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Robert Alexander (c.1740-1805) —
of Maryland.
Born in Elkton, Cecil
County, Md., about 1740.
Planter;
lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1775-76.
Episcopalian.
When the Declaration of Independence was promulgated, fled
from Maryland to the British Fleet; in 1780, he was adjudged
guilty of high
treason, and his property was confiscated.
Died in London, England,
November
20, 1805 (age about 65
years).
Burial location unknown.
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George William Brown (1812-1890) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., October
13, 1812.
Mayor
of Baltimore, Md., 1860-61; delegate
to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1867; municipal
judge in Maryland, 1872.
His term as mayor was cut short on September 12, 1861, when he was arrested and
imprisoned, over alleged disloyalty,
by Federal authorities.
Died September
8, 1890 (age 77 years, 330
days).
Burial location unknown.
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George Proctor Kane (1817-1878) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., August
4, 1817.
U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1849-53; as Baltimore Marshal of Police in 1861, he
opposed the movement
of Union troops through Baltimore; on June 27, he was arrested
by Federal soldiers and imprisoned
in Fort Warren for fourteen months; mayor
of Baltimore, Md., 1877-78; died in office 1878.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., June 23,
1878 (age 60 years, 323
days).
Interment at New
Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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John Merryman (1824-1881) —
of Cockeysville, Baltimore
County, Md.
Born in Baltimore
County, Md., August
9, 1824.
Alleged to have led
a mob in Baltimore which destroyed
telegraph lines; arrested
in 1861 by Union troops, and held at Fort McHenry, Baltimore;
petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, which was granted by Chief
Justice Roger
B. Taney, but President Abraham
Lincoln had suspended habeas corpus and refused to follow Taney's
ruling; Maryland
state treasurer, 1870-72.
Died in Baltimore
County, Md., November
15, 1881 (age 57 years, 98
days).
Interment at Sherwood
Episcopal Church Cemetery, Cockeysville, Md.
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John Harrison Surratt Jr. (1844-1916) —
also known as John H. Surratt, Jr. —
of Surrattsville (now Clinton), Prince
George's County, Md.
Born in Washington,
D.C., April
13, 1844.
Postmaster at Surrattsville,
Md., 1862-63; dismissed
as postmaster in 1863 for alleged disloyalty
to the Union; became a Confederate courier and spy; he
and others attempted to kidnap
President Abraham
Lincoln; later, the plot to kill the President and other
government officials was formulated at his mother's boarding house in
Washington; he denied involvement in the assassination, but fled
overseas; he was arrested
in Alexandria, Egypt, and sent back to the U.S.; tried in a Maryland
court in 1867 for his alleged involvement in the murder
plot, but the jury couldn't reach a verdict, and a mistrial was
declared; treasurer of a steamship
company.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Baltimore,
Md., April
21, 1916 (age 72 years, 8
days).
Interment at New
Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Benjamin Gwinn Harris (1805-1895) —
also known as Benjamin G. Harris —
of Leonardtown, St. Mary's
County, Md.
Born near Leonardtown, St. Mary's
County, Md., December
13, 1805.
Democrat. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1832-33, 1836, 1849, 1856, 1861-62; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 5th District, 1863-67; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1864.
Tried and
convicted of harboring
Confederate soldiers; sentenced
to three years' imprisonment;
sentence remitted by President Johnson.
Slaveowner.
Died near Leonardtown, St. Mary's
County, Md., April 4,
1895 (age 89 years, 112
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, St. Mary's County, Md.
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Barnes Compton (1830-1898) —
of Laurel, Prince
George's County, Md.
Born in Port Tobacco, Charles
County, Md., November
16, 1830.
Democrat. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1860-61; in 1865, he was arrested
and imprisoned
under suspicion of involvement with the assassination
of President Abraham
Lincoln, but released after four days; member of Maryland
state senate, 1867-72; Maryland
state treasurer, 1874-85; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Maryland, 1880;
U.S.
Representative from Maryland 5th District, 1885-90, 1891-94.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Laurel, Prince
George's County, Md., December
2, 1898 (age 68 years, 16
days).
Interment at Loudon
Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Stevenson Archer (1827-1898) —
of Bel Air, Harford
County, Md.
Born near Churchville, Harford
County, Md., February
28, 1827.
Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1854; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 2nd District, 1867-75; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1868,
1876;
Maryland
state treasurer, 1886-90; Maryland
Democratic state chair, 1887-89.
In April, 1890, following an investigation
which revealed a shortage
of $132,000, he was arrested,
removed
from office as State Treasurer, and charged
with embezzlement.
He pleaded
guilty and wrote to the court: "No part of the State's money or
securities was ever used by me in gambling, stock speculation, or for
political purposes; nor have I at this time one dollar of it left."
Sentenced
to five years in prison.
Due to his failing health, was pardoned
by Gov. Frank
Brown in May 1894.
Slaveowner.
Died, in Baltimore City Hospital,
Baltimore,
Md., August
2, 1898 (age 71 years, 155
days).
Interment at Presbyterian
Cemetery, Churchville, Md.
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James Valentine Wagner (1848-1903) —
also known as James V. Wagner —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., November
8, 1848.
Cashier, National Marine Bank; Honorary
Consul for Nicaragua in Baltimore,
Md., 1891-96; Honorary
Consul for Venezuela in Baltimore,
Md., 1901-03.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Baltimore,
Md., January
31, 1903 (age 54 years, 84
days). Following his death, it was discovered
that he had embezzled
about $30,000 from the bank.
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Harry Benjamin Wolf (1880-1944) —
also known as Harry B. Wolf —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., June 16,
1880.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Maryland 3rd District, 1907-09.
Jewish.
Disbarred,
1922; reinstated, 1940.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., February
17, 1944 (age 63 years, 246
days).
Interment at Hebrew
Friendship Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Frederick Nicholas Zihlman (1879-1935) —
also known as Frederick N. Zihlman —
of Cumberland, Allegany
County, Md.
Born in Carnegie, Allegheny
County, Pa., October
2, 1879.
Republican. Glass
blower; president,
Maryland Federation of Labor, 1906-07; member of Maryland
state senate, 1910-17; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 6th District, 1917-31; defeated,
1914, 1930; investigated
in 1924 by the U.S. House over an accusation
that he accepted a
bribe of $5,000 from a "fixer"; the charges were not
substantiated; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Maryland, 1928
(member, Resolutions
Committee); in December 1929, he, Daniel
R. Crissinger, and five others, officers of the F. H. Smith
Company, which had promoted and sold apparently worthless securities,
were indicted
on federal charges
of using the mails to commit fraud;
most of those indicted went to prison, but Zihlman and Crissinger
were never tried, and charges against them were dismissed in 1932.
Methodist.
Swiss
ancestry. Member, Moose.
Died in Cumberland, Allegany
County, Md., April
22, 1935 (age 55 years, 202
days).
Interment at St.
John the Evangelist Cemetery, Forest Glen, Md.
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Manuel Herrick (1876-1952) —
also known as Emanuel Herrick —
of Perry, Noble
County, Okla.; Plumas
County, Calif.
Born in Perry Township, Tuscarawas
County, Ohio, September
20, 1876.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Oklahoma 8th District, 1921-23; defeated,
1918 (Independent), 1922 (primary), 1924 (primary), 1926 (primary),
1928 (primary), 1930 (primary); on August 6, 1930, he was caught
by prohibition agents near Great Mills, Maryland, while filling and
fueling an illegal
still; he fled
the scene, but was soon apprehended;
he claimed he was an undercover agent, but that was not taken
seriously; arraigned
in federal court on charges of manufacturing
and possessing
alcohol; in October, 1930, he was tried
and convicted;
sentenced
to six months in jail; candidate for U.S.
Representative from California, 1948.
While on a trip to his mining claim; he died, probably from exposure,
during a Sierra blizzard,
near Quincy, Plumas
County, Calif., January
11, 1952 (age 75 years, 113
days). His body was found in a snowbank, six weeks later.
Cremated;
ashes interred at Quincy
Cemetery, Quincy, Calif.
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Bernard Ades (1903-1986) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Maryland, July 3,
1903.
Communist. Lawyer; accountant;
defense attorney for Euel Lee (alias "Orphan Jones") in his 1932-33
trial for the murder of the Davis family; during the trial, Ades was
attacked
and injured by a mob in Snow Hill, Maryland; later, he was disbarred
for casting
aspersions on the judicial system; candidate for Governor of
Maryland, 1934; fought in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the
Spanish Civil War, 1937.
Jewish.
Died in New York, May 27,
1986 (age 82 years, 328
days).
Interment at Cemetery
of Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, Baltimore, Md.
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Roger Alfred Davis (1889-1967) —
also known as Roger A. Davis —
of Hartly, Kent
County, Del.
Born in Delaware, March 2,
1889.
Grocer;
member of Delaware
state house of representatives from Kent County 4th District,
1931-32, 1953-54; arrested,
in April 1954, by Maryland State Police, on U.S. Route 50, and charged
with drunk
and reckless driving,
as well as disorderly
conduct; jailed
overnight, pleaded
guilty, and fined.
Died in Hartly, Kent
County, Del., December
6, 1967 (age 78 years, 279
days).
Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery, Camden, Del.
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Thomas Francis Johnson (1909-1988) —
also known as Thomas F. Johnson —
of Snow Hill, Worcester
County, Md.
Born in Snow Hill, Worcester
County, Md., June 26,
1909.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland,
1936,
1940
(alternate); member of Maryland
state senate, 1939-50; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 1st District, 1959-63; defeated,
1950.
Episcopalian.
Convicted
of conspiracy and conflict
of interest, 1968.
Died in Seaford, Sussex
County, Del., February
1, 1988 (age 78 years, 220
days).
Interment at All
Hallows Cemetery, Snow Hill, Md.
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Daniel Baugh Brewster (1923-2007) —
also known as Daniel B. Brewster —
of Glyndon, Baltimore
County, Md.
Born in Baltimore
County, Md., November
23, 1923.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; member
of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1951-58; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 2nd District, 1959-63; U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1963-69; defeated, 1968; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 1964;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1964;
speaker, 1968.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Indicted
in 1969 on charges
of accepting
an illegal gratuity; after trial,
conviction,
and reversal, pleaded no
contest, 1975.
Died, of liver
cancer, in Owings Mills, Baltimore
County, Md., August
19, 2007 (age 83 years, 269
days).
Interment at St.
Thomas Episcopal Church Cemetery, Owings Mills, Md.
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Spiro Theodore Agnew (1918-1996) —
also known as Spiro T. Agnew; Spiro Theodore
Anagnostopoulos; "Spiro T. Eggplant";
"Nixon's Nixon"; "The White
Knight" —
of Towson, Baltimore
County, Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., November
9, 1918.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; served in
the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; lawyer; Baltimore
County Executive, 1962-66; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Maryland, 1964;
Governor
of Maryland, 1967-69; Vice
President of the United States, 1969-73.
Episcopalian.
Greek
ancestry. Member, Kiwanis;
American
Legion; Order of
Ahepa; Phi
Alpha Delta; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Was charged
with accepting bribes
and falsifying federal income
tax returns; pleaded no
contest to tax
evasion and resigned
as Vice-President, October 10, 1973; disbarred
by a Maryland court in 1974.
Died, of leukemia,
in Atlantic General Hospital,
Berlin, Worcester
County, Md., September
17, 1996 (age 77 years, 313
days).
Interment at Dulaney
Valley Memorial Gardens, Timonium, Md.
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William Oswald Mills (1924-1973) —
also known as William O. Mills —
of Easton, Talbot
County, Md.
Born in Bethlehem, Caroline
County, Md., August
12, 1924.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 1st District, 1971-73; died in
office 1973; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Maryland, 1972.
Methodist.
The Washington Post reported that his campaign was under investigation
for receiving $25,000 from secret funds of President Richard
Nixon's re-election committee, and failed
to report the contribution as required by law; this tied him to
the Watergate scandal;
a day later, he killed
himself, by gunshot,
at his Mulberry Hill farm, Talbot
County, Md., May 24,
1973 (age 48 years, 285
days).
Interment at Hillcrest
Cemetery, Federalsburg, Md.
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Marvin Mandel (1920-2015) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., April
19, 1920.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
member of Maryland
Democratic State Central Committee, 1951; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1952-69; Speaker of
the Maryland State House of Delegates, 1963-69; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1964,
1976;
Maryland
Democratic state chair, 1968-69; Governor of
Maryland, 1969-77, 1979.
Jewish.
Member, Omicron
Delta Kappa; American
Legion; Jewish
War Veterans; American Bar
Association.
Charged
with mail fraud, over his acceptance
of gifts from owners of the Marlboro Race Track, in return for
his support for legislation benefiting the track; tried
and convicted
in 1977; sentenced
to prison;
his conviction was later overturned.
Died in St. Mary's
County, Md., August
30, 2015 (age 95 years, 133
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Edmund Bauman (b. 1937) —
also known as Robert E. Bauman —
of Easton, Talbot
County, Md.
Born in Bryn Mawr, Montgomery
County, Pa., April 4,
1937.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1964,
1972
(alternate); member of Maryland
state senate, 1971-73; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 1st District, 1973-81; defeated,
1971, 1980.
Catholic.
Member, Young
Americans for Freedom; American Bar
Association; Elks; Humane
Society; Jaycees;
Izaak
Walton League; Gay.
Pleaded
guilty in 1980 to a sex-solicitation
charge.
Still living as of 1998.
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Walter S. Orlinsky (1938-2002) —
also known as Wally Orlinsky; "Wally
Appleseed" —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., May 19,
1938.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates from Baltimore city 2nd District,
1967-72; candidate for Presidential Elector for Maryland; candidate
for Governor of
Maryland, 1978; pleaded
guilty to Federal charges
of accepting a bribe
from an FBI informant posing as a sludge hauler; served 4.5 months in
prison;
pardoned
by President Bill
Clinton in 2000.
Member, National
Trust for Historic Preservation; American Civil
Liberties Union; Phi
Alpha Delta.
Died February
9, 2002 (age 63 years, 266
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Clarence M. Mitchell III (b. 1939) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., December
14, 1939.
Democrat. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1963-66; member of Maryland
state senate District 10, 1967-86; Indicted
in 1987, along with his brother, by a federal grand jury in
connection with the a bribery
investigation of Wedtech Corporation; convicted
of accepting
$50,000 to stop
the Congressional investigation of Wedtech; sentenced
to two and a half years in prison;
convicted
in 1988 of obstructing
an investigation of Baltimore drug
dealer Melvin D. 'Little Melvin' Williams, and sentenced
to two years in prison;
charged
in 1988 with failure to file income
tax returns; tried
and acquitted.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Urban
League; Kappa
Alpha Psi; Freemasons;
Jaycees.
Still living as of 1988.
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Michael Bowen Mitchell (b. 1945) —
also known as Michael B. Mitchell —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., November
7, 1945.
Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state senate 39th District, 1987; indicted
in 1987, along with his brother, by a federal grand jury in
connection with the a bribery
investigation of Wedtech Corporation; convicted
of accepting
$50,000 to stop
the Congressional investigation of Wedtech; sentenced
to two and a half years in prison;
convicted
in 1988 of forging
documents to obtain
$77,000 in life insurance proceeds intended for the child of a murder
victim, and sentenced
to six years in prison.
Methodist.
Member, NAACP.
Still living as of 1988.
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Edward Brooke Lee Jr. (1917-2004) —
also known as E. Brooke Lee, Jr. —
of Silver Spring, Montgomery
County, Md.; Washington,
D.C.; Chevy Chase, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Silver Spring, Montgomery
County, Md., October
25, 1917.
Real
estate developer; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Maryland, 1944,
1952
(member, Credentials
Committee); marketing and accounting executive with Scott Paper
Company; candidate for mayor
of Washington, D.C., 1982; pleaded
guilty in July 1995 to misdemeanor child abuse after being charged
with fondling
a babysitter; reportedly fined
and given a suspended sentence; later settled a
civil suit against him by the babysitter's parents.
Died, from congestive
heart failure, in Chevy Chase, Montgomery
County, Md., August
20, 2004 (age 86 years, 300
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Clarence M. Mitchell IV (b. 1962) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., May 16,
1962.
Democrat. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates District 44, 1995-99; member of Maryland
state senate 44th District, 1999-2003; defeated in primary, 2002;
reprimanded
by the Maryland General Assembly in 2002 for failure
to report a $10,000 loan from a Baltimore businessman.
Still living as of 2003.
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Kumar P. Barve (b. 1958) —
of Gaithersburg, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Schenectady, Schenectady
County, N.Y., September
8, 1958.
Democrat. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates District 17, 1991-; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 2000;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Maryland.
Hindu.
Indian
subcontinent ancestry.
Arrested
November 29, 2007, and charged
with driving
while intoxicated.
Still living as of 2012.
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Relatives: Son
of Prabhakar Barve and Neera Barve; married to Maureen
Quinn. |
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Sheila Ann Dixon (b. 1953) —
also known as Sheila Dixon; Sheila
Dixon-Smith —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., December
27, 1953.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland,
1988,
2004,
2008
(member, Credentials
Committee); mayor
of Baltimore, Md., 2007-10; resigned 2010.
Female.
African
Methodist Episcopal. African
ancestry.
Indicted
in January 2009, on perjury
theft,
and misconduct
charges,
over secretly
accepting more than $20,000 worth of gifts from developers doing
business with the city, and for using gift cards intended for needy
families to buy furs
and other expensive items for herself; the charges were dismissed in
May, but she was reindicted
in July; tried in
fall 2009; convicted
on one count of embezzlement,
and acquitted on other charges; pleaded
guilty to perjury,
and resigned
as mayor, as part of a plea
agreement.
Still living as of 2010.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Philip Dixon, Sr. and Winona Dixon. |
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