Very incomplete list!
in chronological order
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George M. Carhart (d. 1863) —
of California.
Member of California
state assembly 21st District, 1853-54.
Accidentally
shot
and killed while sleeping in Skinner's Saloon, Bannock, Beaverhead
County, Mont., May 17,
1863.
Burial location unknown.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Fred S. Berry (1879-1948) —
of Wayne, Wayne
County, Neb.
Born in Mapleton, Monona
County, Iowa, March
15, 1879.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Nebraska, 1928.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died, from a heart
attack, while dining in a cafe at Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., June 7,
1948 (age 69 years, 84
days).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery, Wayne, Neb.
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Claude C. Cheshire (c.1889-1960) —
of Nogales, Santa Cruz
County, Ariz.; Flagstaff, Coconino
County, Ariz.
Born in Oregon, about 1889.
Automobile
dealer; mayor
of Nogales, Ariz., 1937-39.
Suffered a heart
attack and died, while dining with friends in a
restaurant, Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., January
29, 1960 (age about 71
years).
Burial location unknown.
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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 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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S. Samuel DiFalco (1906-1978) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Italy,
July
26, 1906.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for New York
state assembly, 1935; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1949-56; New
York County Surrogate, 1957-76.
Italian
ancestry. Member, Tammany
Hall.
Indicted
in May 1976, along with Justice Irving
Saypol, on official
misconduct charges,
in connection with an alleged scheme to obtain appraisal and auction
commissions for Saypol's son; the charges were later dismissed. Indicted
in February 1978 for criminal
contempt, in connection with his statements to a grand jury, but
died before trial.
Died, from a heart
attack, while dining with friends at the Columbus Club,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 28,
1978 (age 71 years, 337
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y.
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