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John M. Fabrizi (born c.1957) —
of Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born about 1957.
Democrat. School
teacher; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Connecticut, 2000;
mayor
of Bridgeport, Conn., 2003-07; admitted
in June 2006 that he had used
cocaine, and did not seek
re-election.
Still living as of 2007.
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Silvio Joseph Failla (1910-1972) —
also known as Silvio J. Failla; Si Failla —
of Hoboken, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in New Jersey, May 23,
1910.
Democrat. Undertaker;
mayor
of Hoboken, N.J., 1965; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly District 12-C, 1972; died in
office 1972.
Italian
ancestry.
According to published
reports, he left a bar with
a prostitute,
Deborah Dell; just outside, he was robbed, shot
multiple times, and killed,
in Neptune Township, Monmouth
County, N.J., September
16, 1972 (age 62 years, 116
days). Dell and an associate were later convicted of first-degree
murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Entombed in mausoleum at St.
Catharine Cemetery, Sea Girt, N.J.
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Albert Bacon Fall (1861-1944) —
also known as Albert B. Fall —
of Three Rivers, Otero
County, N.M.
Born in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., November
26, 1861.
Republican. Lawyer; farmer;
member of New Mexico
territorial House of Representatives, 1891-92; justice of
New Mexico territorial supreme court, 1893; New
Mexico territory attorney general, 1897; served in the U.S. Army
during the Spanish-American War; U.S.
Senator from New Mexico, 1912-21; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New Mexico, 1916;
U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1921-23.
Convicted
of bribery
in 1929 for his role in the Teapot Dome oil lease scandal;
served one year in prison.
Died in El Paso, El Paso
County, Tex., November
30, 1944 (age 83 years, 4
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Alameda Cemetery, El Paso, Tex.
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William Joseph Fallon (1886-1927) —
also known as William J. Fallon; "The Great
Mouthpiece"; "Broadway's
Cicero" —
of Mamaroneck, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1886.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County 2nd District, 1918; charged
in 1924 with bribing
a juror;
tried
and acquitted.
Died, of heart
disease, in the Hotel
Oxford, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
29, 1927 (age about 40
years).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
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Randolph Blake Farenthold (b. 1961) —
also known as R. Blake Farenthold —
Born in Corpus Christi, Nueces
County, Tex., December
12, 1961.
Republican. Lawyer; radio
commentator; U.S.
Representative from Texas 27th District, 2011-18; resigned 2018;
sued
in 2014 by a former staffer, alleging sexual
harassment, a hostile work environment, and that she was fired in
retaliation for complaints; the case was settled out of court with
$84,000 in public funds; in December 2017, another former staffer
made further detailed allegations
of his behavior; resigned
in April 2018.
Still living as of 2018.
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Leslie L. Farr II (born c.1978) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born about 1978.
Republican. Train
conductor; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Missouri, 2004;
Republican candidate for U.S.
Representative from Missouri 1st District, 2004, 2006 (primary);
suspended
without pay in October 2004, for making a political
statement (critical of Democratic presidential candidate John
Kerry) over the public address system of an Amtrak train; political
consultant.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2011.
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Howard Melvin Fast (1914-2003) —
also known as Howard Fast; "E. V.
Cunningham"; "Walter Ericson" —
of Teaneck, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., November
11, 1914.
Communist. Novelist;
in 1950, suspected of sedition,
he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee,
where he refused to name fellow members of the Communist Party; convicted
of contempt
of Congress and sentenced to three months in prison;
awarded the Stalin
Peace Prize in 1953; American Labor candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 23rd District, 1952.
Jewish.
Died in Old Greenwich, Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn., March
12, 2003 (age 88 years, 121
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Scott Faughn (b. 1980) —
of Poplar Bluff, Butler
County, Mo.
Born in 1980.
Mayor
of Poplar Bluff, Mo., 2002-04; charged
in 2005 with embezzling
money while Chairman of the Highway 67 Corporation, by forging
checks to himself and his ex-wife; convicted
in 2007 on the forgery charges, and fined
$1,500.
Still living as of 2007.
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Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) —
also known as Charles J. Faulkner —
of Martinsburg, Berkeley
County, Va. (now W.Va.).
Born in Martinsburg, Berkeley
County, Va. (now W.Va.), July 6,
1806.
Democrat. Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1829-34, 1848-49; member of Virginia
state senate, 1838-42; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1850; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1851-59 (10th District 1851-53, 8th
District 1853-59); U.S. Minister to France, 1860; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil
War; delegate
to West Virginia state constitutional convention, 1872; U.S.
Representative from West Virginia 2nd District, 1875-77.
On his return from France in August 1861, was detained
as a prisoner of
state on charges
of negotiating arms sales for the Confederacy
while in Paris; released in December 1861 and negotiated his own
exchange for Alfred
Ely, a a Congressman from New York who had been taken prisoner by
the Confederates at Bull Run.
Slaveowner.
Died near Martinsburg, Berkeley
County, W.Va., November
1, 1884 (age 78 years, 118
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Berkeley County, W.Va.
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Walter Edward Fauntroy (b. 1933) —
also known as Walter E. Fauntroy —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
6, 1933.
Democrat. Baptist
minister; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from the District of Columbia, 1971-91;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1972;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia,
1972,
1980,
1988
(speaker);
arrested
during an anti-apartheid
sit-in at the South African Embassy
in Washington, 1984; candidate for mayor
of Washington, D.C., 1990.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi.
Charged
in federal court on March 22, 1995 with making false statements on financial
disclosure forms, including a claimed donation of almost $24,000
to the New Bethel Baptist Church where he served as pastor, to make
it appear that he had complied with House rules limiting outside
income, and that he had failed
to disclose a June 1988 loan of $24,200. Pleaded
guilty to one felony count, and sentenced
to probation.
Still living as of 2014.
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George Kent Favrot (1868-1934) —
also known as George K. Favrot —
of Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Parish, La.
Born in Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Parish, La., November
26, 1868.
Democrat. Lawyer;
district attorney, 22nd District, 1892-96, 1900-04; delegate
to Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1898; district
judge in Louisiana, 1904-06, 1926-34 (22nd District 1904-06, 19th
District 1926-34); died in office 1934; on November 6, 1906, he shot
and killed Dr. Robert H. Aldrich, because the latter had insulted
his wife; arrested
and imprisoned
for five months awaiting indictment and trial; however, the grand
jury refused to indict him, and he was released in April, 1907.; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 6th District, 1907-09, 1921-25;
member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1912-16.
Died in Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Parish, La., December
26, 1934 (age 66 years, 30
days).
Interment at Roselawn
Memorial Park, Baton Rouge, La.
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James Edward Ferguson (1871-1944) —
also known as James E. Ferguson; "Pa
Ferguson" —
of Temple, Bell
County, Tex.
Born near Salado, Bell
County, Tex., August
31, 1871.
Governor
of Texas, 1915-17; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Texas, 1916
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee); American candidate for President
of the United States, 1920.
Indicted
on embezzlement
and other charges
in 1917; soon after, was impeached
by the Texas House, and removed from
office by the Texas Senate.
Died in Austin, Travis
County, Tex., September
21, 1944 (age 73 years, 21
days).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Stephen Johnson Field (1816-1899) —
also known as Stephen J. Field —
of Yuba
County, Calif.
Born in Haddam, Middlesex
County, Conn., November
4, 1816.
Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state assembly 14th District, 1851-52; justice of
California state supreme court, 1857-63; chief
justice of California state supreme court, 1859-63; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1863-97; arrested
in San Francisco, August 16, 1889, on charges
of being party to the alleged murder
of David
S. Terry; released on bail; ultimately the killing was ruled to
be justifiable homicide.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April 9,
1899 (age 82 years, 156
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Charles Finley (1865-1941) —
of Williamsburg, Whitley
County, Ky.
Born in Williamsburg, Whitley
County, Ky., March
26, 1865.
Republican. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1894; secretary
of state of Kentucky, 1896-1900; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 11th District, 1930-33.
Member, Junior
Order; Rotary;
Freemasons;
Shriners.
Among those charged
in 1900 with the murder
of Gov. William
J. Goebel; pardoned
in 1909.
Died in Williamsburg, Whitley
County, Ky., March
18, 1941 (age 75 years, 357
days).
Interment at Highland
Cemetery, Williamsburg, Ky.
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Benígno Repeki Fitial (b. 1945) —
also known as Benígno Fitial —
Born in Saipan, Northern
Mariana Islands, November
27, 1945.
Governor
of Northern Mariana Islands, 2006-13; resigned 2013; impeached
by the Northern Mariana Islands House of Representatives in February
2013; he resigned
rather than face trial in the Senate.
Satawalese
ancestry.
Still living as of 2013.
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John Fitzpatrick (1844-1919) —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born May 1,
1844.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana,
1880,
1884;
mayor
of New Orleans, La., 1892-96.
In 1894, a suit was brought in an attempt to impeach
and remove him
from office based on a long list of malfeasance
and corruption charges;
a trial
was held, and he was acquitted on all charges.
Died April 8,
1919 (age 74 years, 342
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John W. Flaherty (1832-1904) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland,
1832.
Democrat. Ship carpenter;
contractor;
Independent Democratic candidate for New York
state assembly from Kings County 7th District, 1874; Brooklyn
Commissioner of City Works; indicted,
along with George
C. Bennett, in December 1878, for conspiracy to defraud
the city of $50,000; tried
and convicted;
fined
$250; the conviction, which he claimed was the work of Mayor James
Howell and the corrupt "Brooklyn Ring", was reversed on appeal;
Independent Democratic candidate for mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1879.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick.
Died, from Bright's
disease, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
26, 1904 (age about 72
years).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Thomas W. Flatley (born c.1888) —
of Erie, Erie
County, Pa.
Born about 1888.
Democrat. Mayor of
Erie, Pa., 1952-54; resigned 1954; arrested
in October 1954 and charged
with taking part in a gambling
racket; admitted
to receiving
payments and pleaded
guilty; sentenced
to one to two years in jail,
and fined
$1,000.
Burial location unknown.
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Ernest L. Fletcher (b. 1952) —
also known as Ernie Fletcher; "Big
Ern" —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Mt. Sterling, Montgomery
County, Ky., November
12, 1952.
Republican. Physician;
pastor;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1994-96; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 6th District, 1999-2003; defeated,
1996; Governor of
Kentucky, 2003-07; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Kentucky, 2004;
in 2005-06, an investigation
of hiring practices in violation
of the state's merit system law led to grand jury indictments
of the Governor and some of his staff; Fletcher pardoned his staff
members to protect them from prosecution; ultimately he admitted
wrong-doing and agreed to reorganize the Kentucky Personnel Board.
Baptist.
Still living as of 2014.
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Motley H. Flint (1864-1930) —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
19, 1864.
Republican. Postmaster at Los
Angeles, Calif., 1904-10; banker;
provided critical support for the Warner Brothers Movie
studio in its early years; one of the promoters of Julian
Petroleum Corporation, a Ponzi
scheme which collapsed in 1927; about 40,000 investors lost their
money; tainted by the scandal,
he moved to Europe for a time.
Member, Freemasons.
Called as a witness in a civil suit involving David
O. Selznick; after his testimony, as he returned to the audience
section of the courtroom,
in Los Angeles City
Hall, he was shot and
killed
by Frank Keaton, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 14,
1930 (age 66 years, 145
days). Keaton, who had lost his money in Julian Petroleum, was
immediately arrested, and subsequently tried, convicted, and hanged.
Entombed in mausoleum at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Daniel John Flood (1903-1994) —
also known as Daniel J. Flood —
of Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne
County, Pa.
Born in Hazleton, Luzerne
County, Pa., November
26, 1903.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 11th District, 1945-47, 1949-53,
1955-80; defeated, 1946, 1952.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; Delta
Sigma Rho; Lions; Elks; Moose; Eagles;
Knights
of Columbus.
Charged
in 1979 with taking
bribes; a trial
resulted in a hung jury; resigned
from the House in 1980; pleaded
guilty in February 1980 to a lesser charge of conspiracy to
violate federal campaign
finance laws, and sentenced
to one year probation.
Died in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne
County, Pa., May 28,
1994 (age 90 years, 183
days).
Interment at St.
Mary's Cemetery, Hanover Township, Luzerne County, Pa.
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964) —
also known as "Rebel Girl" —
of New York.
Born in Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H., August
7, 1890.
Communist. Speaker and organizer
for the Industrial Workers of the World ("Wobblies") in 1906-16; one
of the founders
of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which later expelled
her for being a Communist; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1942 (Communist, at-large), 1954
(Peoples' Rights, 24th District); convicted
under the anti-Communist
Smith Act, and sentenced
to three years in prison;
released in 1957; became National Chair of the Communist Party U.S.A.
in 1961.
Female.
Irish
ancestry. Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; Industrial
Workers of the World.
Died in Russia,
September
5, 1964 (age 74 years, 29
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
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Larry Claxton Flynt (1942-2021) —
also known as Larry Flynt; "The King of
Smut" —
of Ohio; California.
Born in Lakeville, Magoffin
County, Ky., November
1, 1942.
Democrat. Owner of night
clubs; publisher of Hustler, a pornographic
magazine;
convicted
in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1977 on obscenity
and organized
crime charges,
and sentenced
to 25 years in prison,
but the verdict was overturned on appeal; shot by a
sniper in Lawrenceville, Georgia, 1978, and paralyzed
from the waist down; candidate for Governor of
California, 2003.
Atheist.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
10, 2021 (age 78 years, 101
days).
Interment a private or family graveyard, Magoffin County, Ky.
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Mark Adam Foley (b. 1954) —
also known as Mark A. Foley —
of West Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla.
Born in Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
8, 1954.
Republican. Real estate
agent; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1990-92; defeated, 1986; member
of Florida
state senate, 1993-94; U.S.
Representative from Florida 16th District, 1995-2006; resigned
2006.
Catholic.
Gay.
Forced to
resign in September, 2006, over sexually
explicit messages he had sent to teenage Congressional pages; no
criminal charges were filed.
Still living as of 2014.
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Edward Richard Folsom (1874-1923) —
also known as Edward R. Folsom —
of Irvington, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in North Urbana, Steuben
County, N.Y., September
18, 1874.
Charged,
in 1894, of forging
checks, bank
robbery, and arson;
pleaded
guilty to two charges; sentenced
to ten years in prison;
pardoned
and released in September 1897; coal
dealer; mayor
of Irvington, N.J., 1923; died in office 1923.
Blackmailers threatening to expose his criminal past extorted money
from him until he was nearly penniless; killed
himself by an overdose of
sedative, in Irvington, Essex
County, N.J., September
26, 1923 (age 49 years, 8
days).
Interment at Clinton
Cemetery, Irvington, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of Frederick Lewis Folsom and Martha (Layton) Folsom; married to Sara
Elizabeth Keeler. |
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memorial |
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Henry Stuart Foote (1804-1880) —
also known as Henry S. Foote; "Hangman
Foote" —
of Tuscumbia, Colbert
County, Ala.; Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Fauquier
County, Va., February
28, 1804.
Lawyer;
co-founder
of LaGrange College, which later became the University of North
Alabama; fought four duels;
fled
Alabama in 1830 to escape
prosecution for dueling;
U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1847-52; exchanged blows with Thomas
Hart Benton on the floor of the U.S. Senate; Governor of
Mississippi, 1852-54; Representative
from Tennessee in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65; expelled
from the Confederate Congress in early 1865 for going North on an unauthorized
peace mission; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Tennessee, 1876.
Slaveowner.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., May 19,
1880 (age 76 years, 81
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
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Amy Johnson Ford —
also known as Amy Jolene Johnson; Amy Jolene
Thorn —
of Williamson, Mingo
County, W.Va.
Republican. Registered
nurse; during the Covid-19 pandemic, volunteered to work with
patients in New York and Texas; speaker, Republican National Convention, 2020 ;
in October 2020, in Williamson, W.Va., she was charged
with shooting
a woman in the stomach during an argument.
Female.
Still living as of 2020.
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Henry Ford (1863-1947) —
of Dearborn, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Greenfield Township (now part of Detroit), Wayne
County, Mich., July 30,
1863.
Engineer;
inventor;
founder, Ford Motor
Company, 1903; candidate for Republican nomination for President,
1916;
Democratic candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1918; candidate for Democratic nomination
for President, 1924.
Episcopalian.
Scotch-Irish
and Belgian
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Publisher, in 1919-27, of the Dearborn Independent newspaper,
which promoted anti-Semitic
ideas through articles such as "The International Jew: The World's
Problem," which were reprinted as pamphlets and books. In 1927, a libel
lawsuit against Ford over these writings led him to shut
down the paper and publicly recant
its contents.
Died, from a stroke,
in Dearborn, Wayne
County, Mich., April 7,
1947 (age 83 years, 251
days).
Interment at Ford
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of William Ford and Mary (Litogot) Ford; married, April
11, 1888, to Clara Jane Bryant; uncle of Clarence
William Ford; second cousin once removed of Clyde
McKinlock Ford. |
| | | Political family: Ford
family of Detroit and Dearborn, Michigan. |
| | | Cross-reference: James
Couzens — Herman
Bernstein — Alfred
J. Murphy — Martin
C. Ansorge — William
A. Lucking |
| | | Personal motto:
"Efficiency." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Henry Ford: Douglas
Brinkley, Wheels
for the World : Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress,
1903-2003 — William A. Levinson, Henry
Ford's Lean Vision — Pat McCarthy, Henry
Ford : Building Cars for Everyone (for young
readers) — David Weitzman, Model
T : How Henry Ford Built a Legend (for young
readers) |
| | | Critical books about Henry Ford: Max
Wallace, The
American Axis : Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the
Third Reich — Neil Baldwin, Henry
Ford and the Jews : The Mass Production of Hate |
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Tirey L. Ford (1857-1928) —
also known as T. L. Ford —
of California.
Born in Monroe
County, Mo., 1857.
California
state attorney general, 1899-1902.
Charged
with offering a
bribe; tried
and acquitted in 1907.
Died, of a heart
attack, in San
Francisco, Calif., June 26,
1928 (age about 70
years).
Interment at Holy
Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877) —
also known as "Wizard of the Saddle" —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born near Chapel Hill, Bedford County (now Marshall
County), Tenn., July 13,
1821.
Democrat. Cotton planter; slave
trader; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; in
April 1864, after the Battle of Fort Pillow, Tennessee, Confederate
troops under his command massacred
African-American Union soldiers, not accepting them as prisoners,
since the Confederacy refused to
recognize ex-slaves as legitimate combatants; this event, seen as
a war
crime, sparked outrage
across the North, and a congressional inquiry;
in 1867, he became involved in the Ku Klux
Klan and was elected Grand Wizard; the organization used violent
tactics to intimidate
Black voters and suppress
their votes; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Tennessee, 1868;
in 1869, he had a change of heart, and issued a letter ordering that
the Klan be dissolved and its costumes destroyed; he went on to
denounce the group and its crimes; in 1875, he gave a "friendly
speech" to a meeting of an African-American organization in Memphis,
calling for peace, harmony, and economic advancement of former
slaves; for this speech, he was vehemently denounced in the Southern
press.
English
ancestry. Member, Ku Klux Klan.
After his death, he became a folk hero among white Southerners,
particularly during the imposition of Jim Crow segregation laws in
the early 20th century, and later, in reaction to the Civil Rights
movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
Slaveowner.
Died, from complications of diabetes,
in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., October
29, 1877 (age 56 years, 108
days).
Original interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.; reinterment in 1904 at Health Sciences Park, Memphis, Tenn.; memorial monument at Myrtle
Hill Cemetery, Rome, Ga.; memorial monument at Live
Oak Cemetery, Selma, Ala.
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Jeff Fortenberry (b. 1960) —
of Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb.
Born in Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Parish, La., December
27, 1960.
Republican. Publishing
executive; U.S.
Representative from Nebraska 1st District, 2005-22; resigned
2022; indicted
in October 2021 on charges
of receiving and concealing illegal campaign
contributions from a foreign national through strawmen; convicted
in March 2022, and resigned
from Congress.
Catholic.
Member, Rotary.
Still living as of 2022.
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Vito John Fossella (b. 1965) —
also known as Vito Fossella —
of Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., March 9,
1965.
Republican. Lawyer;
member, New York City Council, 1994-97; U.S.
Representative from New York 13th District, 1997-2009.
Catholic.
Italian
and Irish
ancestry.
In May, 2008, he was arrested
in Alexandria, Virginia, for driving
while intoxicated;
a week later, he admitted to an extramarital
affair with Air Force Lt. Col Laura Fay, and that he was the
father of her 3-year-old child; the scandal
led him to retire from
Congress.
Still living as of 2014.
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Ezola Broussard Foster (b. 1938) —
also known as Ezola B. Foster; Ezola
Broussard —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Maurice, Vermilion
Parish, La., August
9, 1938.
School
teacher; Republican candidate for California
state assembly, 1984; arrested
with others while protesting
recognition of the gay Log Cabin Republican organization, at the
California Republican state convention, 1987; Reform candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 2000.
Female.
Catholic.
African
ancestry. Member, John
Birch Society.
Still living as of 2018.
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William Zebulon Foster (1881-1961) —
also known as William Z. Foster; William Edward
Foster —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Taunton, Bristol
County, Mass., February
25, 1881.
Communist. Labor
organizer; helped lead steelworkers strike in 1919; candidate for
President
of the United States, 1924, 1928, 1932; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1930; arrested
after a demonstration
in 1930, and jailed
for six months; indicted
on July 20, 1948 under the Smith
Act, and charged
with conspiring to advocate
the overthrow of the government; never tried due to illness.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, in a sanatorium
at Moscow, Russia,
September
1, 1961 (age 80 years, 188
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow, Russia; cenotaph at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
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Hiram Robert Fowler (1851-1926) —
also known as H. Robert Fowler —
of Elizabethtown, Hardin
County, Ill.
Born near Eddyville, Pope
County, Ill., February
7, 1851.
Democrat. Member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1893-95; member of Illinois
state senate, 1900-04; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Illinois, 1908;
U.S.
Representative from Illinois 24th District, 1911-15; defeated,
1924; in 1915, when the U.S. was still neutral in World War I, he was
general counsel for "Labor's National Peace Council," which advocated
a weapons embargo against the countries then at war; the organization
secretly received funding from German
agents; indicted
in December 1915, along with Frank
Buchanan, Frank
S. Monnett, and others, for restraint
of trade over the Peace Council's attempts to foment
strikes in U.S. munitions plants; stood
trial in May 1917, along with (ultimately) six co-defendants; the
jury convicted three, but deadlocked over the other four, including
Fowler; he was not re-tried.
Died January
5, 1926 (age 74 years, 332
days).
Interment at Sunset
Hill Cemetery, Harrisburg, Ill.
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Isaac Vanderbeck Fowler (1818-1869) —
also known as Isaac V. Fowler —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born August
20, 1818.
Democrat. Postmaster at New
York City, N.Y., 1853-60; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1860;
charged
in 1860 with embezzlement
as Postmaster; fled
to Mexico and Cuba.
Member, Tammany
Hall.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
29, 1869 (age 51 years, 40
days).
Interment at Old
Town Cemetery, Newburgh, N.Y.
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Anthony Franciosa (1928-2006) —
also known as Tony Franciosa; Anthony George
Papaleo —
of Brentwood, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
25, 1928.
Democrat. Actor;
hit and
kicked a press photographer at the Los Angeles Civic Center on
April 19, 1957; arrested
for assault,
pleaded
guilty, served to ten days in jail,
and fined
$250; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Italian
ancestry.
Suffered a stroke,
and died a few days later, in UCLA Medical
Center, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
19, 2006 (age 77 years, 86
days).
Cremated.
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Barney Frank (b. 1940) —
of Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Bayonne, Hudson
County, N.J., March
31, 1940.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1973-80; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1981-; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008.
Jewish.
Gay.
Admitted
in 1990 to having paid Stephen L. Gobie, a male
prostitute, for sex, subsequently hiring Gobie as his personal
assistant, and getting 33 parking tickets dismissed for him; Gobie
also used the congressman's apartment for prostitution. A move to expel
Frank from the House of Representatives failed on a 38 to 390 vote; a
motion to censure
him failed 141-287; finally, the House voted to reprimand
him by a vote of 408 to 18.
Still living as of 2014.
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Frank Frankel (1886-1975) —
of Long Beach, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Houston, Harris
County, Tex.; Beverly Hills, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born October
2, 1886.
Mayor
of Long Beach, N.Y., 1924, 1930-33; defeated, 1925 (Democratic
primary), 1925 (Republican), 1929 (Democratic primary); founder of
Long Beach Memorial Hospital
indicted
in September 1927 on charges
of maintaining a gambling
place; the charges were later dropped; in December 1929, his right to
take office as mayor was unsuccessfully challenged
by the Long Beach police chief, based on vote
fraud (for which many had been arrested and prosecuted) and the
expectation that Frankel would tolerate
gambling in the city; indicted
in January 1933 for fraud
over his transfer of $90,000 in city funds to the Long Beach Trust
Company, which subsequently closed; the indictment was dismissed in
February; indicted
again in May 1933, along with two city council members, over the
diversion of $750,000 of state and county tax revenue to city
projects; pleaded not guilty; no trial was held; the indictment was
dismissed in 1937; oil
producer.
Died, in a hospital
at Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 12,
1975 (age 88 years, 253
days).
Interment somewhere
in Houston, Tex.
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Alan Stuart Franken (b. 1951) —
also known as Al Franken; "Stuart
Smalley" —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 21,
1951.
Democrat. Comedian;
author;
U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 2009-18; resigned 2018; in November 2017,
Leeann Tweeden alleged that Franken had forcibly
kissed her on a 2006 USO tour; Franken was also photographed
appearing to place his hands on
or near her breasts; other women made similar allegations; resigned
from the Senate in January.
Jewish.
Still living as of 2018.
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Cadman H. Frederick (b. 1880) —
of Babylon, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born, in the British West Indies, May 22,
1880.
Republican. Real estate
developer; one of the founders of the Suffolk Title
and Guarantee Company, 1925; banker; mayor
of Babylon, N.Y., 1937-38.
Resigned
in 1956 as president and director of the Suffolk County Federal
Savings and Loan Association, in the midst of an investigation
of the sale of tax-foreclosed properties by Suffolk County. He and
others shared
profits on the sale of these properties with Deputy County
Treasurer John
A. Britting.
Burial location unknown.
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John Charles Frémont (1813-1890) —
also known as "The Pathfinder"; "The
Champion of Freedom" —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., January
21, 1813.
Republican. Explorer;
Military
Governor of California, 1847; arrested
for mutiny,
1847; court-martialed;
found
guilty of mutiny,
disobedience,
and conduct
prejudicial to order; penalty remitted by Pres. James
K. Polk; U.S.
Senator from California, 1850-51; candidate for President
of the United States, 1856; general in the Union Army during the
Civil War; Governor
of Arizona Territory, 1878-81; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1888.
Episcopalian.
French
ancestry.
Died, of peritonitis,
in a hotel
room at New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 13,
1890 (age 77 years, 173
days).
Original interment at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1891 at Rockland
Cemetery, Nyack, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Jean Charles Frémont and Ann Whiting (Pryor)
Frémont; married, October
19, 1841, to Jessie Benton (daughter of Thomas
Hart Benton). |
| | | Political families: Benton
family of Missouri and Tennessee; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Selah
Hill |
| | | Fremont County,
Colo., Fremont County,
Idaho, Fremont County,
Iowa and Fremont County,
Wyo. are named for him. |
| | | Fremont Peak,
in Monterey
County and San Benito
County, California, is named for
him. — Fremont Peak,
in Coconino
County, Arizona, is named for
him. — The city
of Fremont,
California, is named for
him. — The city
of Fremont,
Ohio, is named for
him. — The city
of Fremont,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John C. Fremont (built 1941 at Terminal
Island, California; mined and wrecked in Manila
Bay, Philippines, 1945) was named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: John
F. Hill
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| | | Campaign slogan (1856): "Free Soil,
Free Men, Fremont." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by John C. Fremont: Memoirs
of My Life and Times |
| | | Books about John C. Fremont: Tom
Chaffin, Pathfinder:
John Charles Fremont and the Course of American
Empire — David Roberts, A
Newer World : Kit Carson, John C. Fremont and the Claiming of the
American West — Andrew Rolle, John
Charles Fremont: Character As Destiny |
| | | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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Miles R. Frisbie —
of Schenectady, Schenectady
County, N.Y.
Member of New York
state assembly from Schenectady County, 1907-08; charged
with grand
larceny and forgery,
for obtaining $2,500 on fraudulent bonds and mortgages; tried on
one charge
of obtaining $1,000 from a woman in exchange for a fraudulent
mortgage; pleaded insanity; convicted
on June 12, 1914; sentenced
to 5-10 years in prison.
Burial location unknown.
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Mortimer Thomas Furay (1910-1972) —
also known as Mort Furay —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., July 23,
1910.
Democrat. President,
Local 705, Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union; vice-president,
AFL-CIO Union Label Trade Department; candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1944; candidate in primary for mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 1949; in 1967, at an intersection in Highland
Park, Mich., he witnessed a woman being beaten by her husband, and
summoned police; when the police officers decided not to arrest the
man, he protested,
and was arrested
for interfering
with police; he pleaded not guilty, and a trial date was set, but
apparently the case was dropped.
Died, probably from a heart
attack, in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., March
12, 1972 (age 61 years, 233
days); body was
donated to Wayne State University Medical School.
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Relatives: Son
of Mortimer John Furay and Florence Bell (Kratz) Furay; married 1932 to
Corinne Kelly. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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James B. Furber (c.1868-1930) —
of Rahway, Union
County, N.J.; Linden, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Allegan, Allegan
County, Mich., about 1868.
Traveling salesman for National Cash Register Company; newspaper
publisher; real estate
developer; lawyer; mayor of
Rahway, N.J., 1906, 1922-24; resigned 1906; charged
with assault
in connection with his participation in a Socialist
rally in Rahway, N.J., May 31, 1919, which was ended by spraying
the speaker and audience with a fire hose; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 5th District, 1920; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New Jersey; elected (Democratic) mayor of
Linden, N.J. 1930, but died before taking office.
Suffered a paralytic
stroke, while addressing
a meeting of the Parent Democratic Club, and died soon after in
St. Elizabeth Hospital,
Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., November
12, 1930 (age about 62
years).
Burial location unknown.
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