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William Hackel (born c.1942) —
Born about 1942.
Macomb
County Sheriff, 1977-2000; charged
in November 1999 of raping
a 26-year-old woman at a sheriffs' convention; tried
and convicted
in April 2000, and sentenced
to three to fifteen years in prison.
Still living as of 2000.
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Louis Francis Haffen (1854-1935) —
also known as Louis F. Haffen; "Father of the
Bronx" —
of Melrose, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, Bronx
County), N.Y.; Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Melrose, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, Bronx
County), N.Y., November
6, 1854.
Democrat. Civil
engineer; engineer, New York City Department of Parks, 1883-93;
commissioner of street improvement in Annexed Territory (Bronx),
1893-98; borough
president of Bronx, New York, 1898-1909; removed 1909; removed from
office by Gov. Charles
Evans Hughes over maladministration
charges,
1909; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 22nd District, 1915;
member of New York
Democratic State Committee, 1930.
Catholic.
German
and Irish
ancestry. Member, Royal
Arcanum; Tammany
Hall.
Died, from arteriosclerosis,
in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., December
25, 1935 (age 81 years, 49
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Frank Hague (1876-1956) —
also known as "Sphinx of Jersey City"; "The
Boss"; "The Leader" —
of Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., January
17, 1876.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey,
1916,
1932;
mayor
of Jersey City, N.J., 1917-47; member of Democratic
National Committee from New Jersey, 1922-52; Vice-Chair
of Democratic National Committee, 1929-39; delegate
to New Jersey convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Elks; Knights
of Columbus.
Powerful leader of Hudson County Democratic "machine"; famously
quoted as declaring "I am the law!" Indicted
for various crimes but never convicted.
Died, from complications of bronchitis
and asthma,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
1, 1956 (age 79 years, 349
days).
Entombed at Holy
Name Cemetery, Jersey City, N.J.
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Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951) —
also known as E. Haldeman-Julius; Emanuel
Julius —
of Girard, Crawford
County, Kan.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 30,
1889.
Socialist. Author;
editor of the Socialist newspaper
Appeal to Reason; founder of Haldeman-Julius Publications, publisher
of many five-cent paperback books, called "Little Blue Books"; there
were more than 6,000 titles, mostly literature, biography,
self-improvement, and other educational topics, to make them widely
accessible to the public; all together, from 1919 to 1951, over 500
million copies were printed and sold; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1932; indicted
by a federal grand jury in March, 1950 for income
tax evasion; tried
and convicted
in April, 1951; sentenced
to six months in prison,
and fined
$12,500; released pending appeal.
Jewish;
later Agnostic.
Drowned
in his swimming
pool, in Girard, Crawford
County, Kan., July 31,
1951 (age 62 years, 1
days). Possibly suicide,
but the coroner ruled his death to be accidental.
Interment at Cedarville
Cemetery, Cedarville, Ill.
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Raleigh P. Hale (1883-1931) —
of East Chicago, Lake
County, Ind.
Born in Columbia, Boone
County, Mo., June 6,
1883.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; physician;
mayor
of East Chicago, Ind., 1926-30; resigned 1930; in 1929, accused
of protecting
vice as mayor, he and 18 others, including the East Chicago
police chief and the reputed business agent for gangster
Al Capone were charged
in federal court with conspiracy to violate liquor
prohibition laws; convicted
in January 1930, and sentenced
to two years in prison; on appeal, a new trial was ordered.
Member, American
Legion.
Died suddenly, from dilated
cardiomyopathy, in East Chicago, Lake
County, Ind., December
1, 1931 (age 48 years, 178
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Hammond, Ind.
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Abraham Oakey Hall (1826-1898) —
also known as A. Oakey Hall; "Elegant
Oakey" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., July 26,
1826.
Republican. Newspaper
reporter; lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1856;
mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1869-72; indicted
and tried in
1871-73 on charges
of covering up corruption during his mayoralty; acquitted.
Presbyterian;
later Catholic.
English,
Welsh,
and French
ancestry.
Died, of heart
disease, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
7, 1898 (age 72 years, 73
days).
Entombed at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.
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David Hall (b. 1930) —
of Tulsa
County, Okla.
Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla., October
20, 1930.
Democrat. Lawyer; Tulsa
County District Attorney, 1962-66; law
professor; Governor of
Oklahoma, 1971-75; defeated in primary, 1966, 1974.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Shriners.
Indicted
in 1975 on extortion
and conspiracy charges;
later convicted,
sentenced
to three years in prison,
and served 19 months; disbarred
in 1978.
Still living as of 2014.
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Gus Hall (1910-2000) —
also known as Arvo Kustaa Halberg —
of Youngstown, Mahoning
County, Ohio; Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Virginia, St. Louis
County, Minn., October
8, 1910.
Communist. Steelworker;
union
organizer and one of the leaders of the steelworkers' strike in
1937; candidate for mayor
of Youngstown, Ohio, 1937; served in the U.S. Navy during World
War II; indicted
in 1948, and convicted
in 1949, under the Smith
Act, of conspiring to teach the violent
overthrow of the U.S. government; fled
to Mexico; arrested
in 1951 and sent back; spent eight years in prison;
candidate for President
of the United States, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984.
Finnish
ancestry.
Died, of complications from diabetes,
in Lenox Hill Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
13, 2000 (age 90 years, 5
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
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John Hicklin Hall (1854-1937) —
also known as John H. Hall —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in Multnomah
County, Ore., July 17,
1854.
Member of Oregon
state house of representatives, 1891-92; U.S.
Attorney for Oregon, 1897-1904.
Removed
from office as district attorney; tried
and convicted
in 1905 on land
fraud charges;
later pardoned
by President Taft.
Died in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., July 27,
1937 (age 83 years, 10
days).
Interment at River
View Cemetery, Portland, Ore.
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Lawrence Washington Hall (1819-1863) —
of Bucyrus, Crawford
County, Ohio.
Born in Lake
County, Ohio, 1819.
Democrat. Lawyer;
common pleas court judge in Ohio, 1852-57; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 9th District, 1857-59; defeated, 1858.
Imprisoned
for alleged disloyalty
to the Union in 1862.
Died of a lung
hemorrhage, Bucyrus, Crawford
County, Ohio, January
18, 1863 (age about 43
years).
Original interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Bucyrus, Ohio; reinterment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Vincent Hallinan (1896-1992) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., December
16, 1896.
Progressive. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
innovator in courtroom tactics; defense attorney for longshoreman
union leader Harry Bridges, who had been accused of being a
Communist; jailed
six months for contempt
of court in 1952; candidate for President
of the United States, 1952; indicted
in 1953 on income
tax evasion charges;
convicted
and sentenced
to 18 months in prison.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., October
2, 1992 (age 95 years, 291
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1932 to Vivian
Moore. |
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article |
| | | Image source: The Militant, December 8,
1958 |
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Joseph F. Hambitzer —
of Michigan.
Michigan
state treasurer, 1893-94.
Removed
from office as state treasurer, March 20, 1894.
Burial location unknown.
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Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) —
also known as Fannie Lou Townsend —
Born in Montgomery
County, Miss., October
6, 1917.
Civil rights and voting rights activist; founder of Mississippi
Freedom Democratic Party; in September 1962, in retaliation for her
attempt to vote, she was shot
at in a drive-by shooting; in 1963, along with other civil
rights activists en route to a conference, she was arrested,
and suffered an almost
fatal beating by police; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1964; candidate for Mississippi
state senate, 1971.
Female.
Baptist.
African
ancestry.
Inducted, National
Women's Hall of Fame, 1995.
Died in Mound Bayou, Bolivar
County, Miss., March
14, 1977 (age 59 years, 159
days).
Interment at Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden, Ruleville, Miss.
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Relatives:
Daughter of James Lee Townsend and Ella Townsend; married 1945 to Perry
Hamer. |
| | | Epitaph: "I am sick and tired of being
sick and tired." |
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article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Sufi Abdul Hamid (1903-1938) —
also known as Abdul Hamid; Eugene Brown; "The
Black Hitler"; "The Harlem Hitler";
"Bishop Amiru-Al-Mu-Minim Sufi Abdul
Hamid" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
6, 1903.
Self-styled cleric; labor
leader; claimed to be from Egypt or Sudan; wore a turban and a
green velvet cloak with gold braid; led picketing of stores in Harlem
whose proprietors refused to hire African-American employees;
conducted street
rallies in Harlem where he denounced
Jews; said he was "the only one fit to carry on the war against
the Jews"; Americo-Spanish candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 17th District, 1933; arrested
in October 1934; tried and
found guilty on misdemeanor charges of making a
public speech without a permit, and selling books without a
license, and sentenced
to ten days in jail;
later suspected
of inciting the 1935 riot in Harlem, which led to injunctions
against his activities; in January 1938, his estranged wife,
Stephanie St. Clair, ambushed him outside his house, and shot
at him five times, but he was not seriously hurt; founded the
Buddhist Universal Holy Temple of Tranquility.
Buddhist
or Muslim.
African
ancestry.
Killed, along with his pilot, when his Cessna J-5 airplane ran out of
fuel and crashed
near Wantagh, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., July 30,
1938 (age 35 years, 205
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Ray Hamilton (1851-1890) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
18, 1851.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 11th District, 1881, 1886-89;
in July 1889, while staying in Atlantic City, he was caught in a
national scandal,
after his wife, Eva, stabbed a nurse; she was arrested and tried; it
came out that Eva was still
married to another man, that she had bought a baby for $10 and
told Hamilton he was the father, to induce him to marry her; when
this was publicized,
Hamilton sued for divorce; as the case dragged on, he moved to
Wyoming to help a friend establish a hotel.
While on a hunting
trip, he drowned
while attempting to ford the Snake River, in Uinta County (part now
in Teton
County), Wyo., August
23, 1890 (age 39 years, 158
days).
Original interment somewhere in Teton County, Wyo.; reinterment in 1892 at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Schuyler Hamilton and Cornelia (Ray) Hamilton; grandnephew of James
Alexander Hamilton; great-grandson of Alexander
Hamilton; great-grandnephew of Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler; second great-grandson of Philip
John Schuyler; second great-grandnephew of Stephen
John Schuyler, Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer and Robert
Van Rensselaer; third great-grandson of Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746); fourth great-grandson of Stephanus
Van Cortlandt, Robert
Livingston the Younger and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); fourth great-grandnephew of Jacobus
Van Cortlandt; fifth great-grandson of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724); fifth great-grandnephew of Robert
Livingston the Elder; first cousin twice removed of Philip
Schuyler; first cousin thrice removed of Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792) and Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer; first cousin four times removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Volkert
Petrus Douw, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Hendrick
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, James
Livingston and Killian
Killian Van Rensselaer; first cousin five times removed of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775), Gilbert
Livingston and Philip
P. Schuyler; first cousin six times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin twice removed of Henry
Walter Livingston; second cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Bayard, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Leonard
Gansevoort, Leonard
Gansevoort Jr., Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr., Edward
Livingston (1764-1836), Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Maturin
Livingston and James
Parker; second cousin four times removed of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Philip
Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), William
Livingston, James
Jay, John
Jay, Frederick
Jay and Peter
Samuel Schuyler; second cousin five times removed of Matthew
Clarkson; third cousin once removed of Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer and John
Eliot Thayer Jr.; third cousin twice removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Peter
Gansevoort, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Gerrit
Smith, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and John
Cortlandt Parker; third cousin thrice removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Henry
Brockholst Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay and William
Jay; fourth cousin once removed of Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, James
Adams Ekin, John
Jacob Astor III, Richard
Wayne Parker, Charles
Wolcott Parker, Charles
Ludlow Livingston and Bronson
Murray Cutting. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; VanRensselaer
family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Thomas Hamilton —
of Beaufort
County, S.C.
Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Beaufort County,
1872-78; suspended
on February 11, 1873, for "persistently breaking
the rules of the House".
Burial location unknown.
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D. Judson Hammond (b. 1841) —
of Pontiac, Oakland
County, Mich.
Born in 1841.
Republican. Banker;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Oakland County 1st District,
1897-1900.
Convicted
in 1903 of soliciting
a bribe of $500 to defeat a bill opposed by wholesale grocers; sentenced
to two years in prison
or a $2,000 fine.
Burial location unknown.
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John Hays Hammond (1855-1936) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; South
Africa; Washington,
D.C.; Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., March
31, 1855.
Republican. Mining engineer;
worked on mines in Mexico and South Africa; worked for Cecil Rhodes;
in 1895, he took part in the Jameson raid, an attempt
to overthrow the Boer government in South Africa; was arrested
with other leaders and sentenced
to be hanged; his sentence was commuted, and he was eventually
released to return to the U.S.; candidate for Republican nomination
for Vice President, 1908;
chair, U.S. Coal Commission, 1922-23.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died, from coronary
occlusion, in Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass., June 8,
1936 (age 81 years, 69
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Jake Louis Hamon (1873-1920) —
also known as Jake L. Hamon —
of Ardmore, Carter
County, Okla.
Born in Grenola, Elk
County, Kan., June 5,
1873.
Republican. Lawyer; oil
business; member of Republican
National Committee from North Dakota, 1920.
Shot
and killed by
Clara Smith Hamon, his secretary, mistress,
and the wife of his nephew, in Ardmore, Carter
County, Okla., November
26, 1920 (age 47 years, 174
days). The scandal
received national publicity. She was tried and found not guilty of
murder, on grounds of self-defense.
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Ardmore, Okla.
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Relatives: Son
of Nancy (Tuggle) Hamon and Franklin Hamon; married 1898 to
Georgia Worth Perkins. |
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memorial |
| | | Image source: The Daily Ardmoreite
(Ardmore, Okla.), November 29, 1920 |
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Cornelius Hanford (1849-1926) —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Van Buren
County, Iowa, April
21, 1849.
Republican. Lawyer; member
Washington territorial council, 1877; member of Washington
territorial House of Representatives, 1889-90; U.S.
District Judge for Washington, 1890-1905; U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Washington, 1905-12;
resigned 1912.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution.
Resigned
as judge under threat of
impeachment, 1912.
Died in 1926
(age about
77 years).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Seattle, Wash.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward Hanford and Abby J. (Holgate) Hanford; married, November
15, 1875, to Clara M. Baldwin. |
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Richard Thomas Hanna (1914-2001) —
also known as Richard T. Hanna; "The Little
Leprechaun" —
of Fullerton, Orange
County, Calif.; Anaheim, Orange
County, Calif.
Born in Kemmerer, Lincoln
County, Wyo., June 9,
1914.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
member of California
state assembly, 1956-62; while in the Assembly, he helped bring
about the establishment
of the University of California at Irvine and California State
University at Fullerton; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 1960,
1964;
U.S.
Representative from California 34th District, 1963-74; resigned
1974.
Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Lions; Elks.
In the 1970s, he received
payments of about $200,000 from Korean businessman Tongsun Park
in what became known as the "Koreagate" influence
buying scandal;
pleaded
guilty; sentenced
to 6-30 months in federal
prison; served one year.
Died in Tryon, Polk
County, N.C., June 9,
2001 (age 87 years, 0
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in North Atlantic Ocean.
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Edward Allen Hannegan (1807-1859) —
also known as Edward A. Hannegan —
of Covington, Fountain
County, Ind.
Born in Hamilton
County, Ohio, June 25,
1807.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1832-33, 1841-42; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 7th District, 1833-37; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1843-49; U.S. Minister to Prussia, 1849-50.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
In May, 1852, during a drunken
argument, he stabbed
his brother-in-law, Captain Duncan, who died the
next day.
Died from overdose of
morphine (probably suicide),
in St.
Louis, Mo., February
25, 1859 (age 51 years, 245
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
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George Vernon Hansen (1930-2014) —
also known as George V. Hansen —
of Pocatello, Bannock
County, Idaho.
Born in Tetonia, Teton
County, Idaho, September
14, 1930.
Republican. Republican candidate for U.S.
Senator from Idaho, 1962 (primary), 1968, 1972 (primary); U.S.
Representative from Idaho 2nd District, 1965-69, 1975-85.
Mormon.
Member, American
Legion; Farm
Bureau; Kiwanis.
Convicted
in 1984 of failing to include four transactions on federal
disclosure forms; sentenced
to 15 months in prison
and fined
$40,000; reprimanded
by the U.S. House; his conviction was reversed in 1995.
Died in Pocatello, Bannock
County, Idaho, August
14, 2014 (age 83 years, 334
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Ira Daniel Hansen (b. 1960) —
also known as Ira Hansen —
of Sparks, Washoe
County, Nev.
Born in Reno, Washoe
County, Nev., October
5, 1960.
Republican. Plumbing
business; animal
trapper; newspaper
columnist;
member of Nevada
state house of representatives 32nd District, 2011-18; in
November 2014, when he was about to become Speaker of the Nevada
House, a furor
erupted over columns he wrote in the 1990s for the Sparks
Tribune; among other things, he referred
to Black people as simple-minded darkies, and to Martin Luther King,
Jr., as "a liar, a phony, and a fraud"; an NAACP leader said of
Hansen that "he has beaten the drum of intolerance
for decades; amid calls for his ouster,
he withdrew
as Speaker-designate, but retained his House seat; member of Nevada
state senate 14th District, 2019-.
Mormon.
Still living as of 2021.
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John M. Hansford (c.1800-1844) —
of Texas.
Born about 1800.
Member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1838-40; judge of Texas
Republic, 1840-42.
Resigned
as judge in 1842 while being impeached
over his handling
of a trial arising out of the "Regulator-Moderator War" in East
Texas.
Killed
by members of the Regulators who had seized his home, in Texas, 1844
(age about
44 years).
Burial location unknown.
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William Lloyd Harding (1877-1934) —
also known as William L. Harding —
of Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa.
Born in Sibley, Osceola
County, Iowa, October
3, 1877.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Iowa
state house of representatives, 1907-13; Lieutenant
Governor of Iowa, 1913-17; Governor of
Iowa, 1917-21.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Censured
by legislature over pardons scandal,
and left office in disgrace
in 1921.
Died December
17, 1934 (age 57 years, 75
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Graceland
Park Cemetery, Sioux City, Iowa.
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James Henderson Hargis (1862-1908) —
also known as James H. Hargis; "Big
Jim" —
of Jackson, Breathitt
County, Ky.
Born in Jackson, Breathitt
County, Ky., October
13, 1862.
Democrat. County judge in Kentucky, 1890; member of Kentucky
Democratic State Central Committee, 1899-1907.
Tried
and acquitted for the 1902-03 murders
of J.
B. Marcum and two others, but found liable for plotting
the killings in a 1904 civil suit for money damages by surviving
family members.
Shot
and killed by
his son, Beech Hargis, in the Hargis Brothers general
store, Jackson, Breathitt
County, Ky., February
6, 1908 (age 45 years, 116
days).
Interment at Hargis
Family Cemetery, Jackson, Ky.
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John Louis Hargis (1802-1886) —
also known as "Bally John" —
of Jackson, Breathitt
County, Ky.; Morehead, Rowan
County, Ky.
Born in Washington
County, Va., March 4,
1802.
Lawyer;
Breathitt
County Court Clerk; removed from
office as Court Clerk, 1846, over unspecified
charges
against him; delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1849; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1855-57.
Died in Morehead, Rowan
County, Ky., April 2,
1886 (age 84 years, 29
days).
Interment somewhere
in Morehead, Ky.
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George Oscar Harma (1905-1977) —
also known as George O. Harma —
of Atlantic Mine, Houghton
County, Mich.
Born in Baltic Mine, Houghton
County, Mich., November
5, 1905.
Democrat. School
teacher; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Houghton County 2nd District,
1935-44; candidate for Michigan
state senate 32nd District, 1944; implicated
as co-conspirator
in a legislative branch banking bribery
case in 1946; given immunity
from prosecution in return for his testimony.
Finnish
ancestry. Member, Pi
Delta Epsilon.
Died in 1977
(age about
71 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Carl Oscar Harma and Mary Susanna (Fjader) Harma. |
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Arthur Cyprian Harper (1866-1948) —
also known as Arthur C. Harper —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Bakersfield, Kern
County, Calif.
Born in Columbus, Lowndes
County, Miss., 1866.
Democrat. Hardware
business; mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1906-09; resigned 1909; resigned
from office as mayor under threat of recall
over corruption scandals.
Died in Palmdale, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
25, 1948 (age about 82
years).
Interment at Angelus-Rosedale
Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Benjamin Gwinn Harris (1805-1895) —
also known as Benjamin G. Harris —
of Leonardtown, St. Mary's
County, Md.
Born near Leonardtown, St. Mary's
County, Md., December
13, 1805.
Democrat. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1832-33, 1836, 1849, 1856, 1861-62; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 5th District, 1863-67; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1864.
Tried and
convicted of harboring
Confederate soldiers; sentenced
to three years' imprisonment;
sentence remitted by President Johnson.
Slaveowner.
Died near Leonardtown, St. Mary's
County, Md., April 4,
1895 (age 89 years, 112
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, St. Mary's County, Md.
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Caleb Harrison —
of Illinois.
Socialist. Socialist Labor candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1916; jailed
in Homestead, Pennsylvania in 1916 for making a radical
speech.
Burial location unknown.
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Gary Warren Hart (b. 1936) —
also known as Gary Hart; Gary Warren
Hartpence —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Ottawa, Franklin
County, Kan., November
28, 1936.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Senator from Colorado, 1975-87; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1984,
1988;
his presidential campaign was derailed in 1987 by the scandal
over disclosure of an extramarital
affair with model Donna Rice.
Still living as of 2014.
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John Frederick Hartsfield (1884-1953) —
also known as John F. Hartsfield —
of Illiopolis, Sangamon
County, Ill.; Monticello, Piatt
County, Ill.; Homewood, Jefferson
County, Ala.
Born in Durham, Durham
County, N.C., January
3, 1884.
Democrat. Jeweler;
postmaster at Monticello,
Ill., 1934-46 (acting, 1934-35).
According to published
reports, he had an argument with his daughter-in-law over
disciplining two small children; he then shot
her in the chest (she survived), and then shot and
killed
himself, in Homewood, Jefferson
County, Ala., May 9,
1953 (age 69 years, 126
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Birmingham, Ala.
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Jack Harvard (b. 1946) —
of Plano, Collin
County, Tex.
Born October
23, 1946.
Republican. Banker; mayor of
Plano, Tex., 1982-90; candidate for Texas
state senate 2nd District, 1992.
Indicted
in August 1995, along with David
B. McCall, Jr. and others, on federal bank
fraud charges relating to $25 million in loans; pleaded
guilty in September 1996 to one count of providing
false information on one loan; sentenced to three years in prison.
Still living as of 1996.
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Frederick J. Harwood —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.; New York.
Socialist. State Secretary, New Jersey Socialist Party, 1919; when attempting
to speak to a Socialist
rally in Rahway, N.J., May 31, 1919, he was sprayed with a fire
hose by Mayor David
H. Trembley; charged
with opposing
and obstructing a police officer, and fined
$50; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 24th District, 1938.
Burial location unknown.
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Alcee Lamar Hastings (1936-2021) —
also known as Alcee L. Hastings —
of Miramar, Broward
County, Fla.
Born in Altamonte Springs, Seminole
County, Fla., September
5, 1936.
Democrat. U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, 1979-89;
candidate for secretary
of state of Florida, 1990; U.S.
Representative from Florida 23rd District, 1993-; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Florida, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008.
African
Methodist Episcopal. African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi.
Impeached
and removed from
office as federal judge in 1989 over bribery
charges.
Died, from pancreatic
cancer, in Fort Lauderdale, Broward
County, Fla., April 6,
2021 (age 84 years, 213
days).
Cremated.
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Charles Arthur Hayes (1918-1997) —
also known as Charles A. Hayes —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Cairo, Alexander
County, Ill., February
17, 1918.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1983-93; defeated in
primary, 1992; arrested
during an anti-apartheid
protest outside the South African Embassy
in Washington, 1984.
African
ancestry. Member, United
Food and Commercial Workers.
Died, from complications of lung
cancer, at South Suburban Hospital,
Hazel Crest, Cook
County, Ill., April 8,
1997 (age 79 years, 50
days).
Burial location unknown.
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T. Frank Hayes (c.1884-1965) —
of Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born about 1884.
Democrat. Member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Waterbury, 1927-30; mayor
of Waterbury, Conn., 1930-39; resigned 1939; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1932,
1936;
Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1935-39.
Charged
in May, 1938, along with 26 others, with conspiracy to cheat
and defraud the city of Waterbury of more than a million dollars;
tried
in 1938-39 and convicted;
sentenced
to 10-to-15 years in prison;
released in 1949.
Suffered a heart
attack at home, and died soon after, in St. Mary's Hospital,
Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn., March
26, 1965 (age about 81
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Wayne Levere Hays (1911-1989) —
also known as Wayne L. Hays —
of Flushing, Belmont
County, Ohio.
Born in Bannock, Belmont
County, Ohio, May 13,
1911.
Democrat. Mayor of Flushing, Ohio, 1939-45; member of Ohio
state senate, 1941-42; Belmont
County Commissioner, 1945-48; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 18th District, 1949-76; resigned 1976;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1960,
1964;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1976;
member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1979.
In May 1976, he was caught up in a scandal
when a clerk in his congressional office, Elizabeth Ray, charged
that she was on the public payroll solely to provide sexual
favors to the Congressman; Hays admitted
most of the allegations; he resigned
as committee chair in June, and resigned
from Congress in September.
Died February
13, 1989 (age 77 years, 276
days).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, St. Clairsville, Ohio.
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Charles A. Heft —
of Fort Lee, Bergen
County, N.J.
Republican. Mayor
of Fort Lee, N.J., 1940-51; defeated, 1951; indicted
in 1951, along with three other city officials, on charges
of failing
to enforce gambling laws; the charges were dropped in 1955.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Richard McGarrah Helms (1913-2002) —
also known as Richard Helms —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in St. Davids, Delaware
County, Pa., March
30, 1913.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; Director, U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency, 1966-73; U.S. Ambassador to Iran, 1973-77; pleaded
guilty in 1977 to perjury
charges,
over his testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Member, Chi Psi;
Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, of multiple
myeloma, in Washington,
D.C., October
22, 2002 (age 89 years, 206
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Henry Helstoski (1925-1999) —
of East Rutherford, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in Wallington, Bergen
County, N.J., March
21, 1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; mayor of
East Rutherford, N.J., 1957-64; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 9th District, 1965-77; defeated,
1976, 1978, 1980; candidate for Governor of
New Jersey, 1969; newspaper
publisher.
Indicted
in 1976 on charges
of receiving
a bribe from South Americans seeking citizenship; the U.S.
Supreme Court dismissed the charges.
Died December
16, 1999 (age 74 years, 270
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Fitch Hemans (1896-1971) —
also known as Charles F. Hemans; "Baron of the
Bathroom"; "Knight of the
Doublecross" —
of Eaton Rapids, Eaton
County, Mich.; Howell, Livingston
County, Mich.; Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Mason, Ingham
County, Mich., April
12, 1896.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan,
1924;
candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1926, 1928; member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1934-41; defeated, 1931, 1941;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 15th District, 1934; candidate for
circuit
judge in Michigan 30th Circuit, 1935; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, 1936.
Implicated
in the Michigan legislative bribery
scandal
in 1944; granted immunity
from prosecution and testified that he had bribed
many legislators in his hotel bathroom; later, another bribery case
against legislators fell apart when he refused to testify and fled to
Washington; arrested
by FBI agents and arraigned
on a federal fugitive
witness charge; tried
and convicted,
and sentenced
to four years in prison;
pleaded
guilty to bribery
in 1950 and sentenced
to five years probation
and a $1,000 fine.
Died January
29, 1971 (age 74 years, 292
days).
Interment at Maple
Grove Cemetery, Mason, Mich.
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John Hemphill (1803-1862) —
of Texas.
Born in Chester District (now Chester
County), S.C., December
18, 1803.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; judge of Texas Republic, 1840; chief
justice of Texas state supreme court, 1846-58; U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1859-61; 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; Delegate
from Texas to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62; died
in office 1862; candidate for Senator
from Texas in the Confederate Congress, 1861.
Slaveowner.
Died in Richmond,
Va., January
7, 1862 (age 58 years, 20
days).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Philemon Thomas Herbert (1825-1864) —
also known as Philemon T. Herbert —
of Mariposa, Mariposa
County, Calif.; El Paso, El Paso
County, Tex.
Born in Pine Apple, Wilcox
County, Ala., November
1, 1825.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of California
state assembly, 1853-55 (10th District 1853-54, 6th District
1854-55); U.S.
Representative from California at-large, 1855-57; in 1856, drunk
at breakfast, he shot
and killed Thomas Keating, a waiter at the Willard Hotel in
Washington; charged
with murder,
twice tried,
and eventually acquitted; colonel in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War.
Wounded at the Battle of Mansfield, April 8, 1864, and died
in Kingston, DeSoto
Parish, La., July 23,
1864 (age 38 years, 265
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Kingston, La.
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Emil M. Herman (1879-1928) —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Everett, Snohomish
County, Wash.
Born in Kamnitz, Bohemia (now Kamienice, Czechia),
August
22, 1879.
Socialist. Socialist candidate for Seattle city council, 1904;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Washington, 1906 (at-large), 1908 (2nd
District), 1909 (2nd District); State Secretary, Socialist Party of
Washington, 1916-18; arrested
in 1918, and convicted
under the Espionage
Act; sentenced
to ten years in prison;
served three years and four months; candidate for Governor of
Washington, 1924.
German
ancestry. Member, Industrial
Workers of the World.
Died October
10, 1928 (age 49 years, 49
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Manuel Herrick (1876-1952) —
also known as Emanuel Herrick —
of Perry, Noble
County, Okla.; Plumas
County, Calif.
Born in Perry Township, Tuscarawas
County, Ohio, September
20, 1876.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Oklahoma 8th District, 1921-23; defeated,
1918 (Independent), 1922 (primary), 1924 (primary), 1926 (primary),
1928 (primary), 1930 (primary); on August 6, 1930, he was caught
by prohibition agents near Great Mills, Maryland, while filling and
fueling an illegal
still; he fled
the scene, but was soon apprehended;
he claimed he was an undercover agent, but that was not taken
seriously; arraigned
in federal court on charges of manufacturing
and possessing
alcohol; in October, 1930, he was tried
and convicted;
sentenced
to six months in jail; candidate for U.S.
Representative from California, 1948.
While on a trip to his mining claim; he died, probably from exposure,
during a Sierra blizzard,
near Quincy, Plumas
County, Calif., January
11, 1952 (age 75 years, 113
days). His body was found in a snowbank, six weeks later.
Cremated;
ashes interred at Quincy
Cemetery, Quincy, Calif.
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Alan G. Hevesi —
of Forest Hills, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Democrat. University
professor; member of New York
state assembly, 1971-93 (25th District 1971-72, 28th District
1973-93); delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1984,
1996,
2000,
2004;
New York City controller, 1994-2001; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 2001 (Democratic primary), 2001
(Liberal); New York
state comptroller, 2003-06; resigned 2006.
Jewish.
Pleaded
guilty to fraud charges
over his use of a state employee to chauffeur his wife, December 22,
2006, and fined
$5,000.
Still living as of 2006.
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William T. Hiering —
of Toms River, Ocean
County, N.J.
Republican. Land title
agent; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Ocean County, 1960-65; member
of New
Jersey state senate, 1966-71 (District 5 1966-67, District 4-A
1968-71); delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey,
1968;
Sponsor of a proposed state constitutional amendment in 1969 which
would have stripped the state's title to hundreds of square miles of
tidelands; summoned for an inquiry
by a legislative commission into possible conflict
of interest because he might personally benefit from this change;
he denied having any financial interest in tidal land properties.
The amendment, strongly opposed by Gov. Richard
J. Hughes, was withdrawn a few days later.
Still living as of 1971.
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Earl Frederick Hilliard (b. 1942) —
also known as Earl F. Hilliard —
of Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.
Born in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., April 9,
1942.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1975-81; member of Alabama
state senate, 1981-93; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 7th District, 1993-2003; defeated in
primary, 2002; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Alabama, 1996,
2000,
2008.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, National
Bar Association; Alpha
Phi Alpha.
Rebuked
by the House Ethics Committee in June, 2001 over three campaign
finance violations.
Still living as of 2014.
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Jon Clifton Hinson (1942-1995) —
also known as Jon Hinson —
of Mississippi.
Born in Tylertown, Walthall
County, Miss., March
16, 1942.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 4th District, 1979-81; resigned
1981.
Gay.
Resigned
from Congress in 1981 after being arrested
in a men's restroom and charged
with oral
sodomy. After leaving politics, became a gay rights activist.
Died, from acquired immune
deficiency syndrome, Silver Spring, Montgomery
County, Md., July 21,
1995 (age 53 years, 127
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Deane Roesch Hinton (1923-2017) —
also known as Deane R. Hinton —
of Illinois.
Born in Fort Missoula, Missoula
County, Mont., March
12, 1923.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Ambassador to Zaire, 1974-75; El Salvador, 1981-83; Pakistan, 1983-86; Costa Rica, 1987-90; Panama, 1990-94; declared
persona
non grata by the government of Zaire, June 18, 1975.
Died in San Jose, Costa
Rica, March
28, 2017 (age 94 years, 16
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Abraham Jacob Hirschfeld (1919-2005) —
also known as Abraham J. Hirschfeld; Abe Hirschfeld;
"Honest Abe" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Miami Beach, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.
Born in Tarnow, Poland,
December
12, 1919.
Real
estate developer; hotel
owner; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1974 (Democratic primary), 1976
(Democratic primary), 2004 (Builders); candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1992 (Independent
Fusion), 1994 (Democratic primary); Republican candidate for borough
president of Manhattan, New York, 1997; Independence candidate
for New
York state comptroller, 1998.
In 1998, offered Paula Jones $1 million to drop her sexual harassment
lawsuit against President Bill
Clinton; later sued by Jones when he tried to back out of the
offer. Indicted
in 2000 of trying to hire
a hit man to kill
his former business partner Stanley Stahl; also charged
with tax
evasion; briefly jailed
for violating
a court order against discussing the trial with the media;
ultimately convicted,
and served two years in prison.
Died, from complications of cancer,
in St. Barnabas Hospital,
Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., August
9, 2005 (age 85 years, 240
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Elijah Hise (1802-1867) —
of Russellville, Logan
County, Ky.
Born in Allegheny
County, Pa., July 4,
1802.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1829; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1836; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Guatemala, 1848-49; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 3rd District, 1866-67; died in
office 1867.
German
ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died by a self-inflicted
pistol
shot, in Russellville, Logan
County, Ky., May 8,
1867 (age 64 years, 308
days). He left a note declaring that he had "lost all hope of
… saving the country from the impending disasters and ruin in
which despotic and unconstitutional rule has involved her." However,
later news
reports disclosed that he had been about to be indicted
for perjury
and tax
evasion, based on his statements as a candidate.
Interment at Maple
Grove Cemetery, Russellville, Ky.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Orville E. Hodge —
of Illinois.
Illinois
state auditor of public accounts, 1953-56.
Convicted
of embezzling
state funds; sentenced
to prison.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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John Henry Hoeppel (1881-1976) —
also known as John H. Hoeppel —
of Arcadia, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born near Tell City, Perry
County, Ind., February
10, 1881.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from California 12th District, 1933-37; defeated
(Prohibition), 1946.
Catholic.
Member, Elks; Moose; American
Legion; United
Spanish War Veterans; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Convicted
in 1936 of conspiring to sell
an appointment to West Point; sentenced
to prison.
Died at Huntington Care
Center, Arcadia, Los Angeles
County, Calif., September
21, 1976 (age 95 years, 224
days).
Interment at Resurrection
Cemetery, San Gabriel, Calif.
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Harold Giles Hoffman (1896-1954) —
also known as Harold G. Hoffman —
of South Amboy, Middlesex
County, N.J.
Born in South Amboy, Middlesex
County, N.J., February
7, 1896.
Republican. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; real estate
business; banker; newspaper
columnist and radio
commentator; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Middlesex County, 1923-24; mayor
of South Amboy, N.J., 1925-27; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 3rd District, 1927-31; New Jersey
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, 1930-35; Governor of
New Jersey, 1935-38; defeated in primary, 1940, 1946; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1936
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business); colonel in the U.S. Army during
World War II.
Methodist.
Member, Junior
Order; Patriotic
Order Sons of America; American
Legion; Freemasons;
Elks; Eagles;
Royal
Arcanum.
Suspended
in 1954 as head of the New Jersey unemployment compensation system
for an investigation
of financial irregularities. Subsequently, when he died, his written
confession
of embezzlement
schemes was disclosed.
Died, of a heart
attack, in his room at the Blake Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 4,
1954 (age 58 years, 117
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Cemetery, South Amboy, N.J.
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Michael Joseph Hogan (1871-1940) —
also known as Michael J. Hogan —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Rockville Centre, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
22, 1871.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1921-23; defeated,
1922 (7th District), 1932 (at-large); trucking
business; indicted
in 1934 for accepting
money from applicants for New York City plumbing licenses; convicted
on federal charges in 1935 of accepting
bribes from illegal immigrants and helping them file false
affidavits, and sentenced
to a year and a day in federal prison; testified
in 1936 that he had assisted in a jury
tampering conspiracy.
Died in Rockville Centre, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., May 7,
1940 (age 69 years, 15
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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John Hampton Hoge (1856-1903) —
also known as J. Hampton Hoge —
of Montgomery
County, Va.
Born in 1856.
Republican. In October 1893, he was appointed Consul at Amoy, China,
and set out for San Francisco en route to his post; just before
leaving town, he gave a bad
check to settle a debt; on the train to San Francisco, he was conspicuously
drunk on the entire journey; President Cleveland
rescinded
the appointment, and Hoge was ridiculed
in newspapers all over the U.S.; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Virginia 6th District, 1894, 1896; candidate
for Governor of
Virginia, 1901.
Died in 1903
(age about
47 years).
Interment at Westview Cemetery, Blacksburg, Va.
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Edward Dexter Holbrook (1836-1870) —
also known as Edward D. Holbrook —
of Idaho City, Boise
County, Idaho.
Born in Elyria, Lorain
County, Ohio, May 6,
1836.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Idaho Territory, 1865-69.
Censured
by the House of Representatives in 1869 for use of unparliamentary
language.
Shot
and mortally
wounded by Charles H. Douglas, and died the next day, in Idaho
City, Boise
County, Idaho, June 18,
1870 (age 34 years, 43
days).
Interment at Masonic
Burial Ground, Idaho City, Idaho.
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William Woods Holden (1818-1892) —
also known as William W. Holden —
of Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C.
Born in Orange
County, N.C., November
24, 1818.
Newspaper
editor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North
Carolina, 1860;
delegate
to North Carolina secession convention, 1861; Governor of
North Carolina, 1865, 1868-70; postmaster at Raleigh,
N.C., 1873-81.
Methodist.
Impeached
and removed from
office as Governor in 1870, over corruption scandal.
Died in Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., March 1,
1892 (age 73 years, 98
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Raleigh, N.C.
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Richard Joyner Holland Sr. (1925-2000) —
also known as Richard J. Holland, Sr. —
of Windsor, Isle of
Wight County, Va.
Born in Suffolk,
Va., August
12, 1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; banker;
member of Virginia
state senate 15th District, 1980-2000; died in office 2000.
Congregationalist.
Acquitted of drunk
driving
in 1986, but convicted
of reckless
driving and refusal to
take a breath test; indicted
in federal court for 31 felony counts of bank
fraud; charges were dismissed in April 1998, and the prosecution
ruled to be vexatious; he and his son received a $570,000
reimbursement for legal fees.
Died in Windsor, Isle of
Wight County, Va., April
16, 2000 (age 74 years, 248
days).
Interment at Windsor
Cemetery, Windsor, Va.
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R. Eugene Holley (c.1926-2000) —
of Georgia.
Born about 1926.
Served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean conflict; lawyer;
member of Georgia
state senate, 1965-77.
In 1980, he was convicted
of bank
fraud and sentenced
to ten years in prison
(later reduced to three years); served 16 months.
Suffered a heart
attack, and died soon afterward, in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., July 19,
2000 (age about 74
years).
Interment at Westover
Memorial Park, Augusta, Ga.
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William Stanley Hollis (1866-1930) —
also known as W. Stanley Hollis —
of Massachusetts; Chevy Chase, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Chelsea, Suffolk
County, Mass., April 4,
1866.
U.S. Consul in Mozambique Island, as of 1894; Lourenco Marques, 1898-1909; Dundee, 1909-10; U.S. Consul General in Beirut, 1911-17; London, 1919-20; Lisbon, 1920-27.
Member, American
Society for International Law.
In September, 1894, in Mozambique, he shot and wounded a local
resident who he thought was a burglar; arrested
and tried by
Portugese authorities, convicted
of homicide,
and sentenced
to six months in prison.
Died, following a stroke,
in Chevy Chase, Montgomery
County, Md., June 8,
1930 (age 64 years, 65
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Capt. George Fearing Hollis and Eliza A. (Simmons) Hollis; married
1898 to
Lena Cogswell Hobbs; married 1918 to Alice
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Julius Cecil Holmes (1899-1968) —
also known as Julius C. Holmes —
of Lawrence, Douglas
County, Kan.
Born in Pleasanton, Linn
County, Kan., April
24, 1899.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Vice Consul in Marseille, as of 1926; Smyrna, as of 1927-29; Tirana, 1930; general in the U.S. Army during World War II;
executive officer, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1942; assistant U.S.
Secretary of State, 1944-45; U.S. Consul General in Hong Kong, 1959-61; U.S. Ambassador to Iran, 1961-65.
In 1951-52, a U.S. Senate committee investigated
how a group, including Holmes as well as former U.S. Rep. Joseph
E. Casey and former Secretary of State Edward
R. Stettinius, Jr., made large profits from the purchase and
re-sale of surplus U.S. tanker ships following World War II. Under
federal law, ships could be sold only to U.S citizens, so the group
allegedly set up several dummy
corporations purportedly under American control, and faked
financial statements for them, to buy the tankers on behalf of
Greek-Argentine shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. A federal indictment
against Holmes was ultimately dropped. Onassis, also indicted,
pleaded guilty and paid a fine.
Died July 16,
1968 (age 69 years, 83
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Warren Green Hooper (1904-1945) —
also known as Warren G. Hooper —
of Albion, Calhoun
County, Mich.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 2,
1904.
Republican. Newspaper
reporter; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Calhoun County 1st District,
1939-44; member of Michigan
state senate 9th District, 1945; died in office 1945.
Episcopalian.
Member, Theta
Kappa Nu; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
During a grand jury investigation,
admitted
to taking
bribes and was given immunity
from prosecution in return for his testimony against others;
however, four days before the hearing, he was shot and
killed
in his
car, alongside highway M-99, near Springport, Jackson
County, Mich., January
11, 1945 (age 40 years, 254
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Albion, Mich.
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Otis O'Neal Horsley Jr. (1944-2015) —
also known as Neal Horsley —
of Carrollton, Carroll
County, Ga.
Born in Bremen, Haralson
County, Ga., April
15, 1944.
Convicted
in 1973 of drug
possession with intent to distribute, over three gallons of
hashish oil, and served a sentence in federal prison;
creator of a "Nuremburg Files", an anti-abortion website which listed
home addresses and other details about many abortion providers;
information from the site helped militant anti-abortionist James
Charles Kopp track down and kill
Dr. Barnett Slepian in 1998; Horsley's web site was later ruled to be
a threat,
and not protected by the First Amendment; candidate for Governor of
Georgia, 2010.
Died in Carrollton, Carroll
County, Ga., April
13, 2015 (age 70 years, 363
days).
Cremated.
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Sherman D. Horton Jr. (b. 1931) —
of Hillsborough, Hillsborough
County, N.H.
Born in 1931.
Justice
of New Hampshire state supreme court, 1990-2000.
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.
Still living as of 2000.
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John Nathan Hostettler (b. 1961) —
also known as John N. Hostettler —
of Blairsville, Posey
County, Ind.
Born in Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind., July 19,
1961.
Republican. Power
plant performance
engineer; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 8th District, 1995-2007; defeated,
2006; in April 2004, he was detained
at Louisville International Airport when he attempted to board a
flight with a loaded
pistol in his briefcase; pleaded
guilty in August to carrying a
concealed weapon; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 2010.
Baptist.
Still living as of 2015.
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Charles H. Houghton —
of Metuchen, Middlesex
County, N.J.
Born in New York.
Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; lost a
leg in a Civil War battle; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1875-82.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Arrested
in May 1882, and charged
with embezzlement,
fraud,
and forgery;
tried,
convicted,
and fined.
Burial location unknown.
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John Charles Houlihan —
also known as John Houlihan —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Mayor
of Oakland, Calif., 1961-66; resigned 1966; indicted
in April 1966, and charged
with embezzling
nearly $100,000 from an estate of which he was conservator; resigned
as mayor as the scandal
developed.
Still living as of 1966.
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Allan Turner Howe (1927-2000) —
of Utah.
Born in South Cottonwood (now part of Murray), Salt Lake
County, Utah, September
6, 1927.
Democrat. Lawyer;
administrative assistant and field representative for U.S. Sen. Frank
Moss, 1959-64; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Utah, 1960;
administrative assistant to Gov. Calvin
L. Rampton, 1966-68; U.S.
Representative from Utah 2nd District, 1975-77; defeated, 1976.
Arrested
in Salt Lake City, Utah, 1976, for soliciting
sex from a policewoman posing as a prostitute.
Died in Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., December
14, 2000 (age 73 years, 99
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Chester Milton Howell (1883-1965) —
also known as Chester M. Howell; "Chiseling
Chet" —
of Saginaw, Saginaw
County, Mich.
Born in Muskegon, Muskegon
County, Mich., September
10, 1883.
Republican. Newspaper
reporter; newspaper
editor; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Saginaw County 1st District,
1923-26; member of Michigan
state senate 22nd District, 1927-32, 1939-45; defeated, 1932,
1936; resigned 1945; charged
on December 6, 1944 with accepting bribes from naturopathic
physicians, and pleaded
guilty; testified against other legislators in bribery
cases.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Rotary;
Kiwanis;
Elks; Moose.
Died in Owosso, Shiawassee
County, Mich., May 8,
1965 (age 81 years, 240
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Saginaw, Mich.
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Jesse Hoyt (1792-1867) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New Canaan, Fairfield
County, Conn., June 28,
1792.
Lawyer;
law partner of Martin
Van Buren and Benjamin
F. Butler; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1823; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1838-41; removed
from office in 1841, over allegations of embezzlement.
Died March
17, 1867 (age 74 years, 262
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Goold Hoyt and Sarah (Reed) Hoyt; sixth great-grandnephew of Thomas
Welles; third cousin once removed of Daniel
Chapin; third cousin twice removed of Pierpont
Edwards, Harold
Sheffield Van Buren, Mabel
Thorp Boardman, Sheffield
Phelps and Asbury
Elliott Kellogg; third cousin thrice removed of Josiah
Cowles, Simeon
Baldwin and Phelps
Phelps; fourth cousin of Graham
Hurd Chapin and Martin
E. Weed; fourth cousin once removed of John
Davenport, Aaron
Burr, James
Davenport, Theodore
Dwight, Henry
Waggaman Edwards, Hanford
Nichols Lockwood, George
Smith Catlin and Barzillai
Bulkeley Kellogg. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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article |
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Carroll Hubbard Jr. (b. 1937) —
of Mayfield, Graves
County, Ky.
Born in Murray, Calloway
County, Ky., July 7,
1937.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Kentucky, 1960;
member of Kentucky
state senate, 1968-75; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 1st District, 1975-93; candidate for
Governor
of Kentucky, 1979.
Baptist.
Pleaded
guilty in 1994 to conspiring to defraud the Federal Elections
Commission, and to theft of government property; sentenced
to three years in prison.
Still living as of 2014.
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Webster Lee Hubbell (born c.1949) —
also known as Webster L. Hubbell —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born about 1949.
Lawyer;
mayor
of Little Rock, Ark., 1979-81; resigned 1981; chief
justice of Arkansas state supreme court, 1983.
Pleaded
guilty in December 1994 to federal mail fraud and tax
evasion charges
connection with his handling of billing at the Rose Law Firm; sentenced
in 1995 to 21 months imprisonment;
indicted
in 1998 on additional federal tax
evasion and conspiracy charges;
pleaded
guilty to one charge pending judicial review; following a Supreme
Court ruling in his favor, the indictment was dismissed in October,
2000.
Still living as of 2003.
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William Hull (1753-1825) —
Born in Derby, New Haven
County, Conn., June 24,
1753.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Massachusetts
state senate, 1798-1805; Governor
of Michigan Territory, 1805-12; general in the U.S. Army during
the War of 1812.
Following his surrender of Detroit to the British in 1812, was found
guilty by a court-martial
of cowardice,
neglect
of duty, and unofficerlike
conduct, and sentenced
to death; President Madison accepted this decision but remitted the
sentence.
Died in Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
29, 1825 (age 72 years, 158
days).
Interment at Newton
Cemetery, Newton, Mass.
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Benjamin Grubb Humphreys (1808-1882) —
also known as Benjamin G. Humphreys —
of Mississippi.
Born in Claiborne
County, Miss., August
26, 1808.
Member of Mississippi state legislature, 1837; member of Mississippi
state senate, 1839; general in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War; Governor of
Mississippi, 1865-68.
During Reconstruction,
he was physically
ejected from the governor's office by an armed force under the
orders of the U.S. military commander of Mississippi.
Died in Leflore
County, Miss., December
20, 1882 (age 74 years, 116
days).
Interment at Wintergreen
Cemetery, Port Gibson, Miss.
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Harold Guy Hunt (1933-2009) —
also known as Guy Hunt —
of Holly Pond, Cullman
County, Ala.
Born in Holly Pond, Cullman
County, Ala., June 17,
1933.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; Baptist
minister; candidate for Alabama
state senate, 1962; probate judge in Alabama, 1964-76; Governor of
Alabama, 1987-93; defeated in primary, 1978.
Baptist.
Convicted
in 1993 of misusing
campaign
and inaugural funds to pay personal debts, and removed from
office as Governor.
Died January
30, 2009 (age 75 years, 227
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Memucan Hunt —
of Granville
County, N.C.
Member of North
Carolina state senate from Granville County, 1777, 1779-81, 1788;
North
Carolina state treasurer, 1784-87.
In 1786, charges
of misconduct were brought against him and heard by the Legislature
in joint session; two days later, he was defeated for re-election.
Burial location unknown.
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William C. Hunt —
of Cape
May County, N.J.
Member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Cape May County, 1933-34;
member of New
Jersey state senate from Cape May County, 1937.
Resigned
in April 1937 after a court investigation
of his election.
Burial location unknown.
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Duncan Duane Hunter (b. 1976) —
also known as Duncan D. Hunter —
of Lakeside, San Diego
County, Calif.; Alpine, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., December
7, 1976.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq; real estate
developer; U.S.
Representative from California, 2009-20 (52nd District 2009-13,
50th District 2013-20); resigned 2020; in 2016, he was investigated
over his misuse of some $250,000 in campaign
funds for personal expenses, including family travel, overseas
hotel stays, and luxury
clothing items; he also spent campaign funds on extramarital
affairs with five women, including lobbyists and congressional
staffers; in August 2018, he and his wife were indicted
in federal court; both eventually pleaded
guilty; he was sentenced
to 11 months in prison;
in December 2020, before he was scheduled to report for
incarceration, he was pardoned
by President Donald
Trump.
Still living as of 2020.
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John Ward Hunter (1807-1900) —
also known as John W. Hunter —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Bedford (now part of Brooklyn), Kings
County, N.Y., October
15, 1807.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1866-67; mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1874-75.
Censured
by the U.S. House of Representatives in 1867 for the use of unparliamentary
language.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
16, 1900 (age 92 years, 183
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (1809-1887) —
also known as Robert M. T. Hunter —
of Lloyds, Essex
County, Va.
Born near Loretto, Essex
County, Va., April
21, 1809.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1834-35; member of Virginia
state senate, 1835-37; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1837-43, 1845-47 (8th District
1837-39, 12th District 1839-41, 9th District 1841-43, 8th District
1845-47); Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1839-41; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1847-61; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1860;
Delegate
from Virginia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
Confederate
Secretary of State, 1861-62; Senator
from Virginia in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1867-68; Virginia
state treasurer, 1874-80.
When the Civil War began, he left Washington but did not resign his
seat in the Senate; he was one of ten Southern
senators expelled
in absentia on July 11, 1861. Arrested
in 1865 and imprisoned
without trial by federal
forces in Fort Pulaski, Tennessee, until 1866.
Slaveowner.
Died in Lloyds, Essex
County, Va., July 18,
1887 (age 78 years, 88
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Essex County, Va.
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