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John W. Dawson (1820-1877) —
of Fort Wayne, Allen
County, Ind.
Born in Cambridge, Dearborn
County, Ind., October
21, 1820.
Farmer;
lawyer;
newspaper
editor; candidate for Indiana
state house of representatives, 1854; candidate for secretary
of state of Indiana, 1856; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1858; Governor
of Utah Territory, 1861.
In December, 1861, after less than a month as territorial governor,
fled
Utah amid controversy and scandal.
Just east of Salt Lake City, he was attacked
by three men and badly injured.
Died in Indiana, September
10, 1877 (age 56 years, 324
days).
Interment at Lindenwood
Cemetery, Fort Wayne, Ind.
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John Doyle Lee (1812-1877) —
also known as John D. Lee —
Born in Kaskaskia, Randolph
County, Ill., September
6, 1812.
Member of Utah
territorial House of Representatives, 1858.
Mormon.
Involved in the Mountain Meadows massacre on September 11, 1857, when
a Mormon militia and Paiute Indian tribesmen slaughtered about 120
settlers who had been traveling through Utah by wagon train; indicted
for murder
almost twenty years later, and tried in
1875; the first trial ended in a hung jury; retried
in 1876; convicted
and sentenced to
death; released for a time in order to settle his business
affairs; executed
by firing
squad, at Mountain Meadows, Washington
County, Utah, March
23, 1877 (age 64 years, 198
days).
Interment at Panguitch
Cemetery, Panguitch, Utah.
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George Quayle Cannon (1827-1901) —
also known as George Q. Cannon —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Liverpool, England,
January
11, 1827.
Democrat. Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member
Utah territorial council, 1865-66, 1869-72; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Utah Territory, 1873-81; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Utah Territory, 1880
(not seated).
Mormon.
Had five wives and 32 children; spent six months in federal penitentiary
for cohabitation.
Died in Monterey, Monterey
County, Calif., April
12, 1901 (age 74 years, 91
days).
Interment at Salt
Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Frederick John Mills (1865-1953) —
also known as F. J. Mills —
of Pocatello, Bannock
County, Idaho; Pasadena, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Topsham, Orange
County, Vt., April
29, 1865.
Republican. Engineer;
Lieutenant
Governor of Idaho, 1895-97; served in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War.
Scottish
ancestry.
On October 3, 1899, in Salt Lake City, he shot
and killed John C. O'Melveny, chief engineer of the Oregon Short
Line Railroad; was arrested
immediately and charged
with first-degree murder; at trial, he claimed the homicide was
justified by the "criminal intimacy" between O'Melveny and his wife,
while he was away in military service; the jury acquitted him in only
15 minutes.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., September
28, 1953 (age 88 years, 152
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Brigham Henry Roberts (1857-1933) —
also known as Brigham H. Roberts —
of Utah.
Born in Warrington, Lancashire, England,
March
13, 1857.
Democrat. Delegate
to Utah state constitutional convention, 1894; U.S.
Representative from Utah at-large, 1899-1900.
Mormon.
His seat in Congress was declared
vacant in January 1900, because he was a polygamist.
Died in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, September
27, 1933 (age 76 years, 198
days).
Interment at Centerville
Ward Cemetery, Centerville, Utah.
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Arthur Brown (1843-1906) —
of Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo
County, Mich.; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo
County, Mich., March 8,
1843.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Senator from Utah, 1896-97; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Utah, 1896
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization; speaker);
his relationship with Mrs. Anna Bradley gave rise to scandal;
in 1902, the two were arrested
and charged
with adultery;
she pleaded guilty, but he pleaded not guilty, was tried, and
acquitted by a jury; he fathered two children with her, but refused
to marry her.
Shot
and killed,
in his room at the Raleigh Hotel, by
his former
mistress Anna Bradley, in Washington,
D.C., December
12, 1906 (age 63 years, 279
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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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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Ernest Bamberger (1877-1958) —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, August
11, 1877.
Republican. Mining
executive; member of Republican
National Committee from Utah, 1920-24, 1935; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Utah, 1922, 1928; arrested,
on February 21, 1923, along with three friends, for smoking
cigars in the Vienna Cafe, Salt Lake City; however, on March 9,
Utah's ban on public smoking was repealed.
Jewish.
Member, Chi Psi.
Died in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, January
11, 1958 (age 80 years, 153
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Allan Turner Howe (1927-2000) —
of Utah.
Born in South Cottonwood (now part of Murray), Salt Lake
County, Utah, September
6, 1927.
Democrat. Lawyer;
administrative assistant and field representative for U.S. Sen. Frank
Moss, 1959-64; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Utah, 1960;
administrative assistant to Gov. Calvin
L. Rampton, 1966-68; U.S.
Representative from Utah 2nd District, 1975-77; defeated, 1976.
Arrested
in Salt Lake City, Utah, 1976, for soliciting
sex from a policewoman posing as a prostitute.
Died in Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., December
14, 2000 (age 73 years, 99
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John William Snow (b. 1939) —
also known as John W. Snow —
of Richmond,
Va.
Born in Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio, August
2, 1939.
Lawyer;
chairman and chief executive officer of CSX railroad;
charged
with driving
while intoxicated,
in West Valley City, Utah, 1982;; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 2003-06; director, Marathon Oil Co.
Episcopalian.
Member, Delta
Tau Delta.
Still living as of 2020.
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David Nelson (b. 1962) —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born, in a hospital
at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, April 7,
1962.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Utah, 1996,
2000.
Gay.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; National Rifle
Association.
Convicted
on a misdemeanor act of civil
disobedience, 1995 Recipient of Democratic National Committee's
Lawrence O'Brien Achievement Award, 1998.
Still living as of 2004.
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Michael Kent Winder (b. 1976) —
also known as Mike Winder; "Richard
Burwash" —
of West Valley City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, January
27, 1976.
Republican. Vice-president, Winder Farms dairy; historian;
mayor
of West Valley City, Utah, 2010-; reprimanded
by the city council in 2011 for writing news articles for local media
outlets under an assumed
name, Richard Burwash; also forced to
resign from his job with public relations firm.
Mormon.
Still living as of 2012.
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