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Jotham Powers Allds (1865-1923) —
also known as Jotham P. Allds —
of Norwich, Chenango
County, N.Y.
Born in Claremont, Sullivan
County, N.H., February
1, 1865.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Chenango County, 1896-1902; member of New York
state senate, 1903-10 (26th District 1903-06, 27th District
1907-08, 37th District 1909-10); resigned 1910; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1908.
Accused
by Sen. Benn
Conger, in 1910, of accepting bribes
from bridge companies nine years earlier; following an investigation,
the State Senate found him
guilty by a vote of 40 to 9, and he resigned
to avoid expulsion.
Died, of liver
disease, at Norwich Memorial Hospital,
Norwich, Chenango
County, N.Y., September
11, 1923 (age 58 years, 222
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Jotham Gillis Allds and Lucy Charlotte (Powers)
Allds. |
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article |
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1907 |
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Benn Conger (1856-1922) —
of Groton, Tompkins
County, N.Y.
Born in Groton, Tompkins
County, N.Y., October
29, 1856.
President, Corona Typewriter
Co.; member of New York
state assembly from Tompkins County, 1900-01; member of New York
state senate 41st District, 1909-10; resigned 1910.
In 1910, he accused
Sen. Jotham
P. Allds, the majority leader, of accepting a bribe from bridge
companies; Allds was investigated and ultimately resigned. Conger,
who had also taken part in the bribery
scheme, was criticized for not coming forward sooner; facing a likely
attempt to expel
him, he resigned
a few days later.
Died in Groton, Tompkins
County, N.Y., February
28, 1922 (age 65 years, 122
days).
Interment at Groton
Rural Cemetery, Groton, N.Y.
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George N. Rigby —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Ormond Beach, Volusia
County, Fla.
Republican. Member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County 1st District, 1904-05;
member of condemnation commission for appraising property for site of
proposed Hill View Reservoir in Westchester County; censured
by the New York Supreme Court in 1910 for unnecessary
delay, such as holding 65 hearings o one parcel; removed
from the position in 1915 because he had moved to Florida; mayor
of Ormond Beach, Fla., 1924-26.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Maud Lawrence. |
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James Kellogg Apgar (1862-1940) —
also known as James K. Apgar —
of Peekskill, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Peekskill, Westchester
County, N.Y., November
8, 1862.
Republican. Private secretary and clerk to Assembly Speaker James
W. Husted, 1884-87 and 1890; clerk to Assembly Speaker Fremont
Cole, 1888-89; clerk to Lt. Gov. Charles
T. Saxton, 1894-96; private secretary to Rep. William
L. Ward, 1896-97; member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County 3rd District, 1899-1907;
defeated, 1897; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1900;
member of condemnation commission for appraising property for site of
proposed Hill View Reservoir in Westchester County; censured
by the New York Supreme Court in 1910 for unnecessary
delay, such as holding 65 hearings on one parcel; Westchester
County Register, 1919-24; village
president of Peekskill, New York, 1925-27.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Elks.
Died in Peekskill, Westchester
County, N.Y., September
21, 1940 (age 77 years, 318
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph A. Apgar and Eleanor (Herbert) Apgar; married, June 21,
1892, to Cecilia Annie Bellefeuille. |
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William Bruce MacMaster Jr. (1875-1912) —
also known as William B. MacMaster, Jr. —
of New York.
Born, of American parents, in Colombia,
June
28, 1875.
Rancher;
U.S. Vice Consul in Cartagena, 1904-08; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Cartagena, 1908-12, died in office 1912; stabbed
by two Colombians in the summer of 1909; pressed charges against his
attackers, one of whom was an influential newspaper editor; arrested
by Colombian authorities in June 1910 on charges
that, years earlier, he shot
a Colombian citizen, in what he said was self-defense; initially
acquitted, then found
guilty, then exonerated by a higher court.
While hunting
alone, was shot
multiple times and killed by
an unknown assassin, near Cartagena, Colombia,
August
11, 1912 (age 37 years, 44
days).
Interment at Church
and Convent of Santo Domingo, Cartagena, Colombia.
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Hiram Charles Gill (1866-1919) —
also known as Hiram C. Gill —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born July 23,
1866.
Republican. Mayor
of Seattle, Wash., 1910-11, 1914-18; recalled 1911; defeated,
1912.
Recalled
from office as mayor in 1911 over his permissive
attitude toward gambling and prostitution.
Died January
7, 1919 (age 52 years, 168
days).
Interment at Evergreen-Washelli
Memorial Park, Seattle, Wash.
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William Berri (1848-1917) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., September
12, 1848.
Republican. Carpet
merchant; printing
business; newspaper
publisher; officer or director of banks, electric
utilities, and the New York Telephone
Company; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1904,
1908,
1912,
1916;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1915;
member, New York State Board of Regents, 1916-17.
Congregationalist.
Member, Union
League.
In 1911, he was arraigned
on a charge
of criminal
libel over an article he published in his newspaper, brought by
three candidates for Supreme Court, Herbert
T. Ketcham, Patrick
E. Callahan, and William
Willett, Jr.; the case was withdrawn a few days later when the
other two candidates discovered that Willett had indeed (as Berri
charged) paid bribes for his nomination.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
19, 1917 (age 68 years, 219
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of William Berri ; married 1869 to
Frances Williams Morris. |
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Clarence Seward Darrow (1857-1938) —
also known as Clarence S. Darrow —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Kinsman, Trumbull
County, Ohio, April
18, 1857.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1896; member of Illinois
state house of representatives 17th District, 1903-05; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1904,
1924.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union.
Defense attorney for, among many others, Patrick Eugene Prendergast,
who murdered Chicago mayor Carter
H. Harrison. In 1911, he was charged
with bribing
jurors in a California case; tried
and acquitted; a second trial
resulted in a hung jury. Famously cross-examined William
Jennings Bryan during the 1925 "Scopes Monkey Trial.".
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March
13, 1938 (age 80 years, 329
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered; statue at Rhea County Courthouse Grounds, Dayton, Tenn.
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William H. Bradley (1859-1925) —
of Greenville, Montcalm
County, Mich.
Born in Spencer Township, Kent
County, Mich., February
26, 1859.
Republican. Wholesale
grocer; mayor of Greenville, Mich., 1908-09; member of Michigan
state senate 18th District, 1909-12.
In 1911, he was accused of bribery
by Sherman M. Townsend, a former Sergeant-at-Arms of the state
senate; an investigation
was conducted; a resolution
to expel him from the Senate failed on a vote of 14 to 15.
Died in 1925
(age about
66 years).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Greenville, Mich.
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Edward Marshall Grout (1861-1931) —
also known as Edward M. Grout —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Greens Farms, Westport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
27, 1861.
Democrat. Lawyer; law
partner of William
J. Gaynor, later New York City mayor; candidate for mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1895; borough
president of Brooklyn, New York, 1898-1901; New York City
Controller, 1902-05; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1904;
president of Union Bank in
Brooklyn; after the bank closed in 1911, he was indicted
for perjury,
based on the sworn report he had made of the bank's condition to the
New York Banking Department; tried in
1915 and convicted;
sentenced
to prison;
in 1916 the conviction was overturned, and he was not retried.
Died in Greens Farms, Westport, Fairfield
County, Conn., November
9, 1931 (age 70 years, 13
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Lawrence Gresser (1851-1935) —
also known as Lorenz Gresser; "Honest
Larry" —
of Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Bavaria, Germany,
January
1, 1851.
Shoe
manufacturer; borough
president of Queens, New York, 1908-11; removed 1911; removed from
office as borough president by Gov. John
A. Dix, for neglect
of duty in failing to prevent corruption among his subordinates.
Died, in the rectory of the Church
of the Holy Family, Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
30, 1935 (age 84 years, 29
days).
Interment at St.
John's Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens, N.Y.
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Harry M. Schriver —
of Rock Island, Rock
Island County, Ill.
Mayor
of Rock Island, Ill., 1911-15, 1919-23; on March 22, 1912, angry
over personal attacks published by newspaper publisher and crime
syndicate boss John
Looney, he had Looney brought to the Rock Island police station
and gave him a severe
beating; during a riot on March 27, a sniper shot
at the mayor in his office; convicted
in 1923 on vice
protection conspiracy charges.
Burial location unknown.
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William Forte Willett Jr. (1869-1938) —
also known as William Willett, Jr. —
of Far Rockaway, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Woodmere, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
27, 1869.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1907-11; defeated,
1904; candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1911; indicted
in 1912 on charges
that he bought
the nomination for Supreme Court justice; tried
and convicted
in 1914, sentenced
to one year in prison
and fined
$1,000; released on parole in 1916.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Elks.
Died, from a heart
attack, in his room at the Hotel
McAlpin, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
12, 1938 (age 68 years, 77
days).
Interment at The
Evergreens Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Robert Wodrow Archbald (1848-1926) —
also known as Robert W. Archbald —
of Scranton, Lackawanna
County, Pa.
Born in Carbondale, Lackawanna
County, Pa., September
10, 1848.
Lawyer;
common pleas court judge in Pennsylvania, 1884-88; district judge in
Pennsylvania, 1888-1901; U.S.
District Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, 1901-11;
Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, 1911-13; removed
1913.
Impeached
by the U.S. House of Representatives in 1912 on conflict
of interest charges; convicted
(removed
from office) by the U.S. Senate on four articles of impeachment.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Martha's Vineyard, Dukes
County, Mass., August
19, 1926 (age 77 years, 343
days).
Interment at Dunmore
Cemetery, Dunmore, Pa.
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Cornelius Hanford (1849-1926) —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Van Buren
County, Iowa, April
21, 1849.
Republican. Lawyer; member
Washington territorial council, 1877; member of Washington
territorial House of Representatives, 1889-90; U.S.
District Judge for Washington, 1890-1905; U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Washington, 1905-12;
resigned 1912.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution.
Resigned
as judge under threat of
impeachment, 1912.
Died in 1926
(age about
77 years).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Seattle, Wash.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward Hanford and Abby J. (Holgate) Hanford; married, November
15, 1875, to Clara M. Baldwin. |
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Joseph Cassidy (c.1866-1920) —
also known as "Curley Joe"; "The King of
Queens" —
of Long Island City (now part of Queens), Queens
County, N.Y.; Far Rockaway, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born about 1866.
Democrat. Borough
president of Queens, New York, 1902-05; defeated, 1905, 1909;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1904;
leader of
Queens County Democratic Party, 1910-11; indicted
in 1912 for selling
a nomination for for Supreme Court Justice to William
Willett; convicted
in 1914, and sentenced
to one year to eighteen months in prison;
released in 1916.
Suffered a stroke of
apoplexy, and died soon after, in Far Rockaway, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., November
21, 1920 (age about 54
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Edward Watson (1856-1922) —
also known as Thomas E. Watson —
of Thomson, McDuffie
County, Ga.
Born in Columbia
County, Ga., September
5, 1856.
Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1882-83; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Georgia; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 10th District, 1891-93; Populist
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1896; Populist candidate for President
of the United States, 1904, 1908; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Georgia, 1912;
controversial for his writings attacking
the Catholic Church; arrested
in 1912 on obscenity
charges
over three chapters in his book The Catholic Hierarchy; tried
and acquitted in 1916; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1921-22; died in office 1922.
Died September
26, 1922 (age 66 years, 21
days).
Interment at Thomson
Cemetery, Thomson, Ga.
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John Looney (1865-1942) —
also known as Patrick John Looney —
of Rock Island, Rock
Island County, Ill.
Born in Ottawa, La Salle
County, Ill., October
5, 1865.
Lawyer;
newspaper
publisher; indicted
with others in 1897 over a scheme to defraud
the city of Rock Island in connection with a storm drain construction
project; convicted,
but the verdict was overturned on appeal; candidate for Illinois
state house of representatives, 1900; created and led a crime
syndicate in northwest Illinois, with interests in gambling,
prostitution,
extortion,
and eventually bootlegging
and automobile
theft; indicted
in 1907 on 37 counts of bribery,
extortion,
and libel,
but acquitted; shot
and wounded by hidden snipers on two occasions in 1908; on February
22, 1909, he was shot
and wounded in a gunfight with business rival W. W. Wilmerton; on
March 22, 1912, after publishing
personal attacks on Rock Island Mayor Henry
M. Schriver, he was arrested,
brought to the police station, and severely
beaten by the mayor himself; subsequent rioting killed two men
and injured nine others; resumed control of the Rock Island rackets
in 1921; in 1922, he was indicted
for the murder
of saloon keeper William Gabel, who had provided evidence against
Looney to federal agents; arrested
in Belen, N.M., in 1924, and later convicted
of conspiracy and murder;
sentenced
to 5 years in prison
for conspiracy and 14 years for murder;
served 8 1/2 years.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, of tuberculosis,
in a sanitarium
at El Paso, El Paso
County, Tex., 1942
(age about
76 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Eugene F. Vacheron —
of Ozone Park, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1894-95, 1901 (Queens County 3rd District
1894-95, Queens County 2nd District 1901); resigned 1895; charged
with bribery
in 1895; tried
and acquitted, but resigned
from the Assembly; convicted
of grand
larceny, February 28, 1912.
Burial location unknown.
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Frank St. John Sidway (1869-1938) —
also known as Frank S. Sidway —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born December
15, 1869.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
lawyer;
chair
of Erie County Republican Party, 1910; in 1912, he was found
guilty of civil
contempt in connection with his brother's divorce case, and fined
$900; later, an appellate court reversed this decision; candidate for
Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1914.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., January
17, 1938 (age 68 years, 33
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Franklin Sidway and Charlotte (Spalding) Sidway; married to Amelia
Roberts. |
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article |
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Congress |
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William Lorimer (1861-1934) —
also known as "The Blond Boss" —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Manchester, England,
April
27, 1861.
Republican. Real estate
business; contractor;
brick
manufacturer; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1895-1901, 1903-09 (2nd District
1895-1901, 6th District 1903-09); delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1896,
1904,
1908;
U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1909-12.
Scottish
ancestry.
He was accused
of bribery
in winning election to the Senate; in 1912, the Senate invalidated
his election.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
13, 1934 (age 73 years, 139
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Evanston, Ill.
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Washington G. Lithgow (1840-1925) —
also known as Washington Lithgow —
of Charlestown, Middlesex County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass.; Plainfield, Union
County, N.J.; Puerto Plata, Dominican
Republic.
Born, of American parents, in Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo (now Dominican
Republic), July 4,
1840.
Republican. U.S. Vice Consul in Puerto Plata, 1875-99; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from New Jersey, 1880;
Consul-General
for Dominican Republic in San
Juan, P.R., 1899; in 1912, due to his alleged support
for rebels, he was ordered expelled
from the Dominican Republic; the U.S. State Department interceded in
his behalf, and the order was revoked.
Died in Puerto Plata, Dominican
Republic, December
8, 1925 (age 85 years, 157
days).
Interment somewhere in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.
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Relatives:
Married, July 17,
1863, to Ellen Prentiss Peirce; grandfather of Arthur Washington
Lithgow; great-grandfather of John Arthur Lithgow. |
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William Sulzer (1863-1941) —
also known as "Plain Bill" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., March
18, 1863.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1890-94, 1914 (New York County 14th District
1890-92, New York County 10th District 1893-94, New York County 6th
District 1914); Speaker of
the New York State Assembly, 1893; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1895-1912 (11th District 1895-1903,
10th District 1903-12); delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New York, 1896,
1900,
1912
(speaker);
Governor
of New York, 1913; removed 1913; defeated, 1914, 1914.
Presbyterian.
German
and Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Impeached
and removed from
office as governor, 1913.
Died in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., November
6, 1941 (age 78 years, 233
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Hillside, N.J.
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John Edward Charles O'Sullivan Addicks
(1841-1919) —
also known as J. Edward Addicks; "Gas
Addicks"; "Napoleon of Gas";
"Frenzied Financier" —
of Claymont, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
21, 1841.
Republican. Flour
merchant; built and controlled the illuminating
gas industry in Boston and other cities; tried for years without
success to win a seat in the U.S. Senate; member of Republican
National Committee from Delaware, 1904; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Delaware, 1904;
arrested
in New York, 1913, over his refusal to acknowledge money
judgements against him by creditors, and released on bond; jailed
in 1915 for contempt
of court.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August
7, 1919 (age 77 years, 259
days).
Interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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David Dows (1885-1966) —
also known as "Big Dave" —
of Locust Valley, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Bradley, Greenwood
County, S.C.
Born in Irvington, Westchester
County, N.Y., August
12, 1885.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; worked in iron and steel
mills; supervised construction
of steel
mills overseas; studied foreign industries as representative of a
steamship
line; horse
breeder; bank
director; Nassau
County Sheriff, 1932-34; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1944;
member, New York State Racing Commission, 1944-49; delegate to
Republican National Convention from South Carolina, 1956;
South
Carolina Republican state chair, 1956-58; candidate for
Presidential Elector for South Carolina.
Convicted
of assault
in 1913, over his treatment of a New York Times reporter who was
attempting to interview him.
Died in Hot Springs, Bath
County, Va., August
13, 1966 (age 81 years, 1
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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Stephen J. Stilwell (1866-1942) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.; Mamaroneck, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, May 10,
1866.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 21st District, 1909-13; removed 1913; charged
in 1913 with extorting
a bribe
of $3,500 from George H. Kendall, president of the New York Bank Note
company, over a bill that Kendall supported; tried in
the State Senate and found not guilty on April 15 by a vote of 28 to
21; indicted
on May 12 by a grand jury for soliciting
a bribe; tried
soon after, and convicted
on May 24; this removed him from office; sentenced
to four to eight years in prison;
after his release, he moved to Mamaroneck and entered the real
estate business; indicted
in 1934 on charges that he defrauded
his former stenographer of $9,000 when she came to him seeking a
Naval Academy appointment for her son, but the case did not go to
trial; arrested
in March 1941 and indicted
in April on charges that he attempted to bribe
a Mamaroneck village trustee $1,000 to obtain a police job for an
associate; pleaded
guilty, but never sentenced; while incarcerated, his legs were
amputated.
Died, while a prisoner
awaiting sentence, in Grasslands Hospital,
Valhalla, Westchester
County, N.Y., April
20, 1942 (age 75 years, 345
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Mary Delia (Archer) Stilwell and William Jewitt Stilwell; married,
February
14, 1887, to Celia A. Blanck. |
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Carlton Prouty (1864-1931) —
of Winnetka, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Washington,
D.C., November
20, 1864.
Republican. Lawyer; insurance
business; real estate
dealer; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Illinois, 1908.
In May, 1913, he was fined
$500, and sentenced
to three months in the county
jail, for having violated the Illinois law which prohibits the remarriage
of divorced persons within one year; he had married his former
stenographer four days after being divorced from his first wife.
Died in Evanston, Cook
County, Ill., December
10, 1931 (age 67 years, 20
days).
Interment at Rosehill
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Upton Beall Sinclair (1878-1968) —
also known as Upton Sinclair —
of California.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., September
20, 1878.
Novelist
and social crusader; author of
The Jungle, about the meat-packing industry in Chicago; arrested
in 1914 for picketing
in front of the Standard Oil Building in New York; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 10th District, 1920; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1922; candidate for Governor of
California, 1926 (Socialist), 1930 (Socialist), 1934
(Democratic); candidate for Presidential Elector for California;
received the Pulitzer
Prize for fiction in 1943 for the novel
Dragon's Teeth.
Member, United
World Federalists; League
for Industrial Democracy; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died in Bound Brook, Somerset
County, N.J., November
25, 1968 (age 90 years, 66
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Miles R. Frisbie —
of Schenectady, Schenectady
County, N.Y.
Member of New York
state assembly from Schenectady County, 1907-08; charged
with grand
larceny and forgery,
for obtaining $2,500 on fraudulent bonds and mortgages; tried on
one charge
of obtaining $1,000 from a woman in exchange for a fraudulent
mortgage; pleaded insanity; convicted
on June 12, 1914; sentenced
to 5-10 years in prison.
Burial location unknown.
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Edward Hull Crump (1874-1954) —
also known as Edward H. Crump; Ed Crump; "Boss
Crump" —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born near Holly Springs, Marshall
County, Miss., October
2, 1874.
Democrat. Head, E. H. Crump Buggy
Manufacturing Co.; president, E. H. Crump & Co. (involved in banking,
real
estate, and insurance);
mayor
of Memphis, Tenn., 1910-16, 1940; resigned 1916; proceedings were
brought for his ouster
as mayor in 1915-16, based on charges
that he failed to
enforce state liquor
laws; when the ouster suit was upheld by the state supreme court,
he resigned;
Shelby
County Treasurer, 1917-23; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Tennessee, 1924,
1928,
1932,
1936,
1940,
1944;
U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1931-35 (10th District 1931-33,
9th District 1933-35); member of Democratic
National Committee from Tennessee, 1936-45.
Died in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., October
16, 1954 (age 80 years, 14
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.
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Thomas Mott Osborne (1859-1926) —
also known as Thomas M. Osborne; "Tom
Brown" —
of Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y.
Born in Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y., September
23, 1859.
Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1896,
1924;
Independent candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1898; mayor of
Auburn, N.Y., 1903-05.
Son of the founder of International Harvester; prison reformer; New
York State Public Service Commissioner; New York State Fish and Game
Commissioner, 1911; warden of Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, N.Y.,
1914-16; indicted
by a grand jury in 1915 for alleged perjury
and neglect
of duty; tried,
but the charges were dismissed; commander of naval prison,
Portsmouth, N.H., 1917-20.
Died in Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y., October
20, 1926 (age 67 years, 27
days).
Interment at Fort
Hill Cemetery, Auburn, N.Y.
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Donn M. Roberts (1867-1936) —
of Indiana.
Born in Annapolis, Crawford
County, Ill., September
28, 1867.
Mayor
of Terre Haute, Ind., 1913-15.
Convicted
of bribery
in 1915 and spent three and a half years in prison;
convicted
of embezzlement
in 1936 and sentenced
to prison.
Released from prison following a heart
attack, and died a few days later, in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., August
3, 1936 (age 68 years, 310
days).
Interment at St.
Joseph's Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
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Edward Everett McCall (1863-1924) —
also known as Edward E. McCall —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., January
6, 1863.
Democrat. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1903-13; resigned 1913;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1913; chair, New York State Public
Service Commission, 1913-15; removed from
office in November, 1915, because he owned
stock in a company under commission jurisdiction; president, New
Jersey Life
Insurance Company, 1916.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
12, 1924 (age 61 years, 66
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Presumably named
for: Edward
Everett |
| | | Relatives: Son of John McCall and
Katherine McCall; brother of John A. McCall; married 1886 to Ella
Frances Gaynor. |
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Congress |
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Frank Buchanan (1862-1930) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born near Madison, Jefferson
County, Ind., June 14,
1862.
Democrat. Ironworker;
U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1911-17; in 1915, when
the U.S. was still neutral in World War I, he was president of
"Labor's National Peace Council," which advocated a weapons embargo
against the countries then at war; the organization secretly received
funding from German
agents; when a grand jury
investigation was announced, he retaliated by introducing
resolutions to impeach U.S. Attorney H.
Snowden Marshall; indicted
in December 1915, along with H.
Robert Fowler, Frank
S. Monnett, and others, for restraint
of trade over the Peace Council's attempts to foment
strikes in U.S. munitions plants; stood
trial in May 1917, along with (ultimately) six co-defendants; the
jury convicted three, but deadlocked over the other four, including
Buchanan; he was not re-tried.
Died, of heart
disease, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April
18, 1930 (age 67 years, 308
days).
Interment at Irving
Park Boulevard Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Hiram Robert Fowler (1851-1926) —
also known as H. Robert Fowler —
of Elizabethtown, Hardin
County, Ill.
Born near Eddyville, Pope
County, Ill., February
7, 1851.
Democrat. Member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1893-95; member of Illinois
state senate, 1900-04; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Illinois, 1908;
U.S.
Representative from Illinois 24th District, 1911-15; defeated,
1924; in 1915, when the U.S. was still neutral in World War I, he was
general counsel for "Labor's National Peace Council," which advocated
a weapons embargo against the countries then at war; the organization
secretly received funding from German
agents; indicted
in December 1915, along with Frank
Buchanan, Frank
S. Monnett, and others, for restraint
of trade over the Peace Council's attempts to foment
strikes in U.S. munitions plants; stood
trial in May 1917, along with (ultimately) six co-defendants; the
jury convicted three, but deadlocked over the other four, including
Fowler; he was not re-tried.
Died January
5, 1926 (age 74 years, 332
days).
Interment at Sunset
Hill Cemetery, Harrisburg, Ill.
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Frank Sylvestor Monnett (b. 1857) —
also known as Frank S. Monnett —
of Crawford
County, Ohio.
Born in Kenton, Hardin
County, Ohio, March
19, 1857.
Lawyer;
Ohio
state attorney general, 1896-1900; defeated in Democratic
primary, 1926; Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from Ohio 12th District, 1910; in 1915, when the
U.S. was still neutral in World War I, he was a committee chair in
"Labor's National Peace Council," which advocated a weapons embargo
against the countries then at war; the organization secretly received
funding from German
agents; indicted
in December 1915, along with H.
Robert Fowler, Frank
Buchanan, and others, for restraint
of trade over the Peace Council's attempts to foment
strikes in U.S. munitions plants; stood
trial with seven co-defendants, but during the trial, the charges
against him were dismissed.
Died in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio.
Interment at Monnett
Chapel Graveyard, Dallas Township, Crawford County, Ohio.
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Hudson Snowden Marshall (1870-1931) —
also known as H. Snowden Marshall —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., January
15, 1870.
Lawyer;
law partner of Bartow
S. Weeks, George
Gordon Battle, and James
A. O'Gorman; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1913-17; in
1915-16, U.S. Rep. Frank
Buchanan (who was at the time being indicted by a federal grand
jury) introduced impeachment
resolutions against Marshall; the charges, including malfeasance
in the handling of past cases, were investigated
by a House Judiciary subcommittee, which held hearings in New York,
and inquired into the proceedings of the grand jury which had
indicted Rep. Buchanan; Marshall wrote a critical letter to the
subcommittee, impugning its motives; based on this letter, the full
House voted to find him in contempt
of Congress, and ordered his
arrest; on appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the
authority of the House to punish for contempt extended only to
actions which directly interfered with its proceedings.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 29,
1931 (age 61 years, 134
days).
Interment at Kensico
Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.
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Roy Lloyd Shattuck (1871-1915) —
also known as Roy Shattuck —
of Brazil, Clay
County, Ind.
Born in Clay
County, Ind., June 2,
1871.
Republican. Lawyer;
mayor of Brazil, Ind., 1903-09; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana 5th District, 1914.
Arrested
in February 1915, and arraigned
in federal court in Indianapolis, along with four other 1914
candidates, for attempting to corrupt
the election in Vigo County; pleaded not guilty, but died before
he could be tried.
Died in Brazil, Clay
County, Ind., August
15, 1915 (age 44 years, 74
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Volney B. Shattuck and Henrietta Bessie (Pearce) Shattuck;
married, November
7, 1894, to Olive Rosamond Carter. |
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article |
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Congress |
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Charles Edward Sebastian (1873-1929) —
also known as Charles E. Sebastian —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Farmington, St.
Francois County, Mo., March
30, 1873.
Democrat. Police
officer; Los Angeles Chief of Police, 1911-15; in 1915, he was
accused of molesting
several teenage girls in a rooming house next to the police station;
indicted
by the county grand jury for contributing to the delinquency of a
minor; also indicted
for criminal contempt
of court for attempting to influence grand jurors; won election
for mayor while these cases were pending; tried
and acquitted on the molestation charge, but found
guilty of contempt for interference with the grand jury; mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1915-16; resigned 1916; defeated, 1917.
Died April
17, 1929 (age 56 years, 18
days).
Interment at Glen
Haven Memorial Park, Sylmar, Calif.
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Robert Green Crow (1883-1942) —
also known as Robert G. Crow; Bob Crow —
of Caruthersville, Pemiscot
County, Mo.
Born in Scott
County, Mo., December
24, 1883.
Republican. Insurance
agent; postmaster at Caruthersville,
Mo., 1909-14; indicted
in October 1915 on federal charges of revealing
information from the federal civil service examination, to help his
half-brother, James L. Crow; pleaded
guilty in April 1916, and was fined
$500.
Member, Elks; Eagles;
Modern
Woodmen.
On December 21, 1914, he mysteriously disappeared from the Pontiac
Hotel, St. Louis, Mo., leaving behind all of his clothes, and the
room disordered as if a scuffle had taken place; he was thought to
have been kidnapped and murdered by a gang, but a few months later,
he was found to be serving in the U.S. Army.
Died in Harlingen, Cameron
County, Tex., September
16, 1942 (age 58 years, 266
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Lafayette Young (1848-1926) —
of Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa.
Born in Monroe
County, Iowa, May 10,
1848.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; member of Iowa state legislature, 1890;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Iowa, 1900,
1908;
U.S.
Senator from Iowa, 1910-11; in May 1915, while working as a war
correspondent for a Des Moines newspaper, he was arrested
in Innsbruck, Austria, on suspicion of espionage;
released a few hours later.
Died in Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa, November
15, 1926 (age 78 years, 189
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa.
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James Mark Sullivan (1873-1933) —
also known as James M. Sullivan —
of New York.
Born in Ireland,
1873.
U.S. Minister to Dominican Republic, 1913-15.
Participated
in the 1916 Easter Uprising in Ireland; arrested
by the British authorities, but not executed due to his American diplomatic
passport.
Died in 1933
(age about
60 years).
Interment at Glasnevin
Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland.
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Olney Arnold (1861-1916) —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in Cumberland, Providence
County, R.I., September
8, 1861.
Democrat. Treasurer and manager Rogers Screw Company; president,
Angell Land
Company; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode
Island, 1888;
member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1908; candidate for Governor of
Rhode Island, 1908, 1909; U.S. Diplomatic Agent to Egypt, 1913-16, died in office 1916; U.S. Consul General in Cairo, 1914-16, died in office 1916; under
investigation in 1916 on charges
of making unneutral
utterances.
Unitarian.
Died in Lisbon, Portugal,
March
5, 1916 (age 54 years, 179
days).
Interment at Swan
Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
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Victor Hugo Duras —
also known as Victor H. Duras —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Nebraska.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1908 (12th District), 1910 (14th
District); alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
New York, 1912;
U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Liège, 1913-14; U.S. Vice Consul in Petrograd, 1914-15; arrested
in August, 1916, in Russia, on suspicion
of being a German spy;
freed in 1917.
Burial location unknown.
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Arthur Elmer Reimer (1882-1969) —
also known as Arthur E. Reimer —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
15, 1882.
Socialist. Tailor;
lawyer;
Socialist Labor candidate for President
of the United States, 1912, 1916; Socialist Labor candidate for
Governor
of Massachusetts, 1913, 1914; jailed
in Butte, Montana, 1916, for making a radical
speech.
Died in 1969
(age about
87 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Caleb Harrison —
of Illinois.
Socialist. Socialist Labor candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1916; jailed
in Homestead, Pennsylvania in 1916 for making a radical
speech.
Burial location unknown.
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Earl Russel Browder (1891-1973) —
also known as Earl Browder —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan., May 20,
1891.
Communist. As a result of his opposition to U.S. participation in
World War I, he was convicted
in 1917 of conspiracy
against
the draft laws and sentenced
to sixteen months in prison;
imprisoned
again in 1919; pardoned
in 1933; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1930 (6th District), 1932 (20th
District), 1940 (14th District); General Secretary of the Communist
Party of the U.S., 1934-44; candidate for President
of the United States, 1936, 1940; arrested
in 1939 for a passport
violation, convicted,
and sentenced
to four years in prison
(sentence commuted after fourteen months); expelled from the
Communist Party, 1946.
Died in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., June 27,
1973 (age 82 years, 38
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles M. Slaughter —
of Athens, Athens
County, Ohio.
Mayor
of Athens, Ohio, 1910-14.
Charged
with misconduct
as justice of the peace; convicted
on a lesser charge of misappropriating public funds; served about a
year in prison;
pardoned;
made restitution.
Burial location unknown.
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William H. Reynolds (1868-1931) —
of Long Beach, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
29, 1868.
Republican. Builder;
real
estate developer; member of New York
state senate 3rd District, 1894-95; indicted
by a grand jury in August 1917 for perjury,
over his 1912 expert testimony on the value of land sought by the
city for a park; the grand jury alleged that he falsely
denied any personal
interest in the realty company which owned the property; also indicted
in October 1917, with three others, for conspiracy defraud
the city of $500,000 by inflating the appraisal; the indictments were
dismissed in May 1920 over the prosecutor's delay of the trial; village
president of Long Beach, New York, 1921-22; mayor
of Long Beach, N.Y., 1922-24; removed 1924; defeated, 1925; indicted
on May 1, 1924, along with the Long Beach city treasurer, for misappropriating
city funds in connection with a bond issue; tried in
June 1924, convicted,
sentenced
to six months in the county
jail, and automatically removed from
office as mayor; released pending appeal; the Appellate Division
reversed the conviction in June 1925 and ordered a new trial; the
indictment was dismissed in June 1927.
English
and Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Elks; Freemasons.
Died, from heart
disease, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
13, 1931 (age 63 years, 0
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of William Reynolds and Margaret (McChesney) Reynolds; married to
Elise Guerrier. |
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Samuel Crockett Sims —
of Hazen, Prairie
County, Ark.
Member of Arkansas
state senate 12th District, 1915-17; expelled 1917.
In January, 1917, when Anti-Trading Stamp and Coupon bills were
pending before his committee, he accepted a bribe
to kill the bills, from a detective posing as a lobbyist for Eastern
trading-stamp interests; arrested,
charged
with bribery,
and later convicted;
expelled
from the Senate on a vote of 25 to 8.
Burial location unknown.
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Ivison C. Burgess —
of Russellville, Pope
County, Ark.
Member of Arkansas
state senate 4th District, 1915-17; expelled 1917.
In January, 1917, after he introduced legislation to regulate trading
stamps and coupons, he accepted a bribe
to kill the bills, from a detective posing as a lobbyist for Eastern
trading-stamp interests; arrested,
charged
with bribery,
and later convicted;
expelled
from the Senate on a vote of 25 to 8.
Burial location unknown.
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Charles W. Dempster (c.1879-1941) —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie
County, Iowa, about 1879.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Montana
state house of representatives, 1901-02; Supreme Secretary of the
Fraternal Brotherhood, an insurance
union; on February 1, 1917, when he was ousted
by the brotherhood's Supreme Council on grounds of insubordination,
he drew
a revolver and held the council at bay for ten minutes; after
being disarmed by a private detective, he was arrested
for disturbing the peace; candidate for California
state senate 31st District, 1920; member of California
state assembly, 1931-34 (57th District 1931-32, 61st District
1933-34); candidate for mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1932, 1933 (primary).
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Eagles.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 20,
1941 (age about 62
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Grace Warner. |
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James Edward Ferguson (1871-1944) —
also known as James E. Ferguson; "Pa
Ferguson" —
of Temple, Bell
County, Tex.
Born near Salado, Bell
County, Tex., August
31, 1871.
Governor
of Texas, 1915-17; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Texas, 1916
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee); American candidate for President
of the United States, 1920.
Indicted
on embezzlement
and other charges
in 1917; soon after, was impeached
by the Texas House, and removed from
office by the Texas Senate.
Died in Austin, Travis
County, Tex., September
21, 1944 (age 73 years, 21
days).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Blaine Jackson Brickwood (1888-1949) —
also known as Blaine J. Brickwood —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
5, 1888.
Lawyer;
Honorary
Consul for Venezuela in Chicago,
Ill., 1915-20; on November 18, 1917, while driving, he struck and
killed
Walter Israel; censured
by the coroner's jury which investigated the death; indicted
on a charge of manslaughter;
following a trial in June 1920, he was found not guilty by a jury;
meanwhile, he was arrested
on a charge of embezzlement.
Died in Cook
County, Ill., March
13, 1949 (age 61 years, 36
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
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Victor Luitpold Berger (1860-1929) —
also known as Victor L. Berger —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born in Nieder-Rehbach, Austria,
February
28, 1860.
Socialist. Emigrated to the United States in 1878; school
teacher; newspaper
editor; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 5th District, 1911-13, 1919,
1923-29; defeated, 1904, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1918; delegate to Socialist National
Convention from Wisconsin, 1920; Chairman of Socialist Party, 1927-29.
Jewish
ancestry. Member, International
Typographical Union.
He and Eugene
V. Debs founded the Socialist Party. He opposed
U.S. entry into World War I; in Chicago in 1918, he was tried
and convicted
under the Espionage
Act, and sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
elected to Congress anyway, he was denied a
seat in 1919-21 to to alleged disloyalty.
In 1921, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed his conviction; the cases
against him were withdrawn; he resumed his seat in Congress in 1923.
Injured in a streetcar
accident, and subsequently died, in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., August
7, 1929 (age 69 years, 160
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis.
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Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926) —
also known as Eugene V. Debs —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., November
5, 1855.
Socialist. Locomotive
fireman on the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad;
secretary-treasurer
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in 1880-93; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1885; founder in
1893 and president
(1893-97) of the American Railway Union; arrested
during a strike
in 1894 and charged
with conspiracy
to commit murder; the charges were dropped, but he was jailed
for six months for contempt
of court; became a Socialist while incarcerated; candidate for President
of the United States, 1900 (Social Democratic), 1904 (Socialist),
1908 (Socialist), 1912 (Socialist), 1920 (Socialist); in 1905, was a
founder
of the Industrial Workers of the World ("Wobblies"), which hoped to
organize all workers in "One Big Union"; convicted
under the Sedition
and Espionage Act for an anti-war
speech he made in 1918, and sentenced
to ten years in federal prison;
released in 1921.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died in Lindlahr Sanitarium,
Elmhurst, DuPage
County, Ill., October
20, 1926 (age 70 years, 349
days).
Interment at Highland
Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
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William Bross Lloyd (1875-1946) —
also known as William B. Lloyd; "The Millionaire
Socialist" —
of Winnetka, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
27, 1875.
Socialist. Candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1918; arrested
in downtown Chicago, 1918, for refusing to remove a red
flag from his limo; co-founder of Communist Labor Party, 1919; indicted
for sedition,
1920; represented at trial by
Clarence
Darrow; convicted,
sentenced
to 1-5 years in prison;
his sentence was commuted in 1922.
Died, of cancer,
in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 30,
1946 (age 71 years, 123
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in North Atlantic Ocean.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Demarest Lloyd and Jessie (Bross) Lloyd; married to Lola
Maverick and Madge Bird; grandson of William
Bross. |
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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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Roger Culver Tredwell (1885-1961) —
also known as Roger C. Tredwell —
of Bloomington, Monroe
County, Ind.; Washington,
D.C.; Ridgefield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
12, 1885.
U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Yokohama, 1910-11; U.S. Deputy Consul General in London, 1911; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Burslem, 1911-12; Dresden, 1912; U.S. Consul in Bristol, 1913-14; Amsterdam, 1914; Naples, 1914; Leghorn, 1914-15; Turin, 1915-16; Rome, 1916-17; while working as American
consul, he was arrested
and imprisoned
by the Russian Bolshevik authorities in Tashkent, 1918-19; U.S.
Consul General in Hong Kong, 1925-29; Stockholm, as of 1932.
Died in Ridgefield, Fairfield
County, Conn., July 12,
1961 (age 76 years, 181
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Alanson Tredwell and Frances Vail (Culver) Tredwell; married to
Winifred van Shaick Reed. |
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article |
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William F. Kruse (1894-1952) —
also known as Bill Kruse —
of Illinois.
Born in Hoboken, Hudson
County, N.J., 1894.
Bookkeeper;
indicted
in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. Victor
L. Berger, and three others, for making speeches
that encouraged disloyalty
and obstructed military
recruitment; tried
and convicted;
sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
the conviction was later overturned; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 6th District, 1918, 1920; delegate
to Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920; Socialist
candidate for secretary
of state of Illinois, 1921; Workers candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1928.
German
and Danish
ancestry.
Died in 1952
(age about
58 years).
Burial location unknown.
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J. Louis Engdahl (1884-1932) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., November
11, 1884.
Writer
and editor for Socialist and Communist newspapers;
indicted
in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. Victor
L. Berger, and three others, for making speeches
that encouraged disloyalty
and obstructed military
recruitment; tried
and convicted;
sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
the conviction was later overturned; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1918; delegate to
Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1924 (Workers), 1926 (Workers Communist);
Communist candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1930; Communist candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1931.
Swedish
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Moscow, Russia,
November
21, 1932 (age 48 years, 10
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Irwin St. John Tucker —
of Illinois.
Socialist. Lecturer;
indicted
in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. Victor
L. Berger, and three others, for making speeches
that encouraged disloyalty
and obstructed military
recruitment; tried
and convicted;
sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
the conviction was later overturned; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 10th District, 1918; delegate to
Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920.
Burial location unknown.
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Adolph Germer (1881-1966) —
of Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Wehlau, East Prussia (now Znamensk, Kaliningrad
Oblast), January
15, 1881.
Socialist. Miner; union
official in various capacities for the United Mine Workers of
America, 1906-16; member of Socialist National Committee from
Illinois, 1911; candidate for Illinois
state house of representatives, 1912; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1914; National Executive Secretary,
Socialist Party of America, 1916-19; indicted
in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. Victor
L. Berger, and three others, for making speeches
that encouraged disloyalty
and obstructed military
recruitment; tried
and convicted;
sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
the conviction was later overturned; candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 16th District, 1921.
Member, United
Mine Workers.
Died in Rockford, Winnebago
County, Ill., May, 1966
(age 85
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Emil M. Herman (1879-1928) —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Everett, Snohomish
County, Wash.
Born in Kamnitz, Bohemia (now Kamienice, Czechia),
August
22, 1879.
Socialist. Socialist candidate for Seattle city council, 1904;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Washington, 1906 (at-large), 1908 (2nd
District), 1909 (2nd District); State Secretary, Socialist Party of
Washington, 1916-18; arrested
in 1918, and convicted
under the Espionage
Act; sentenced
to ten years in prison;
served three years and four months; candidate for Governor of
Washington, 1924.
German
ancestry. Member, Industrial
Workers of the World.
Died October
10, 1928 (age 49 years, 49
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Maurice Sugar (1891-1974) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Brimley, Chippewa
County, Mich., August
8, 1891.
Lawyer;
Socialist candidate for circuit
judge in Michigan 3rd Circuit, 1917, 1919; Socialist candidate
for justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1917; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 13th District, 1918 (Socialist),
1936 (Farmer-Labor); convicted
in 1918 for resisting
the draft, sentenced to a year in prison,
and disbarred;
readmitted to the Bar in 1923; pardoned
in 1933; general counsel to the United Automobile Workers, 1937-46;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan.
Jewish
and Lithuanian
ancestry. Member, National
Lawyers Guild.
Died in Cheboygan
County, Mich., February
15, 1974 (age 82 years, 191
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Elmer T. Allison (1883-1982) —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Bethel, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Washington.
Born in Houstonia, Pettis
County, Mo., December
5, 1883.
Communist. Sawmill
worker; arrested
in Cleveland, 1919, on charges
of violating the state's criminal
syndicalism law; Workers candidate for New York
state senate 14th District, 1926; poet.
Member, Industrial
Workers of the World.
Died in Olympia, Thurston
County, Wash., July 18,
1982 (age 98 years, 225
days).
Interment at Woodbine
Cemetery, Puyallup, Wash.
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Frederick J. Harwood —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.; New York.
Socialist. State Secretary, New Jersey Socialist Party, 1919; when attempting
to speak to a Socialist
rally in Rahway, N.J., May 31, 1919, he was sprayed with a fire
hose by Mayor David
H. Trembley; charged
with opposing
and obstructing a police officer, and fined
$50; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 24th District, 1938.
Burial location unknown.
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James B. Furber (c.1868-1930) —
of Rahway, Union
County, N.J.; Linden, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Allegan, Allegan
County, Mich., about 1868.
Traveling salesman for National Cash Register Company; newspaper
publisher; real estate
developer; lawyer; mayor of
Rahway, N.J., 1906, 1922-24; resigned 1906; charged
with assault
in connection with his participation in a Socialist
rally in Rahway, N.J., May 31, 1919, which was ended by spraying
the speaker and audience with a fire hose; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 5th District, 1920; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New Jersey; elected (Democratic) mayor of
Linden, N.J. 1930, but died before taking office.
Suffered a paralytic
stroke, while addressing
a meeting of the Parent Democratic Club, and died soon after in
St. Elizabeth Hospital,
Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., November
12, 1930 (age about 62
years).
Burial location unknown.
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David H. Trembley (b. 1858) —
of Rahway, Union
County, N.J.
Born in New Jersey, 1858.
Carriage
painter; mayor of
Rahway, N.J., 1918-22; on May 31, 1919, he prevented a Socialist
orator, Frederick
Harwood, from speaking, by spraying him and his audience with a
fire hose; subsequently arrested
and charged
with assault
and inciting
to riot; retaliated by arresting Justice of the Peace Gustav
Theimer, who had indicted him, and arraigned him on a charge of
improper procedure.
French
Huguenot ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Charlotte Anita Whitney (c.1868-1955) —
also known as Anita Whitney —
of California.
Born about 1868.
Communist. Social
worker; in 1919, she gave a radical
speech in Oakland, California; as a result, she was arrested,
tried,
and found
guilty of violating the state's syndicalism
law; pardoned
by Governor C. C.
Young.; candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1928, 1940 (Communist).
Female.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., February
4, 1955 (age about 87
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Frederic Thomas Woodman (1872-1949) —
also known as Frederic T. Woodman —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H., June 25,
1872.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1901-03; mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1916-19; defeated, 1919; indicted
on bribery
charges, March 1919; tried
and found not guilty; banker.
Died March
25, 1949 (age 76 years, 273
days).
Interment at Angelus-Rosedale
Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.
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