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Michael Badnarik (b. 1954) —
of Austin, Travis
County, Tex.
Born in Hammond, Lake
County, Ind., August
1, 1954.
Libertarian. Software
engineer;
candidate for Texas
state house of representatives, 2000 (47th District), 2002 (48th
District); candidate for President
of the United States, 2004; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas 10th District, 2006.
Slovak
ancestry.
Arrested,
in St. Louis, Mo., on October 8, 2004, along with Green Party
presidential nominee David
Cobb, while protesting
their exclusion from presidential debates.
Still living as of 2007.
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Byron Mark Baer (1929-2007) —
also known as Byron M. Baer —
of Englewood, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born October
8, 1929.
Democrat. Member of New
Jersey state house of assembly, 1972-93 (District 13-B 1972-73,
37th District 1974-93); member of New
Jersey state senate 37th District, 1994-2005; resigned 2005;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1996,
2000.
While working as a Freedom
Rider, registering voters in Mississippi in 1961, was arrested
and jailed
for 45 days.
Died, from complications of congestive
heart failure, in an assisted
living facility, Englewood, Bergen
County, N.J., June 24,
2007 (age 77 years, 259
days).
Cremated.
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Frank W. Ballance Jr. (b. 1942) —
of Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C.
Born in Windsor, Bertie
County, N.C., February
15, 1942.
Democrat. Lawyer; librarian;
college
professor; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1982-85; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1989-2002; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from North Carolina, 1996,
2000;
U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 1st District, 2003-04;
resigned 2004; indicted
in federal court in September 2004 on federal money
laundering charges
for diverting
state funds through a charitable foundation; pleaded
guilty to one count, sentenced
to four years in prison,
fined
$10,000, ordered to pay restitution,
and disbarred.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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Byron L. Ballard (b. 1890) —
of Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Fort Worth, Tarrant
County, Tex., February
21, 1890.
Democrat. Lawyer; law
partner of Charles
H. Hayden, 1917-30, and of Edmund
C. Shields, 1931; chair of
Ingham County Democratic Party, 1920-24; candidate for Michigan
state senate 14th District, 1926; treasurer of
Michigan Democratic Party, 1937; charged
on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting
bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the entire case
collapsed when the star prosecution witness, Charles
F. Hemans, refused to testify.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Rotary;
Knights
of Pythias; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Elks; Sigma
Phi Epsilon.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Walter Elgin Ballard and Jennie (Peden) Ballard; married, February
16, 1916, to M. Lucille Juzek. |
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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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George Thomas Bardwell (1901-1947) —
also known as George Bardwell; Thomas George
Bardwell —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Lake City, Hinsdale
County, Colo., October
18, 1901.
Communist. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Colorado 1st District, 1934; arrested
and prosecuted
in the 1930s in connection with a strike;
acquitted.
Died in a hospital,
Denver,
Colo., January
19, 1947 (age 45 years, 93
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Wheat Ridge, Colo.
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Relatives: Son
of George D. Bardwell and Hannah J. (Cunningham) Bardwell; married,
April
4, 1923, to Avelina Rella. |
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Joseph Barker (c.1806-1862) —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Allegheny
County, Pa., about 1806.
Mayor
of Pittsburgh, Pa., 1850-51; defeated, 1851, 1852.
In 1849, after an anti-Catholic
speech, he was arrested,
charged
with using obscene
language, obstructing
the streets, and causing a
riot, convicted,
and sentenced
to a year in prison;
elected mayor in 1850 while still incarcerated. While mayor, he was
twice arrested
on charges
of assault
and battery. In 1851, he was convicted
of riot.
Struck and killed by a railroad
train, in Ross Township, Allegheny
County, Pa., August
2, 1862 (age about 56
years).
Interment at Allegheny
Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Alben W. Barkley II (born c.1945) —
of Marion, Crittenden
County, Ky.
Born about 1945.
Democrat. Kentucky
commissioner of agriculture, 1980-83; convicted
in 1981 by the Kentucky Personnel Board of sexual
harassing his secretary, but the board had no authority to punish
him; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1983.
Still living as of 1983.
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George Gardner Barnard (c.1829-1879) —
also known as George G. Barnard —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y., about 1829.
Democrat. Lawyer; a
close ally of corrupt New York City political boss William
M. Tweed; Recorder, New York City, 1858-60; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1861-72; removed 1872; impeached
by the New York legislature in 1872, on charges
that he abused
his judicial power through the takeover of several railroads,
putting them under the control of receivers who were allied with
"robber barons" Jay Gould and Jim Fisk; the Union Pacific and other
railroads had to relocate their headquarters away from New York City
to evade the jurisdiction of Barnard and Justice Albert
Cardozo; Barnard was unanimously convicted
by the Court of Impeachment, and also barred
from holding office of any kind.
Died, from Bright's
disease, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
27, 1879 (age about 50
years).
Entombed at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Martin G. Barnes (born c.1949) —
also known as Marty Barnes —
of Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J.
Born about 1949.
Republican. Mayor
of Paterson, N.J., 1997-2002; defeated, 2002.
African
ancestry.
Indicted
in federal court in 2002 on 40 counts of bribery
and other offenses, over his solicitation and acceptance of more than
$200,000 in gratuities
from city contractors, including home improvements, designer
suits, and paid
female companions; pleaded
guilty to two counts, including tax
evasion, and sentenced
in 2003 to 37 months in prison.
Still living as of 2003.
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William Wallace Barron (1911-2002) —
also known as W. Wallace Barron; Wally
Barron —
of Elkins, Randolph
County, W.Va.
Born in Elkins, Randolph
County, W.Va., December
8, 1911.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; mayor of
Elkins, W.Va., 1949-50; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Randolph County, 1951-53;
resigned 1953; West
Virginia state attorney general; elected 1956; Governor of
West Virginia, 1961-65.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Moose; Civitan;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; American
Legion; Forty and
Eight.
Convicted
of jury
tampering in 1971, and sentenced
to five years in prison.
Died in Charlotte, Mecklenburg
County, N.C., November
12, 2002 (age 90 years, 339
days).
Interment at Maplewood
Cemetery, Elkins, W.Va.
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Tom Joe Barrow (b. 1949) —
also known as Tom Barrow —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born, in Kirwood Hospital,
Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., January
12, 1949.
Democrat. Accountant;
candidate for mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 1985, 1989, 2009, 2013 (primary), 2021
(primary); candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan, 1990 (13th District), 1992 (15th
District); convicted
of on federal charges
of tax
evasion in 1993; served 18 months in prison;
his contention that he was wrongfully convicted was later supported
by a ruling of the U.S. Tax Court in 2008.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2021.
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Marion S. Barry Jr. (1936-2014) —
also known as Marion Barry —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Itta Bena, Leflore
County, Miss., March 6,
1936.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of
Columbia, 1972
(alternate), 1980,
1988
(speaker),
1996;
mayor
of Washington, D.C., 1979-91, 1995-99; convicted
in 1990 of misdemeanor cocaine
possession after being caught on videotape smoking
crack cocaine; sentenced
to six months in prison.
African
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Phi Alpha.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
23, 2014 (age 78 years, 262
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Paul Charles Barth (1858-1907) —
also known as Paul C. Barth —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Germany,
December, 1858.
Mayor
of Louisville, Ky., 1905-07; removed from
office over alleged vote
fraud, 1907.
Killed
himself by gunshot,
in the lavatory of his office,
Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., August
21, 1907 (age 48 years, 0
days).
Interment at St.
Louis Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Kumar P. Barve (b. 1958) —
of Gaithersburg, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Schenectady, Schenectady
County, N.Y., September
8, 1958.
Democrat. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates District 17, 1991-; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 2000;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Maryland.
Hindu.
Indian
subcontinent ancestry.
Arrested
November 29, 2007, and charged
with driving
while intoxicated.
Still living as of 2012.
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Relatives: Son
of Prabhakar Barve and Neera Barve; married to Maureen
Quinn. |
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article |
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Thomas H. Bates (b. 1938) —
also known as Tom Bates —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.; Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., February
9, 1938.
Democrat. Member of California
state assembly, 1977-96 (12th District 1977-93, 14th District
1993-96); delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1980,
1984,
1988;
mayor
of Berkeley, Calif., 2002-; charged
in 2002 with petty
theft in connection with his destruction of 1,000 copies of a
student newspaper that had endorsed his opponent; pleaded
guilty, was fined,
and paid restitution.
Still living as of 2012.
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Robert Edmund Bauman (b. 1937) —
also known as Robert E. Bauman —
of Easton, Talbot
County, Md.
Born in Bryn Mawr, Montgomery
County, Pa., April 4,
1937.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1964,
1972
(alternate); member of Maryland
state senate, 1971-73; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 1st District, 1973-81; defeated,
1971, 1980.
Catholic.
Member, Young
Americans for Freedom; American Bar
Association; Elks; Humane
Society; Jaycees;
Izaak
Walton League; Gay.
Pleaded
guilty in 1980 to a sex-solicitation
charge.
Still living as of 1998.
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Albert P. Beebe (c.1843-1932) —
of Parma town, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born about 1843.
Republican. Member of New York
state assembly from Monroe County 4th District, 1905-06.
Indicted
on April 9, 1906 on a charge
of vote-buying.
Died in Parma town, Monroe
County, N.Y., November
30, 1932 (age about 89
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn., June 24,
1813.
Republican. Minister;
orator;
abolitionist; candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 2nd District, 1867;
in 1872, he was accused
of an adulterous
affair with Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton, the wife of a friend of his;
Beecher's church conducted an investigation
and declared him innocent; in 1874, Elizabeth Tilton's husband
Theodore sued Beecher; a highly-publicized months-long trial
took place in 1875; the jury was unable to reach a verdit.
Presbyterian;
later Congregationalist.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March 8,
1887 (age 73 years, 257
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.; memorial monument at Cadman Plaza Park, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Lyman Beecher and Roxana Ward (Foote) Beecher; brother of Harriet
Beecher Stowe; married, August
3, 1837, to Eunice White Bullard; uncle of George
Buckingham Beecher; second cousin twice removed of Jonathan
Elmer, Ebenezer
Elmer and Eli
Elmer; second cousin thrice removed of Erastus
Wolcott and Oliver
Wolcott Sr.; third cousin of Leveret
Brainard; third cousin once removed of Amaziah
Brainard and Lucius
Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer; third cousin twice removed of Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Roger
Griswold, John
Allen, Frederick
Wolcott, Walter
Keene Linscott, Sidney
Smythe Linscott and Frances
Payne Bolton; third cousin thrice removed of Aaron
Kellogg, Daniel
Chapin and Oliver
Payne Bolton; fourth cousin of Ambrose
Tuttle, Joseph
H. Elmer and George
Frederick Stone; fourth cousin once removed of Gaylord
Griswold, Luther
Walter Badger, Daniel
Kellogg, Gideon
Hotchkiss, Asahel
Augustus Hotchkiss, John
William Allen, Julius
Hotchkiss, Giles
Waldo Hotchkiss, Charles
Francis Chidsey, Ernest
Harvey Woodford and Samuel
Russell Chidsey. |
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family of Connecticut and New York; Eastman
family; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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W. Beecher |
| | | The World War II Liberty
ship SS Henry Ward Beecher (built 1942 at Terminal
Island, California; scrapped 1969) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William Worth Belknap (1829-1890) —
also known as William W. Belknap —
of Iowa.
Born in Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y., September
22, 1829.
Lawyer;
member of Iowa
state house of representatives, 1857-58; general in the Union
Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1869-76.
Impeached
in 1876 by the House of Representatives for taking
bribes; resigned
on March 2, 1876. Despite arguments that the Senate lacked
jurisdiction after his resignation, an impeachment trial
was held; on August 1, the Senate voted 35 to 25 for his conviction,
short of the necessary two-thirds.
Died, of an apparent heart
attack, in Washington,
D.C., October
13, 1890 (age 61 years, 21
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Philip C. Bellfy (b. 1946) —
also known as Phil Bellfy —
of Sault Ste. Marie, Chippewa
County, Mich.
Born, in a hospital
at Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., April 7,
1946.
College
teacher; Human Rights candidate for Michigan
State University board of trustees, 1976; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Michigan; after refusing to
remove his hat, was arrested
for trespassing in Michigan state capitol building, 1977; Independent
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 11th District, 1986; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Michigan.
Chippewa
Indian ancestry.
Still living as of 2004.
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Parker J. Bena (born c.1963) —
of Virginia
Beach, Va.
Born about 1963.
Republican. Candidate for Presidential Elector for Virginia.
Pleaded
guilty in 2001 to possession of child
pornography on his home computer; sentenced
to 30 months in federal prison
and fined
$18,000.
Still living as of 2001.
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Judah Philip Benjamin (1811-1884) —
also known as Judah P. Benjamin; Philippe Benjamin;
"Poo Bah of the Confederacy" —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.; London, England;
Paris, France.
Born in Christiansted, St. Croix, Virgin
Islands, August
6, 1811.
Lawyer;
member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1842-44; delegate
to Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1845; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Louisiana; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1853-61; Confederate
Attorney General, 1861; Confederate
Secretary of War, 1861-62; Confederate
Secretary of State, 1862-65.
Jewish.
He fled
to Europe in 1865 to avoid
arrest by Union forces; he was suspected of involvement in the assassination
of President Abraham
Lincoln.
Slaveowner.
Fell
from a tram
car about 1880, and suffered multiple injuries; also developed kidney
and heart
problems, and died in Paris, France,
May
6, 1884 (age 72 years, 274
days).
Interment at Père
la Chaise Cemetery, Paris, France.
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Bruce Bennett —
Arkansas
state attorney general, 1957; indicted
in 1969 on fraud
and conspiracy charges
over his relationship with the bankrupt Arkansas Loan and Thrift
Corporation.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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George C. Bennett —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 8th District, 1872, 1874;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1874; Brooklyn
Commissioner of City Works; indicted,
along with John
W. Flaherty, in December 1878, for conspiracy to defraud
the city of $50,000; tried in
1879 and convicted;
fined
$250; the conviction was reversed on appeal; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1884.
Burial location unknown.
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William John Bennett (b. 1943) —
also known as Bill Bennett —
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., July 3,
1943.
U.S.
Secretary of Education, 1985-88; director, U.S. Office of
National Drug Control Policy ("Drug Czar"), 1989-91; radio show
host; television
commentator.
Catholic.
Member, Kappa
Alpha Society.
In 2003, news media reported that Bennett had lost
millions gambling in Las Vegas, a minor scandal
in light of his advocacy for self-discipline and other virtues; he acknowledged
that he had done "too much gambling" and that it "set a bad example".
Still living as of 2010.
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Robert Julian Bentley (b. 1943) —
also known as Robert J. Bentley; "The Love
Gov" —
of Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
County, Ala.
Born in Columbiana, Shelby
County, Ala., February
3, 1943.
Republican. Physician;
dermatologist;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 2003-10; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Alabama, 2008;
Governor
of Alabama, 2011-17; resigned 2017; accused
in 2016 of having an extramarital
affair with Rebekah Caldwell Mason, a politcal advisor on his
campaign staff; an impeachment
resolution was brought; as part of an agreement with prosecutors, he
pleaded
guilty to two campaign
finance violations, including failing
to disclose a $50,000 personal loan to his campaign account; his
sentence was suspended, but he was placed on probation,
ordered to do community
service, and fined
$7,000.
Still living as of 2017.
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Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858) —
also known as "Old Bullion" —
of Franklin, Williamson
County, Tenn.; St.
Louis, Mo.
Born near Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C., March
14, 1782.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1809; U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1821-51; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 1st District, 1853-55; Benton
Democrat candidate for Governor of
Missouri, 1856.
Fought a duel
with Andrew
Jackson, who later became a political ally. In April, 1850, he
caused a scandal
with his attempt to assault
Sen. Henry
Stuart Foote, of Mississippi, during debate on the Senate floor;
he was restrained by other senators. Foote had a cocked pistol in his
hand and undoubtedly would have shot him.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
10, 1858 (age 76 years, 27
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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D. Stephen Benzie (b. 1893) —
of Norway, Dickinson
County, Mich.
Born in Norway, Dickinson
County, Mich., March
10, 1893.
Democrat. Road
contractor; lumber
business; member of Michigan
state senate 31st District, 1939-42; defeated, 1942; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1940;
charged
on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state
legislators) with accepting
bribes; tried,
convicted,
and sentenced
to 3-5 years in prison.
Member, Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1913 to
Lillian Wilson. |
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Julius S. Berg (1895-1938) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 15,
1895.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; injured in combat and lost a
leg; member of New York
state assembly from Bronx County 3rd District, 1923-30; member of
New
York state senate 22nd District, 1931-38; died in office 1938.
Jewish.
Member, American
Legion; Jewish
War Veterans; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans; Freemasons;
Elks; Knights
of Pythias.
Indicted
on charges
of receiving
money for his aid in procuring
liquor licenses and arranging for concessions at the New York
World's Fair; that same day, he killed
himself by gunshot,
in his law
office, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 20,
1938 (age 43 years, 5
days).
Interment at Mt.
Ararat Cemetery, East Farmingdale, Long Island, N.Y.
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Philip J. Berg (b. 1944) —
also known as Phil Berg —
of Lafayette Hill, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., April
14, 1944.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1992;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 2000; in 2001, he issued a formal
demand that U.S. Supreme Court Justices Sandra
Day O'Connor, Clarence
Thomas, and Antonin
Scalia be disbarred for their participation in the Bush v.
Gore decision; in 2004, he filed a federal lawsuit under the
Racketeer Influencd and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, accusing
President George
W. Bush, and 155 other defendants, of complicity in the 9/11
terrorist attacks (the case was dismissed); in 2008, he sued in
federal court, contending that Barack
Obama was born in Kenya and not eligible to be President (the
case was dismissed); sued by
clients and disciplined
by Pennsylvania legal authorities for malpractice,
mostly due to neglect of cases entrusted to him, missing legal
deadlines, and failure to keep clients informed; his law license was
suspended
for two years in 2013, and he ultimately agreed to be disbarred
in 2015.
Still living as of 2018.
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Alexander J. Bergen —
of Suffolk
County, N.Y.
Member of New York
state assembly from Suffolk County 2nd District, 1861.
Outraged by a criticism published in the newspaper, he assaulted
the editor of the Suffolk County Democrat, in 1861, and was
later prosecuted
and fined
$25.
Burial location unknown.
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Victor Luitpold Berger (1860-1929) —
also known as Victor L. Berger —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born in Nieder-Rehbach, Austria,
February
28, 1860.
Socialist. Emigrated to the United States in 1878; school
teacher; newspaper
editor; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 5th District, 1911-13, 1919,
1923-29; defeated, 1904, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1918; delegate to Socialist National
Convention from Wisconsin, 1920; Chairman of Socialist Party, 1927-29.
Jewish
ancestry. Member, International
Typographical Union.
He and Eugene
V. Debs founded the Socialist Party. He opposed
U.S. entry into World War I; in Chicago in 1918, he was tried
and convicted
under the Espionage
Act, and sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
elected to Congress anyway, he was denied a
seat in 1919-21 to to alleged disloyalty.
In 1921, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed his conviction; the cases
against him were withdrawn; he resumed his seat in Congress in 1923.
Injured in a streetcar
accident, and subsequently died, in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., August
7, 1929 (age 69 years, 160
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis.
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Joseph Bermel (1860-1921) —
of Middle Village, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April 8,
1860.
Stonecutter;
Newtown town supervisor in the 1890s; charged
with financial
irregularities; tried
and acquitted; borough
president of Queens, New York, 1906-08; resigned 1908; resigned
as borough president after a grand jury presented charges
against him, related to fraud and bribery
in connection with the city's purchase of Kissena Park in Queens.
Member, Elks; Royal
Arcanum; Foresters.
Died in Carlsbad, Czechoslovakia (now Karlovy Vary, Czechia),
July
28, 1921 (age 61 years, 111
days).
Interment at St.
John's Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Bermel and Elizabeth (Cohn) Bermel; married, October
21, 1884, to Anna Mary Timmes. |
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William Berri (1848-1917) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., September
12, 1848.
Republican. Carpet
merchant; printing
business; newspaper
publisher; officer or director of banks, electric
utilities, and the New York Telephone
Company; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1904,
1908,
1912,
1916;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1915;
member, New York State Board of Regents, 1916-17.
Congregationalist.
Member, Union
League.
In 1911, he was arraigned
on a charge
of criminal
libel over an article he published in his newspaper, brought by
three candidates for Supreme Court, Herbert
T. Ketcham, Patrick
E. Callahan, and William
Willett, Jr.; the case was withdrawn a few days later when the
other two candidates discovered that Willett had indeed (as Berri
charged) paid bribes for his nomination.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
19, 1917 (age 68 years, 219
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of William Berri ; married 1869 to
Frances Williams Morris. |
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John Gayfer Berry (1838-1923) —
also known as John G. Berry —
of Berryville, Otsego
County, Mich.
Born in 1838.
Republican. Member of Michigan
state senate 27th District, 1889-90; Michigan
land commissioner, 1893-94; defeated, 1890; removed 1894.
Removed
from office as land commissioner, March 20, 1894.
Died in 1923
(age about
85 years).
Interment at Evergreen
Hills Cemetery, Vanderbilt, Mich.
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Mary Frances Berry (b. 1938) —
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., February
17, 1938.
Lawyer;
writer;
university
professor; member, U.S. Civil Rights Commission, 1978-2004;
chair, U.S. Civil Rights Commission, 1993-99; arrested
during an anti-apartheid
sit-in at the South African Embassy
in Washington, 1984.
Female.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua (1923-2012) —
also known as Anthony Bevilacqua —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Wynnewood, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 17,
1923.
Republican. Catholic
priest; bishop of Pittsburgh, 1983-88; archbishop of
Philadelphia, 1988-2003; cardinal from 1991; offered prayer, Republican National Convention,
2000 ; accused
in 2003-04 of protecting
priests who were suspected of sexually
abusing children; later, it was found
that he had ordered a subordinate to destroy
a list of 35 abusive priests, and that he had punished
a priest who had raised concerns about possible abuse.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Died in Wynnewood, Montgomery
County, Pa., January
31, 2012 (age 88 years, 228
days).
Entombed at Cathedral
Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Jello Biafra (b. 1958) —
also known as Eric Reed Boucher; "Occupant";
"Count Ringworm" —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Boulder, Boulder
County, Colo., June 17,
1958.
Co-founder, lead singer,
and songwriter
for the punk
rock band Dead Kennedys (1978-86); founder of the Alternative
Tentacles record
label; candidate for mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1979; charged,
in Los Angeles in 1986, with distributing obscene
"harmful matter" in the form of a sexually
explicit print distributed with a Dead Kennedys record album;
following a trial,
the jury deadlocked, a mistrial was declared, and charges were
dismissed; Biafra went on to become a spoken
word performer; on May 7, 1994, he was assaulted
and injured at a music club in Berkeley, Calif., by five or six
attackers who called him a "sellout".
Atheist.
Still living as of 2014.
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Mario Biaggi (1917-2015) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
26, 1917.
Police
officer; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1969-88 (24th District 1969-73,
10th District 1973-83, 19th District 1983-88); defeated, 1988
(Republican), 1992 (Democratic primary); delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1972,
1980,
1984;
Conservative candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1973.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Indicted
in 1987 on federal charges
that he had accepted bribes
from former Brooklyn political boss Meade
Esposito in in return for influence
on federal contracts for a Brooklyn ship-repair company; convicted
on September 22, 1987 of obstructing
justice and accepting illegal
gratuities; sentenced
to prison
and fined.
Tried
in 1988 on federal racketeering charges in connection with the
Wedtech Corporation; convicted
on August 4, 1988 on 15 felony counts. Resigned
from Congress following the Wedtech conviction; served more than two
years in prison.
Died in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., June 24,
2015 (age 97 years, 241
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y.
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Theodore Gilmore Bilbo (1877-1947) —
also known as Theodore G. Bilbo —
of Poplarville, Pearl
River County, Miss.
Born near Poplarville, Pearl River
County, Miss., October
13, 1877.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer; farmer;
member of Mississippi
state senate, 1908-12; Lieutenant
Governor of Mississippi, 1912-16; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Mississippi, 1912
(alternate), 1916
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1928,
1936,
1940,
1944;
Governor
of Mississippi, 1916-20, 1928-32; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1935-47; died in office 1947.
Baptist.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Ku Klux Klan.
Author
of the book Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization,
which advocated deportation of all Black Americans to Africa. During
the 1946 campaign, in a radio address, he called on "every
red-blooded Anglo-Saxon man in Mississippi to resort to any means to
keep hundreds of Negroes from the polls in the July 2 primary. And if
you don't know what that means, you are just not up to your
persuasive measures." After he won re-election, the Senate, appalled
at his racist
views and tactics, refused to
seat him, and started an investigation.
Died, of mouth
cancer, in a hospital
at New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., August
21, 1947 (age 69 years, 312
days).
Interment at Juniper
Grove Cemetery, Near Poplarville, Pearl River County, Miss.
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Charles A. Binder (1857-1891) —
also known as John Roth —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
2, 1857.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 10th District, 1884, 1886; accused
in 1891 of embezzling
$20,000 from the estate of Barbara Hausman; fled
and became a fugitive,
traveling under the alias "John Roth".
German
ancestry.
Wounded by self-inflicted
gunshot,
in his room at the Sheridan House Hotel,
and died there early the next morning, in Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., May 17,
1891 (age 33 years, 196
days).
Burial location unknown.
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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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William C. Birk (1885-1950) —
of Baraga, Baraga
County, Mich.
Born in Calumet, Houghton
County, Mich., November
6, 1885.
Republican. Member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Ontonagon District, 1927-34;
defeated, 1934, 1936; member of Michigan
state senate 32nd District, 1941-42; defeated, 1938, 1942, 1944;
charged
on December 16, 1944, along with other legislators, with accepting
bribes; tried in
1945 and convicted;
sentenced
to three to five years in prison.
German
ancestry.
Died in 1950
(age about
64 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Luke Pryor Blackburn (1816-1887) —
also known as Luke P. Blackburn —
of Kentucky.
Born in Woodford
County, Ky., June 16,
1816.
Physician;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1843; Governor of
Kentucky, 1879-83.
Baptist.
In 1865, he was tried
and acquitted in a Toronto court for violating Canadian neutrality,
in connection with a Confederate
scheme to spread yellow fever in Northern cities.
Died in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., September
14, 1887 (age 71 years, 90
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward Mitchell Blackburn and Lavinia St. Clair (Bell) Blackburn;
brother of Joseph
Clay Stiles Blackburn; married, November
24, 1835, to Ella Boswell; married, November
17, 1857, to Julia Churchill; uncle of Corinne Blackburn (who
married William
Holt Gale); granduncle of Smith
Alford Blackburn; great-granduncle of Charles
Milton Blackburn; first cousin twice removed of Gabriel
Slaughter; third cousin of Charles
Rice Slaughter; third cousin once removed of Robert
Pryor Henry, John
Flournoy Henry and Gustavus
Adolphus Henry. |
| | | Political families: Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison
family of Kentucky; Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The Blackburn Correctional
Complex (opened 1972), in Lexington,
Kentucky, is named for
him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Luke Pryor Blackburn: Nancy
Disher Baird, Luke
Pryor Blackburn : Physician, Governor, Reformer |
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Elmer Peter Black Cloud (1953-2014) —
also known as Elmer Black Cloud; Woody Black
Cloud —
of Wakpala, Corson
County, S.Dak.
Born March
24, 1953.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from South
Dakota, 1992;
when his 14-year-old niece became pregnant, he was charged
with sexual
abuse of a minor and incest;
tried
and convicted;
in December 1996, the conviction was affirmed on appeal.
Sioux
Indian ancestry.
Died, in the Mobridge Regional Hospital,
Mobridge, Walworth
County, S.Dak., March
10, 2014 (age 60 years, 351
days).
Interment at Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery, Little Eagle, S.Dak.
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Rod R. Blagojevich (b. 1956) —
also known as Rod Blagojevich;
"Blago" —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., December
10, 1956.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1993-96; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 5th District, 1997-2003; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 2000,
2004,
2008;
Governor
of Illinois, 2003-09; solicited
bribes from potential candidates for appointment to Barack
Obama's vacant U.S. Senate seat; arrested
by federal agents in December 2008, and set for trial on
federal corruption charges; in January 2009, based on charges
that he abused
his authority and attempted to sell
authorizations, vetoes, and appointments, he was impeached
by the Illinois House, convicted
by a unanimous vote of the Illinois Senate, and prohibited
from holding public office in the state; tried in
federal court in 2010-11, and after a mistrial, was ultimately found
guilty on eighteen counts, including bribery
and extortion;
sentenced
to 14 years in federal prison; an appeal later overturned five of the
eighteen convictions, but did not change his prison sentence.
Serbian
ancestry.
Still living as of 2019.
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James Blair (1786-1834) —
of South Carolina.
Born in The Waxhaws, Lancaster
County, S.C., September
26, 1786.
Democrat. Planter; sheriff;
U.S.
Representative from South Carolina, 1821-22, 1829-34 (9th
District 1821-22, 8th District 1829-34); resigned 1822; died in
office 1834; in 1832, he assaulted
newspaper editor Duff Green, breaking some bones, and fined
$350.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died from a self-inflicted
gunshot,
in Washington,
D.C., April 1,
1834 (age 47 years, 187
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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James Lawrence Blair (1854-1904) —
also known as James L. Blair —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., April 2,
1854.
Lawyer;
president, St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners, 1884; general
counsel, St. Louis World's Fair (Louisiana Purchase Exposition),
1901-03; indicted
in December, 1903, for forgery
of two deeds of trust to obtain
a loan from an estate he managed.
Member, American Bar
Association; Loyal
Legion; Sons of
the Revolution.
Died, either from suicide
(which he had attempted at least twice before) or from "congestion of
the brain", in Eustis, Lake
County, Fla., January
16, 1904 (age 49 years, 289
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Fenton L. Bland Jr. (b. 1962) —
of Petersburg,
Va.
Born in Petersburg,
Va., March 7,
1962.
Democrat. Mortician;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates 63rd District, 2002-05; resigned 2005;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia,
2004;
pleaded
guilty, January 26, 2005 to one count of conspiracy to commit bank
fraud; sentenced
in April to 57 months in prison
and ordered to pay $1.2 million in restitution;
surrendered
his funeral director's license rather than contest charges of ethical
violations.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi.
Still living as of 2006.
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Donald L. Blankenship (b. 1950) —
also known as Don Blankenship —
of Sprigg, Mingo
County, W.Va.
Born in Stopover, Pike
County, Ky., March
14, 1950.
Accountant;
coal mining
executive; chairman and CEO of Massey Energy, 2000-10; in April
2010, an explosion at the company's Upper Big Branch coal mine killed
29 miners; convicted
on a charge
of conspiring to violate
mine safety standards; served one year in prison;
Constitution candidate for President
of the United States, 2020.
Still living as of 2020.
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Leonard Ray Blanton (1930-1996) —
also known as Ray Blanton —
of Adamsville, McNairy
County, Tenn.
Born in Hardin
County, Tenn., April
10, 1930.
Democrat. Member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1964-66; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 7th District, 1967-73; defeated in
primary, 1988; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1972; Governor of
Tennessee, 1975-79.
Methodist.
Member, Lions; Moose; Shriners;
Freemasons.
Ousted
as Governor amid charges of selling
pardons; later convicted
of conspiracy to sell
liquor licenses and served 23 months in prison.
Died, of kidney
disease, at Jackson-Madison County Hospital,
Jackson, Madison
County, Tenn., November
22, 1996 (age 66 years, 226
days).
Interment at Shiloh
Church Cemetery, Shiloh, Tenn.
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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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Eugene Satterwhite Blease (1877-1963) —
also known as Eugene S. Blease —
of Saluda
County, S.C.; Newberry, Newberry
County, S.C.
Born in Newberry
County, S.C., January
28, 1877.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1900-02, 1922-24; member
of South
Carolina state senate, 1905-06; mayor
of Newberry, S.C., 1920-21; justice of
South Carolina state supreme court, 1927-31; chief
justice of South Carolina state supreme court, 1931-34; resigned
1934; candidate for U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1942; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from South Carolina, 1944.
Methodist.
On September 8, 1905, he shot
and killed his brother-in-law, Joe Ben Coleman, in Saluda, S.C.;
charged
with murder,
he pleaded self-defense and was found not guilty.
Died December
27, 1963 (age 86 years, 333
days).
Interment at Rosemont
Cemetery, Newberry, S.C.
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Charles S. Blondy (1905-1982) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
29, 1905.
Democrat. Constable; real estate
business; member of Michigan
state senate, 1941-64 (5th District 1941-54, 4th District
1955-64); defeated in primary, 1934, 1938; charged
on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting
bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the entire case
collapsed when the star prosecution witness, Charles
F. Hemans, refused to testify; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 1st District, 1964.
Jewish.
Member, B'nai
B'rith.
Died in Southfield, Oakland
County, Mich., January
28, 1982 (age 76 years, 364
days).
Interment at Hebrew Memorial Park, Clinton Township, Macomb County, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Goldie (Grodsky) Blondy and Hyman Blondy; married to Frances
Goldberg. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Michigan Manual
1957-58 |
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William Blount (1749-1800) —
Born in Windsor, Bertie
County, N.C., April 6,
1749.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of North
Carolina house of commons, 1781, 1783; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1782-83, 1786-87; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1788; Governor
of Southwest Territory, 1790-96; delegate
to Tennessee state constitutional convention, 1796; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1796-97; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1798-1800; died in office 1800; Speaker
of the Tennessee State Senate, 1798-99.
Presbyterian.
Became involved in a conspiracy
to turn Florida over to British control; when this plot was uncovered
in 1797, was expelled
from the U.S. Senate; afterwards, on July 7, 1797, he was impeached,
but the Senate dropped the matter for lack of jurisdiction.
Slaveowner.
Died in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., March
21, 1800 (age 50 years, 349
days).
Interment at First
Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn.
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Albert Howard Blumenthal (1928-1984) —
also known as Albert H. Blumenthal —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Larchmont, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
13, 1928.
Liberal. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1963-76 (New York County 5th District 1963-65,
73rd District 1966, 67th District 1967-72, 69th District 1973-76);
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1973.
Jewish.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; American
Jewish Congress; American Bar
Association; Americans
for Democratic Action.
In December, 1975, he was indicted
on perjury
charges over his testimony about a 1971 meeting where he was alleged
to intercede on behalf of a nursing home operator; later, bribery
charges were added; in April, 1976, all the charges were ruled to be
without factual basis, and dismissed.
Died, presumably from cancer,
in the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 8,
1984 (age 55 years, 269
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Bennet M. Blumenthal and Matilda Blumenthal; married, May 18,
1958, to Joel Marie Winik. |
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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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Christopher Lee Bollyn (born c.1957) —
also known as Christopher Bollyn —
of Hoffman Estates, Cook
County, Ill.
Born about 1957.
Journalist;
promoter of theory that Israeli agents were responsible for the 2001
attack on the World Trade Center; candidate in primary for village
president of Hoffman Estates, Illinois, 2001; in August 2006, he
called 911 to report a suspicious vehicle in his neighborhood; got
into an altercation and scuffle with police; arrested
and charged with aggravated
assault and resisting
arrest; tried and convicted
in 2007; did not appear for sentencing.
Still living as of 2006.
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Ricardo Jerome Bordallo (1927-1990) —
also known as Ricardo J. Bordallo; Ricky
Bordallo —
of Agana (now Hagatna), Guam.
Born in Agana (now Hagatna), Guam,
December
11, 1927.
Democrat. Restaurant
owner; automobile
dealer; member of Guam
legislature, 1956-70; Guam
Democratic Party chair, 1960-63, 1971-73; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Guam, 1964;
Governor
of Guam, 1975-78, 1983-86; defeated, 1970; Convicted
in 1987 on corruption charges,
including bribery,
obstruction
of justice, and witness
tampering; sentenced
to nine years in prison
and fined;
some of the charges were overturned on appeal in 1988; resentenced
to four years in prison
in December, 1989.
Catholic.
Chamorro
ancestry.
Just before he was to report to prison, he chained himself to a
statue of Chief Quipuha, in a busy traffic circle at rush hour;
wrapped in a Guam flag and wearing a sign saying "I regret I have but
one life to give for my island," he shot and
killed
himself, in Agana (now Hagatna), Guam,
February
1, 1990 (age 62 years, 52
days).
Interment at Pigo Catholic Cemetery, Hagatna, Guam.
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Sara B. Bost (born c.1948) —
of Irvington, Essex
County, N.J.
Born about 1948.
Mayor
of Irvington, N.J., 1994-2002.
Female.
African
ancestry.
Indicted
in April 2002 on federal bribery
and witness
tampering charges;
pleaded
guilty in April 2003 to one count of witness
tampering; sentenced
to one year in prison.
Still living as of 2004.
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Charles E. Bowles (1884-1957) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Yale, St. Clair
County, Mich., March
24, 1884.
Republican. Lawyer;
recorder's court judge in Michigan, 1926-29; resigned 1929; mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 1930; defeated, 1924, 1924, 1925, 1930;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 15th District, 1932, 1934;
candidate for circuit
judge in Michigan 3rd Circuit, 1941; candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1950, 1952.
Member, Optimist
Club.
Recalled
from office as Mayor in 1930 over charges that he had sold out to
gangsters
and the Ku Klux
Klan.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., July 30,
1957 (age 73 years, 128
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Evergreen
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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D. Michael Boyle (b. 1944) —
of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
19, 1944.
Mayor
of Omaha, Neb., 1981-87.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Recalled
from office as mayor in 1987.
Still living as of 1997.
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William Marshall Boyle Jr. (1903-1961) —
also known as William M. Boyle, Jr.; Bill
Boyle —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in Leavenworth, Leavenworth
County, Kan., February
2, 1903.
Democrat. Lawyer;
Director, Kansas City Police,
1939; Chairman
of Democratic National Committee, 1949-51; investigated
in 1951 by the Senate Investigating Committee over his acceptance of
fees from the American Lithifold Corporation of St. Louis, in return
for using his influence
as Democratic national chair to obtain loans for the company from the
U.S. Reconstruction Finance Corporation; claimed to have been
vindicated, but ultimately resigned
under fire.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
30, 1961 (age 58 years, 209
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Clara Boyle; married to Genevieve Hayde. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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James D. Brackenrich (b. 1936) —
also known as J. D. Brackenrich —
of Lewisburg, Greenbrier
County, W.Va.
Born in Greenbrier
County, W.Va., January
23, 1936.
Democrat. Engineer;
surveyor;
member of West
Virginia state senate 11th District, 1987-93; resigned 1993.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; National Rifle
Association.
Pleaded
guilty on May 1, 1996 to a misdemeanor charge
of filling
wetlands without a Clean Water Act permit.
Still living as of 1996.
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Relatives: Son
of James Brackenrich and Helen Brackenrich; married 1958 to
Patricia Griffith. |
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Anne McCarty Braden (1924-2006) —
also known as Anne Braden; Anne McCarty —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., July 28,
1924.
Newspaper
reporter; labor
organizer; civil rights activist starting in the 1940s; in May
1954, to fight
segregation, she and her husband bought a house in a white
neighborhood on behalf of a Black family; this sparked furious and
violent opposition and the bombing of the house; she and others were
charged
with sedition;
her husband was the first to be convicted, but then, in 1956, all
state sedition laws were struck down; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Kentucky.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Died in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., March 6,
2006 (age 81 years, 221
days).
Interment at Eminence
Cemetery, Eminence, Ky.
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William H. Bradley (1859-1925) —
of Greenville, Montcalm
County, Mich.
Born in Spencer Township, Kent
County, Mich., February
26, 1859.
Republican. Wholesale
grocer; mayor of Greenville, Mich., 1908-09; member of Michigan
state senate 18th District, 1909-12.
In 1911, he was accused of bribery
by Sherman M. Townsend, a former Sergeant-at-Arms of the state
senate; an investigation
was conducted; a resolution
to expel him from the Senate failed on a vote of 14 to 15.
Died in 1925
(age about
66 years).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Greenville, Mich.
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William M. Bradley (b. 1892) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., May 22,
1892.
Democrat. Member of Michigan
state senate 5th District, 1937-40; defeated in primary, 1934,
1940, 1942, 1952; charged
on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state
legislators) with accepting
bribes; tried,
convicted,
and sentenced
to 3-5 years in prison.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William A. Bradley and Mary (Riley) Bradley; married 1912 to
Edwardine Lenahan. |
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John Green Brady (1848-1918) —
also known as John G. Brady —
of Alaska.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 25,
1848.
Republican. Missionary;
co-founder
of the school that later became Sheldon Jackson College, in Sitka,
Alaska; merchant;
Governor
of Alaska District, 1897-1906; forced to
resign as governor in 1906, after an inquiry
about his involvement with the Reynolds-Alaska Development Company.
Presbyterian.
Ill with diabetes,
he suffered a stroke
and died in Sitka,
Alaska, December
17, 1918 (age 70 years, 206
days).
Interment at Sitka
National Cemetery, Sitka, Alaska.
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Kevin Patrick Brady (b. 1955) —
also known as Kevin Brady —
of The Woodlands, Montgomery
County, Tex.
Born in Vermillion, Clay
County, S.Dak., April
11, 1955.
Republican. Member of Texas
state house of representatives 15th District, 1991-96; U.S.
Representative from Texas 8th District, 1997-; arrested
on October 7, 2005, near Vermillion, S.D., and charged
with driving
while intoxicated.
Catholic.
Member, Rotary.
Still living as of 2014.
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Thomas Jefferson Brady (1839-1904) —
also known as Thomas J. Brady; T. J. Brady —
Born in Muncie, Delaware
County, Ind., February
12, 1839.
Lawyer;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; newspaper
publisher; U.S. Consul in St. Thomas, 1870-75; second assistant U.S. Postmaster General;
indicted
in 1881 as a participant in the Star Route bribery
scheme; found
guilty, but a judge set aside the conviction; retried
and acquitted.
Died April
22, 1904 (age 65 years, 70
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Bragg (1810-1872) —
of Northampton
County, N.C.; Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C.
Born in Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C., November
9, 1810.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1842; Governor of
North Carolina, 1855-59; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1859-61; Confederate
Attorney General, 1861-62.
Presbyterian.
When the Civil War began, he left Washington but did not resign his
seat in the Senate; one of ten Southern
senators expelled
in absentia on July 11, 1861.
Slaveowner.
Died in Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., January
21, 1872 (age 61 years, 73
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Raleigh, N.C.
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Ernest King Bramblett (1901-1966) —
also known as Ernest K. Bramblett —
of Pacific Grove, Monterey
County, Calif.
Born in Fresno, Fresno
County, Calif., April
25, 1901.
Republican. Insurance
business; mayor
of Pacific Grove, Calif., 1938-46; U.S.
Representative from California, 1947-55 (11th District 1947-53,
13th District 1953-55).
Protestant.
Member, Phi
Delta Kappa; Elks; Moose; Rotary;
Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Knights
Templar; Shriners.
Investigated
by a federal grand jury in Washington over payroll padding in his
office; he had hired his
wife, received kickbacks
from employees who did no work, and made false
statements to the House disbursing officer; indicted
on 18 counts in June 1953; pleaded not guilty; tried in
February 1954; convicted
on seven counts; his conviction was stayed pending appeal, but
ultimately upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court; fined
$5,000, placed on one-year probation,
and separately required to pay restitution.
Died December
27, 1966 (age 65 years, 246
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Frank James Brasco (1932-1998) —
also known as Frank J. Brasco —
of New York.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
15, 1932.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 11th District, 1967-75.
Catholic.
Indicted
in 1973, along with his uncle Joseph Brasco, on federal bribery
conspiracy charges,
over payoffs
received from a Bronx trucking company which was seeking mail hauling
contracts from the Post Office; the first trial
led to a hung jury; retried
and convicted;
sentenced
to five years in prison,
with all but three months suspended, fined
$10,000, and disbarred.
Died October
19, 1998 (age 66 years, 4
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Cabell Breckinridge (1821-1875) —
also known as John C. Breckinridge —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born near Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., January
16, 1821.
Democrat. Lawyer;
major in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1849-51; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 8th District, 1851-55; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1856;
Vice
President of the United States, 1857-61; Southern Democratic
candidate for President
of the United States, 1860; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1861; general in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War; Confederate
Secretary of War, 1865.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Expelled
from the U.S. Senate on December 4, 1861 for his participation in the
Confederate
military. Fled
to Cuba at the end of the war, and lived in England and Canada until
1869.
Slaveowner.
Died, from lung
disease and liver
cirrhosis, in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., May 17,
1875 (age 54 years, 121
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Mary Clay (Smith) Breckinridge and Joseph
Cabell Breckinridge; married 1840 to
Elizabeth Lucas; married, December
12, 1843, to Mary
Cyrene Burch; father of Clifton
Rodes Breckinridge; nephew of Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge; grandson of John
Breckinridge; great-grandson of John
Witherspoon; great-grandnephew of William
Preston and William
Cabell; first cousin of Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864), Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge Jr. and William
Campbell Preston Breckinridge; first cousin once removed of James
Douglas Breckinridge, Benjamin
William Sheridan Cabell, Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925), Levin
Irving Handy, Desha
Breckinridge and Henry
Skillman Breckinridge; first cousin twice removed of William
Cabell Jr., Francis
Smith Preston, William
Henry Cabell and James
Patton Preston; second cousin of Carter
Henry Harrison, William
Lewis Cabell and George
Craighead Cabell; second cousin once removed of William
Campbell Preston, James
McDowell, Frederick
Mortimer Cabell, John
Buchanan Floyd, John
Smith Preston, George
Rogers Clark Floyd, Edward
Carrington Cabell, Benjamin
Earl Cabell and Carter
Henry Harrison II; second cousin twice removed of Earle
Cabell; third cousin of John
William Leftwich. |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd
family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Walker-Randolph
family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The city
of Breckenridge,
Missouri, is named for
him. — The city
of Breckenridge,
Colorado, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John C. Breckinridge (built 1943 at Savannah,
Georgia; scrapped 1960) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — BillionGraves
burial record — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about John C. Breckinridge:
William C. Davis, An
Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate
Government — Frank Hopkins Heck, Proud
Kentuckian, John C. Breckinridge, 1821-1875 — William
C. Davis, Breckinridge
: Statesman, Soldier, Symbol |
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William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (1837-1904) —
also known as William C. P. Breckinridge —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., August
28, 1837.
Democrat. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1876,
1880;
U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 7th District, 1885-95; defeated
(Gold Democratic), 1896.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
In 1894, he was successfully sued for breach of promise by a former
mistress; he acknowledged the affair, affair, but the scandal
ended his political career.
Slaveowner.
Died, of apoplexy,
in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., November
18, 1904 (age 67 years, 82
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge and Ann Sophonisba (Preston) Breckinridge;
brother of Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge Jr.; married, March
17, 1859, to Lucretia Hart Clay (daughter of Thomas
Hart Clay); married, September
19, 1861, to Issa Desha (granddaughter of Joseph
Desha); married to Louisa Rucks (Scott) Wing; father of Desha
Breckinridge; nephew of Joseph
Cabell Breckinridge, William
Campbell Preston and John
Smith Preston; uncle of Levin
Irving Handy and Henry
Skillman Breckinridge; grandson of John
Breckinridge and Francis
Smith Preston; grandnephew of James
Patton Preston; granduncle of John
Bayne Breckinridge; great-grandson of William
Preston and William
Campbell; great-grandnephew of William
Cabell and Patrick
Henry; first cousin of John
Cabell Breckinridge and Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864); first cousin once removed of James
Douglas Breckinridge, Benjamin
William Sheridan Cabell, James
McDowell, John
Buchanan Floyd, George
Rogers Clark Floyd, Clifton
Rodes Breckinridge and Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925); first cousin twice removed of William
Cabell Jr. and William
Henry Cabell; second cousin of Carter
Henry Harrison, William
Lewis Cabell and George
Craighead Cabell; second cousin once removed of Valentine
Wood Southall, Frederick
Mortimer Cabell, Samuel
Meredith Garland (1802-1880), Edward
Carrington Cabell, Benjamin
Earl Cabell and Carter
Henry Harrison II; second cousin twice removed of Earle
Cabell; third cousin of John
William Leftwich and Stephen
Valentine Southall; third cousin once removed of Samuel
Meredith Garland (1861-1945). |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd
family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Walker-Randolph
family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Walter Ellsworth Brehm (1892-1971) —
also known as Walter E. Brehm —
of Logan, Hocking
County, Ohio; Millersport, Fairfield
County, Ohio.
Born in Somerset, Perry
County, Ohio, May 25,
1892.
Republican. Dentist;
member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1938-42; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 11th District, 1943-53.
Member, Grange;
Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Eagles;
Elks; Kiwanis;
Psi
Omega.
Convicted
in 1951 of illegally accepting campaign
contributions from a clerk in his office, and fined
$5,000.
Died in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, August
24, 1971 (age 79 years, 91
days).
Burial location unknown.
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George Breitman (1916-1986) —
also known as Albert Parker; Philip Blake; Chester
Hofla; Anthony Massini; John F. Petrone; G.
Sloane —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., February
28, 1916.
Socialist. Became a socialist agitator in Newark, N.J., 1935; arrested
about 1936 and charged
with inciting
riots; jailed
for a week; founding member of the Socialist Workers Party, 1937;
member of its National Committee, 1939-81; Socialist Workers
candidate for U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1940, 1942, 1946, 1948, 1954;
editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper,
The Militant, 1941-43, 1946-54; writer
under several different pen names; candidate for Presidential Elector
for New Jersey; candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan.
Member, International
Typographical Union.
Expelled from the Socialist Workers Party for "disloyalty," 1984.
Died, following a heart
attack, in Beekman Downtown Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
19, 1986 (age 70 years, 50
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin Breitman and Pauline (Trattler) Breitman; married 1940 to
Dorothea Katz. |
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article |
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William C. Brennan Jr. (1918-2000) —
of Far Rockaway, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Elmhurst, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., October
11, 1918.
Democrat. Police
officer; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Queens County 2nd District, 1955-64; member
of New
York state senate 12th District, 1967-68; Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1970-85; resigned 1985.
Member, American
Legion; Disabled
American Veterans; Elks.
In July 1985, he was indicted
in Federal court for accepting
bribes in return for reducing or dismissing charges in criminal
cases involving organized
crime figures; also charged with extortion;
pleaded not guilty and tried;
did not testify in his own defense; convicted
in December 1985, sentenced
to five years in prison,
and fined
$209,000. He was released from prison in May 1988.
Died May 8,
2000 (age 81 years, 210
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1941 to Gloria
M. Lauer. |
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Lorenzo Brentano (1813-1891) —
also known as Lorenz Peter Carl Brentano —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Mannheim, Germany,
November
4, 1813.
Republican. In Germany, he participated in the 1849 revolution;
arrested and sentenced
to life imprisonment;
escaped
to the United States; member of Illinois
state house of representatives 61st District, 1863-65; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1864;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois; U.S. Consul in Dresden, 1872-76; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 3rd District, 1877-79.
German
ancestry.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
18, 1891 (age 77 years, 318
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Willis M. Brewer (1892-1972) —
of Pontiac, Oakland
County, Mich.
Born in 1892.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 6th District, 1924; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1928
(alternate), 1952;
candidate for secretary
of state of Michigan, 1928; chairman, Oakland County Board of
Auditors; in 1931, he was charged
with embezzling
$2,500 from the county; convicted,
and sentenced
to five to fifteen years in prison;
his sentence was commuted by Gov. William
A. Comstock in 1933; member of Michigan
Democratic State Central Committee, 1947.
Member, American
Legion.
Died in 1972
(age about
80 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Daniel Baugh Brewster (1923-2007) —
also known as Daniel B. Brewster —
of Glyndon, Baltimore
County, Md.
Born in Baltimore
County, Md., November
23, 1923.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; member
of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1951-58; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 2nd District, 1959-63; U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1963-69; defeated, 1968; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 1964;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1964;
speaker, 1968.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Indicted
in 1969 on charges
of accepting
an illegal gratuity; after trial,
conviction,
and reversal, pleaded no
contest, 1975.
Died, of liver
cancer, in Owings Mills, Baltimore
County, Md., August
19, 2007 (age 83 years, 269
days).
Interment at St.
Thomas Episcopal Church Cemetery, Owings Mills, Md.
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Blaine Jackson Brickwood (1888-1949) —
also known as Blaine J. Brickwood —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
5, 1888.
Lawyer;
Honorary
Consul for Venezuela in Chicago,
Ill., 1915-20; on November 18, 1917, while driving, he struck and
killed
Walter Israel; censured
by the coroner's jury which investigated the death; indicted
on a charge of manslaughter;
following a trial in June 1920, he was found not guilty by a jury;
meanwhile, he was arrested
on a charge of embezzlement.
Died in Cook
County, Ill., March
13, 1949 (age 61 years, 36
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
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Jesse David Bright (1812-1875) —
also known as Jesse D. Bright —
of Madison, Jefferson
County, Ind.; Jeffersonville, Clark
County, Ind.
Born in Norwich, Chenango
County, N.Y., December
18, 1812.
Democrat. State court judge in Indiana, 1834-39; member of Indiana
state senate, 1841-43; Lieutenant
Governor of Indiana, 1843-45; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1845-62; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1867-71; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Kentucky.
Presbyterian.
Expelled
from the U.S. Senate, February 5, 1862, over alleged disloyalty
to the Union, as evidenced by a letter of introduction he wrote
for an arms merchant, addressed to Confederate president Jefferson
Davis.
Slaveowner.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., May 20,
1875 (age 62 years, 153
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Timothy J. Brill (born c.1960) —
also known as Tim Brill —
of Washington; Fairbanks, Fairbanks
North Star Borough, Alaska.
Born about 1960.
Independent candidate for U.S.
Representative from Washington 9th District, 1992.
Pleaded
guilty in August 2000 to mail fraud in connection with the
failure of his mountaineering business; sentenced
to a year and a day in federal prison.
Still living as of 2001.
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John Quinn Brisben (1934-2012) —
also known as J. Quinn Brisben —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Enid, Garfield
County, Okla., September
6, 1934.
Socialist. School
teacher; poet;
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1976; briefly jailed
in Florida as a result of his participation in a disability rights demonstration
in Orlando, Fla., 1992; candidate for President
of the United States, 1992.
Member, American
Federation of Teachers.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April
17, 2012 (age 77 years, 224
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John August Britting (1898-1968) —
also known as John A. Britting —
of East Farmingdale, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in New Jersey, April 3,
1898.
Republican. Deputy treasurer of Suffolk County, 1942-54; member of New York
state assembly from Suffolk County 3rd District, 1955-56; called
to testify in 1956 during an investigation
of his handling of tax-foreclosed properties as deputy county
treasurer (known as the "land grab" scandal),
he took the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination
to refuse to answer questions; indicted
on bribery
and conspiracy charges
for channeling properties to favored speculators and receiving part
of the profits; tried in
1958 and convicted;
sentenced
to five to ten years in prison
and fined
$27,000; released pending appeal; also convicted
in a related case in 1959; in 1960, his prison sentence was reduced
to one to two years.
German
ancestry.
Died in October, 1968
(age 70
years, 0 days).
Interment at Sacred
Heart Cemetery, Southampton, Long Island, N.Y.
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David A. Brock (b. 1936) —
of Hopkinton, Merrimack
County, N.H.
Born in 1936.
U.S.
Attorney for New Hampshire, 1969-72; superior court judge in New
Hampshire, 1976-78; justice of
New Hampshire state supreme court, 1978-86; chief
justice of New Hampshire state supreme court, 1986-.
Impeached
in 2000 by the New Hampshire House of Representatives on several
charges including improperly influencing a lower court judge and
lying to a legislative committee; acquitted by the New Hampshire
Senate.
Still living as of 2000.
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John T. Broderick Jr. (b. 1947) —
of Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H.
Born in 1947.
Justice
of New Hampshire state supreme court, 1995-.
Investigated
in 2000 by the Judiciary Committee of the New Hampshire House of
Representatives in connection with the charges against Chief Justice
David
A. Brock and Justice W.
Stephen Thayer III, but articles of impeachment
against him were rejected by the House. Arrested
in October 2000 for assault
against his 30-year-old son. but charges were dropped.
Still living as of 2001.
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Samuel Jerome Bronson (1930-1986) —
also known as S. Jerome Bronson —
of Franklin, Oakland
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., March
21, 1930.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Michigan
state senate 12th District, 1960; Oakland
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1965-68; candidate for circuit
judge in Michigan 6th Circuit, 1966; Judge,
Michigan Court of Appeals 2nd District, 1969-86; died in office
1986.
Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Arrested
and charged
with soliciting
and accepting
a bribe of $20,000 for his vote on a pending case; he killed
himself by gunshot
the same day, in Franklin, Oakland
County, Mich., November
14, 1986 (age 56 years, 238
days).
Interment at Beth El Memorial Park, Livonia, Mich.
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James Brooks (1810-1873) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, November
10, 1810.
Democrat. Newspaper
publisher; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1835; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 16th District, 1848; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1849-53, 1863-66, 1867-73 (6th
District 1849-53, 8th District 1863-66, 1867-73, 6th District 1873);
died in office 1873; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1867.
Censured
by the House in 1873 for his role in the Credit Mobilier bribery
scandal.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
30, 1873 (age 62 years, 171
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Preston Smith Brooks (1819-1857) —
also known as Preston S. Brooks —
of Ninety Six, Edgefield District (now Greenwood
County), S.C.
Born in Edgefield, Edgefield District (now Edgefield
County), S.C., August
5, 1819.
Lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1844; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 4th District, 1853-56,
1856-57; died in office 1857.
Suffered a hip wound in a duel
with Louis
T. Wigfall, 1839, and could walk only with
a cane for the rest of his life. In May, 1856, furious over an
anti-slavery speech, he went to the Senate and beat
Senator Charles
Sumner with a cane, causing severe
injuries; an attempt to expel
him from Congress failed for lack of the necessary two-thirds vote,
but he resigned;
re-elected to his own vacancy.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
27, 1857 (age 37 years, 175
days).
Interment at Willow
Brook Cemetery, Edgefield, S.C.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Aaron F. Broussard (b. 1949) —
of Kenner, Jefferson
Parish, La.
Born in Marksville, Avoyelles
Parish, La., January
6, 1949.
Democrat. Mayor of
Kenner, La., 1982-96; president of Jefferson Parish, La.,
2003-10; pleaded
guilty in September 2012 to federal charges
that, as president of Jefferson Parish, he received
bribes of more than $60,000, and that he embezzled
hundreds of thousands of dollars by creating a no-work job in the
parish government for his ex-wife;
sentenced
to 46 months in prison,
and ordered to pay restitution.
Still living as of 2012.
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Earl Russel Browder (1891-1973) —
also known as Earl Browder —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan., May 20,
1891.
Communist. As a result of his opposition to U.S. participation in
World War I, he was convicted
in 1917 of conspiracy
against
the draft laws and sentenced
to sixteen months in prison;
imprisoned
again in 1919; pardoned
in 1933; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1930 (6th District), 1932 (20th
District), 1940 (14th District); General Secretary of the Communist
Party of the U.S., 1934-44; candidate for President
of the United States, 1936, 1940; arrested
in 1939 for a passport
violation, convicted,
and sentenced
to four years in prison
(sentence commuted after fourteen months); expelled from the
Communist Party, 1946.
Died in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., June 27,
1973 (age 82 years, 38
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Arthur Brown (1843-1906) —
of Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo
County, Mich.; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo
County, Mich., March 8,
1843.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Senator from Utah, 1896-97; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Utah, 1896
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization; speaker);
his relationship with Mrs. Anna Bradley gave rise to scandal;
in 1902, the two were arrested
and charged
with adultery;
she pleaded guilty, but he pleaded not guilty, was tried, and
acquitted by a jury; he fathered two children with her, but refused
to marry her.
Shot
and killed,
in his room at the Raleigh Hotel, by
his former
mistress Anna Bradley, in Washington,
D.C., December
12, 1906 (age 63 years, 279
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Basil W. Brown (1927-1997) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Highland Park, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Vandalia, Cass
County, Mich., March
20, 1927.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
member of Michigan
state senate, 1957-88 (3rd District 1957-64, 6th District
1965-74, 3rd District 1975-82, 2nd District 1983-88); resigned 1988;
in 1985, a prostitute working for the police went to visit him
several times, and exchanged
sex for marijuana
and cocaine;
arrested
November 8, 1985; pleaded
guilty in 1987 and resigned
from the Senate; sentenced
to six months in jail, fines, and probation; his law license was also
suspended; the state supreme court threw out the conviction in 1991.
Episcopalian.
African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi; Elks; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Amvets;
NAACP.
Injured in a fire at his
home, while also suffering cancer,
and died two weeks later, in Harper Hospital,
Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., October
28, 1997 (age 70 years, 222
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Dave Brown (1948-1998) —
of Montana.
Born in Pompeys Pillar, Yellowstone
County, Mont., November
20, 1948.
Member of Montana
state house of representatives, 1981-93.
Pleaded
guilty in 1994 to five counts of failing to file federal
income tax returns.
Died in University Hospital,
Madison, Dane
County, Wis., October
23, 1998 (age 49 years, 337
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Butte, Mont.
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Del M. Mauhrine Brown —
of Hopewell,
Va.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1996;
candidate for Virginia
state house of delegates 75th District, 1997; publicly
admonished in June 2008 by the Virginia State Bar for lawyer
misconduct, over failure to file a timely notice of appeal on
behalf of three clients.
Still living as of 2008.
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George William Brown (1812-1890) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., October
13, 1812.
Mayor
of Baltimore, Md., 1860-61; delegate
to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1867; municipal
judge in Maryland, 1872.
His term as mayor was cut short on September 12, 1861, when he was arrested and
imprisoned, over alleged disloyalty,
by Federal authorities.
Died September
8, 1890 (age 77 years, 330
days).
Burial location unknown.
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George C. Brownell —
of Oregon.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Oregon
state senate, 1890; indicted
in February 1905 on federal charges
of subornation
of perjury.
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Bruckner (1871-1942) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Bronx, New York County (now Bronx
County), N.Y., June 17,
1871.
Democrat. President, Bruckner Beverages;
director, Milton Realty
Co.; director, American Metal Cap Co.; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 35th District, 1901; New York
City Commissioner of Public Works, 1902-06; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1912
(alternate), 1924,
1932
(alternate); U.S.
Representative from New York 22nd District, 1913-17; resigned
1917; borough
president of Bronx, New York, 1918-33.
Member, Freemasons;
Rotary;
Elks.
In 1932, the Seabury investigating committee, looking into corruption
in New York City, called him to testify about the wealth he had
accumulated; at the conclusion of the investigation, the committee called for
his removal as Borough President.
Died, from chronic
nephritis, in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., April
14, 1942 (age 70 years, 301
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Constantine Fernow Brunn (1858-1909) —
also known as Constantine F. Brunn —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; South Woodstock, Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
24, 1858.
Vice-Consul
for Portugal in New
York, N.Y., 1893-96.
German
and Irish
ancestry.
According to published
reports, in a sudden fit of rage, perhaps angered because he
wasn't able to reach his wife by telephone, he shot
and killed his sister, Freda Brunn, and his brother, Dr. Armin
Brunn, and then shot himself,
in South Woodstock, Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn., September
29, 1909 (age 50 years, 340
days).
Interment a private or family graveyard, Windham County, Conn.
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Charles W. Bryant (born c.1830) —
of Harris
County, Tex.
Born about 1830.
Delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1868-69.
African
ancestry.
Expelled
from the Texas Constitutional Convention after being accused of raping
an 11-year-old girl; jailed
briefly, but then the charges were dropped.
Burial location unknown.
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Frank Buchanan (1862-1930) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born near Madison, Jefferson
County, Ind., June 14,
1862.
Democrat. Ironworker;
U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1911-17; in 1915, when
the U.S. was still neutral in World War I, he was president of
"Labor's National Peace Council," which advocated a weapons embargo
against the countries then at war; the organization secretly received
funding from German
agents; when a grand jury
investigation was announced, he retaliated by introducing
resolutions to impeach U.S. Attorney H.
Snowden Marshall; indicted
in December 1915, along with H.
Robert Fowler, Frank
S. Monnett, and others, for restraint
of trade over the Peace Council's attempts to foment
strikes in U.S. munitions plants; stood
trial in May 1917, along with (ultimately) six co-defendants; the
jury convicted three, but deadlocked over the other four, including
Buchanan; he was not re-tried.
Died, of heart
disease, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April
18, 1930 (age 67 years, 308
days).
Interment at Irving
Park Boulevard Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Charles Anthony Buckley Jr. (born c.1926) —
also known as Charles A. Buckley, Jr. —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.; Hartsdale, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born about 1926.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; charged
in 1965 with drunken
driving
following an automobile accident in Hartsdale, N.Y.
Still living as of 1965.
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William Gibbs Buckley (b. 1907) —
also known as William G. Buckley —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., August
19, 1907.
Democrat. Member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1933-34, 1937-44; defeated in primary, 1944; removed 1944; Charged
on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state
legislators) with accepting
bribes; tried,
convicted,
and sentenced
to 3-5 years in prison;
charged
on December 6, 1944 (along with four other legislators) with accepting
bribes from naturopathic physicians; tried in
1945, but the jury was unable to reach a verdict; retried
and convicted;
charged
on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting
bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the last set of
charges were dismissed when he agreed to testify.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1933 to
Kathryn O'Dowd. |
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Cuthbert Bullitt (1740-1791) —
Born in Fauquier
County, Va., 1740.
Lawyer;
planter;
shot and killed John
Baylis in a duel
on September 24, 1765; later tried
for the killing
and acquitted; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1776.
Anglican;
later Episcopalian.
Died in Prince
William County, Va., August
27, 1791 (age about 51
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Barbara A. Bullock (born c.1939) —
also known as Barbara Bullock —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born about 1939.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of
Columbia, 1996,
2000.
Female.
President
of the Washington Teachers Union, 1994-2002; pleaded
guilty in 2003 to federal charges
of embezzlement
from a labor union, over her use of a union credit card to
purchase costly costly luxury items including jewelry, furs and
clothing; she and two co-conspirators also wrote union checks to
themselves and to intermediaries who shared the proceeds, amounting
to millions of dollars. Her chauffeur pleaded guilty to money
laundering on her behalf. Sentenced to nine years in prison;
the sentence was later reduced to six and a half years.
Still living as of 2007.
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Robert Bullock (1929-1999) —
also known as Bob Bullock —
of Texas.
Born in Hillsboro, Hill
County, Tex., July 10,
1929.
Democrat. Member of Texas
state house of representatives; elected 1956, 1958; secretary
of state of Texas, 1971-72; Texas
state comptroller, 1975-90; Lieutenant
Governor of Texas, 1991-99.
Investigated
by a grand jury in 1978, but no indictment resulted.
Died in Austin, Travis
County, Tex., June 18,
1999 (age 69 years, 343
days).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Ivison C. Burgess —
of Russellville, Pope
County, Ark.
Member of Arkansas
state senate 4th District, 1915-17; expelled 1917.
In January, 1917, after he introduced legislation to regulate trading
stamps and coupons, he accepted a bribe
to kill the bills, from a detective posing as a lobbyist for Eastern
trading-stamp interests; arrested,
charged
with bribery,
and later convicted;
expelled
from the Senate on a vote of 25 to 8.
Burial location unknown.
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Edward Austin Burke (1839-1928) —
also known as Edward A. Burke; Edward A.
Burk —
of Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex.; New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., September
13, 1839.
Democrat. Telegraph
operator; railroad
superintendent; major in the Confederate Army during the Civil
War; importer
and exporter; railway
freight agent; newspaper
editor; Louisiana
state treasurer, 1878-88; engaged in a pistol duel
with Henry J. Hearsey on January 25, 1880; neither man was injured;
in 1882, he was wounded in a duel with C. Harrison Parker; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, 1880
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1884;
in 1889, his successor as state treasurer, William
Henry Pipes, discovered discrepancies in state funds, and accused
Burke of embezzlement;
he was subsequently indicted
by a grand jury; Burke, then in London, chose not to return to
Louisiana, and instead fled
to Honduras, and remained in Central America for the rest of his life.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, in the Hotel
Ritz, Tegucigalpa, Honduras,
September
24, 1928 (age 89 years, 11
days).
Interment somewhere in Yuscarán, Honduras.
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J. Herbert Burke (1913-1993) —
of Hollywood, Broward
County, Fla.; Fort Lauderdale, Broward
County, Fla.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., January
14, 1913.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Florida, 1967-79 (10th District 1967-73, 12th
District 1973-79); defeated, 1955 (6th District), 1978 (12th
District); delegate to Republican National Convention from Florida,
1972.
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion; Eagles;
Forty and
Eight; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans; Elks; Moose; Kiwanis.
Arrested
in 1978 for being drunk
and disruptive in the parking lot of a strip
club; pleaded
guilty to public
drunkenness, disorderly conduct and witness
tampering.
Died in Fern Park, Seminole
County, Fla., June 16,
1993 (age 80 years, 153
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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James A. Burns (1899-1963) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., January
8, 1899.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; hotelier;
purchasing
agent; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1923-24; defeated in Republican primary, 1926, 1928, 1930; member of
Michigan
state senate 4th District, 1937-38, 1941-42; defeated, 1924
(Republican primary, 2nd District), 1938 (Democratic primary, 4th
District), 1942 (Democratic, 4th District), 1944 (Democratic primary,
4th District); charged
on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting
bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the entire case
collapsed when the star prosecution witness, Charles
F. Hemans, refused to testify; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Michigan, 1948.
Died in 1963
(age about
64 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Aaron Burr (1756-1836) —
also known as Aaron Edwards —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., February
6, 1756.
Democrat. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1784-85, 1797-99, 1800-01 (New York County
1784-85, 1797-99, Orange County 1800-01); New York
state attorney general, 1789-91; appointed 1789; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1791-97; Vice
President of the United States, 1801-05; Killed Alexander
Hamilton in a duel,
July 11, 1804; tried
for treason
in 1807; found not guilty.
Presbyterian.
Slaveowner.
Died, after several strokes,
at the Winants or Port Richmond Hotel,
Port Richmond, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., September
14, 1836 (age 80 years, 221
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of Aaron Burr (1716-1757) and Esther (Edwards) Burr; brother of Sarah
Burr (who married Tapping
Reeve); married, July 2,
1782, to Theodosia (Bartow) Prevost (first cousin twice removed
of Francis
Stebbins Bartow); married 1833 to Eliza
(Bowen) Jumel; father of Theodosia Burr (who married Joseph
Alston); nephew of Pierpont
Edwards; third great-grandson of Thomas
Willett; ancestor of Karla
Ballard; first cousin of Theodore
Dwight and Henry
Waggaman Edwards; first cousin four times removed of Anson
Foster Keeler; second cousin of John
Davenport and James
Davenport; second cousin once removed of Theodore
Davenport; second cousin twice removed of Charles
Robert Sherman; second cousin thrice removed of Charles
Taylor Sherman, William
Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson
Parker Sherman, John
Sherman and Evert
Harris Kittell; second cousin four times removed of Chauncey
Mitchell Depew, Ezekiel
Gilbert Stoddard, Stillman
Stephen Light and Blanche
M. Woodward; second cousin five times removed of Alfred
Walstein Bangs, John
Clarence Keeler, Louis
Ezekiel Stoddard, John
Cecil Purcell and Arthur
Callen Kittell Jr.; third cousin of Benjamin
Tallmadge; third cousin once removed of Frederick
Augustus Tallmadge; third cousin twice removed of Eli
Thacher Hoyt, George
Smith Catlin, John
Appleton, Howkin
Bulkley Beardslee, Joseph
Pomeroy Root and Edward
Williams Hooker; third cousin thrice removed of Greene
Carrier Bronson, Abijah
Catlin, David
Munson Osborne, George
Landon Ingraham, Dwight
Arthur Silliman and Charles
Dunsmore Millard; fourth cousin of Noah
Phelps and Hezekiah
Case; fourth cousin once removed of Parmenio
Adams, Elisha
Phelps, Ambrose
Tuttle, Jesse
Hoyt, Abiel
Case, Henry
Fisk Janes, Jairus
Case, John
Leslie Russell, George
Washington Wolcott, William
Dean Kellogg and Almon
Case. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Jonathan
Dayton — Nathaniel
Pendleton — John
Smith — John
Tayler — Walter
D. Corrigan, Sr. — Cowles
Mead — Luther
Martin — William
P. Van Ness — Samuel
Swartwout — William
Wirt — Theophilus
W. Smith |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Aaron Burr: Milton Lomask,
Aaron
Burr: The Years from Princeton to Vice President,
1756-1805 — Milton Lomask, Aaron
Burr: The Conspiracy and Years of Exile, 1805-1836 —
Joseph Wheelan, Jefferson's
Vendetta : The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the
Judiciary — Buckner F. Melton Jr., Aaron
Burr : Conspiracy to Treason — Thomas Fleming, Duel:
Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of
America — Arnold A. Rogow, A
Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr —
H. W. Brands, The
Heartbreak of Aaron Burr — David O. Stewart, American
Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's
America — Donald Barr Chidsey, The
great conspiracy: Aaron Burr and his strange doings in the
West |
| | | Fiction about Aaron Burr: Gore Vidal,
Burr |
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Williana Jones Burroughs (1882-1945) —
also known as Williana J. Burroughs; Williana Jones;
Mary Adams —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Moscow, Russia.
Born in Petersburg,
Va., December
26, 1882.
Communist. School
teacher; joined the Communist party in 1926; used the pseudonym
"Mary Adams"; in 1933, she led a demonstration
to the New York City Board of Education, and as a result, she was fired
from her teaching job; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1934; announcer and editor for the
English-language broadcasts of Radio
Moscow, 1937-45.
African
ancestry.
Died, from a heart
ailment, in the Staten Island Area Hospital,
Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., December
24, 1945 (age 62 years, 363
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1909 to
Charles Burroughs. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: The Daily Worker, October
1933 |
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Albert Garza Bustamante (b. 1935) —
also known as Albert G. Bustamante —
of Laredo, Webb
County, Tex.
Born in Asherton, Dimmit
County, Tex., April 8,
1935.
Democrat. School
teacher; Bexar
County Commissioner, 1973-78; Bexar
County Judge, 1979-84; U.S.
Representative from Texas 23rd District, 1985-93; defeated, 1992.
Catholic.
Hispanic
ancestry.
Convicted
in 1993 on racketeering and bribery
charges,
and sentenced
to prison.
Still living as of 2014.
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David Christy Butler (1829-1891) —
also known as David C. Butler —
of Nebraska.
Born December
15, 1829.
Republican. Member of Nebraska
territorial House of Representatives, 1861; member
Nebraska territorial council, 1864; Governor of
Nebraska, 1867-71; removed 1871; member of University
of Nebraska board of regents, 1869-71; impeached
on March 4, 1871, and removed from
office as Governor on June 2, 1871.
Member, Freemasons.
Died May 25,
1891 (age 61 years, 161
days).
Interment at Pawnee
City Cemetery, Pawnee City, Neb.
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Richard J. Butler —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Saloon
keeper; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 9th District, 1903.
Charged
in March 1904 with having received
stolen property in the form of three barrels of liquor found in
the cellar of his saloon, but the magistrate determined that they had
been delivered without his knowledge.
Burial location unknown.
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Smedley Darlington Butler (1881-1940) —
also known as Smedley Butler; "The Fighting
Quaker"; "Old Gimlet Eye" —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in West Chester, Chester
County, Pa., July 30,
1881.
Republican. Major general in U.S. Marine Corps; received a Medal
of Honor for the capture of Veracruz, Mexico, 1914; received
another for the capture of Fort Riviere, Haiti, 1915; Philadelphia police
commissioner, 1924-25; arrested
and court-martialed
in 1931 over his unauthorized
disclosure
of an incident unflattering to Italian dictator Italian Benito
Mussolini; retired from the service rather than apologize to
Mussolini; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1932.
Quaker.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., June 21,
1940 (age 58 years, 327
days).
Interment at Oaklands
Cemetery, West Chester, Pa.
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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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Earl Lauer Butz (1909-2008) —
also known as Earl L. Butz —
of West Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind.
Born in Albion, Noble
County, Ind., July 3,
1909.
Economist;
university
professor; U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture, 1971-76.
Member, Alpha
Gamma Rho; Sigma
Xi; Sigma
Delta Chi; Tau
Kappa Alpha; Alpha
Zeta; Kiwanis.
Resigned
in 1976 following a furor
over a racist
joke. In 1981, he pleaded
guilty to income
tax evasion; sentenced
to five years in prison
(served 30 days) and fined
$10,000.
Died in Kensington, Montgomery
County, Md., February
2, 2008 (age 98 years, 214
days).
Interment at Tippecanoe
Memory Gardens, West Lafayette, Ind.
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