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Benjamin Gitlow (c.1891-1965) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born about 1891.
Communist. Member of New York
state assembly from Bronx County 3rd District, 1918; defeated
(Socialist), 1918; convicted
on criminal
anarchy charges,
1920; sentenced
to five to ten years in prison;
lost an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1925; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1921 (Communist), 1925 (Workers);
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1924, 1928; Workers candidate for
Governor
of New York, 1926.
Died in 1965
(age about
74 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Samuel Orr (1890-1981) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born July 11,
1890.
Socialist. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Bronx County 4th District, 1918, 1920, 1921;
defeated, 1918; expelled 1920; resigned 1920; delegate to Socialist
National Convention from New York, 1920; candidate for New York
state senate, 1922 (22nd District), 1928 (22nd District), 1933
(21st District); candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 23rd District, 1926, 1930, 1932,
1934; New York City Magistrate, 1941-51.
Jewish.
Expelled
from the New York State Assembly over alleged disloyalty,
along with the other four Socialist members, April 1, 1920;
re-elected to the same seat in a special election, but resigned in
protest when three other Socialist members were expelled again.
Died, in Montefiore Hospital,
Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., August
29, 1981 (age 91 years, 49
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Solomon (1889-1963) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born October
29, 1889.
Socialist. Newspaperman;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 23rd District, 1919-20, 1921;
expelled 1920, 1920; defeated, 1927; delegate to Socialist National
Convention from New York, 1920; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1924; candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1928, 1938; candidate for New York
state senate 8th District, 1930; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1932; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1933; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1934; American Labor candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1937.
Jewish.
Expelled
from the New York State Assembly over alleged disloyalty,
along with the other four Socialist members, April 1, 1920;
re-elected to the same seat in a special election, and expelled
again on September 21.
Died December
8, 1963 (age 74 years, 40
days).
Interment at Mt.
Lebanon Cemetery, Glendale, Queens, N.Y.
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August Claessens (1885-1954) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Switzerland,
1885.
School
teacher; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1914 (Socialist, 15th District),
1924 (Socialist, 23rd District), 1928 (Socialist, 14th District),
1930 (Socialist, 18th District), 1932 (Socialist, 14th District),
1934 (Socialist, at-large), 1946 (Liberal, 10th District), 1948
(Liberal, 8th District), 1950 (Liberal, 8th District); member of New York
state assembly from New York County 17th District, 1918-20, 1922;
defeated, 1915 (Socialist, New York County 26th District); expelled
1920, 1920; defeated, 1920 (Socialist, New York County 17th
District), 1922 (Socialist, New York County 17th District), 1923
(Socialist, New York County 17th District), 1925 (Socialist, Bronx
County 4th District), 1937 (American Labor, Kings County 4th
District), 1938 (American Labor, Kings County 14th District), 1954
(Liberal, Kings County 14th District); delegate to Socialist National
Convention from New York, 1920; Socialist candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1926; American Labor candidate for New York
state senate 11th District, 1940.
Expelled
from the New York State Assembly over alleged disloyalty,
along with the other four Socialist members, April 1, 1920;
re-elected to the same seat in a special election, and expelled
again on September 21.
Died, following a heart
attack, at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
9, 1954 (age about 69
years).
Interment at Cedar
Grove Cemetery, Flushing, Queens, N.Y.
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Samuel Aaron De Witt (1891-1963) —
also known as Samuel A. De Witt; Sam De
Witt —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.; Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in 1891.
Socialist. Machinery
dealer; poet; playwright;
member of New York
state assembly from Bronx County 3rd District, 1920; expelled
1920; resigned 1920; defeated, 1920 (Bronx County 3rd District), 1924
(Bronx County 7th District), 1926 (Bronx County 7th District), 1927
(Bronx County 3rd District), 1929 (Bronx County 3rd District), 1932
(Queens County 4th District), 1933 (Queens County 4th District);
candidate for borough
president of Bronx, New York, 1925; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1928 (22nd District), 1934 (2nd
District), 1935 (2nd District), 1936 (2nd District).
Expelled
from the New York State Assembly over alleged disloyalty,
along with the other four Socialist members, April 1, 1920;
re-elected to the same seat in a special election, but resigned in
protest when three other Socialist members were expelled again.
Died in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., January
22, 1963 (age about 71
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas A. McWhinney (c.1863-1933) —
of Lawrence, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Atlantic Beach, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., about 1863.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
postmaster at Lawrence,
N.Y., 1901; automobile
dealer; member of New York
state assembly, 1915-23 (Nassau County 1915-17, Nassau County 1st
District 1918-23); indicted
in 1920 on charges
that he and others had tipped off
gamblers to planned police raids; tried
and found not guilty.
Member, Elks; Royal
Arcanum; United
Spanish War Veterans; Foresters;
Redmen;
Order
of Heptasophs; Order
of United American Mechanics.
Suffered a stroke,
and died, in Atlantic Beach, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., November
25, 1933 (age about 70
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Married to Lidie Wright. |
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Louis Waldman (1892-1982) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Yancherudnia, Russia (now Ukraine),
January
5, 1892.
Socialist. Civil
engineer; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 8th District, 1918, 1920;
expelled 1920, 1920; defeated, 1920; candidate for New York
state senate 14th District, 1922; candidate for New York
state attorney general, 1924; candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1927 (Socialist), 1937
(American Labor); candidate for Governor of
New York, 1928, 1930, 1932; delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Jewish
and Ukrainian
ancestry.
Expelled
from the New York State Assembly over alleged disloyalty,
along with the other four Socialist members, April 1, 1920;
re-elected to the same seat in a special election, and expelled
again on September 21.
Suffered a severe stroke,
and died four years later, in the Jewish Home
and Hospital for the Aged, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
12, 1982 (age 90 years, 250
days).
Burial location unknown.
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G. August Gerber —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Socialist. Arrested
for making seditious
utterances on March 26, 1920, in Philadelphia, when police broke
up a protest
meeting, and charged
with inciting
to riot; released when the charges were dropped the next day;
candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 18th District, 1921, 1922;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1930 (19th District), 1932
(at-large).
Burial location unknown.
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Warren Jay Terhune (1869-1920) —
also known as Warren J. Terhune —
of Hackensack, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in Midland Park, Bergen
County, N.J., May 3,
1869.
Served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War; U.S. Navy
commander; Governor of
American Samoa; died in office 1920.
Three days before he was to face an inquiry
into charges
against his
administration, he shot himself
in the heart, in a bathroom of the Executive
Mansion, Utulei, American
Samoa, November
3, 1920 (age 51 years, 184
days); later, the Navy exonerated him; his accuser, Lieutenant
Commander Creed H. Boucher, was courtmartialed and found guilty of
fomenting unrest among the Samoans.
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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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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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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Jake Louis Hamon (1873-1920) —
also known as Jake L. Hamon —
of Ardmore, Carter
County, Okla.
Born in Grenola, Elk
County, Kan., June 5,
1873.
Republican. Lawyer; oil
business; member of Republican
National Committee from North Dakota, 1920.
Shot
and killed by
Clara Smith Hamon, his secretary, mistress,
and the wife of his nephew, in Ardmore, Carter
County, Okla., November
26, 1920 (age 47 years, 174
days). The scandal
received national publicity. She was tried and found not guilty of
murder, on grounds of self-defense.
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Ardmore, Okla.
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Relatives: Son
of Nancy (Tuggle) Hamon and Franklin Hamon; married 1898 to
Georgia Worth Perkins. |
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memorial |
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(Ardmore, Okla.), November 29, 1920 |
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Thomas Lindsay Blanton (1872-1957) —
also known as Thomas L. Blanton —
of Abilene, Taylor
County, Tex.
Born in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., October
25, 1872.
Democrat. Lawyer;
district judge in Texas 42nd District, 1908-16; U.S.
Representative from Texas, 1917-29, 1930-37 (16th District
1917-19, 17th District 1919-29, 1930-37).
Presbyterian.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Woodmen.
Censured
in 1921 for inserting a letter into the Congressional Record
which contained words said to be "unspeakable, vile, foul, filthy,
profane, blasphemous and obscene."
A motion to expel
him from the House of Representatives failed by eight votes. Indicted
in 1923 for criminal
libel over his claim that former U.S. Rep. Oscar
Callaway had urged his frends not to buy Liberty bonds during
World War I.
Died in Albany, Shackelford
County, Tex., August
11, 1957 (age 84 years, 290
days).
Interment at Albany
Cemetery, Albany, Tex.
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William Lloyd Harding (1877-1934) —
also known as William L. Harding —
of Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa.
Born in Sibley, Osceola
County, Iowa, October
3, 1877.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Iowa
state house of representatives, 1907-13; Lieutenant
Governor of Iowa, 1913-17; Governor of
Iowa, 1917-21.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Censured
by legislature over pardons scandal,
and left office in disgrace
in 1921.
Died December
17, 1934 (age 57 years, 75
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Graceland
Park Cemetery, Sioux City, Iowa.
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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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Truman Handy Newberry (1864-1945) —
also known as Truman H. Newberry —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Grosse Pointe Farms, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., November
5, 1864.
Republican. Paymaster and agent, Detroit, Bay City and Alpena Railway,
1885-87; president and treasurer, Detroit Steel and
Spring Co., 1887-1901; director, Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co.;
director, Grace Hospital;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan,
1892;
served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1908-09; U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1919-22.
Presbyterian.
Tried
and convicted
in 1921 of overspending
on his campaign (federal laws at that time set an unrealistically
low limit); his conviction was reversed by Supreme Court; following
an investigation, the Senate declared him entitled to his seat but expressed
disapproval of the sum spent
on his election; resigned
under pressure.
Died in Grosse Pointe, Wayne
County, Mich., October
3, 1945 (age 80 years, 332
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Clark Daniel Stearns (b. 1870) —
of Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.
Born in 1870.
U.S. Navy officer; Governor of
American Samoa; in 1921, he was relieved of
duty as commander of the U.S. Navy ship Michigan, for allowing
the men under his command to organize
committees; in 1923, he was chief of emergency relief work
following an earthquake in Japan, and received a medal from the
Japanese Red Cross; after the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941, he sent
the medal back to Japan.
Burial location unknown.
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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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Robert V. Mundy (b. 1854) —
of Bay City, Bay
County, Mich.
Born in New Jersey, 1854.
Hardware
business; mayor
of Bay City, Mich., 1917-21.
In March, 1921, a grand jury charged
him with misfeasance
in office and neglect of
duty, in his tolerance of
vice such as illegal liquor sales, prostitution, and gambling in
Bay City, and called for the common council to remove him from
office. Mundy disputed the grand jury's authority to make this kind
of report, and on his motion, it was stricken from the court record.
Nonetheless, his organization was defeated in the election shortly
afterward.
Burial location unknown.
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Mary Winsor (b. 1873) —
of Lower Merion Township, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March
28, 1873.
Socialist. Woman suffrage activist; participant in the first U.S.
birth control conference, New York City, November 1921; on November
13, police arrived to forcibly shut down the event, and she was arrested,
along with Margaret Sanger, for attempting
to speak; charged
with disorderly conduct, but released soon after; candidate for Pennsylvania
secretary of internal affairs, 1922; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Pennsylvania, 1930; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 17th District, 1932.
Female.
Member, Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Burial location unknown.
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Lena Marietta Thankful Clarke (1886-1967) —
also known as Lena M. T. Clarke —
of West Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla.
Born in Sheldon, Franklin
County, Vt., March 1,
1886.
Democrat. Postmaster at West
Palm Beach, Fla., 1915-16, 1920-21 (acting, 1915-16, 1920); under
suspicion
for a shortage
of $32,000 at the post office, she fled
to Orlando, where she found Fred Miltimore, her married
ex-lover, and apparently tried to get him to sign a statement
confessing to the theft; when he refused, she shot
and killed him; she was indicted
and tried
for murder,
and found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Female.
Died in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., August
5, 1967 (age 81 years, 157
days).
Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery, West Palm Beach, Fla.
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Thomas B. Roush (born c.1861) —
of Athens, Athens
County, Ohio.
Born in Ohio, about 1861.
Mayor
of Athens, Ohio, 1920-22; resigned 1922.
Resigned
as mayor after his son, the police chief, was caught soliciting and
accepting a bribe.
Burial location unknown.
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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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Harmon Mortimore Kephart (b. 1865) —
also known as Harmon M. Kephart —
of Connellsville, Fayette
County, Pa.
Born in Frankstown, Blair
County, Pa., July 17,
1865.
Republican. Railroad
work; hotel
owner; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives from Fayette County, 1895-96;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1908;
chief clerk, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1909; Pennsylvania
state treasurer, 1917-21.
Member, Elks.
Charged
in 1922 with failure
to keep correct accounts and to make required reports while he was
state treasurer; investigators found money missing for various
periods, costing the state some $11,000 in interest income; pleaded no
contest in 1923 and fined
$3,425 and costs.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel A. Kephart and Henrietta B. (Wolfe)
Kephart. |
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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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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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John Calloway Walton (1881-1949) —
also known as Jack C. Walton; "Rarin'
Jack" —
of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla.
Born near Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., March 6,
1881.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; engineer;
mayor
of Oklahoma City, Okla., 1919-23; Governor of
Oklahoma, 1923; impeached
and removed from
office as Governor, 1923; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Oklahoma, 1924.
Died in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla., November
25, 1949 (age 68 years, 264
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Burial Park, Oklahoma City, Okla.
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Hillyer Rudisill (1875-1923) —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Forsyth, Monroe
County, Ga., April
26, 1875.
Republican. Postmaster at Macon,
Ga., 1922-23 (acting, 1922).
Died from a self-inflicted
gunshot,
in the post
office at Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., February
16, 1923 (age 47 years, 296
days). A shortage
of about $86,000 was discovered
after his death.
Interment at Forsyth
Cemetery, Forsyth, Ga.
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Fred William Yoos (1879-1940) —
also known as Fred W. Yoos —
of Akron, Summit
County, Ohio.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, January
20, 1879.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; railroad
flagman; police
officer; rubber tire
worker; after serving as an organizer for the Ku Klux Klan, he
resigned, or was expelled, and announced in January 1923 that he
would expose corruption and "un-American prejudice" in the local Klan
organization; on January 18, police received an anonymous "tip off"
that Yoos was illegally carrying a
concealed weapon; he was searched,
and no weapon was found on his person, but a companion had a gun, and
Yoos was arrested
and held in jail for days until released; he continued to express
opposition to the Ku Klux Klan, but did not make the disclosures he
promised; Independent candidate for mayor of
Akron, Ohio, 1923.
German
ancestry. Member, Ku Klux
Klan; Freemasons.
Died in Akron, Summit
County, Ohio, May 31,
1940 (age 61 years, 132
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Burial Park, Fairlawn, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Fred B. Yoos and Katie (Hurst) Yoos; married, October
24, 1900, to Hedwig 'Hattie' Wojahn. |
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Robert Charles Lacey (b. 1886) —
also known as Robert C. Lacey —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., October
10, 1886.
Democrat. Coal and
ice dealer; president,
Buffalo Central Labor Council, 1920; member of New York
state senate 49th District, 1923-24; defeated, 1924; during a
railway strike in 1922, the Niagara Falls High Speed Line train line
was dynamited,
wrecking a train and injuring its passengers; in 1923, Lacey was charged
in federal court with transporting the explosives
in his car; he falsely
testified to his non-involvement; later confessed to his part in
the incident; pleaded
guilty to perjury
over his earlier testimony; sentenced
to one day in jail and fined
$500; pardoned
in 1924 by President Calvin
Coolidge; in 1925, he was again indicted
for complicity in the bombing,
and pleaded not guilty; after some others were acquitted, the charges
were dropped; in December 1937, during an investigation
into corruption involving the Buffalo city council, he was charged
with perjury.
Member, Eagles;
Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of James Lacey and Sarah (Cooper) Lacey; married, September
30, 1908, to Harriet 'Hattie' Noack. |
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Vincent Tuero (1881-1953) —
also known as Vicente Sifuentes Tuero —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.; North Tonawanda, Niagara
County, N.Y.; Southfield, Oakland
County, Mich.; San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex.
Born in Durango,
January
26, 1881.
Socialist. Naturalized U.S. citizen; streetcar
conductor; financial
secretary and Treasurer,
Street Carmen's Union; candidate for New York
state assembly from Erie County 2nd District, 1918; during a
railway strike in 1922, the Niagara Falls High Speed Line train line
was dynamited,
wrecking a train and injuring its passengers; in 1923, Tuero and
others were indicted
in federal court for conspiring to steal, transport, and place the
dynamite; a trial
was held in January 1926, but the charges against Tuero were
dismissed by the judge at the end of the prosecution's case.
Mexican
ancestry.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Laurelwood Rest
Home, San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., July 9,
1953 (age 72 years, 164
days).
Interment somewhere
in San Antonio, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Mariano Tuero and Dolores (Sifuentes) Tuero. |
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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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Harry Micajah Daugherty (1860-1941) —
also known as Harry M. Daugherty —
of Washington Court House, Fayette
County, Ohio; Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio.
Born in Washington Court House, Fayette
County, Ohio, January
26, 1860.
Republican. Lawyer; Fayette
County Prosecuting Attorney; member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1890-94; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Ohio, 1904,
1908,
1912,
1924;
U.S.
Attorney General, 1921-24.
Methodist.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Subject of a Senate investigation
of his conduct
as Attorney General; resigned
under fire; indicted
on charges of conspiracy to defraud
the U.S. government, but acquitted in 1927.
Died in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, October
12, 1941 (age 81 years, 259
days).
Interment at Washington
Cemetery, Washington Court House, Ohio.
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Edward Laurence Doheny (1856-1935) —
also known as Edward L. Doheny —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac
County, Wis., August
10, 1856.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1920;
candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1920.
Indicted
in 1924 on federal bribery
and conspiracy charges;
he had given $100,000 to Secretary of the Interior Albert
B. Fall, and soon after received a valuable contract to develop
the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve in California. Though Fall was
convicted of taking a bribe, Doheny was found not guilty.
Died September
8, 1935 (age 79 years, 29
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Calvary
Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.
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William Joseph Fallon (1886-1927) —
also known as William J. Fallon; "The Great
Mouthpiece"; "Broadway's
Cicero" —
of Mamaroneck, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1886.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County 2nd District, 1918; charged
in 1924 with bribing
a juror;
tried
and acquitted.
Died, of heart
disease, in the Hotel
Oxford, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
29, 1927 (age about 40
years).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
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Lee Maurice Russell (1875-1943) —
also known as Lee M. Russell —
of Oxford, Lafayette
County, Miss.
Born in Dallas, Lafayette
County, Miss., November
16, 1875.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Mississippi, 1912;
Governor
of Mississippi, 1920-24.
Charged
by a former stenographer with breach of promise and seduction;
tried
in federal court, where a jury found in his favor.
Died May 16,
1943 (age 67 years, 181
days).
Interment at Lakewood
Memorial Park, Jackson, Miss.
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John Wesley Langley (1868-1932) —
also known as John W. Langley —
of Prestonsburg, Floyd
County, Ky.; Pikeville, Pike
County, Ky.
Born in Floyd
County, Ky., January
14, 1868.
Republican. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1886-90; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Kentucky, 1888,
1900,
1916;
U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 10th District, 1907-26; defeated,
1896; resigned 1926.
Convicted
in 1924 of conspiracy to transport
and sell liquor re-elected while his appeal was pending, but resigned
from Congress in 1926; sentenced
to a term in federal prison.
Granted clemency by President Calvin
Coolidge.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Pikeville, Pike
County, Ky., January
17, 1932 (age 64 years, 3
days).
Interment at Langley
Cemetery, Middle Creek, Ky.
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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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David C. Kerr —
U.S. Vice Consul in Birmingham, as of 1917; arrested
in Washington, D.C. in May 1924, and charged
with accepting
bribes while vice consul at Vancouver, to issue
visas to Chinese, so they could enter
the U.S. illegally.
Burial location unknown.
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John C. Butterworth (1870-1952) —
of Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J.
Born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England,
1870.
Socialist. Naturalized U.S. citizen; silk
weaver; Socialist Labor candidate for Governor of
New Jersey, 1913, 1916, 1919, 1925, 1928, 1931, 1937, 1940, 1943,
1949; on October 6, 1924, during a strike at the silk mills in
Paterson, N.J., while the city was under martial law, he and other
strikers and supporters were arrested
and convicted
of unlawful
assembly; the convictions were later overturned by the New Jersey
Supreme Court; Socialist Labor candidate for U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1924, 1932, 1934, 1938, 1942, 1944,
1946; candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Industrial
Workers of the World.
Died in Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J., October
17, 1952 (age about 82
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
Paterson (N.J.) News, October 18, 1952 |
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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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Edwin Denby (1870-1929) —
also known as Ned Denby —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind., February
18, 1870.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1903-04; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 1st District, 1905-11; defeated,
1910; member of Michigan
Republican State Central Committee, 1917; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1921-24; persuaded by Secretary of State
Albert
B. Fall to transfer control of the Navy's oil leases to the
Interior Department; Fall then accepted large bribes
to sell the leases to his friends, in what became known as the Teapot
Dome scandal;
in 1924, Denby was forced to
resign as Secretary of the Navy.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Phi
Delta Phi.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., February
8, 1929 (age 58 years, 356
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Jonathan McMillan Davis (1871-1943) —
also known as Jonathan M. Davis —
of Bronson, Bourbon
County, Kan.
Born in Bronson, Bourbon
County, Kan., April
27, 1871.
Democrat. Farmer;
member of Kansas
state house of representatives, 1905-13; member of Kansas
state senate, 1913-17; Governor of
Kansas, 1923-25; defeated, 1920, 1924, 1926, 1936 (primary), 1938
(Independent); delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Kansas, 1924
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization); candidate for Democratic nomination
for President, 1924;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1930.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Eagles;
Moose;
Elks; Kiwanis.
Arrested
the day after his gubernatorial term expired; indicted
twice for bribery;
tried
and acquitted both times.
Died June 27,
1943 (age 72 years, 61
days).
Interment at Bronson
Cemetery, Bronson, Kan.
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William Warring Gordon (1874-1963) —
also known as William W. Gordon —
of Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan.
Born in Owen
County, Ky., June 13,
1874.
Member of Kansas state legislature, 1910; mayor
of Kansas City, Kan., 1923-26; removed 1926.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Charged
in September 1926 with 25 counts of official
misconduct, and removed from
office as mayor.
Died May 26,
1963 (age 88 years, 347
days).
Interment at Memorial
Park Cemetery, Kansas City, Kan.
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James Lee Adams (1873-1946) —
also known as James L. Adams —
of Coraopolis, Allegheny
County, Pa.; Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.; Mt. Lebanon, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Allegheny
County, Pa., May 27,
1873.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives from Allegheny County 12th
District, 1907-09; resigned 1909; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 45th District, 1909-12; as receiver to wrap up the
affairs of a defunct Pittsburgh bank, he allegedly failed to pay
$22,000 owed to the city; in November 1926, he was arrested
in St. Petersburg, Florida, and charged
with embezzlement;
released on $10,000 bond; re-arrested
in December, after detectives received information that he was about
to jump
bail; waived extradition and voluntarily returned to Pittsburgh;
the case against him was dropped in April 1927.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Mt. Lebanon, Allegheny
County, Pa., April
20, 1946 (age 72 years, 328
days).
Interment at Allegheny County Memorial Park, Allison Park, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of William Adams and Mary Emma (Butler) Adams; married to Elise M.
Campbell. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Peter C. Jezewski (1883-1960) —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.; Hamtramck, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in New York, November
22, 1883.
Republican. Pharmacist;
member of New York
state assembly from Erie County 6th District, 1915-16; mayor
of Hamtramck, Mich., 1922-26, 1932-34; defeated, 1926, 1934.
Convicted
of bootlegging
and other vice
crimes about 1926, and spent a year in Leavenworth federal prison.
Died in Hamtramck, Wayne
County, Mich., December
1, 1960 (age 77 years, 9
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Frank Leslie Smith (1867-1950) —
also known as Frank L. Smith —
of Dwight, Livingston
County, Ill.
Born in Dwight, Livingston
County, Ill., November
24, 1867.
Republican. Candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Illinois, 1904; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1908,
1920,
1924,
1932,
1936,
1940
(member, Committee
to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee), 1944,
1948;
U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for the 8th Illinois District,
1909; member of Illinois
Republican State Central Committee, 1910-25; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 17th District, 1919-21; defeated,
1930; Illinois
Republican state chair, 1919-25; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1926-28; defeated, 1920; member of Republican
National Committee from Illinois, 1932.
Not
seated as a U.S. Senator in 1927 due to charges
of 'fraud and corruption' in his campaign.
Died in Dwight, Livingston
County, Ill., August
30, 1950 (age 82 years, 279
days).
Interment at Oak
Lawn Cemetery, Dwight, Ill.
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John L. Duvall (1874-1962) —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Tazewell
County, Ill., November
29, 1874.
Republican. Mayor
of Indianapolis, Ind., 1926-27; resigned 1927.
Convicted
in 1927 of violating the state corrupt practices act by taking
bribes from Ku Klux
Klan leader D. C. Stephenson; sentenced
to 30 days in jail, fined
$1,000, and forced to
resign as mayor.
Died February
25, 1962 (age 87 years, 88
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Claude E. Negley —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Marion
County, Ind.
Republican. Mayor
of Indianapolis, Ind., 1927.
Pleaded
guilty in 1927 to bribery
charges
and fined.
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Frank Frankel (1886-1975) —
of Long Beach, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Houston, Harris
County, Tex.; Beverly Hills, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born October
2, 1886.
Mayor
of Long Beach, N.Y., 1924, 1930-33; defeated, 1925 (Democratic
primary), 1925 (Republican), 1929 (Democratic primary); founder of
Long Beach Memorial Hospital
indicted
in September 1927 on charges
of maintaining a gambling
place; the charges were later dropped; in December 1929, his right to
take office as mayor was unsuccessfully challenged
by the Long Beach police chief, based on vote
fraud (for which many had been arrested and prosecuted) and the
expectation that Frankel would tolerate
gambling in the city; indicted
in January 1933 for fraud
over his transfer of $90,000 in city funds to the Long Beach Trust
Company, which subsequently closed; the indictment was dismissed in
February; indicted
again in May 1933, along with two city council members, over the
diversion of $750,000 of state and county tax revenue to city
projects; pleaded not guilty; no trial was held; the indictment was
dismissed in 1937; oil
producer.
Died, in a hospital
at Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 12,
1975 (age 88 years, 253
days).
Interment somewhere
in Houston, Tex.
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Henry Ford (1863-1947) —
of Dearborn, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Greenfield Township (now part of Detroit), Wayne
County, Mich., July 30,
1863.
Engineer;
inventor;
founder, Ford Motor
Company, 1903; candidate for Republican nomination for President,
1916;
Democratic candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1918; candidate for Democratic nomination
for President, 1924.
Episcopalian.
Scotch-Irish
and Belgian
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Publisher, in 1919-27, of the Dearborn Independent newspaper,
which promoted anti-Semitic
ideas through articles such as "The International Jew: The World's
Problem," which were reprinted as pamphlets and books. In 1927, a libel
lawsuit against Ford over these writings led him to shut
down the paper and publicly recant
its contents.
Died, from a stroke,
in Dearborn, Wayne
County, Mich., April 7,
1947 (age 83 years, 251
days).
Interment at Ford
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of William Ford and Mary (Litogot) Ford; married, April
11, 1888, to Clara Jane Bryant; uncle of Clarence
William Ford; second cousin once removed of Clyde
McKinlock Ford. |
| | | Political family: Ford
family of Detroit and Dearborn, Michigan. |
| | | Cross-reference: James
Couzens — Herman
Bernstein — Alfred
J. Murphy — Martin
C. Ansorge — William
A. Lucking |
| | | Personal motto:
"Efficiency." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Henry Ford: Douglas
Brinkley, Wheels
for the World : Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress,
1903-2003 — William A. Levinson, Henry
Ford's Lean Vision — Pat McCarthy, Henry
Ford : Building Cars for Everyone (for young
readers) — David Weitzman, Model
T : How Henry Ford Built a Legend (for young
readers) |
| | | Critical books about Henry Ford: Max
Wallace, The
American Axis : Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the
Third Reich — Neil Baldwin, Henry
Ford and the Jews : The Mass Production of Hate |
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Motley H. Flint (1864-1930) —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
19, 1864.
Republican. Postmaster at Los
Angeles, Calif., 1904-10; banker;
provided critical support for the Warner Brothers Movie
studio in its early years; one of the promoters of Julian
Petroleum Corporation, a Ponzi
scheme which collapsed in 1927; about 40,000 investors lost their
money; tainted by the scandal,
he moved to Europe for a time.
Member, Freemasons.
Called as a witness in a civil suit involving David
O. Selznick; after his testimony, as he returned to the audience
section of the courtroom,
in Los Angeles City
Hall, he was shot and
killed
by Frank Keaton, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 14,
1930 (age 66 years, 145
days). Keaton, who had lost his money in Julian Petroleum, was
immediately arrested, and subsequently tried, convicted, and hanged.
Entombed in mausoleum at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Florence Elizabeth Smith Knapp (1875-1949) —
also known as Florence E. S. Knapp; Florence Elizabeth
Smith —
of Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y.
Born in Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y., March
25, 1875.
Republican. School
teacher; superintendent
of schools; dean, College of Home Economics, Syracuse University;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1920,
1924
(alternate); secretary
of state of New York, 1925-27; in 1927, an investigation
discovered her maladministration
of the 1925 state census; she had paid salaries to relatives
and others who did no census work, forged
indorsements on checks, received
money she was not entitled to, and burned state records to conceal
evidence of these things; resigned
her position at Syracuse University; indicted
on various charges in 1928, tried
twice and eventually convicted
of grand
larceny; sentenced
to 30 days in jail.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Member, Grange.
Died, following a heart
attack, in Marcy State Hospital (insane
asylum), Marcy, Oneida
County, N.Y., October
26, 1949 (age 74 years, 215
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Syracuse, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Daughter of James E. Smith and Mary (Hancock) Smith; married to
Philip Schuyler Knapp. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Albert Edward Bogdon (1891-1927) —
also known as Albert E. Bogdon —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Mahanoy City, Schuylkill
County, Pa., 1891.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Colorado
state senate 1st District, 1925-27; died in office 1927.
While visiting his mistress,
(scandalous
behavior at the time), he was shot and
killed
by her estranged husband, Joseph S. Minter, in Denver,
Colo., June 10,
1927 (age about 35
years).
Entombed in mausoleum at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Wheat Ridge, Colo.
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Wesley Oval Moats (1891-1967) —
also known as W. O. Moats —
of Morgantown, Butler
County, Ky.; Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Morgantown, Butler
County, Ky., November
16, 1891.
Republican. Butler
County Court Clerk; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Kentucky; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 3rd District, 1922; indicted
in 1927 on federal income
tax evasion charges.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., January
17, 1967 (age 75 years, 62
days).
Interment at Riverview Cemetery, Morgantown, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of John McHenry 'Mack' Moats and Olivia B. (Whobrey) Moats; married
to Arta Pearl Enbry. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Harvey Parnell (1880-1936) —
of Dermott, Chicot
County, Ark.
Born near Orlando, Cleveland
County, Ark., February
28, 1880.
Democrat. Member of Arkansas
state house of representatives, 1919-22; member of Arkansas
state senate, 1923-26; Lieutenant
Governor of Arkansas, 1927-28; Governor of
Arkansas, 1928-33.
Southern
Methodist. Member, Freemasons.
In 1928, he was charged
with violating the Corrupt Practices Act (early campaign
finance law) by spending more than $5,000 on his campaign; the
charges were later dropped.
Died, following two heart
attacks, in St. Vincent's Infirmary,
Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark., January
16, 1936 (age 55 years, 322
days).
Interment at Roselawn
Memorial Park, Little Rock, Ark.
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James Kemp Doughton Sr. (1884-1973) —
of Sparta, Alleghany
County, N.C.
Born in Alleghany
County, N.C., May 18,
1884.
Banker;
farmer;
member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1948-57; Speaker of
the North Carolina State House of Representatives, 1951-57.
Methodist.
Indicted
for bank
fraud in 1928; tried
and acquitted.
Died, of pneumonia,
in a hospital
at Sparta, Alleghany
County, N.C., March
17, 1973 (age 88 years, 303
days).
Interment at Shiloh
Methodist Church Cemetery, Sparta, N.C.
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Magne Alfred Michaelson (1878-1949) —
also known as M. Alfred Michaelson; M. A.
Michaelson —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Kristiansand, Norway,
September
7, 1878.
Republican. Delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention 25th District,
1920-22; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1921-31; defeated,
1918, 1932.
Indicted
in 1928 on charges of violating the National
Prohibition Act.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., October
26, 1949 (age 71 years, 49
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Maurice E. Connolly (1881-1935) —
of Corona, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Forest Hills Gardens, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Corona, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., 1881.
Democrat. Lawyer; borough
president of Queens, New York, 1911-28; resigned 1928; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1912,
1916,
1924;
candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1918; resigned
as borough president in April, 1928 during an investigation
of a sewer graft scandal;
convicted
in October 1928 of conspiracy to defraud
the city; sentenced
to one year in prison
and fined
$500; following an unsuccessful appeal, he served the prison
sentence in 1930-31.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Forest Hills Gardens, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., November
24, 1935 (age about 54
years).
Interment at Mount
St. Mary Cemetery, Flushing, Queens, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Maurice Connolly and Mary Jane Connolly; married to Helen M.
Connell; father of Helen F. Connolly (daughter-in-law of Leander
Bernard Faber). |
| | | Cross-reference: Clarence
J. Shearn |
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Max Schachtman (1904-1972) —
of Floral Park, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Warsaw, Poland,
September
10, 1904.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; arrested
during a demonstration
on Wall Street in New York City, July 3, 1928, but charges against
him were dismissed; became an open supporter of Leon Trotsky's
opposition to Stalin about 1928, and was expelled from the Communist
Party; became a major Trotskyist leader and theoretician, and one of
the founders of the Socialist Workers Party; editor of The
Militant newspaper;
Workers candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1940 (23rd District), 1946 (15th
District); Workers candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1941; broke with Trotskyism in 1948, and
became more conservative in later life.
Jewish
ancestry. Member, League
for Industrial Democracy.
Died, in Long Island Jewish Hospital,
New Hyde Park, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., November
4, 1972 (age 68 years, 55
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin Schachtman and Sarah Schachtman; married to Billie
Ramloff, Edith Harvey and Yetta Barsh. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Charles Stuart Wharton (1875-1939) —
also known as Charles S. Wharton —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Aledo, Mercer
County, Ill., April
22, 1875.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 4th District, 1905-07; in February,
1928, a group of masked men stopped a train at Evergreen Park,
Illinois, and robbed
it of over $130,000; after the robbery, they met at Wharton's home to
divide up the proceeds, leaving him $4,000; in June, after being implicated
by two of the robbers, he was indicted
by a federal grand jury, tried
and convicted,
and sentenced
to two years in federal
prison.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
4, 1939 (age 64 years, 135
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935) —
also known as Huey P. Long; Hugh Pierce Long;
"The Kingfish" —
of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La.; New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born near Winnfield, Winn
Parish, La., August
30, 1893.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, 1928;
Governor
of Louisiana, 1928-32; member of Democratic
National Committee from Louisiana, 1928; impeached
by the Louisiana House in 1929 over multiple charges including his
attempt to impose an oil tax and his unauthorized demolition of the
governor's mansion, but not convicted by the Senate; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1932-35; died in office 1935.
Baptist.
Member, Elks.
Shot
and mortally
wounded by Dr. Carl Weiss (who was immediately killed at the
scene), in the Louisiana State
Capitol Building, September 8, 1935, and died two days later at
Our Lady of the Lake Hospital,
Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Parish, La., September
10, 1935 (age 42 years, 11
days).
Interment at State
Capitol Grounds, Baton Rouge, La.
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Relatives: Son
of Hugh Pierce Long and Caledonia Palestine (Tison) Long; brother of
George
Shannon Long and Earl
Kemp Long (who married Blanche
B. Revere); married, April
12, 1913, to Rose
McConnell; father of Russell
Billiu Long; second cousin once removed of Gillis
William Long and Speedy
Oteria Long. |
| | | Political family: Long
family of Louisiana. |
| | | Cross-reference: Cecil
Morgan — John
H. Overton — Harvey
G. Fields — Gerald
L. K. Smith |
| | | The Huey P. Long - O.K. Allen Bridge
(opened 1940), which carries U.S. Highway 190 and a rail line over
the Mississippi River, between East Baton
Rouge Parish and West Baton
Rouge Parish, Louisiana, is partly named for
him. — Senador Huey Pierce Long, a street
in Asunsion,
Paraguay, is named for
him. |
| | | Campaign slogan: "Every Man a
King." |
| | | Campaign slogan: "Share Our
Wealth." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books by Huey P. Long: Every
Man a King : The Autobiography of Huey P. Long |
| | | Books about Huey P. Long: T. Harry
Williams, Huey
Long — Harnett T. Kane, Huey
Long's Louisiana Hayride: The American Rehearsal for Dictatorship
1928-1940 — Richard D. White, Kingfish:
The Reign of Huey P. Long — David R. Collins, Huey
P. Long : Talker and Doer (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: KnowLA Encyclopedia of
Louisiana |
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Edward L. Jackson (1873-1954) —
also known as Ed Jackson —
of New Castle, Henry
County, Ind.; Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.; Orleans, Orange
County, Ind.
Born in Howard
County, Ind., December
27, 1873.
Republican. Lawyer; Henry
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1903-05; circuit judge in Indiana,
1909-14; secretary
of state of Indiana, 1917, 1921-25; defeated, 1914; served in the
U.S. Army during World War I; Governor of
Indiana, 1925-29; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Indiana, 1928.
Christian.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; American
Legion.
Charged
with bribery;
tried
and found not guilty.
Died November
18, 1954 (age 80 years, 326
days).
Interment at Green
Hill Cemetery, Orleans, Ind.
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Hiram Bingham (1875-1956) —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Salem, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, November
19, 1875.
Republican. Explorer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1916
(alternate), 1920
(alternate), 1924,
1928
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1932,
1936
(vice-chair, Resolutions
Committee); candidate for Presidential Elector for Connecticut;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1923-25; Governor of
Connecticut, 1925; U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1924-33; defeated, 1932; censured
by the U.S. Senate on November 4, 1929, for employing a paid
lobbyist as his chief clerk.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 6,
1956 (age 80 years, 200
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. Hiram Bingham and Clara Minerva (Brewster) Bingham; married,
November
20, 1900, to Alfreda Mitchell; married, June 28,
1937, to Suzanne Carroll Hill; father of Hiram
Bingham Jr., Alfred
Mitchell Bingham and Jonathan
Brewster Bingham; second cousin five times removed of Benjamin
Huntington; third cousin once removed of Bela
Edgerton and Heman
Ticknor; third cousin thrice removed of Matthew
Griswold, Jonathan
Brace, Joshua
Coit, Augustus
Seymour Porter, Samuel
Lathrop and Peter
Buell Porter; fourth cousin of Alfred
Peck Edgerton and Joseph
Ketchum Edgerton; fourth cousin once removed of Elijah
Abel, Calvin
Fillmore, William
Woodbridge, Henry
Meigs, Isaac
Backus, Samuel
George Andrews, Martin
Olds, Harrison
Blodget and Henry
Titus Backus. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham
family; Wolcott-Griswold-Packwood-Brandegee
family of Connecticut; Hosmer-Griswold-Parsons
family of Middletown, Connecticut (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Albert Bacon Fall (1861-1944) —
also known as Albert B. Fall —
of Three Rivers, Otero
County, N.M.
Born in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., November
26, 1861.
Republican. Lawyer; farmer;
member of New Mexico
territorial House of Representatives, 1891-92; justice of
New Mexico territorial supreme court, 1893; New
Mexico territory attorney general, 1897; served in the U.S. Army
during the Spanish-American War; U.S.
Senator from New Mexico, 1912-21; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New Mexico, 1916;
U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1921-23.
Convicted
of bribery
in 1929 for his role in the Teapot Dome oil lease scandal;
served one year in prison.
Died in El Paso, El Paso
County, Tex., November
30, 1944 (age 83 years, 4
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Alameda Cemetery, El Paso, Tex.
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Henry Simpson Johnston (1867-1965) —
also known as Henry S. Johnston —
of Perry, Noble
County, Okla.
Born near Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind., December
30, 1867.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oklahoma,
1912;
Governor
of Oklahoma, 1927-29.
Impeached
and removed from
office as Governor in 1929.
Died in Perry, Noble
County, Okla., January
7, 1965 (age 97 years, 8
days).
Interment somewhere
in Perry, Okla.
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Eugene Dennis (1905-1961) —
also known as Francis Xavier Waldron; Tim
Ryan —
Born in Seattle, King
County, Wash., August
10, 1905.
Communist. Union
organizer; fled
to the Soviet Union in 1929 to avoid prosecution;
returned to the U.S. in 1935; General Secretary, Communist Party,
1946-59, and Chairman, 1959-61; arrested
in 1948, along with other party leaders, and charged
with advocating
the violent overthrow of the United States; convicted
in 1949, and sentenced
to five years in prison.
Died, from cancer,
in Mount Sinai Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
31, 1961 (age 55 years, 174
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
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James P. Kohler —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Lawyer;
secretary to New York City Mayor William
J. Gaynor; candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1920.
In 1929, he was one of several Brooklyn lawyers who were disciplined
for ambulance
chasing activities; his license to practice law was suspended
for 30 days.
Burial location unknown.
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Paris Montrose (c.1895-1961) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born about 1895.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for New York
state assembly from Kings County 22nd District, 1927, 1928.
In 1929, he was one of several Brooklyn lawyers who were disciplined
for ambulance
chasing activities and paying
insurance company adjusters for favorable settlement of claims; his
license to practice law was suspended
for two years.
Died, of cancer,
in the Memorial Center
for Cancer and Allied Diseases of the Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Institute, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
14, 1961 (age about 66
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Mortimer J. Wohl (1888-1931) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March
20, 1888.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; candidate for New York
state assembly from Kings County 18th District, 1921.
Member, American
Legion.
In 1929, he was one of several Brooklyn lawyers who were charged
with ambulance
chasing activities; he disputed the charges.
Died, from septicemia,
in Jewish Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
14, 1931 (age 43 years, 208
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Wohl and Fannie Whol; married, November
11, 1923, to Adelaide Finkelstein. |
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William Scott Vare (1867-1934) —
also known as William S. Vare —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
24, 1867.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1908,
1912,
1916,
1920,
1924,
1928
(member, Credentials
Committee; speaker),
1932;
candidate for mayor
of Philadelphia, Pa., 1911; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 1st District, 1912-23, 1923-27;
member of Pennsylvania
state senate 1st District, 1923; U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1927-29.
Political boss of Philadelphia in the 1920's; unseated
as U.S. Senator in 1929 over charges
of corruption and fraud in his election.
Died in Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., August
7, 1934 (age 66 years, 226
days).
Interment at West
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
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J. O. Stricklin (1872-1930) —
of Yazoo City, Yazoo
County, Miss.
Born July 9,
1872.
Mayor
of Yazoo City, Miss., 1929-30; died in office 1930.
Indicted
by a Yazoo County grand jury in 1929 for stealing a
cow; details of the case were printed in the Yazoo
Sentinel newspaper, leading to a feud between Stricklin and the
Sentinel's editor, Frank R. Birdsall; a year later, on Main Street in
front of the Sentinel office, Stricklin was talking with Dr. R.
E. Hawkins, his opponent in the last election, when Birdsall
approached; Stricklin pulled out a pistol, shot
Birdsall three times (he died the next day), and shot
at, but missed, Dr. Hawkins; he then went to his son's funeral
parlor, where he died by a self-inflicted
gunshot,
in Yazoo City, Yazoo
County, Miss., April 1,
1930 (age 57 years, 266
days).
Interment at Glenwood Cemetery, Yazoo City, Miss.
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Archibald James Carey (1868-1931) —
also known as Archibald J. Carey —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in slavery,
in Georgia, August
25, 1868.
Republican. School teacher
and principal; president,
Edward Waters College, Jacksonville, Fla., 1895; minister;
bishop;
delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention 3rd District,
1920-22; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Illinois, 1924;
member, Chicago Civil Service Commission, 1927-29; indicted
in 1929 on charges
of accepting
bribes from job applicants; the case never came to trial.
African
Methodist Episcopal. African
ancestry.
Died, from heart
disease, in Billings Memorial Hospital,
Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March
23, 1931 (age 62 years, 210
days).
Interment at Lincoln
Cemetery, Blue Island, Ill.
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Raleigh P. Hale (1883-1931) —
of East Chicago, Lake
County, Ind.
Born in Columbia, Boone
County, Mo., June 6,
1883.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; physician;
mayor
of East Chicago, Ind., 1926-30; resigned 1930; in 1929, accused
of protecting
vice as mayor, he and 18 others, including the East Chicago
police chief and the reputed business agent for gangster
Al Capone were charged
in federal court with conspiracy to violate liquor
prohibition laws; convicted
in January 1930, and sentenced
to two years in prison; on appeal, a new trial was ordered.
Member, American
Legion.
Died suddenly, from dilated
cardiomyopathy, in East Chicago, Lake
County, Ind., December
1, 1931 (age 48 years, 178
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Hammond, Ind.
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Daniel Richard Crissinger (1860-1942) —
also known as Daniel R. Crissinger —
of Marion, Marion
County, Ohio.
Born in Tully Township, Marion
County, Ohio, December
10, 1860.
Democrat. Lawyer; Marion
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1889-94; Marion city solicitor,
1895-1900; one of the organizers of the Marion County Telephone
Company; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Ohio 13th District, 1904, 1906; banker;
U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, 1921-23; member, board of
governors, Federal Reserve, 1923-27; in December 1929, he, along with
U.S. Rep. Frederick
N. Zihlman, 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 Crissinger and Zihlman
were never tried, and charges against them were dismissed in 1932.
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Knights
Templar; Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Eagles.
Died in Marion, Marion
County, Ohio, July 12,
1942 (age 81 years, 214
days).
Interment at Marion
Cemetery, Marion, Ohio.
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Edward James Dennis (1877-1930) —
also known as E. J. Dennis —
of Berkeley
County, S.C.
Born in Macbeth, Berkeley
County, S.C., September
23, 1877.
Lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Berkeley County,
1900-04, 1916-18; member of South
Carolina state senate from Berkeley County, 1904-06, 1910-14,
1918-22, 1926-30; died in office 1930.
Methodist.
Tried
and acquitted in 1929 for conspiracy to violate the alcohol
prohibition law.
Shot
and mortally
wounded by Webster Lee 'Sporty' Thornley, on the street in front
of the post
office in Moncks Corner, S.C., and died the next day in a hospital
at Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., July 25,
1930 (age 52 years, 305
days). Thornley was tried and convicted of murder; Glenn D.
McKnight, who allegedly hired Thornley to murder Dennis, was tried
and not convicted.
Interment at St.
John's Baptist Churchyard, Pinopolis, S.C.
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