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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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William Seeger —
of St. Peter, Nicollet
County, Minn.
Republican. Minnesota
state treasurer, 1872-73.
After disclosure that he had accepted his predecessor's note for
$112,000 of missing
state funds, and had concealed
this fact from investigators, he resigned;
in spite of that, he was subsequently impeached
and removed from
office. The lost money was recovered from Seeger's bondsmen, and
no criminal prosecution was made.
Burial location unknown.
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Theodore P. Rich (c.1848-1886) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Cobleskill, Schoharie
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, about 1848.
Democrat. Candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 13th District, 1876.
Pursued his estranged wife to Minnesota; killed
her, and then, perhaps to avoid prosecution,
killed
himself, by gunshot,
in the Astoria House hotel,
St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., February
27, 1886 (age about 38
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1876 to Fannie
(Smith) Trimble (daughter of Henry
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John J. Girimondi —
of Hazleton, Luzerne
County, Pa.; Shakopee, Scott
County, Minn.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Catholic
priest; naturalized U.S. citizen; concealed his clerical
background from Congressmen who recommended him for a consular
appointment; U.S. Consul in Santos, 1900-01; removed
as consul for neglect
of duty and possible embezzlement;
went to Italy and misrepresented
himself as U.S. Consul to Persia; arrested
by Italian authorities on charges
of betraying
a young woman, and imprisoned
there.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Albert Alonzo Ames (1842-1911) —
also known as Albert A. Ames;
"Doc" —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.; California.
Born in Garden Prairie, Boone
County, Ill., January
18, 1842.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; physician;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 5, 1867; mayor
of Minneapolis, Minn., 1876-77, 1882-84, 1886-89, 1901-02;
resigned 1902; candidate for Governor of
Minnesota, 1886 (Democratic), 1896 (Independent); delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1888;
indicted
in 1902 on bribery
charges,
over a scheme to induce county commissioners to appoint his
secretary, Thomas R. Brown, Jr., as Sheriff.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias.
Died, in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., November
16, 1911 (age 69 years, 302
days). His body was reportedly donated to
science.
Cremated;
ashes interred at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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John Goodnow (born c.1858) —
of Minnesota.
Born about 1858.
Republican. Minnesota's most prominent advocate of William
McKinley for president in 1896; U.S. Consul General in Shanghai, 1897-1905; charges
of malfeasance
against him were made by Americans in China to the State Department
in 1902, and to President Theodore
Roosevelt in December 1904; two months later, his resignation
was announced; became an advisor to the Chinese government in 1906.
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Page Walter Morris (1853-1924) —
also known as R. Page W. Morris —
of Lynchburg,
Va.; Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Lynchburg,
Va., June 30,
1853.
Republican. College
professor; lawyer;
postmaster at Lynchburg,
Va., 1883-85; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Virginia 6th District, 1884; district judge
in Minnesota 11th District, 1895-96; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 6th District, 1897-1903; U.S.
District Judge for Minnesota, 1903-23; took senior status 1923.
Arrested
in Salt Lake City, 1921, following an accident in which his
car struck a pedestrian, Mrs. Elizabeth Holmes.
Died in Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn., December
16, 1924 (age 71 years, 169
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Duluth, Minn.
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Harold Knutson (1880-1953) —
of St. Cloud, Stearns
County, Minn.
Born in Skein, Norway,
October
20, 1880.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota, 1917-49 (6th District 1917-33,
at-large 1933-35, 6th District 1935-49); delegate to Republican
National Convention from Minnesota, 1940
(Honorary
Vice-President).
Lutheran.
Norwegian
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Elks.
On March 9, 1924, he and Leroy M. Hull, a 29-year-old clerk for the
Labor Department, sitting in his parked car alongside a rural road
near Arlington National Cemetery, were arrested
by officers of the Arlington County vice squad; he vainly offered a
$100 bribe,
but was charged,
apparently with sodomy
(press reports avoided mentioning the specific crime, only that it
was a "grave moral offense"), and jailed
overnight; tried
before a jury, and found not guilty.
Died, following a series of heart
attacks, in Wesley Memorial Hospital,
Wadena, Wadena
County, Minn., August
21, 1953 (age 72 years, 305
days).
Interment at North
Star Cemetery, St. Cloud, Minn.
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Farrell Dobbs (1907-1983) —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.; New York.
Born in Queen City, Schuyler
County, Mo., July 25,
1907.
Socialist. Truck
driver; became involved with a militant Teamsters Union local in
Minneapolis in the 1930s, and helped lead a
general strike; joined the Socialist Workers Party in 1939; convicted
in 1941 of treason
under the anti-Communist Smith
Act, and served one year in prison;
Socialist Workers candidate for President
of the United States, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960; national secretary
of the Socialist Workers Party, 1953-72; historian.
Member, Teamsters
Union.
Died in Pinole, Contra
Costa County, Calif., October
31, 1983 (age 76 years, 98
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac T. Dobbs. |
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article |
| | | Image source: The Militant, July 2,
1956 |
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Carl Winter (1906-1991) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Michigan.
Born in 1906.
Communist. Candidate for New York
state senate 13th District, 1932; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1940; convicted
in 1949 under the Smith
Act, for conspiring to advocate the overthrow
of the government; served five years in prison.
Died in 1991
(age about
85 years).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
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Daniel W. West (b. 1909) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Algood, Putnam
County, Tenn., September
5, 1909.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan,
1960,
1964
(alternate); member of Michigan
state house of representatives, 1963-65 (Wayne County 6th
District 1963-64, 24th District 1965); defeated in primary, 1954
(Wayne County 6th District), 1956 (Wayne County 6th District), 1958
(Wayne County 6th District), 1960 (Wayne County 6th District), 1965
(24th District).
Convicted
of various crimes, including burglary,
larceny,
and forgery,
in Minnesota, Iowa, and Washington, D.C., and was sentenced to prison
in those places; came to Michigan and assumed the identity of a
deceased New York attorney of the same name; indicted
in late 1964 on state charges
of voter
registration fraud and federal charges
of income
tax fraud and forgery;
in January 1965, his seat in the Michigan House was declared
vacant.
Burial location unknown.
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Marvin Lewis Kline (1903-1974) —
also known as Marvin L. Kline —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.; Excelsior, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Brunswick, Antelope
County, Neb., August
9, 1903.
Republican. Architectural
engineer;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota,
1940;
mayor
of Minneapolis, Minn., 1941-45; convicted
in 1964 of grand larceny for illegally boosting
his salary as director of a rehabilitation institute, and for diverting
fundraising proceeds; sentenced
to 10 years in prison;
released after three years.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners;
Moose;
Optimist
Club.
Died in Ventura, Ventura
County, Calif., April 9,
1974 (age 70 years, 243
days).
Interment at Cuming City Cemetery, Blair, Neb.
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Brian J. Coyle (1944-1991) —
of Moorhead, Clay
County, Minn.; Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Great Falls, Cascade
County, Mont., June 25,
1944.
College
instructor; in 1968, he was indicted
and tried
for his refusal to comply with the military
draft, but was acquitted as a conscientious objector; Independent
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1978; candidate for mayor
of Minneapolis, Minn., 1979; president, Minneapolis city council.
Gay.
One of Minnesota's first openly-gay politicians.
Died, from AIDS-related
complications, August
23, 1991 (age 47 years, 59
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Paul David Wellstone (1944-2002) —
also known as Paul Wellstone; "Senator
Welfare" —
of Minnesota.
Born in Washington,
D.C., July 21,
1944.
Democrat. College
professor; arrested
during a Vietnam
War protest at the federal building in Minneapolis, 1970; arrested
again during a protest of
farm foreclosures at a bank in Paynesville, Minn., 1984;
candidate for Minnesota
state auditor, 1982; member of Democratic
National Committee from Minnesota, 1984-91; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1991-2002; died in office 2002; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1996,
2000.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Killed in a plane
crash, along with his wife and daughter, near Eveleth, St. Louis
County, Minn., October
25, 2002 (age 58 years, 96
days).
Interment at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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David Ferdinand Durenberger (b. 1934) —
also known as David F. Durenberger —
of South St. Paul, Dakota
County, Minn.; Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in St. Cloud, Stearns
County, Minn., August
19, 1934.
Republican. Lawyer;
executive secretary to Gov. Harold
LeVander, 1967; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1978-95.
Catholic.
Member, Jaycees;
Knights
of Columbus; Elks; Lions.
Investigated
in 1990 by the Senate Select Committee on Ethics over allegations
that he had broken rules restricting Senators' outside income, in
particular by laundering
about $100,000 in speaking fees into book royalties. Denounced
by unanimous vote of the Senate in July 1990 for bringing
"dishonor and disrepute" to the body. Subsequently he was
disbarred;
in 1995 he pleaded
guilty to five misdemeanor counts of misusing
his congressional expense account.
Still living as of 2014.
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Arlan Ingehart Stangeland (1930-2013) —
also known as Arlan Stangeland —
of Barnesville, Clay
County, Minn.
Born in Fargo, Cass
County, N.Dak., February
8, 1930.
Republican. Member of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1966-74 (District 56-B 1966-72,
District 9-B 1973-74); U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 7th District, 1977-91; defeated
(Independent Republican), 1990; news media reported in January 1990
that he had made hundreds of phone calls on his House phone credit
card, to or from the home of a female lobbyist;
he denied having an extramarital
affair, but the scandal
contributed to his defeat in November 1990.
Lutheran.
Member, Delta
Sigma Phi.
Died in Otter Tail
County, Minn., July 2,
2013 (age 83 years, 144
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Sam Solon (1931-2001) —
also known as "Senator Sam" —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., June 25,
1931.
Democrat. School
teacher; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1971-72; member of Minnesota
state senate, 1973-2001; died in office 2001.
Eastern
Orthodox. Greek
ancestry.
Pleaded
guilty in 1995 to telecommunications fraud for letting his
ex-wife make $2,430 in calls on his State Senate telephone line; reprimanded
by the Senate in 1996.
Died, of liver
cancer, in St. Mary's Medical
Center, Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., December
28, 2001 (age 70 years, 186
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Larry Edwin Craig (b. 1945) —
also known as Larry Craig —
of Midvale, Washington
County, Idaho; Payette, Payette
County, Idaho.
Born in Council, Adams
County, Idaho, July 20,
1945.
Republican. Member of Idaho
state senate, 1975-81; U.S.
Representative from Idaho 1st District, 1981-91; U.S.
Senator from Idaho, 1991-2009.
Methodist.
Member, National Rifle
Association.
Arrested
for soliciting
sex in a men's bathroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International
Airport, June 11, 2007; charged
with disorderly conduct; pleaded
guilty, and was fined.
Still living as of 2014.
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Alan Stuart Franken (b. 1951) —
also known as Al Franken; "Stuart
Smalley" —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 21,
1951.
Democrat. Comedian;
author;
U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 2009-18; resigned 2018; in November 2017,
Leeann Tweeden alleged that Franken had forcibly
kissed her on a 2006 USO tour; Franken was also photographed
appearing to place his hands on
or near her breasts; other women made similar allegations; resigned
from the Senate in January.
Jewish.
Still living as of 2018.
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