan (c.1835-1893) —
of Stapleton, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.
Born about 1835.
Republican. Shoe
merchant; member of New York
state assembly from Richmond County, 1885.
Reportedly afflicted with "melancholia", he died by suicide,
from illuminating gas, in Stapleton, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., November
13, 1893 (age about 58
years).
Burial location unknown.
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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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Robert F. Kraft (1859-1894) —
of New Albany, Floyd
County, Ind.
Born in Johnson
County, Ill., October, 1859.
Democrat. Shoemaker;
candidate for mayor
of New Albany, Ind., 1894.
Killed
himself by swallowing arsenic, in New Albany, Floyd
County, Ind., October
2, 1894 (age about 35
years).
Interment at Fairview
Cemetery, New Albany, Ind.
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Edward Augustus Stevenson (1831-1895) —
also known as Edward A. Stevenson —
of El
Dorado County, Calif.; Tehama
County, Calif.; Boise, Ada
County, Idaho.
Born in Lowville, Lewis
County, N.Y., June 15,
1831.
Democrat. Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state assembly, 1854-56, 1860-61 (18th District 1854-56, 13th
District 1860-61); Speaker of
the California State Assembly, 1860; member
Idaho territorial council, 1866-68, 1876-78; Governor
of Idaho Territory, 1885-89; appointed 1885; candidate for Governor of
Idaho, 1894.
Died by suicide,
from laudanum, at Paraiso Springs, Monterey
County, Calif., July 6,
1895 (age 64 years, 21
days).
Interment at Pioneer
Cemetery, Boise, Idaho.
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Adam Cyrus Reinoehl (1840-1900) —
also known as Adam C. Reinoehl —
of Lancaster, Lancaster
County, Pa.
Born in Lebanon, Lebanon
County, Pa., November
14, 1840.
Republican. Major in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives from Lancaster County, 1868,
1870-71; postmaster at Lancaster,
Pa., 1900.
Died by suicide,
with illuminating gas, in his office
at the Lancaster post
office, Lancaster, Lancaster
County, Pa., December
14, 1900 (age 60 years, 30
days).
Interment at Lancaster
Cemetery, Lancaster, Pa.
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William Henry Abercrombie (1845-1907) —
also known as William H. Abercrombie —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1845.
Physician;
U.S. Consul in Nagasaki, 1890-97.
He stuffed cotton in the cracks around his bedroom doors and windows,
and killed
himself by turning on the illuminating gas jets, in Washington,
D.C., September
5, 1907 (age about 62
years).
Interment at Charles
Evans Cemetery, Reading, Pa.
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Charles D. Pierce (c.1848-1908) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born about 1848.
Consulting
engineer; commission
merchant; manufacturer of well-drilling,
excavation,
and mining
machinery and supplies; Consul-General
for Orange Free State in New
York, N.Y., 1891-1902.
Killed
himself by inhaling illuminating gas, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
24, 1908 (age about 60
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Hinton Rowan Helper (1829-1909) —
of North Carolina; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Mocksville, Davie
County, N.C., December
27, 1829.
Author and publisher of The Impending Crisis of the South
(1857), an attack on the institution of slavery as holding the South
back economically; the book caused a furor, and was banned in the
South; U.S. Consul in Buenos Aires, 1861-66.
Killed
himself with illuminating gas, in Washington,
D.C., March 9,
1909 (age 79 years, 72
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Suitland, Md.
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Jacob H. Hoysradt (1858-1911) —
of Ancram, Columbia
County, N.Y.
Born in 1858.
Member of New York
state assembly from Columbia County, 1894.
Member, Freemasons;
Grange.
Killed
himself with chloroform, in Ancram, Columbia
County, N.Y., December
14, 1911 (age about 53
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1880 to Carrie
Miller. |
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Yates Pennington (1871-1913) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., March
29, 1871.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates from Baltimore city 2nd District, 1896.
Died by suicide,
from inhaling illuminating gas, in Baltimore,
Md., December
17, 1913 (age 42 years, 263
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Relatives: Son
of Josias Pennington and Elizabeth Ann (Stirling) Pennington;
married, January
9, 1896, to Anna Genevieve Thompson. |
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memorial |
| | | Image source: Baltimore Sun, September
17, 1903 |
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Robert Gunn Bremner (1874-1914) —
also known as Robert G. Bremner —
of Passaic, Passaic
County, N.J.
Born in Keiss, Caithness, Scotland,
December
17, 1874.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; newspaper
editor and publisher; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New Jersey, 1912
(speaker);
U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 7th District, 1913-14; died in
office 1914.
Scottish
ancestry.
Afflicted with cancer,
which spread from his neck to his left shoulder, he was treated with
then-experimental radiation therapy. National news media followed his
progress in detail for weeks. In Dr. Howard A. Kelley's hospital,
tubes containing $100,000 worth of radium (almost half of the
entire U.S. supply) were temporarily inserted into the tumor. The
treatment was unsuccessful and probably harmful, and he died, in Baltimore,
Md., February
5, 1914 (age 39 years, 50
days).
Interment at Laurel
Grove Cemetery, Totowa, N.J.
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George Gundrum (1842-1916) —
of Ionia, Ionia
County, Mich.
Born in Pirmasens, Germany,
January
20, 1842.
Democrat. Pharmacist;
mayor
of Ionia, Mich., 1893.
Methodist.
German
ancestry.
Died, from acute morphine poisoning, probably intentional,
in Ionia, Ionia
County, Mich., November
18, 1916 (age 74 years, 303
days).
Interment at Highland
Park Cemetery, Ionia, Mich.
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Edward Richard Folsom (1874-1923) —
also known as Edward R. Folsom —
of Irvington, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in North Urbana, Steuben
County, N.Y., September
18, 1874.
Charged,
in 1894, of forging
checks, bank
robbery, and arson;
pleaded
guilty to two charges; sentenced
to ten years in prison;
pardoned
and released in September 1897; coal
dealer; mayor
of Irvington, N.J., 1923; died in office 1923.
Blackmailers threatening to expose his criminal past extorted money
from him until he was nearly penniless; killed
himself by an overdose of sedative, in Irvington, Essex
County, N.J., September
26, 1923 (age 49 years, 8
days).
Interment at Clinton
Cemetery, Irvington, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of Frederick Lewis Folsom and Martha (Layton) Folsom; married to Sara
Elizabeth Keeler. |
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memorial |
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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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Asa Francis Smith (c.1847-1925) —
also known as Asa F. Smith —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Beverly, Essex
County, Mass., about 1847.
Lawyer;
Prohibition candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1898 (3rd District), 1914 (10th
District); Prohibition candidate for New York
state assembly from Kings County 17th District, 1902; candidate
for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1908, 1918 (Prohibition),
1919, 1920 (Prohibition), 1922 (Prohibition).
Died, a week after being overcome by fumes from his gas stove,
in Prospect Heights Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
16, 1925 (age about 78
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Medill McCormick (1877-1925) —
also known as Medill McCormick —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 16,
1877.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1916,
1920
(member, Resolutions
Committee; speaker);
member of Illinois state legislature, 1910; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1917-19; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1919-25; died in office 1925.
Scotch-Irish
and Dutch
ancestry.
Died by suicide,
through an overdose of barbiturates (reported at the time as a
heart attack), in his room at the Hotel
Hamilton, Washington,
D.C., February
25, 1925 (age 47 years, 285
days).
Interment at Middlecreek
Cemetery, Byron, Ill.
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John Alvin Lingo Jr. (1873-1925) —
also known as John A. Lingo —
of Rehoboth, Sussex
County, Del.
Born in 1873.
Republican. Merchant;
member of Delaware
state house of representatives from Sussex County 10th District,
1925; died in office 1925.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Accidentally swallowed poisonous Lysol disinfectant, and died
en route to a hospital, in his doctor's car,
near Lewes, Sussex
County, Del., December
14, 1925 (age about 52
years).
Interment at Millsboro
Cemetery, Millsboro, Del.
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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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Ezra Andrew Barnes (1879-1928) —
also known as Ezra A. Barnes —
of Oswego, Oswego
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Scriba, Oswego
County, N.Y., May 11,
1879.
Republican. Lawyer; farmer;
served in the U.S. Army on the Mexican border; served in the U.S.
Army during World War I; member of New York
state assembly from Oswego County, 1921-23.
Member, American Bar
Association; Grange;
Freemasons;
Elks; Knights
of Pythias; American
Legion.
He killed
himself by opening the gas jets in his room, in Brooklyn,
Kings
County, N.Y., May 10,
1928 (age 48 years, 365
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Scriba town, Oswego County, N.Y.
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John T. Manning (1892-1933) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., April
26, 1892.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives from St. Louis City 1st District,
1921-24; candidate for Missouri
state senate, 1932.
Collapsed and died on a
streetcar, apparently a suicide
from swallowing poison, in St.
Louis, Mo., February
6, 1933 (age 40 years, 286
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Edward W. Weisbrod (1866-1933) —
of Oshkosh, Winnebago
County, Wis.
Born in Oshkosh, Winnebago
County, Wis., December
3, 1866.
Democrat. Insurance
agent; real estate
business; candidate for mayor
of Oshkosh, Wis., 1907; candidate for Wisconsin
state assembly from Winnebago County 1st District, 1916.
German
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Pythias; Modern
Woodmen.
Accidentally killed by carbon monoxide while painting his
automobile in his garage, in Black Wolf town, Winnebago
County, Wis., February
19, 1933 (age 66 years, 78
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Oshkosh, Wis.
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Harwood Edward Odery Fish (1875-1934) —
also known as Harwood E. Fish —
of Roselle Park, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Otterville, Ontario,
August
23, 1875.
Mayor
of Roselle Park, N.J., 1912-16.
Killed
himself with illuminating gas, in Roselle Park, Union
County, N.J., September
4, 1934 (age 59 years, 12
days).
Interment at Rosedale and Rosehill Cemetery, Linden, N.J.
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Byron W. Austin (1887-1937) —
of Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.; Danbury, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Danbury, Fairfield
County, Conn., 1887.
Democrat. Elected mayor
of Danbury, Conn. 1937, but died before taking office.
Died, probably by suicide,
from carbon monoxide poisoning, in his car,
in the garage of his hunting lodge, in New Fairfield, Fairfield
County, Conn., about April 1,
1937 (age about 49
years).
Interment at Wooster
Cemetery, Danbury, Conn.
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Pedro José de Larralde (1880-1938) —
also known as Pedro J. de Larralde —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Venezuela,
May
15, 1880.
Physician;
Honorary
Consul for Venezuela in Los
Angeles, Calif., 1927-38.
In grief over the death of his wife a year earlier, he killed
himself, by carbon monoxide poisoning, inside his garage,
in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., August
8, 1938 (age 58 years, 85
days).
Interment somewhere
in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Image source:
Los Angeles Times, Agust 9, 1938 |
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Nathan Lieberman (c.1888-1939) —
also known as Leonard Madden —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born about 1888.
Republican. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1912;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 17th District, 1921; in March
1939, he was charged,
along with two others, over a stock
fraud scheme; he pleaded not guilty and was released on bail;
meanwhile, in a separate case, he was indicted
in Broome County.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Died, apparently of pneumonia,
while attempting to kill
himself with poison, in his room at the Tudor Hotel
(where he had registered under the assumed name "Leonard Madden"),
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
12, 1939 (age about 51
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Ralph Emerson Bailey (1878-1948) —
also known as Ralph E. Bailey —
of Sikeston, Scott
County, Mo.
Born in Cainsville, Harrison
County, Mo., July 14,
1878.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 14th District, 1925-27.
Died, from acute vascular
collapse as a result of an adverse reaction to a blood
transfusion, in St. Francis Hospital,
Cape Girardeau, Cape
Girardeau County, Mo., April 8,
1948 (age 69 years, 269
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Sikeston, Mo.
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Douglas Hemphill Elliott (1921-1960) —
also known as Douglas H. Elliott —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., June 3,
1921.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; public
relations business; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 33rd District, 1957-60; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 18th District, 1960; died in
office 1960.
Less than two months after taking office as U.S. Representative, he
killed
himself by draping a deer skin over his head and the tail pipe of
a car, to produce carbon monoxide poisoning, in Horse Valley,
Franklin
County, Pa., June 19,
1960 (age 39 years, 16
days).
Interment at Falling
Spring Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Chambersburg, Pa.
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James Thomas Blair Jr. (1902-1962) —
also known as James T. Blair, Jr. —
of Jefferson City, Cole
County, Mo.
Born in Maysville, DeKalb
County, Mo., March
15, 1902.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Cole County, 1929-32;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1936,
1960;
chair
of Cole County Democratic Party, 1939; colonel in the U.S. Army
during World War II; mayor
of Jefferson City, Mo., 1947-48; Lieutenant
Governor of Missouri, 1949-57; Governor of
Missouri, 1957-61.
Presbyterian.
Member, Elks; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Moose;
Sons
of the American Revolution; American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Amvets;
Military
Order of the World Wars; American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Sigma
Chi; Phi
Delta Phi; Sigma
Nu Phi; Knights
of Pythias; Woodmen;
Kiwanis;
Eagles.
Died, along with his wife, of accidental carbon monoxide
poisoning, when exhaust fumes from a car left
running in an attached garage entered their home through the air
conditioning system, in Jefferson City, Cole
County, Mo., July 12,
1962 (age 60 years, 119
days).
Interment at Riverview
Cemetery, Jefferson City, Mo.
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Inger Stevens (1934-1970) —
also known as Inger Stensland; "Kay
Palmer" —
Born in Stockholm, Sweden,
October
18, 1934.
Democrat. Actress;
honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Female.
Swedish
ancestry.
Died, from acute barbiturate poisoning, (later ruled to be suicide),
in the ambulance
on the way to the hospital, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
30, 1970 (age 35 years, 194
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in North Pacific Ocean.
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Sidney Theodore Roebuck (1901-1982) —
also known as S. T. Roebuck —
of Newton, Newton
County, Miss.
Born in Attala
County, Miss., 1901.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1930; secretary of
Mississippi Democratic Party, 1937; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Mississippi, 1940.
Died from an accidental overdose of Coumadin (Warfarin), 1982
(age about
81 years).
Interment at Lakewood
Memorial Park, Jackson, Miss.
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John Porter East (1931-1986) —
also known as John P. East —
of North Carolina.
Born in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., May 5,
1931.
Republican. Candidate for secretary
of state of North Carolina, 1968; candidate for Presidential
Elector for North Carolina; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1981-86; died in office 1986.
Presbyterian.
His legs were
paralyzed due to polio.
Killed
himself by carbon monoxide poisoning, in Greenville, Pitt
County, N.C., June 29,
1986 (age 55 years, 55
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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James Patrick Screen Jr. (1943-1994) —
also known as Pat Screen —
of Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Parish, La.
Born May 13,
1943.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor-president
of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, 1981-88; indicted,
along with an aide, in 1987, on a felony malfeasance
charge over management of a road improvement program; the charges
were dismissed three days later.
Catholic.
Died, from a drug overdose, in a hotel
room at New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., September
12, 1994 (age 51 years, 122
days).
Interment at Resthaven Gardens of Memory and Mausoleum, Baton Rouge, La.
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Nathan R. Sobel (1906-1997) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., 1906.
Lawyer;
counsel to Gov. Herbert
H. Lehman, 1937; County Court Judge; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1962-67; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 17th District, 1967;
appointed 1967; Kings
County Surrogate, 1969-76.
Died, from an adverse reaction to medication, in New York
Hospital-Cornell
Medical Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 20,
1997 (age about 90
years).
Burial location unknown.
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James J. Eagan (1926-2000) —
also known as "The Jolly Green Giant" —
of Florissant, St. Louis
County, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., March 4,
1926.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; mayor
of Florissant, Mo., 1963-2000.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, of an adverse reaction to a prescription drug, in St.
John's Mercy Medical
Center, St.
Louis, Mo., November
2, 2000 (age 74 years, 243
days). His body was
donated to science.
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Rickey Lee Davis (1951-2014) —
also known as Rick Davis —
of Caruthersville, Pemiscot
County, Mo.
Born, in Tunica County Hospital,
Tunica, Tunica
County, Miss., February
8, 1951.
Mayor
of Caruthersville, Mo., 1994-98, 2014; died in office 2014.
Presbyterian.
Member, Rotary.
Died, from smoke inhalation during a fire at his
home, Caruthersville, Pemiscot
County, Mo., July 23,
2014 (age 63 years, 165
days).
Burial location unknown.
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