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Joseph Campbell Anderson (1830-1891) —
also known as Joseph C. Anderson —
of Kansas.
Born in Jessamine
County, Ky., 1830.
Lawyer;
member of Kansas
territorial legislature, 1855; arrested
and imprisoned
during the Civil War for refusing
to sign an oath of allegiance to the Union.
Died in 1891
(age about
61 years).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Samuel Medary (1801-1864) —
also known as "The Wheel Horse of Ohio
Democracy" —
of Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio.
Born in Montgomery Square, Montgomery
County, Pa., February
25, 1801.
Democrat. Newspaper
editor; member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1834; member of Ohio
state senate, 1836; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Ohio, 1844,
1856,
1864;
postmaster at Columbus,
Ohio, 1847-49, 1858; Governor
of Minnesota Territory, 1857-58; Governor
of Kansas Territory, 1858-59, 1859-60, 1860, 1860; candidate for
Governor
of Kansas, 1859.
Originated the slogan "Fifty-four forty or fight," calling for
aggressive action on the Oregon boundary dispute with Great Britain
in the 1840s; the American claim of all the land up to 54°40'
north latitude encompassed most of what is now British Columbia. Indicted
by a federal grand jury in 1864 for conspiracy
against the government; arrested;
released on bond; never tried.
Died in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, November
7, 1864 (age 63 years, 256
days).
Interment at Green
Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio.
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James Henry Lane (1814-1866) —
also known as James H. Lane; "Liberator of
Kansas"; "Fighting Jim" —
of Lawrenceburg, Dearborn
County, Ind.; Lawrence, Douglas
County, Kan.
Born in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn
County, Ind., June 22,
1814.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; Lieutenant
Governor of Indiana, 1849-53; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 4th District, 1853-55; delegate
to Kansas state constitutional convention, 1855, 1857; Kansas
Democratic state chair, 1855; U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1861-66; died in office 1866; general in the
Union Army during the Civil War.
Member, Freemasons.
Deranged, and charged
with financial irregularities, he was mortally wounded by a self-inflicted
gunshot
on July 1, 1866, and died ten days later, near Fort Leavenworth, Leavenworth
County, Kan., July 11,
1866 (age 52 years, 19
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Lawrence, Kan.
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John Lewis Waller (1850-1907) —
also known as John L. Waller —
of Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan.; Wyandotte (now part of Kansas City), Wyandotte
County, Kan.; Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in slavery
in New
Madrid County, Mo., January
12, 1850.
Republican. Barber; lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Kansas; U.S. Consul in Tamatave, 1891-93; in March 1895, during France's military
takeover of Madagascar from the Hova monarchy, he was arrested
by French forces and tried in
a French military court, purportedly for the offense of corresponding
with (or spying
for) the Hovas, but more likely because the Queen of the Hovas had
granted him 2.5 square miles, rich with rubber and mahogany trees; sentenced
to twenty years in a French prison; his case became an international
cause celebre, and the U.S. government protested his imprisonment;
ultimately pardoned
in February 1896 by French president Félix Faure, and freed
after ten months in prison, in exchange for U.S. acquiesance to
French rule over Madagascar; served in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; newspaper
editor.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., October
13, 1907 (age 57 years, 274
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Yonkers, N.Y.
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Frank Mapes (1861-1896) —
of Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan.
Born in Racine, Racine
County, Wis., 1861.
Democrat. Postmaster at Kansas
City, Kan., 1893-96.
While postal inspectors discovered
that he had embezzled
about $9,200 from post office accounts, he died from a self-inflicted
gunshot,
in Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan., March
15, 1896 (age about 34
years).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Kansas City, Kan.
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Relatives: Son
of Alfred R. Mapes and Elizabeth P. (Chittenden) Mapes; married to
Annie Lispenard Sharp. |
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William Warren Rose (1864-1931) —
also known as William W. Rose —
of Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan.
Born in Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., March
12, 1864.
Architect;
mayor
of Kansas City, Kan., 1905-06, 1906; defeated, 1897 (Fusion),
1907 (Democratic); delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Kansas, 1908,
1920.
Member, Freemasons.
An ouster
lawsuit was filed against him in 1905 over his refusal to
enforce the state's liquor
prohibition law; fined
$1,000 for contempt
by the Kansas Supreme Court in 1907 for trying to hold office as
mayor.
Died May 4,
1931 (age 67 years, 53
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Kansas City, Kan.
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Rose Pastor Stokes —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Communist. Indicted
in 1918 for sedition
over a speech she made in Kansas City, and released on bail; arrested
in Stamford, Conn., in September, 1921, to prevent her from giving a
speech there; candidate for borough
president of Manhattan, New York, 1921.
Female.
Burial location unknown.
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Jonathan McMillan Davis (1871-1943) —
also known as Jonathan M. Davis —
of Bronson, Bourbon
County, Kan.
Born in Bronson, Bourbon
County, Kan., April
27, 1871.
Democrat. Farmer;
member of Kansas
state house of representatives, 1905-13; member of Kansas
state senate, 1913-17; Governor of
Kansas, 1923-25; defeated, 1920, 1924, 1926, 1936 (primary), 1938
(Independent); delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Kansas, 1924
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization); candidate for Democratic nomination
for President, 1924;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1930.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Eagles;
Moose;
Elks; Kiwanis.
Arrested
the day after his gubernatorial term expired; indicted
twice for bribery;
tried
and acquitted both times.
Died June 27,
1943 (age 72 years, 61
days).
Interment at Bronson
Cemetery, Bronson, Kan.
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William Warring Gordon (1874-1963) —
also known as William W. Gordon —
of Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan.
Born in Owen
County, Ky., June 13,
1874.
Member of Kansas state legislature, 1910; mayor
of Kansas City, Kan., 1923-26; removed 1926.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Charged
in September 1926 with 25 counts of official
misconduct, and removed from
office as mayor.
Died May 26,
1963 (age 88 years, 347
days).
Interment at Memorial
Park Cemetery, Kansas City, Kan.
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Gerald Burton Winrod (1900-1957) —
also known as Gerald B. Winrod —
Born in Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan., March 7,
1900.
Republican. One of the founders, in 1925, of the group Defenders of
the Christian Faith; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1938; sympathized with the Adolf Hitler and
the Nazis, and and blamed
the Depression and World War II on Jews, Catholics, and Communists;
indicted
in July 1942, with others, for sedition
over an alleged conspiracy to cause insubordination in the Armed
Forces in wartime; a mistrial was declared and charges were dropped.
Died in Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan., November
11, 1957 (age 57 years, 249
days).
Interment at White
Chapel Memorial Gardens, Wichita, Kan.
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Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951) —
also known as E. Haldeman-Julius; Emanuel
Julius —
of Girard, Crawford
County, Kan.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 30,
1889.
Socialist. Author;
editor of the Socialist newspaper
Appeal to Reason; founder of Haldeman-Julius Publications, publisher
of many five-cent paperback books, called "Little Blue Books"; there
were more than 6,000 titles, mostly literature, biography,
self-improvement, and other educational topics, to make them widely
accessible to the public; all together, from 1919 to 1951, over 500
million copies were printed and sold; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1932; indicted
by a federal grand jury in March, 1950 for income
tax evasion; tried
and convicted
in April, 1951; sentenced
to six months in prison,
and fined
$12,500; released pending appeal.
Jewish;
later Agnostic.
Drowned
in his swimming
pool, in Girard, Crawford
County, Kan., July 31,
1951 (age 62 years, 1
days). Possibly suicide,
but the coroner ruled his death to be accidental.
Interment at Cedarville
Cemetery, Cedarville, Ill.
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Clark E. Tucker (1897-1971) —
of Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan.
Born December
1, 1897.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer; mayor
of Kansas City, Kan., 1947-55; indicted
in 1952, along with two city commissioners, on charges
related to city procurement of asphalt.
Died December
18, 1971 (age 74 years, 17
days).
Interment at Highland
Park Cemetery, Kansas City, Kan.
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Frederick Waldron Phelps (1929-2014) —
also known as Fred Phelps —
of Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan.
Born in Meridian, Lauderdale
County, Miss., November
13, 1929.
Democrat. Lawyer; disbarred
by the state of Kansas in 1979 over harassment
of a court reporter and perjury
during the proceedings; in 1985, nine Federal judges filed a
disciplinary complaint against him over alleged false
accusations, which led to an agreement that he cease law
practice in Federal court; pastor of
the Westboro Baptist Church, which is widely
reviled for its extreme hatred
of homosexuals, and its tactics, such as picketing at military
funerals; candidate for Governor of
Kansas, 1990, 1994, 1998; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1992; candidate for mayor of
Topeka, Kan., 1993, 1997.
Baptist.
Died in Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan., March
19, 2014 (age 84 years, 126
days).
Cremated.
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Paul J. Morrison (b. 1954) —
of Lenexa, Johnson
County, Kan.
Born in Dodge City, Ford
County, Kan., June 1,
1954.
Democrat. Lawyer; Johnson
County District Attorney, 1990-2006; Kansas
state attorney general, 2007-08; resigned 2008.
Catholic.
Member, Phi
Delta Theta.
Resigned
as Attorney General following disclosure of an extramarital
affair with a subordinate, who filed a sexual
harrassment claim with the federal EEOC.
Still living as of 2014.
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Phill Kline (b. 1959) —
of Overland Park, Johnson
County, Kan.
Born in Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan., December
31, 1959.
Republican. Lawyer; radio show
host; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Kansas, 1986 (2nd District), 2000 (3rd
District); member of Kansas
state house of representatives 18th District, 1993-2000; Kansas
state attorney general, 2003-07; defeated, 2006; Johnson
County District Attorney, 2007-08.
Nazarene.
In October, 2011, the Kansas Supreme Court indefinitely
suspended his license to practice law, citing misconduct
while investigating abortion clinics, including perjury
and deliberately deceiving judges,
state officials, a grand
jury, and the investigating panel of the Board for Discipline of
Attorneys.
Still living as of 2014.
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Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. (b. 1940) —
also known as Glenn Miller; "Frazier Glenn
Cross"; "Rounder" —
of North Carolina; Aurora, Lawrence
County, Mo.
Born in Springfield, Greene
County, Mo., 1940.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; candidate in
Democratic primary for Governor of
North Carolina, 1984; candidate in Republican primary for North
Carolina state senate, 1986; convicted
on federal contempt
of court charges in 1986; sentenced
to one year in prison, but disappeared
while out on bond; later captured
in Missouri, along with four other Klansmen and a cache of weapons;
indicted
in 1987 for plotting robberies
and an assassination;
in a deal with prosecutors, he pleaded
guilty to a weapons
charge and to making threats
through the mail; served three years in prison;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Missouri 7th District, 2006; candidate for
U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 2010; on April 13, 2014, in an apparent hate
crime he shot
and killed three people at a Jewish community center and
retirement complex in Overland Park, Kansas.
Member, Ku
Klux Klan.
Still living as of 2014.
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