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Sammie A. Abbott (1908-1990) —
of New York; Takoma Park, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born April
25, 1908.
Communist. Activist and labor
organizer; arrested
about 50 times in connection with demonstrations
and strikes; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 37th District, 1934; mayor
of Takoma Park, Md., 1980-85; defeated, 1985.
Died December
15, 1990 (age 82 years, 234
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1938 to Ruth
Gracie Yalsic. |
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Aníbal Acevedo=Vilá (b. 1962) —
of San Juan, San Juan
Municipio, Puerto Rico.
Born in Hato Rey, San Juan
Municipio, Puerto Rico, February
13, 1962.
Lawyer;
member of Puerto
Rico House of Representatives, 1991-2001; Resident
Commissioner to U.S. Congress from Puerto Rico, 2001-05; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Puerto Rico, 2004,
2008;
Governor
of Puerto Rico, 2005-09; defeated, 2008.
In March, 2008, he was charged
with 19 counts of campaign
finance corruption; in August, 2008, five more counts
were added; fifteen counts were dismissed in December; tried on
the remaining nine charges; found not guilty in March, 2009.
Still living as of 2014.
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Gerald Steven Ackerman (b. 1956) —
also known as Gerald Ackerman; Ajax
Ackerman —
of Port Huron, St. Clair
County, Mich.
Born August
5, 1956.
Mayor
of Port Huron, Mich., 1997-99; resigned 1999.
Arraigned
in April 1999 on 14 counts of criminal
sexual conduct involving children; tried in
October 1999 and convicted
only of the indecent
exposure charges, with the jury unable to agree on the others; sentenced
to one year imprisonment;
retried
in May 2000 and convicted
on 10 felony counts of criminal
sexual conduct; sentenced
to 18 to 38 years imprisonment.
Still living as of 2007.
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Carl Adolphus Gottlieb Adae (1839-1915) —
also known as Carl A. G. Adae —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Möckmühl, Germany,
June
9, 1839.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; Vice-Consul
for Germany in Cincinnati,
Ohio, 1871-77; president of the C. F. Adae & Co. bank;
after the bank became insolvent in December 1878, he was arrested
and charged
with bank
fraud, that is, accepting deposits knowing that the bank was
about to fail; the case was referred to the grand jury, but no
indictments resulted; insurance
agent.
German
ancestry.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
26, 1915 (age 75 years, 231
days).
Interment at The
Evergreens Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Brockman Adams (1927-2004) —
also known as Brock Adams —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Stevensville, Queen
Anne's County, Md.
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., January
13, 1927.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Washington, 1961-64; U.S.
Representative from Washington 7th District, 1965-77; U.S.
Secretary of Transportation, 1977-79; resigned 1979; U.S.
Senator from Washington, 1987-93; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1988 ;
in 1992, he was accused
by eight women of sexual
misconduct including sexual
harassment and rape;
he denied the allegations, and no charges were ever brought, but the
scandal
ended his political career.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Federal
Bar Association.
Died, from Parkinson's
disease, in Stevensville, Queen
Anne's County, Md., September
10, 2004 (age 77 years, 241
days).
Interment at Broad
Creek Cemetery, Stevensville, Md.
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Charles Hall Adams (1853-1938) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., March 6,
1853.
Lawyer;
Consul
for Liberia in Boston,
Mass., 1885-94; Consul-General
for Liberia in Boston,
Mass., 1894-1907; Consul
for Nicaragua in Boston,
Mass., 1899-1907; Vice-Consul
for Uruguay in Boston,
Mass., 1905-07; in May 1909, he and another lawyer were charged
with conspiring to obtain
unclaimed deposits at Suffolk Savings Bank by inventing
fictitious heirs; pleaded not guilty.
Died in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., July 5,
1938 (age 85 years, 121
days).
Interment at Newton
Cemetery, Newton, Mass.
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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. |
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memorial |
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Llewelyn Sherman Adams (1899-1986) —
also known as Sherman Adams; "The Abominable No
Man"; "The Great Stone Face" —
of Lincoln, Grafton
County, N.H.
Born in East Dover, Dover, Windham
County, Vt., January
8, 1899.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; lumberman;
member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1941-44; Speaker of
the New Hampshire State House of Representatives, 1943-44;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1944,
1952
(speaker);
U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire 2nd District, 1945-47; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention from Lincoln,
1948; Governor of
New Hampshire, 1949-53; defeated, 1946; assistant to President Dwight
D. Eisenhower, 1953-58; forced to
resign in 1958 following disclosure that he had accepted
gifts, including a vicuna
coat, from a Boston businessman seeking preferred treatment from
federal agencies.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Grange;
Elks; Society
of Colonial Wars; Foresters.
Died in Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H., October
27, 1986 (age 87 years, 292
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Lincoln, N.H.
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William Everett Adams (1922-1983) —
also known as William E. Adams —
of Tonawanda, Erie
County, N.Y.; Kenmore, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Knightstown, Henry
County, Ind., December
25, 1922.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Erie County 2nd District, 1957-64; member of
New
York state senate, 1966-70 (61st District 1966, 53rd District
1967-70); indicted
in December 1969 on charges of lying to a
grand jury when he testified that he returned a cash
campaign contribution from a medical services company; tried in
1970 and found not guilty.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
American
Legion; Sigma
Nu; Knights
of Pythias.
Suffered a heart
attack, and died a week later, in Albany Medical
Center, Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., April
14, 1983 (age 60 years, 110
days).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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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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Hugh Joseph Addonizio (1914-1981) —
also known as Hugh J. Addonizio —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., January
31, 1914.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II;
vice-president, A & C Tailoring
Co.; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 11th District, 1949-62; mayor of
Newark, N.J., 1962-70; defeated, 1970; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New Jersey, 1964.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry. Member, Holy
Name Society; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Urban
League; NAACP; Elks; Lions; Kiwanis;
Rotary.
Indicted
in federal court, December, 1969, along with Municipal Judge Anthony
Giuliano, other city officials, and reputed organized
crime leader, Anthony 'Tony Boy' Boiardo, on extortion
and income
tax evasion charges
over a scheme to share kickbacks
from a sewer contracting company; pleaded not guilty; tried;
during the trial a witness identified him as recipient of thousands
of dollars in bribes;
convicted
in July, 1970; sentenced
to ten years in prison
and fined
$25,000; released in 1979.
Died in Red Bank, Monmouth
County, N.J., February
2, 1981 (age 67 years, 2
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover, N.J.
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Bernard Ades (1903-1986) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Maryland, July 3,
1903.
Communist. Lawyer; accountant;
defense attorney for Euel Lee (alias "Orphan Jones") in his 1932-33
trial for the murder of the Davis family; during the trial, Ades was
attacked
and injured by a mob in Snow Hill, Maryland; later, he was disbarred
for casting
aspersions on the judicial system; candidate for Governor of
Maryland, 1934; fought in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the
Spanish Civil War, 1937.
Jewish.
Died in New York, May 27,
1986 (age 82 years, 328
days).
Interment at Cemetery
of Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, Baltimore, Md.
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Spiro Theodore Agnew (1918-1996) —
also known as Spiro T. Agnew; Spiro Theodore
Anagnostopoulos; "Spiro T. Eggplant";
"Nixon's Nixon"; "The White
Knight" —
of Towson, Baltimore
County, Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., November
9, 1918.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; served in
the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; lawyer; Baltimore
County Executive, 1962-66; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Maryland, 1964;
Governor
of Maryland, 1967-69; Vice
President of the United States, 1969-73.
Episcopalian.
Greek
ancestry. Member, Kiwanis;
American
Legion; Order of
Ahepa; Phi
Alpha Delta; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Was charged
with accepting bribes
and falsifying federal income
tax returns; pleaded no
contest to tax
evasion and resigned
as Vice-President, October 10, 1973; disbarred
by a Maryland court in 1974.
Died, of leukemia,
in Atlantic General Hospital,
Berlin, Worcester
County, Md., September
17, 1996 (age 77 years, 313
days).
Interment at Dulaney
Valley Memorial Gardens, Timonium, Md.
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John Francis Ahearn (1853-1920) —
also known as John F. Ahearn —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
18, 1853.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly from New York County 4th District, 1882; member of
New
York state senate, 1890-1902 (6th District 1890-93, 8th District
1894-95, 10th District 1896-1902); delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1896,
1912,
1916,
1920;
borough
president of Manhattan, New York, 1904-09; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 11th District, 1915.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Tammany
Hall.
Following an investigation,
Gov. Charles
Evans Hughes denounced his administration as "flagrantly inefficient
and wasteful" and ordered him removed from
office as Manhattan Borough President on December 9, 1907.
Following a long legal battle, he finally left office in 1909.
Died, of pleurisy,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
19, 1920 (age 67 years, 245
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Frank R. Aikens (b. 1855) —
of Canton, Lincoln
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.); Sioux Falls, Minnehaha
County, S.Dak.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
14, 1855.
Lawyer;
member of Dakota
territorial legislature, 1887-89; justice of
Dakota territorial supreme court, 1889; district judge in South
Dakota, 1889-94.
In 1891, when affluent Easterners came to South Dakota to live in a
hotel for 90 days, so as to be eligible for the state's easy divorce
law, he ruled that hotel guests were not bona fide South Dakota
residents, disrupting the divorce plans of a number of celebrities.
Later that year, a committee of Sioux Falls ministers accused
the judge of drunkenness
and licentiousness.
Burial location unknown.
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William Albertson (1910-1972) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Odessa, Russia (now Ukraine),
May
7, 1910.
Communist. Candidate for New York
state senate 16th District, 1932; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1934; secretary-treasurer,
Local 16, Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union.
Indicted,
along with other Communist leaders, by a federal grand jury in
August, 1951; tried,
in Pittsburgh, starting in November 1952, and convicted
in August, 1953, under the Smith
Act, of conspiring to advocate the violent
overthrow of the U.S. government; sentenced
to five years in prison;
the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the convictions in 1956. Expelled
from the Communist Party in 1964 over claims that he served as an
undercover police agent; in 1976, it was revealed that the charge was
founded on a phony letter planted by the F.B.I.
Died, in an automobile
accident, February
19, 1972 (age 61 years, 288
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James Alexander (1691-1756) —
Born in Muthill, Perthshire, Scotland,
May
27, 1691.
In Scotland, he joined the Jacobite Rising of 1715, a revolt
that attempted to install James Francis Edward Stuart (the "Old
Pretender") as king; to avoid prosecution
for treason,
he fled
to New York; surveyor;
lawyer;
member New York governor's council, 1721-32, 1737; Colonial
Attorney-General of New York, 1721-23.
Member, American
Philosophical Society.
Died in New York, April 2,
1756 (age 64 years, 311
days).
Interment at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Lee Alexander (1927-1996) —
of Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y.
Born in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., May 18,
1927.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 34th District, 1962; mayor
of Syracuse, N.Y., 1970-85; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1974; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1980;
member, Arrangements Committee, 1984.
Was indicted
in July 1987 over a $1.5 million kickback
scandal,
and pleaded
guilty in January 1988 to racketeering and tax
evasion charges;
served six years in prison.
Died, of cancer,
in Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y., December
25, 1996 (age 69 years, 221
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Peter Alexander and Rita (Rouatcos) Alexander; married 1957 to
Elizabeth Strates. |
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Robert Alexander (c.1740-1805) —
of Maryland.
Born in Elkton, Cecil
County, Md., about 1740.
Planter;
lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1775-76.
Episcopalian.
When the Declaration of Independence was promulgated, fled
from Maryland to the British Fleet; in 1780, he was adjudged
guilty of high
treason, and his property was confiscated.
Died in London, England,
November
20, 1805 (age about 65
years).
Burial location unknown.
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William Ellerton Alger (1856-1917) —
also known as William E. Alger —
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
1, 1856.
U.S. Consular Agent in Puerto Cortes, 1891-1902; U.S. Consul in Puerto Cortes, 1902-04; Tegucigalpa, 1904-09; Mazatlan, 1909-16; Fernie, 1917; Guatemala City, 1917, died in office 1917; in 1909, he was accused,
in a petition signed by Americans in Puerto Cortez, of conflict
of interest, due to his marriage to a Honduran woman, the sister
of a provincial governor, owning lands and cattle due to his
marriage, and raising children in Honduras; the State Department investigated
these accusations.
Died in Guatemala City, Guatemala,
March
9, 1917 (age 60 years, 189
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Anne Langdon 'Annie' (Lodge) Alger and William Rounseville Alger;
married 1888 to
Lucille Violantte DeLeon; married 1896 to Mucia
Paz. |
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Joseph Lawrence Alioto (1916-1998) —
also known as Joseph L. Alioto —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., February
12, 1916.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1968-76; candidate for Governor of
California, 1974.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Indicted
in 1971 on federal charges
of bribery,
conspiracy, and mail fraud; acquitted in 1972.
Died, of prostate
cancer and pneumonia,
in San
Francisco, Calif., January
29, 1998 (age 81 years, 351
days).
Interment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.; cenotaph at Holy
Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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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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Andrew Allen (1740-1825) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., 1740.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1775-76.
Disapproved of the Declaration of Independence, and withdrew from the
Continental Congress in June 1776; when the British Army entered New
York, he took the oath of allegiance to the King, and went to
England; he was attainted
of treason,
and his estates in Pennsylvania were confiscated.
Died in London, England,
March
7, 1825 (age about 84
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Doris Allen (1936-1999) —
of California.
Born in Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., May 26,
1936.
Republican. Member of California
state assembly, 1982-95; Speaker of
the California State Assembly, 1995; candidate for California
state senate, 1990.
Female.
Was recalled
from office in 1995 after becoming Speaker with mainly Democratic
support.
Died, of stomach
and colon
cancer, at a hospice
in Colorado Springs, El Paso
County, Colo., September
22, 1999 (age 63 years, 119
days).
Interment somewhere
in Cripple Creek, Colo.
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Melba Till Allen (1933-1989) —
also known as Melba Till —
of Hope Hull, Montgomery
County, Ala.; Grady, Montgomery
County, Ala.; Marbury, Autauga
County, Ala.
Born in Friendship Community, Butler
County, Ala., March 3,
1933.
Democrat. Alabama
state auditor, 1967-75; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1972; Alabama
state treasurer, 1975-78; Convicted
in 1978 of using her position as state treasurer to obtain bank
loans to build a theme park, and for failing
to disclose her personal finances; she denied any wrongdoing; sentenced
to six years in jail,
but spent most of her sentence working as a bookkeeper in a
retirement home.
Female.
Baptist.
Member, Order
of the Eastern Star.
Died, of cancer,
in Baptist Medical
Center, Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala., October
20, 1989 (age 56 years, 231
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Samuel Ben Till and Gertrude (Johnson) Till; married, December
24, 1950, to Marvin E. Allen. |
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Abraham Kurkindolle Allison (1810-1893) —
also known as Abraham K. Allison —
Born in Jones
County, Ga., December
10, 1810.
Member of Florida
territorial legislature, 1830; served in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War; Governor of
Florida, 1865; arrested
by Federal authorities on June 19, 1865, and incarcerated
with other Confederate
officials at Fort Pulaski, Georgia, for six months.
Died in Quincy, Gadsden
County, Fla., July 8,
1893 (age 82 years, 210
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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Albert Alonzo Ames (1842-1911) —
also known as Albert A. Ames;
"Doc" —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.; California.
Born in Garden Prairie, Boone
County, Ill., January
18, 1842.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; physician;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 5, 1867; mayor
of Minneapolis, Minn., 1876-77, 1882-84, 1886-89, 1901-02;
resigned 1902; candidate for Governor of
Minnesota, 1886 (Democratic), 1896 (Independent); delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1888;
indicted
in 1902 on bribery
charges,
over a scheme to induce county commissioners to appoint his
secretary, Thomas R. Brown, Jr., as Sheriff.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias.
Died, in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., November
16, 1911 (age 69 years, 302
days). His body was reportedly donated to
science.
Cremated;
ashes interred at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Oakes Ames (1804-1873) —
of North Easton, Easton, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born in Easton, Bristol
County, Mass., January
10, 1804.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1863-73.
He and his brother Oliver
Ames, president of the Union Pacific Railroad, prime movers in
construction of the first
transcontinental railroad
line, completed in 1869; he was as censured
by the House of Representatives in 1873 for his role in the Credit
Mobilier bribery
scandal.
Died in Easton, Bristol
County, Mass., May 8,
1873 (age 69 years, 118
days).
Interment at Village
Cemetery, North Easton, Easton, Mass.; memorial monument at Oliver and Oakes Ames Monument, Sherman, Wyo.
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Israel Amter (1881-1954) —
of Ohio; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Denver,
Colo., March
26, 1881.
Communist. Musician;
Workers Communist candidate for U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1928; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1930 (23rd District), 1938
(at-large); candidate for Governor of
New York, 1932, 1934, 1942; candidate for borough
president of Manhattan, New York, 1933.
Indicted
in 1951 for conspiring to teach and advocate the violent
overthrow of the government, but due to poor health, was never
tried.
Died, from Parkinson's
disease, in Columbus Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
24, 1954 (age 73 years, 243
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1903 to Sadie
Van Veen. |
| | | Image source: Marxists Internet
Archive |
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Charles J. Anderson Jr. —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 6th District, 1944; delegate to the
openly
anti-Semitic America First Party convention in 1944, which
nominated Gerald
L. K. Smith for president.
Pleaded
guilty in Chicago, 1946 to a charge
of assault
with intent to kill.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Campbell Anderson (1830-1891) —
also known as Joseph C. Anderson —
of Kansas.
Born in Jessamine
County, Ky., 1830.
Lawyer;
member of Kansas
territorial legislature, 1855; arrested
and imprisoned
during the Civil War for refusing
to sign an oath of allegiance to the Union.
Died in 1891
(age about
61 years).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Robert Bernerd Anderson (1910-1989) —
also known as Robert B. Anderson —
of Texas.
Born in Burleson, Johnson
County, Tex., June 4,
1910.
School
teacher; lawyer;
member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1932; Received the Medal
of Freedom in 1955; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1957-61.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Phi
Delta Phi; Order of
the Coif.
Pleaded
guilty in 1987 to charges
of evading
taxes by illegally operating an offshore
bank; sentenced
to jail, house
arrest, and probation;
disbarred
in 1988.
Died, of complications from surgery on cancer
of the esophagus, in New York
Hospital, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August
14, 1989 (age 79 years, 71
days).
Interment at Rosehill Cemetery, Cleburne, Tex.
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Thomas T. Anderson (b. 1957) —
also known as Tom Anderson —
of Anchorage,
Alaska.
Born in Anchorage,
Alaska, August
4, 1957.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Alaska
state house of representatives 19th District, 2003-07; arrested
and indicted
in December 2006 on federal federal bribery,
extortion,
and money
laundering charges;
tried
and convicted
in July 2007; sentenced
to 60 months in prison.
Lutheran.
Still living as of 2009.
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Dale Ray Andre (1889-1950) —
of Iowa.
Born in 1889.
Member of Iowa
state house of representatives, 1917.
Was indicted
in 1931 for misusing
investment funds; found not guilty, but his career was wrecked.
Died in 1950
(age about
61 years).
Interment at Aspen
Grove Cemetery, Burlington, Iowa.
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Ike Franklin Andrews (1925-2010) —
also known as Ike F. Andrews —
of Siler City, Chatham
County, N.C.
Born in Bonlee, Chatham
County, N.C., September
2, 1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state senate 13th District, 1959-60; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1961-62, 1967-72;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from North
Carolina, 1964;
U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 4th District, 1973-85;
defeated, 1984.
Baptist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Jaycees.
In October 1982, he was arrested
and charged
with drunk
driving.
Died in Carrboro, Orange
County, N.C., May 10,
2010 (age 84 years, 250
days).
Interment at Bonlee Baptist Church Cemetery, Bonlee, N.C.
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Israel DeWolf Andrews (c.1813-1871) —
also known as Israel D. Andrews —
of Maine.
Born in New
Brunswick, about 1813.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; imprisoned
for debt more
than once; U.S. Consul in Saint John, 1843-48; U.S. Special Diplomatic Agent to Canada, 1849-54; U.S. Consul General in Toronto, 1855-57; successfully advocated for reciprocal trade
agreements.
Died, reportedly due to alcoholism,
in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
17, 1871 (age about 58
years).
Interment at Hillside
Cemetery, Eastport, Maine.
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Robert Philo Anibal (1845-1908) —
also known as Robert P. Anibal —
of Northville, Fulton
County, N.Y.; Johnstown, Fulton
County, N.Y.
Born in Benson, Hamilton
County, N.Y., February
22, 1845.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer; Hamilton
County Judge and Surrogate, 1872-77; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1896;
candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 4th District, 1901.
In May 1901, the Herkimer County District Attorney accused
him of offering a
bribe to a witness
in a criminal trial; Anibal denied this.
Died in Northville, Fulton
County, N.Y., December
14, 1908 (age 63 years, 296
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Philo Anibal and Mary (Orcutt) Anibal; married, April
24, 1872, to Frances E. Van Arnam. |
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Walter Hubert Annenberg (1908-2002) —
also known as Walter H. Annenberg —
of Wynnewood, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., March
13, 1908.
Vice-president of his father's company, which published the Racing
Form and other newspapers;
he and his father were indicted
for tax
evasion in 1939, but the charges against him were dismissed as
part of a plea bargain; inherited the company when his father died;
founder of Seventeen and TV Guide; owner of radio and
television stations; philanthropist; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1969-74.
Jewish
ancestry. Member, Newcomen
Society; Phi
Sigma Delta; Sigma
Delta Chi; Zeta
Beta Tau.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1986.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Wynnewood, Montgomery
County, Pa., October
1, 2002 (age 94 years, 202
days).
Interment at Sunnyland
Estate, Rancho Mirage, Calif.
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Salvador Anzelmo (born c.1924) —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born about 1924.
Member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1969.
Indicted
in 1969 on fraud
and conspiracy charges
in connection with the bankrupt Louisiana Loan and Thrift Corporation.
Still living as of 1969.
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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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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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Stevenson Archer (1827-1898) —
of Bel Air, Harford
County, Md.
Born near Churchville, Harford
County, Md., February
28, 1827.
Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1854; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 2nd District, 1867-75; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1868,
1876;
Maryland
state treasurer, 1886-90; Maryland
Democratic state chair, 1887-89.
In April, 1890, following an investigation
which revealed a shortage
of $132,000, he was arrested,
removed
from office as State Treasurer, and charged
with embezzlement.
He pleaded
guilty and wrote to the court: "No part of the State's money or
securities was ever used by me in gambling, stock speculation, or for
political purposes; nor have I at this time one dollar of it left."
Sentenced
to five years in prison.
Due to his failing health, was pardoned
by Gov. Frank
Brown in May 1894.
Slaveowner.
Died, in Baltimore City Hospital,
Baltimore,
Md., August
2, 1898 (age 71 years, 155
days).
Interment at Presbyterian
Cemetery, Churchville, Md.
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Anthony J. Argondizza (c.1899-1958) —
of Maspeth, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, about 1899.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
candidate for New York
state senate 3rd District, 1924; arraigned
in January 1937, and pleaded not guilty on a charge
of making a
false oath as a bankruptcy trustee; apparently the case never
proceeded to trial; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1948.
Italian
ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Knights
of Columbus.
Died in Maspeth, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., June 21,
1958 (age about 59
years).
Burial location unknown.
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George Ryoichi Ariyoshi (b. 1926) —
also known as George R. Ariyoshi —
of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii.
Born in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, March
12, 1926.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Hawaii
territorial House of Representatives, 1954-58; member of Hawaii
territorial senate, 1958-59; member of Hawaii
state senate, 1959-70; delegate
to Hawaii state constitutional convention, 1968; Lieutenant
Governor of Hawaii, 1970-73; Governor of
Hawaii, 1974-86; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Hawaii, 1980,
1996,
2000.
Protestant.
Japanese
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; Lions.
Detained
by U.S. Customs in 1987 for failing
to declare jewelry brought from Japan, and fined
$11,389.
Still living as of 2014.
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John Armstrong Jr. (1758-1843) —
also known as "Old Soldier"; "Monsieur
Tombo" —
of Pennsylvania; Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., November
25, 1758.
Republican. Major in Continental Army during the Revolutionary War;
secretary
of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1783-87; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1787-88; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1800-02, 1803-04; U.S. Minister to France, 1804-10; general in the U.S. Army during the War of
1812; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1813-14; blamed
for the British capture of Washington, D.C. in August 1814, and forced to
resign; member of New York
state assembly from Dutchess County, 1825.
Catholic.
Slaveowner.
Died in Red Hook, Dutchess
County, N.Y., April 1,
1843 (age 84 years, 127
days).
Entombed at Rhinebeck
Cemetery, Rhinebeck, N.Y.
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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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Joseph Michael Joe Arpaio (b. 1932) —
also known as Joe Arpaio; "America's Toughest
Sheriff" —
of Fountain Hills, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., June 14,
1932.
Republican. Police
officer; Maricopa
County Sheriff, 1993-2016; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Arizona; convicted
in July 2017 on federal contempt
charges, over his violation of court orders regarding racial
profiling; pardoned
in August 2017 by President Donald
Trump.
Italian
ancestry.
Still living as of 2018.
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George T. Ashe (1905-1975) —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
6, 1905.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives Fifteenth Middlesex District,
1935-40; mayor of
Lowell, Mass., 1940-42; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1940.
Catholic.
Indicted
on bribery
charges in March, 1942, in connection with sales of equipment and
supplies to the city through a dummy company; tried
and convicted
in October, and sentenced
to one year in jail; in December, he pleaded
guilty to a separate charge of accepting a $1,000 bribe
from a construction contractor, dropped his appeal of the other
conviction, and immediately went to jail.
Died in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., May, 1975
(age 70
years, 0 days).
Interment at St.
Patrick's Cemetery, Lowell, Mass.
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Robert B. Asher —
of Pennsylvania.
Republican. Pennsylvania
Republican state chair, 1985.
Along with state treasurer R.
Budd Dwyer, was convicted
in federal court in 1986, on bribery
and conspiracy charges.
Still living as of 1987.
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Lorence Elmer Asman (b. 1924) —
also known as Lorence E. Asman; Larry
Asman —
of Kent
County, Mich.
Born in St. Louis, Gratiot
County, Mich., January
29, 1924.
Republican. In 1941, he became a follower and associate of anti-Semitic
leader Gerald
L. K. Smith; arrested
by the Secret Service in 1943 for writing a "scurrilous" (presumably
threatening)
letter to President Franklin
D. Roosevelt; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; author
of a inflammatory leaflet in 1946 titled 20,000 Little Brown
Bastards which was widely distributed to stir up racial
hatred against African-Americans; candidate for Michigan
state senate 16th District, 1960.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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James Vito Auditore (1889-1973) —
also known as James V. Auditore; "The Millionaire
Stevedore" —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Great Neck, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Valley Stream, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., July 15,
1889.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1920;
owner of two stevedoring
companies; indicted
in 1947, with two other men, and charged
with conspiracy to collect illegal fees on New York City piers, by
getting control of the city-owned facilities and reselling
access to shippers at three times the city rates; convicted
on sixteen counts; sentenced
to four and a half to ten years in prison.
Italian
ancestry.
Died July 3,
1973 (age 83 years, 353
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas A. Aurelio (c.1892-1973) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., about 1892.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
magistrate; on August 28, 1943, New York County District Attorney Frank
S. Hogan charged
in a formal statement that Aurelio's nomination by both major parties
for Supreme Court had been brought about by gangster
and ex-convict Frank Costello, and released the transcript of a
telephone conversation in which Aurelio thanked Costello and pledged
undying loyalty; his candidacy was repudiated
by both parties, but they were unable to remove his name from the
ballot; disbarment
proceedings were also unsuccessful; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1944-61.
Italian
ancestry. Member, Tammany
Hall.
Died, probably from a heart
attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
5, 1973 (age about 81
years).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
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Stephen Fuller Austin (1793-1836) —
also known as Stephen F. Austin; "Father of
Texas" —
Born in Wythe
County, Va., November
3, 1793.
Member of Missouri
territorial legislature, 1814-19; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1832 from District of San Felipe de
Austin, 1832; took petition to Mexico City for the establishment of
Texas as a separate Mexican state, 1832; charged
with attempting
revolution, and imprisoned
until 1835; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Austin, 1833; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of San Felipe de
Austin, 1835; candidate for President
of the Texas Republic, 1836; Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1836; died in office 1836.
Member, Freemasons.
Died of pneumonia,
in Brazoria
County, Tex., December
27, 1836 (age 43 years, 54
days).
Original interment at Peach
Point Cemetery, Gulf Prairie, Tex.; reinterment in 1910 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Moses Austin and Maria (Brown) Austin. |
| | | Austin County,
Tex. is named for him. |
| | | The city
of Austin,
Texas, is named for
him. — Stephen F. Austin State
University, Nacogdoches,
Texas, is named for
him. — Austin College,
Sherman,
Texas, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Handbook
of Texas Online |
| | | Books about Stephen F. Austin: Gregg
Cantrell, Stephen
F. Austin : Empresario of Texas |
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Coleman W. Avery (1880-1938) —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, February
22, 1880.
Democrat. Lawyer; justice of
Ohio state supreme court, 1920; appointed 1920; defeated, 1920.
According to published
reports, he murdered
his wife, Sara, by shooting her in the head, and then shot himself;
he was found and taken to General Hospital,
where he died without regaining consciousness, in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, March
14, 1938 (age 58 years, 20
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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