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Tony F. Mack (b. 1966) —
of Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ga., January
8, 1966.
Democrat. Mercer
County Freeholder, 1997-2008; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New Jersey, 2000;
mayor
of Trenton, N.J., 2010-14; removed 2014; arrested
in September 2012, and charged
with accepting
a bribe, fraud,
and extortion;
tried
and convicted
in 2014, and sentenced
to five years in prison.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Urban
League.
Still living as of 2014.
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Thomas James Mackell (1914-1992) —
also known as Thomas J. Mackell —
of Rego Park, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Little Neck, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 19,
1914.
Democrat. Police
detective; lawyer;
member of New York
state senate, 1955-66 (9th District 1955-65, 14th District 1966);
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1960,
1964;
Queens
County District Attorney, 1967-73.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Elks; Lions; Knights
of Columbus; American Bar
Association.
Resigned
as District Attorney in 1973, following his indictment
on charges of hindering
prosecution in a get-rich-quick scheme; he was tried and
convicted in 1974, but the verdict was reversed on appeal.
Died, from stomach
cancer, in Douglaston Manor, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., January
27, 1992 (age 77 years, 192
days).
Interment at Mount
St. Mary Cemetery, Flushing, Queens, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Mary Ann (Keating) Mackell and Peter Francis Mackell; married 1939 to
Dorothea R. Lang. |
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Poppie." |
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Harry E. Mackenzie —
of Bethel, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Connecticut, 1928,
1932,
1936.
Charged
in May, 1938, along with Mayor T.
Frank Hayes and 25 others, with conspiracy to cheat
and defraud the city of Waterbury of more than a million dollars;
admitted that he received large fees for lobbying,
and paid half back as a kickback
to the other conspirators; pleaded
guilty in November 1938, and testified against the other
defendants; sentenced
to nine months in jail.
Burial location unknown.
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Beckford Mackey —
U.S. Consul in Rio Grande do Sul, as of 1884-85; San Jose, as of 1892; on April 14, 1885, in Rio Grande do Sol,
Brazil, he shot
and wounded a newspaper editor who was assaulting him in a theater;
arrested
and imprisoned
by Brazilian authorities; tried in
June, and found not guilty.
Burial location unknown.
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Frederic Duncan MacMaster —
also known as Frederic MacMaster —
Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; member of Theodore
Roosevelt's "Rough Rider" regiment; U.S. Consul in Zanzibar, 1905-06; dismissed
from his consular position in 1906 over multiple instances of misconduct,
including the assault
of police officers in a bar-room; en route to the U.S., he stopped in
Nice, France, and obtained
a bank loan by pretending to be U.S. Consul Harold
S. Van Buren.
Burial location unknown.
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William Bruce MacMaster Jr. (1875-1912) —
also known as William B. MacMaster, Jr. —
of New York.
Born, of American parents, in Colombia,
June
28, 1875.
Rancher;
U.S. Vice Consul in Cartagena, 1904-08; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Cartagena, 1908-12, died in office 1912; stabbed
by two Colombians in the summer of 1909; pressed charges against his
attackers, one of whom was an influential newspaper editor; arrested
by Colombian authorities in June 1910 on charges
that, years earlier, he shot
a Colombian citizen, in what he said was self-defense; initially
acquitted, then found
guilty, then exonerated by a higher court.
While hunting
alone, was shot
multiple times and killed by
an unknown assassin, near Cartagena, Colombia,
August
11, 1912 (age 37 years, 44
days).
Interment at Church
and Convent of Santo Domingo, Cartagena, Colombia.
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Charles E. MacMillin (1888-1941) —
of Pinal
County, Ariz.
Born in Marengo, Iowa
County, Iowa, January
21, 1888.
Democrat. Pharmacist;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Speaker of
the Arizona State House of Representatives, 1925.
Member, American
Legion.
Convicted
of forgery
in 1934; sentenced
to prison.
Died March 2,
1941 (age 53 years, 40
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Sidney Leo Maestas (b. 1954) —
also known as Sidney L. Maestas —
of Bloomfield, San Juan
County, N.M.
Born October
7, 1954.
Mayor
of Bloomfield, N.M., 1998-2001; resigned 2001.
Hispanic
ancestry.
Arrested
in January 2001, and pleaded
guilty in October, to criminal
sexual conduct with two underaged girls.
Still living as of 2001.
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Andrew Gordon Magrath (1813-1893) —
of Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., February
8, 1813.
U.S.
District Judge for South Carolina, 1856-60; resigned 1860; delegate
to South Carolina secession convention from St. Philips' & St.
Michael's, 1860-61; resigned 1861; secretary
of state of South Carolina, 1860-62; Governor of
South Carolina, 1864-65.
Ousted
as Governor by Union
authorities in 1865 and imprisoned.
Died in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., April 9,
1893 (age 80 years, 60
days).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.
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Dennis Aloysius Mahoney (1821-1879) —
of Jackson
County, Iowa; Dubuque, Dubuque
County, Iowa.
Born in Ross, County Cork, Ireland,
January
20, 1821.
Member of Iowa
state house of representatives; elected 1848, 1858; candidate for
U.S.
Representative from Iowa, 1862, 1864.
Catholic.
Newspaper
editor who criticized
the Civil War; arrested
in August 1862 and held until November at the Old Capitol Federal Prison
in Washington, D.C.
Died in Dubuque, Dubuque
County, Iowa, November
5, 1879 (age 58 years, 289
days).
Interment at St.
Patrick Cemetery, Garryowen, Iowa.
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Norman Kingsley Mailer (1923-2007) —
also known as Norman Mailer —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Long Branch, Monmouth
County, N.J., January
31, 1923.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; novelist,
essayist,
magazine
editor, Hollywood
screenwriter,
director,
and actor;
among the founders of the Village Voice newspaper
newspaper
in New York City; in November, 1960, while drunk
at a party, he stabbed
and wounded his wife, Adele; he was arrested
and held for psychiatric evaluation, and eventually pleaded
guilty to third-degree
assault; arrested
and jailed
in 1967 in connection with an antiwar
protest; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1969.
Jewish
ancestry.
Won the Pulitzer
Prize for nonfiction in 1969 and for fiction in 1980.
Died, from acute renal
failure, in Mount Sinai Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
10, 2007 (age 84 years, 283
days).
Interment at Provincetown Cemetery, Provincetown, Mass.
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David L. Malbin —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1970; indicted
in 1973, along with the Chief Clerk of of the Brooklyn criminal
court, Joseph
E. Parisi, on federal charges
of aiding and abbetting an embezzlement
scheme, involving officials of the International Production, Service
and Sales Employees Union; in 1975, he was aquitted on motion soon
after the trial began.
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
New York Daily News, January 23, 1956 |
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Stephen Russell Mallory (c.1813-1873) —
also known as Stephen R. Mallory —
of Key West, Monroe
County, Fla.; Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla.
Born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad,
of American parents, about 1813.
Democrat. County judge in Florida, 1837-45; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1851-61; Confederate
Secretary of the Navy, 1861-65.
Catholic.
Arrested
as a Confederate
by Union troops in 1865 and imprisoned
until March 1866.
Slaveowner.
Died in Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla., November
9, 1873 (age about 60
years).
Interment at St.
Michael's Cemetery, Pensacola, Fla.
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Antonio James Manchin (1927-2003) —
also known as A. James Manchin —
of Farmington, Marion
County, W.Va.
Born in Farmington, Marion
County, W.Va., April 7,
1927.
Democrat. School
teacher; athletic
coach; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates, 1949-50, 1999-2003; defeated,
1950; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from West
Virginia, 1952;
secretary
of state of West Virginia, 1976-84; West
Virginia state treasurer, 1985-89; resigned 1989.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Following the disclosure of losses from the State Consolidated
Investment Fund and accusations of mismanagement
in the State Treasurer's office, the House of Delegates, in 1989,
brought impeachment
charges against him, but he resigned
as State Treasurer before a trial could be held.
Died, following a heart
attack, in Fairmont General Hospital,
Fairmont, Marion
County, W.Va., November
3, 2003 (age 76 years, 210
days).
Interment at Odd
Fellows Cemetery, Farmington, W.Va.
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Marvin Mandel (1920-2015) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., April
19, 1920.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
member of Maryland
Democratic State Central Committee, 1951; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1952-69; Speaker of
the Maryland State House of Delegates, 1963-69; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1964,
1976;
Maryland
Democratic state chair, 1968-69; Governor of
Maryland, 1969-77, 1979.
Jewish.
Member, Omicron
Delta Kappa; American
Legion; Jewish
War Veterans; American Bar
Association.
Charged
with mail fraud, over his acceptance
of gifts from owners of the Marlboro Race Track, in return for
his support for legislation benefiting the track; tried
and convicted
in 1977; sentenced
to prison;
his conviction was later overturned.
Died in St. Mary's
County, Md., August
30, 2015 (age 95 years, 133
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Donald R. Manes (1934-1986) —
also known as "The King of Queens" —
of Flushing, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Jamaica, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
18, 1934.
Democrat. Lawyer; borough
president of Queens, New York, 1971-86; resigned 1986; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1980,
1984.
On January 10, 1986, he was found driving erratically and bleeding
from slashes to his wrist and ankle; at first he claimed he had been
abducted, but then admitted his wounds were self-inflicted; while he
was hospitalized, a criminal investigation
against him became public.
Stabbed
himself
in the heart, and died soon after, at Booth Memorial Medical
Center, Flushing, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., March
13, 1986 (age 52 years, 54
days).
Interment at Mt.
Ararat Cemetery, East Farmingdale, Long Island, N.Y.
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Martin Thomas Manton (1880-1946) —
also known as Martin T. Manton —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Islip, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., August
2, 1880.
Lawyer;
U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1916-18; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1918-39; resigned
1939.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
U.S. District Attorney Thomas
E. Dewey charged
in 1939 that Judge Manton had received more than $400,000 from
litigants; Dewey sent six specific instances the U.S. House Judiciary
Committee for consideration of impeachment.
Following the judge's resignation,
he was indicted
on bribery
charges;
tried
and convicted;
sentenced
to two years in prison
and fined
$10,000; released in 1941.
Died in Fayetteville, Onondaga
County, N.Y., November
17, 1946 (age 66 years, 107
days).
Interment at Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Fayetteville, N.Y.
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Frank Mapes (1861-1896) —
of Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan.
Born in Racine, Racine
County, Wis., 1861.
Democrat. Postmaster at Kansas
City, Kan., 1893-96.
While postal inspectors discovered
that he had embezzled
about $9,200 from post office accounts, he died from a self-inflicted
gunshot,
in Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan., March
15, 1896 (age about 34
years).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Kansas City, Kan.
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Relatives: Son
of Alfred R. Mapes and Elizabeth P. (Chittenden) Mapes; married to
Annie Lispenard Sharp. |
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Anthony Dryden Marshall (1924-2014) —
also known as Anthony D. Marshall; Tony Marshall;
Anthony Dryden Kuser —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 30,
1924.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; U.S.
Consul in Istanbul, as of 1958-59; U.S. Ambassador to Malagasy Republic, 1969-71; Trinidad and Tobago, 1972-73; Kenya, 1973-77; Seychelles, 1976-77; in 1971, he was accused
in press reports of involvement in a supposed plot to overthrow
the President, Philibert Tsiranana; the Malagasy government declared
him persona
non grata, and expelled
him fron the country; theatrical
producer; guardian of his ailing mother, Brooke Astor; alleged to
have diverted
millions of dollars to his own theatrical productions, and removed
works of art from her apartment; his son Philip sued,
alleging abuse
and demanding his removal
as guardian; an independent investigation found no evidence for
abuse, but revealed financial misconduct; indicted
in 2007, and tried on
16 charges
in 2009; the trial lasted six months; ultimately convicted
and sentenced
to one to three years in prison;
served eight weeks and was released on medical parole.
Member, Rotary.
Died, at New York Presbyterian Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
30, 2014 (age 90 years, 184
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Hudson Snowden Marshall (1870-1931) —
also known as H. Snowden Marshall —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., January
15, 1870.
Lawyer;
law partner of Bartow
S. Weeks, George
Gordon Battle, and James
A. O'Gorman; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1913-17; in
1915-16, U.S. Rep. Frank
Buchanan (who was at the time being indicted by a federal grand
jury) introduced impeachment
resolutions against Marshall; the charges, including malfeasance
in the handling of past cases, were investigated
by a House Judiciary subcommittee, which held hearings in New York,
and inquired into the proceedings of the grand jury which had
indicted Rep. Buchanan; Marshall wrote a critical letter to the
subcommittee, impugning its motives; based on this letter, the full
House voted to find him in contempt
of Congress, and ordered his
arrest; on appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the
authority of the House to punish for contempt extended only to
actions which directly interfered with its proceedings.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 29,
1931 (age 61 years, 134
days).
Interment at Kensico
Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.
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Beverly Masek (b. 1963) —
of Willow, Matanuska-Susitna
Borough, Alaska.
Born in Anvik, Yukon-Koyukuk
census area, Alaska, September
30, 1963.
Republican. Four time Iditarod Race finisher, 1990-93; member of Alaska
state house of representatives, 1995-2005 (28th District
1995-2003, 15th District 2003-05); pleaded
guilty in March 2009 to soliciting
and accepting at least $4,000 in bribes
from VECO Corporation; sentenced
to six months in jail and
three years probation.
Female.
Methodist.
Alaska
Native ancestry. Member, National Rifle
Association.
Still living as of 2009.
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James Murray Mason (1798-1871) —
also known as James M. Mason —
of Winchester,
Va.
Born in Georgetown, Washington,
D.C., November
3, 1798.
Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1826; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 12th District, 1837-39; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1847-61; Delegate
from Virginia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861; Confederate
States Envoy to England, 1861.
Author of the Fugitive Slave Law. When the Civil War began, he left
Washington but did not resign his seat in the Senate; one of ten Southern
senators expelled
in absentia on July 11, 1861.
Slaveowner.
Died April
28, 1871 (age 72 years, 176
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Episcopal Cemetery, Alexandria, Va.
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Eric James Joseph Massa (b. 1959) —
also known as Eric J. J. Massa —
of Corning, Steuben
County, N.Y.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., September
16, 1959.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York, 2009-10; defeated, 2006; resigned
2010; resigned
from Congress during a pending ethics
investigation into acusations of sexual
misconduct toward subordinates in his congressional office.
Still living as of 2012.
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David Mathews (d. 1800) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Nova
Scotia.
Lawyer;
mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1776-83.
In 1776, the New York Provincial Congress ordered his arrest
over his involvement
in a plot to poison
Gen. George
Washington; continued serving as mayor during British occupation
of the city; in 1783, he fled to
Nova Scotia with other Loyalists.
Died near Sydney, Nova
Scotia, 1800.
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Alfred Mathis (1869-1958) —
also known as Thomas A. Mathis; "Cap'n
Tom" —
of Tuckerton, Ocean
County, N.J.; Toms River, Ocean
County, N.J.
Born in New Gretna, Burlington
County, N.J., June 7,
1869.
Republican. Mariner;
automobile
dealer; member of New
Jersey state senate from Ocean County, 1910-11, 1914-15, 1923-31,
1942-46; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey,
1928,
1940,
1944;
secretary
of state of New Jersey, 1931-41.
Indicted
for tax
evasion by a federal grand jury in 1937.
He killed
himself, by self-inflicted gunshot,
in Toms River, Ocean
County, N.J., May 18,
1958 (age 88 years, 345
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Toms River, N.J.
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Michael J. Matthews (b. 1934) —
of Linwood, Atlantic
County, N.J.; Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J.
Born in Upland, Delaware
County, Pa., January
7, 1934.
Democrat. Candidate for New
Jersey state senate 2nd District, 1973; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 2nd District, 1974; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly 2nd District, 1978-83; mayor
of Atlantic City, N.J., 1982-84; recalled 1984; defeated, 1984.
Indicted
on March 27, 1984, on federal bribery
and extortion
charges,
over his dealings with organized
crime figures; a trial was started, but then he pleaded
guilty to one count of extortion,
and the other charges were dropped; sentenced
to fifteen years in federal prison;
released in 1990.
Still living as of 1990.
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Nicholas James Mavroules (1929-2003) —
also known as Nicholas Mavroules —
of Peabody, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Peabody, Essex
County, Mass., November
1, 1929.
Democrat. Mayor
of Peabody, Mass., 1967-78; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1976;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 6th District, 1979-93;
defeated, 1992.
Greek
Orthodox. Greek
ancestry. Member, Kiwanis;
Rotary.
Pleaded
guilty in 1993 to charges
of tax
fraud and accepting
gratuities while in office; sentenced
to prison.
Died in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., December
25, 2003 (age 74 years, 54
days).
Interment at Cedar Grove Cemetery, Peabody, Mass.
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Henry J. Maxwell —
of Bennettsville, Marlboro
County, S.C.
Republican. Member of South
Carolina state senate from Marlboro County, 1868-77; postmaster
at Bennettsville,
S.C., 1869-70; convicted
of bribery
in 1877, and resigned
from the State Senate.
Burial location unknown.
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Andrew Jackson May (1875-1959) —
also known as Andrew J. May —
of Prestonsburg, Floyd
County, Ky.
Born near Langley, Floyd
County, Ky., June 24,
1875.
Democrat. Lawyer; Floyd
County Attorney, 1901-09; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky, 1931-47 (10th District 1931-33,
at-large 1933-35, 7th District 1935-47); defeated, 1928 (10th
District), 1946 (7th District).
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons.
In 1943, he was briefed about the flaws in the Japanese
anti-submarine munitions; he revealed
this information to the press, and hence to the Japanese, who
quickly improved their depth charges. After the war, this indiscretion
was estimated to have cost the U.S. ten submarines and 800 men. Convicted,
on July 3, 1947, on charges
of accepting
bribes for his influence
in the award of munitions contracts during World War II; served nine
months in prison;
received a full pardon
from President Harry
S. Truman in 1952.
Died in Prestonsburg, Floyd
County, Ky., September
6, 1959 (age 84 years, 74
days).
Interment at Mayo
Cemetery, Prestonsburg, Ky.
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Fred A. Maynard (b. 1852) —
of Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.
Born in 1852.
Michigan
state attorney general, 1895-98.
Indicted
in 1901 on 48 charges
of embezzlement;
a jury was selected for trial,
but the indictment was quashed before it could get underway.
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Murphy Mayo (1836-1896) —
also known as Robert M. Mayo —
of Virginia.
Born in Hague, Westmoreland
County, Va., April
28, 1836.
Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; court
martialed in the Confederate
Army, 1863, for drunkenness,
and reduced in
rank; lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1881-82, 1885-88; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 1st District, 1883-84.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Slaveowner.
Died in Hague, Westmoreland
County, Va., March
29, 1896 (age 59 years, 336
days).
Interment at Yeocomico
Cemetery, Kinsale, Va.
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Edward Everett McCall (1863-1924) —
also known as Edward E. McCall —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., January
6, 1863.
Democrat. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1903-13; resigned 1913;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1913; chair, New York State Public
Service Commission, 1913-15; removed from
office in November, 1915, because he owned
stock in a company under commission jurisdiction; president, New
Jersey Life
Insurance Company, 1916.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
12, 1924 (age 61 years, 66
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Presumably named
for: Edward
Everett |
| | | Relatives: Son of John McCall and
Katherine McCall; brother of John A. McCall; married 1886 to Ella
Frances Gaynor. |
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Congress |
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Gerald McCann (born c.1950) —
of Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., about 1950.
Democrat. Mayor
of Jersey City, N.J., 1981-85, 1989-92; defeated, 1985; removed
1992; chair of
Hudson County Democratic Party, 1984-85.
Catholic.
Convicted
in 1992 on federal charges
of fraud
and tax
evasion, and sentenced
to federal prison.
Still living as of 2003.
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Joseph Raymond McCarthy (1908-1957) —
also known as Joseph R. McCarthy; Joe McCarthy;
"Tail-Gunner Joe" —
of Appleton, Outagamie
County, Wis.
Born in Grand Chute, Outagamie
County, Wis., November
14, 1908.
Republican. Lawyer;
circuit judge in Wisconsin 10th Circuit, 1940-46; served in the U.S.
Marine Corps during World War II; U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1947-57; died in office 1957; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, 1948;
speaker, 1952.
Catholic.
Claimed in a 1950 speech that he had a list of 205 Communists
employed in the U.S. State Department; went on to conduct hearings
and investigations into alleged subersive activities and Communist
influence on society; with his sensationalist tactics and disregard
for fairness and due process, he dominated the American political
scene for a period of time, now called the McCarthy Era; public
opinion turned against him when he tried to investigate the Army; in
December 1953, the Senate voted 67-22 to censure
him for "contemptuous
conduct" and abuse
of select committee privilege.
Died of a liver
ailment at Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., May 2,
1957 (age 48 years, 169
days).
Interment at St.
Mary's Cemetery, Appleton, Wis.
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Mark Thomas McCloskey —
also known as Mark McCloskey —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo.
Republican. Lawyer; on
June 28, 2020, as a group of Black Lives Matter protesters passed by
their home, he and his wife Patty
yelled at the protesters and brandished
guns at them; the incident was captured on video and received
national publicity; they were charged
with a weapons
violation and tampering
with evidence; ultimately pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and fined;
speaker, Republican National Convention, 2020 ;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 2022.
Still living as of 2022.
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Patricia McCloskey —
also known as Patty McCloskey; Patricia
Novak —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Republican. Lawyer; on
June 28, 2020, as a group of Black Lives Matter protesters passed by
their home, she and her husband Mark
yelled at the protesters and brandished
guns at them; the incident was captured on video and received
national publicity; they were charged
with a weapons
violation and tampering
with evidence; ultimately pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and fined;
speaker, Republican National Convention, 2020.
Female.
Still living as of 2020.
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William James McCuen (c.1943-2000) —
also known as Bill McCuen —
of Hot Springs, Garland
County, Ark.; Heber Springs, Cleburne
County, Ark.
Born in Fort Smith, Sebastian
County, Ark., about 1943.
Democrat. School
teacher; Arkansas
land commissioner, 1981-85; secretary
of state of Arkansas, 1985-94; defeated in primary, 1994;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 4th District, 1992.
After leaving office as Secretary of State, he admitted
accepting kickbacks
from two supporters he gave jobs, and not
paying taxes on the money. He also admitted
to conspiring with a political consultant to split $53,560 embezzled
from the state in a sham transaction. He was indicted
on corruption charges
in 1995. On January 5, 1996, he pleaded
guilty to felony counts of tax
evasion and accepting a kickback;
he pleaded no
contest to a misdemeanor count of trading
in public office. Sentenced
to 17 years in prison,
and fined.
Released on parole (due to illness) in February 1999.
Died of colon
cancer and a stroke,
in Heber Springs, Cleburne
County, Ark., September
9, 2000 (age about 57
years).
Interment somewhere
in Van Buren, Ark.
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Robert Francis McDonnell (b. 1954) —
also known as Bob McDonnell —
of Glen Allen, Henrico
County, Va.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., June 15,
1954.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates 84th District, 1992-2005; Virginia
state attorney general, 2006-09; resigned 2009; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Virginia, 2008
(delegation chair); Governor of
Virginia, 2010-14; he and his wife were indicted
in January 2014 for receiving improper
gifts; convicted
in September 2014; sentenced
to two years in prison; in June 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court
unanimously overturned his conviction.
Irish
and Alsatian
ancestry.
Still living as of 2018.
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Earl W. McEwen Sr. —
of Flint, Genesee
County, Mich.
Democrat. Member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Genesee County 2nd District;
elected 1940; candidate for Michigan
state senate 13th District, 1944; charged
on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting
bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the entire case
collapsed when the star prosecution witness, Charles
F. Hemans, refused to testify.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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James Edward McGreevey (b. 1957) —
also known as Jim McGreevey —
of Woodbridge Township, Middlesex
County, N.J.; Plainfield, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., August
6, 1957.
Democrat. Member of New
Jersey state house of assembly 19th District, 1990-91; member of
New
Jersey state senate 19th District, 1994-97; Governor of
New Jersey, 2002-04; defeated, 1997; resigned 2004; mayor
of Woodbridge Township, N.J.; elected 1999; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 2000,
2004.
Catholic;
later Episcopalian.
Irish
ancestry. Gay.
Announced his resignation
as governor in 2004 after acknowledging a homosexual
affair with his homeland security advisor.
Still living as of 2014.
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Frank D. McKay (1883-1965) —
of Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.
Born in Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich., November
4, 1883.
Republican. Financier;
political boss who dominated Republican politics in Michigan for
years; delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1920,
1928,
1932
(alternate), 1936,
1940,
1944;
Michigan
state treasurer, 1925-30; investigated
by a grand jury in 1931 over his handling
of state funds while Treasurer; member of Republican
National Committee from Michigan, 1940-44; subject of three
federal grand jury investigations
in 1940 over alleged fraud,
extortion
and kickbacks;
indicted
in 1944 for bribery
of state legislators; hired a Purple
Gang figure to murder
the star witness, State Sen. Warren
G. Hooper, and the case collapsed; charged
in 1945, along with William
McKeighan, with conspiracy to violate
state liquor laws; tried in
1946; the judge directed a verdict of not guilty.
Died in Miami Beach, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla., January
12, 1965 (age 81 years, 69
days).
Entombed at Greenwood
Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Thomas McKean (1734-1817) —
of New Castle, New Castle
County, Del.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in New London Township, Chester
County, Pa., March
19, 1734.
Lawyer;
member of Delaware
colonial Assembly, 1765-76; common pleas court judge in Delaware,
1765-74; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Delaware, 1774-76; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; served in the Continental Army
during the Revolutionary War; member of Delaware
house of assembly, 1777-83; President
of Delaware, 1777; chief
justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1777-99; signer,
Articles of Confederation, 1781; delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1789-90; Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1799-1808; impeached
by the Pennsylvania legislature in 1807, but no trial was ever held.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., June 24,
1817 (age 83 years, 97
days).
Original interment at First
Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.; reinterment in
1843 at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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William H. McKeighan —
of Flint, Genesee
County, Mich.
Republican. Political boss; mayor of
Flint, Mich., 1915-16, 1922-23, 1927-28, 1931-33; defeated, 1923;
candidate for Governor of
Michigan, 1932; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Michigan, 1940;
political ally of Frank
D. McKay; charged
in 1945, along with McKay, with conspiracy to violate
state liquor laws; tried;
the judge directed a verdict of not guilty.
Burial location unknown.
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Walter Fox McKeithen (1946-2005) —
also known as Fox McKeithen —
of Louisiana.
Born in Columbia, Caldwell
Parish, La., September
8, 1946.
Member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1983-87; secretary
of state of Louisiana, 1987-2005; resigned 2005; pleaded
guilty to driving
while intoxicated,
2000; delegate to Republican National Convention from Louisiana, 2004.
Methodist.
Member, Farm
Bureau; Rotary;
Jaycees.
Died July 16,
2005 (age 58 years, 311
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert B. McLaughlin (1903-1965) —
of Flint, Genesee
County, Mich.
Born in 1903.
Democrat. Member of Michigan
state senate 13th District, 1941-44; defeated in primary, 1938;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 6th District, 1944; charged
on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting
bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the entire case
collapsed when the star prosecution witness, Charles
F. Hemans, refused to testify.
Died in 1965
(age about
62 years).
Burial location unknown.
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John Lowndes McLaurin (1860-1934) —
also known as John L. McLaurin —
of Bennettsville, Marlboro
County, S.C.
Born in Marlboro
County, S.C., May 9,
1860.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1890-91; South
Carolina state attorney general, 1891-97; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 6th District, 1892-97;
resigned 1897; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1897-1903; in Februry, 1902, he was
accused,
by fellow South Carolina senator Ben
Tillman, of accepting a bribe
(in the form of federal patronage) to support a treaty; he called
Tillman a liar, and the two came to
blows on the Senate floor; both were censured
by the Senate; member of South
Carolina state senate from Marlboro County, 1913-14; South
Carolina Warehouse Commissioner, 1915-17.
Died in Bennettsville, Marlboro
County, S.C., July 20,
1934 (age 74 years, 72
days).
Interment at McCall
Cemetery, Bennettsville, S.C.
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John T. McManus (1904-1961) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Montrose, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
25, 1904.
Reporter
and movie critic for the New York Times; movie and radio
critic for Time magazine;
entertainment editor for PM (newspaper);
general manager, Weekly Guardian newspaper;
president,
Newspaper Guild of New York, 1943-47; international
vice president of the American Newspaper Guild; member, New
York CIO Council; member of New York American Labor Party Executive
Committee, 1945; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1950 (American Labor), 1954 (American Labor), 1958
(Independent Socialist); in 1956, called before a U.S. Senate
subcommittee, he took the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination
in refusing to answer questions about the Communist
Party.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Montrose, Westchester
County, N.Y., November
22, 1961 (age 56 years, 362
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward J. McManus; married to Jane Bedell. |
| | | Image source: The Militant, November
24, 1958 |
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Bert McMullin —
of Yell
County, Ark.
Member of Arkansas
state senate, 1897.
Arrested
on May 15, 1897, after he shot
at and barely missed J. N. Smithee, editor of the Arkansas
Gazette, who refused to apologize for critical editorials.
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas A. McWhinney (c.1863-1933) —
of Lawrence, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Atlantic Beach, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., about 1863.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
postmaster at Lawrence,
N.Y., 1901; automobile
dealer; member of New York
state assembly, 1915-23 (Nassau County 1915-17, Nassau County 1st
District 1918-23); indicted
in 1920 on charges
that he and others had tipped off
gamblers to planned police raids; tried
and found not guilty.
Member, Elks; Royal
Arcanum; United
Spanish War Veterans; Foresters;
Redmen;
Order
of Heptasophs; Order
of United American Mechanics.
Suffered a stroke,
and died, in Atlantic Beach, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., November
25, 1933 (age about 70
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Lidie Wright. |
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Joseph Ellsberry McWilliams (1904-1996) —
also known as Joe McWilliams —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Hitchcock, Blaine
County, Okla., 1904.
Gave street-corner
speeches in New York City, in which he denounced
Jews and praised
Adolf Hitler; arrested
in 1940 when one of his speeches caused a riot; charged
with sedition
in 1944, as part of an alleged Nazi
conspiracy; tried
along with many others, but after seven months, a mistrial was
declared; candidate in Republican primary for U.S.
Representative from New York 18th District, 1940.
Died in 1996
(age about
92 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Evan Mecham (1924-2008) —
of Ajo, Pima
County, Ariz.; Glendale, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Duchesne, Duchesne
County, Utah, May 12,
1924.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; automobile
dealer; newspaper
publisher; candidate for Arizona
state house of representatives, 1952; member of Arizona
state senate, 1960-62; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Arizona, 1962 (Republican), 1992 (Independent); Governor of
Arizona, 1987-88; defeated, 1964, 1974, 1978, 1982.
Mormon.
Member, John
Birch Society.
Indicted
in 1988 on six felony counts of perjury
and filing a false
campaign report, specifically of failing
to report a $350,000 loan to his campaign by Barry Wolfson, a
real estate developer; later acquitted of these charges. Impeached
by the Arizona House of Representatives on February 5, 1988, on charges
of obstructing
justice and illegally lending
state money to his business; convicted
and removed from office by the Arizona Senate on April 4, 1988. A
recall
election was scheduled against him, but it was cancelled by the
Arizona Supreme Court.
Died, from complications of Alzheimer's
disease, in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., February
22, 2008 (age 83 years, 286
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Samuel Medary (1801-1864) —
also known as "The Wheel Horse of Ohio
Democracy" —
of Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio.
Born in Montgomery Square, Montgomery
County, Pa., February
25, 1801.
Democrat. Newspaper
editor; member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1834; member of Ohio
state senate, 1836; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Ohio, 1844,
1856,
1864;
postmaster at Columbus,
Ohio, 1847-49, 1858; Governor
of Minnesota Territory, 1857-58; Governor
of Kansas Territory, 1858-59, 1859-60, 1860, 1860; candidate for
Governor
of Kansas, 1859.
Originated the slogan "Fifty-four forty or fight," calling for
aggressive action on the Oregon boundary dispute with Great Britain
in the 1840s; the American claim of all the land up to 54°40'
north latitude encompassed most of what is now British Columbia. Indicted
by a federal grand jury in 1864 for conspiracy
against the government; arrested;
released on bond; never tried.
Died in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, November
7, 1864 (age 63 years, 256
days).
Interment at Green
Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio.
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Edwin Meese III (b. 1931) —
also known as Ed Meese; "Reagan's
Geographer" —
Born in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., December
2, 1931.
Lawyer;
legal affairs secretary to Gov. Ronald
Reagan, 1967-68; executive assistant and chief of staff, 1969-74;
law
professor; U.S.
Attorney General, 1985-88.
Lutheran.
Member, Federalist
Society.
The independent counsel who investigated
the Wedtech scandal
reported that Meese, who had worked as a lobbyist
for Wedtech, was complicit
in the company's bribery
and fraud;
following this disclosure, he resigned
from the Cabinet.
Still living as of 2020.
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William Howard Melish (1910-1986) —
also known as W. Howard Melish —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 11,
1910.
Episcopal
priest; vice-chair of New York American Labor Party, 1945-49;
chairman, National Council of Soviet-American Friendship, 1947-51 and
1971-78; this organization and its leaders were investigated
for subversion
by the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities; ousted
in 1957 as rector of Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn, over his
allegedly pro-Communist
activities.
Episcopalian.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 15,
1986 (age 76 years, 35
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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John Merryman (1824-1881) —
of Cockeysville, Baltimore
County, Md.
Born in Baltimore
County, Md., August
9, 1824.
Alleged to have led
a mob in Baltimore which destroyed
telegraph lines; arrested
in 1861 by Union troops, and held at Fort McHenry, Baltimore;
petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, which was granted by Chief
Justice Roger
B. Taney, but President Abraham
Lincoln had suspended habeas corpus and refused to follow Taney's
ruling; Maryland
state treasurer, 1870-72.
Died in Baltimore
County, Md., November
15, 1881 (age 57 years, 98
days).
Interment at Sherwood
Episcopal Church Cemetery, Cockeysville, Md.
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Darwin James Meserole (1868-1952) —
also known as Darwin J. Meserole —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Bellport, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 29,
1868.
Socialist. Stockbroker;
in June 1891, he shot
and killed Theodore W. Larbig, was arrested
and tried
for murder,
but found not guilty on ground of self-defense; lawyer;
candidate for New York
state assembly from Kings County 11th District, 1915; candidate
for New York
state attorney general, 1920; candidate for New York
state senate 1st District, 1922; candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925,
1927, 1931; candidate for chief
judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1926; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York; candidate for judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1930, 1934, 1936; president, National
Unemployment League, which advocated public works programs to relieve
unemployment.
Died, from a heart
attack, as he was about to board the Staten Island ferry, in
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 21,
1952 (age 83 years, 358
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Jeremiah Vanderbilt Meserole and Ann Sophia (Richardson) Meserole;
married, June 24,
1899, to Katherine Louise Maltby. |
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Herman Methfessel (1900-1963) —
of Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.; Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
23, 1900.
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Richmond County 2nd District, 1935-38; Richmond
County District Attorney, 1948-51.
In September 1951, the New York State Crime Commission, investigating
rackets on the Staten Island waterfront, heard testimony from Mrs.
Anna Wentworth that she had seen District Attorney Methfessel in a gambling
house, which implied that he was protecting
vice; in response, he ordered her arrest and charged her with
perjury. At the request of the Crime Commission, citing abuse
of power, Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey superseded him from all cases related to the
investigation; in the meantime, he was defeated for re-election. In
1952, he and a subordinate were charged
with official
misconduct, but found not guilty.
Injured in a one-car
accident, and died the next day, in North Shore Hospital,
Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla., July 7,
1963 (age 62 years, 226
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Tom Metzger —
of California; Warsaw, Kosciusko
County, Ind.
Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 43rd District, 1980; candidate in
Democratic primary for U.S.
Senator from California, 1982; convicted
in 1991 of burning a
cross (as a form of hate speech
or intimidation) and sentenced
to prison;
in 1992, he was arrested
in Canada for violating immigration
laws.
Member, John
Birch Society; Ku Klux Klan.
Still living as of 2012.
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Charles Henry Meyer (1826-1898) —
also known as Charles H. Meyer; Carl H. Meyer; Karl
Heinrich Meyer —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Schleiz, Germany,
March
15, 1826.
Dry
goods importer;
banker;
Consul
for Germany in Philadelphia,
Pa., 1872-98; silk ribbon
manufacturer.
German
ancestry.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., August
14, 1898 (age 72 years, 152
days). During a lawsuit following his death, his successor as
German Consul alleged
that Mr. Meyer had defaulted
with at least $11,000 of the consulate's funds; this was denied by
the executors of his estate, and the outcome of the dispute is
unknown.
Interment at Woodlands
Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Christoph Heinrich Meyer and Marie (Felder) Meyer; married, April
16, 1857, to Sophie Karoline Wilhelmine Brossman. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Philadelphia Times,
August 18, 1898 |
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Edward Maurice Mezvinsky (b. 1937) —
also known as Edward Mezvinsky —
of Iowa City, Johnson
County, Iowa; Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa.
Born in Ames, Story
County, Iowa, January
17, 1937.
Democrat. Member of Iowa state legislature, 1970; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 1st District, 1973-77; defeated, 1970,
1976; Pennsylvania
Democratic state chair, 1981-86; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1984.
Jewish.
Ukrainian
ancestry.
Indicted
in March, 2001 on 56 federal fraud charges;
pleaded
guilty to 31, and sentenced
to prison.
Still living as of 2014.
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Magne Alfred Michaelson (1878-1949) —
also known as M. Alfred Michaelson; M. A.
Michaelson —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Kristiansand, Norway,
September
7, 1878.
Republican. Delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention 25th District,
1920-22; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1921-31; defeated,
1918, 1932.
Indicted
in 1928 on charges of violating the National
Prohibition Act.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., October
26, 1949 (age 71 years, 49
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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William T. Michaelson —
of Cliffside Park, Bergen
County, N.J.
Mayor
of Cliffside Park, N.J., 1950-51; indicted
in 1951, and again in 1953, on charges
of failure
to enforce gambling laws; the charges were dropped in 1955.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Milton Milan (b. 1962) —
also known as Milt Milan —
of Camden, Camden
County, N.J.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., 1962.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New Jersey, 1996;
mayor
of Camden, N.J., 1997-2000.
Hispanic
ancestry.
Arrested
in March 2000 and charged with taking
payoffs and bribes.
Still living as of 2000.
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Arthur Asher Miller (1915-2005) —
also known as Arthur Miller —
of Roxbury, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
17, 1915.
Democrat. Playwright;
author of such plays as "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible";
received the Pulitzer
Prize for Drama in 1949; because he was suspected
of ties to Communist
organizations, his passport was
denied in 1954; compelled to testify before the House Un-American
Activities Committee in 1956; he refused to name his political
colleagues, and was found
guilty of contempt
of Congress in 1957; the conviction was overturned on appeal;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1968.
Agnostic.
Jewish
ancestry.
Died in Roxbury, Litchfield
County, Conn., February
10, 2005 (age 89 years, 116
days).
Interment at Great Oak Cemetery, Roxbury, Conn.
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Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. (b. 1940) —
also known as Glenn Miller; "Frazier Glenn
Cross"; "Rounder" —
of North Carolina; Aurora, Lawrence
County, Mo.
Born in Springfield, Greene
County, Mo., 1940.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; candidate in
Democratic primary for Governor of
North Carolina, 1984; candidate in Republican primary for North
Carolina state senate, 1986; convicted
on federal contempt
of court charges in 1986; sentenced
to one year in prison, but disappeared
while out on bond; later captured
in Missouri, along with four other Klansmen and a cache of weapons;
indicted
in 1987 for plotting robberies
and an assassination;
in a deal with prosecutors, he pleaded
guilty to a weapons
charge and to making threats
through the mail; served three years in prison;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Missouri 7th District, 2006; candidate for
U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 2010; on April 13, 2014, in an apparent hate
crime he shot
and killed three people at a Jewish community center and
retirement complex in Overland Park, Kansas.
Member, Ku
Klux Klan.
Still living as of 2014.
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Frederick John Mills (1865-1953) —
also known as F. J. Mills —
of Pocatello, Bannock
County, Idaho; Pasadena, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Topsham, Orange
County, Vt., April
29, 1865.
Republican. Engineer;
Lieutenant
Governor of Idaho, 1895-97; served in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War.
Scottish
ancestry.
On October 3, 1899, in Salt Lake City, he shot
and killed John C. O'Melveny, chief engineer of the Oregon Short
Line Railroad; was arrested
immediately and charged
with first-degree murder; at trial, he claimed the homicide was
justified by the "criminal intimacy" between O'Melveny and his wife,
while he was away in military service; the jury acquitted him in only
15 minutes.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., September
28, 1953 (age 88 years, 152
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Wilbur Daigh Mills (1909-1992) —
also known as Wilbur D. Mills —
of Kensett, White
County, Ark.
Born in Kensett, White
County, Ark., May 24,
1909.
Democrat. State court judge in Arkansas, 1934-38; U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 2nd District, 1939-77; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Arkansas, 1940,
1956;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1972.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
In October 1974, he was driving late at night in Washington, D.C. without
lights on; when stopped by police, he was seen to be intoxicated
and his face was bloody from a scuffle; an Argentine striptease
artist named Fanne Fox leaped from his car and jumped into the
nearby Tidal Basin; after this incident highlighted his alcoholism,
he was forced to
resign his powerful chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee
and seek treatment.
Died in 1992
(age about
83 years).
Interment at Kensett
Cemetery, Kensett, Ark.
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William Oswald Mills (1924-1973) —
also known as William O. Mills —
of Easton, Talbot
County, Md.
Born in Bethlehem, Caroline
County, Md., August
12, 1924.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 1st District, 1971-73; died in
office 1973; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Maryland, 1972.
Methodist.
The Washington Post reported that his campaign was under investigation
for receiving $25,000 from secret funds of President Richard
Nixon's re-election committee, and failed
to report the contribution as required by law; this tied him to
the Watergate scandal;
a day later, he killed
himself, by gunshot,
at his Mulberry Hill farm, Talbot
County, Md., May 24,
1973 (age 48 years, 285
days).
Interment at Hillcrest
Cemetery, Federalsburg, Md.
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Charles S. Minort —
of Richland
County, S.C.
Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Richland County,
1872-74, 1876-77; resigned 1877; indicted
for bribery
in 1877.
Burial location unknown.
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Hyman E. Mintz (c.1909-1966) —
also known as Bucky Mintz —
of South Fallsburg, Sullivan
County, N.Y.
Born about 1909.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Sullivan County, 1951-65.
Jewish.
Member, B'nai
B'rith.
Indicted
in 1965 on bribery
charges;
convicted
in February 1966, and sentenced
to a year in prison.
Died, following a heart
attack, while serving a prison
sentence, in Bellevue Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
25, 1966 (age about 57
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Miot —
U.S. Consular Agent in St. Marc, 1897-1908; Dismissed
from his consular position in 1908 by the U.S. State Department for
allegedly aiding
Haitian rebels.
Burial location unknown.
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Louis Charles Miriani (1897-1987) —
also known as Louis C. Miriani —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., January
1, 1897.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer; mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 1957-62; indicted
in 1966 for evading
federal taxes on income he failed to report in 1959-62; tried and
convicted
in 1968; following unsuccessful appeals, he served almost a year in
federal
prison; released in 1971.
Italian
ancestry.
Died in Pontiac, Oakland
County, Mich., October
18, 1987 (age 90 years, 290
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Holy
Sepulchre Cemetery, Southfield, Mich.
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Charles Burton Mitchel (1815-1864) —
also known as Charles B. Mitchel —
of Arkansas.
Born in Gallatin, Sumner
County, Tenn., September
19, 1815.
Democrat. Member of Arkansas state legislature, 1848; candidate for
U.S.
Representative from Arkansas, 1860; U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1861; Senator
from Arkansas in the Confederate Congress, 1862-64; died in
office 1864.
When the Civil War began, he left Washington but did not resign his
seat in the Senate; one of ten Southern
senators expelled
in absentia on July 11, 1861.
Slaveowner.
Died in Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark., September
20, 1864 (age 49 years, 1
days).
Interment at Presbyterian
Cemetery, Washington, Ark.
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Charles Franklin Mitchell (1806-1865) —
of Lockport, Niagara
County, N.Y.
Born in Bucks
County, Pa., February
18, 1806.
U.S.
Representative from New York 33rd District, 1837-41.
Convicted
of forgery
in 1841 and sentenced
to Sing Sing prison
in New York; pardoned
due to ill health; moved to Ohio.
Died in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, September
27, 1865 (age 59 years, 221
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Clarence M. Mitchell III (b. 1939) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., December
14, 1939.
Democrat. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1963-66; member of Maryland
state senate District 10, 1967-86; Indicted
in 1987, along with his brother, by a federal grand jury in
connection with the a bribery
investigation of Wedtech Corporation; convicted
of accepting
$50,000 to stop
the Congressional investigation of Wedtech; sentenced
to two and a half years in prison;
convicted
in 1988 of obstructing
an investigation of Baltimore drug
dealer Melvin D. 'Little Melvin' Williams, and sentenced
to two years in prison;
charged
in 1988 with failure to file income
tax returns; tried
and acquitted.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Urban
League; Kappa
Alpha Psi; Freemasons;
Jaycees.
Still living as of 1988.
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Clarence M. Mitchell IV (b. 1962) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., May 16,
1962.
Democrat. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates District 44, 1995-99; member of Maryland
state senate 44th District, 1999-2003; defeated in primary, 2002;
reprimanded
by the Maryland General Assembly in 2002 for failure
to report a $10,000 loan from a Baltimore businessman.
Still living as of 2003.
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David Brydie Mitchell (1760-1837) —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.; Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga.
Born in Muthill, Perthshire, Scotland,
October
22, 1760.
Georgia
state attorney general, 1795; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1796; mayor
of Savannah, Ga., 1801-02; U.S.
Attorney for Georgia, 1802-04; Governor of
Georgia, 1809-13, 1815-17; U.S. Indian Agent to the Creek Nation,
1817-21; resigned
from this position following charges
that he was smuggling
African
slaves into the country.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died in Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga., April
22, 1837 (age 76 years, 182
days).
Interment at Memory
Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Ga.
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John Hipple Mitchell (1835-1905) —
also known as John H. Mitchell; John Mitchell
Hipple —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in Washington
County, Pa., June 22,
1835.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Oregon
state senate, 1862-66; U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1873-79, 1885-97, 1901-05; died in office
1905.
Indicted
in December 1904 in connection with land
frauds; a bribery
charge was added later.
Died in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., December
8, 1905 (age 70 years, 169
days).
Interment at River
View Cemetery, Portland, Ore.
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John Newton Mitchell (1913-1988) —
also known as John N. Mitchell —
of New York; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., September
15, 1913.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Attorney General, 1969-72.
Member, American Bar
Association.
A central figure in the Watergate scandal.
Indicted
in 1973, along with Maurice
Stans, for perjury
and obstruction
over a contribution
from fugitive
financier Robert Vesco to President Richard
M. Nixon's re-election campaign; tried
and acquitted. Convicted
in February 1975 of conspiracy, obstruction
of justice and perjury,
over his role in the Watergate
break-in, and sentenced
to two and a half to eight years in prison;
served 19 months.
Suffered a heart
attack, and died later the same day, at George Washington
University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., November
9, 1988 (age 75 years, 55
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Michael Bowen Mitchell (b. 1945) —
also known as Michael B. Mitchell —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., November
7, 1945.
Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state senate 39th District, 1987; indicted
in 1987, along with his brother, by a federal grand jury in
connection with the a bribery
investigation of Wedtech Corporation; convicted
of accepting
$50,000 to stop
the Congressional investigation of Wedtech; sentenced
to two and a half years in prison;
convicted
in 1988 of forging
documents to obtain
$77,000 in life insurance proceeds intended for the child of a murder
victim, and sentenced
to six years in prison.
Methodist.
Member, NAACP.
Still living as of 1988.
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Wesley Oval Moats (1891-1967) —
also known as W. O. Moats —
of Morgantown, Butler
County, Ky.; Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Morgantown, Butler
County, Ky., November
16, 1891.
Republican. Butler
County Court Clerk; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Kentucky; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 3rd District, 1922; indicted
in 1927 on federal income
tax evasion charges.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., January
17, 1967 (age 75 years, 62
days).
Interment at Riverview Cemetery, Morgantown, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of John McHenry 'Mack' Moats and Olivia B. (Whobrey) Moats; married
to Arta Pearl Enbry. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Frank Sylvestor Monnett (b. 1857) —
also known as Frank S. Monnett —
of Crawford
County, Ohio.
Born in Kenton, Hardin
County, Ohio, March
19, 1857.
Lawyer;
Ohio
state attorney general, 1896-1900; defeated in Democratic
primary, 1926; Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from Ohio 12th District, 1910; in 1915, when the
U.S. was still neutral in World War I, he was a committee chair in
"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 H.
Robert Fowler, Frank
Buchanan, and others, for restraint
of trade over the Peace Council's attempts to foment
strikes in U.S. munitions plants; stood
trial with seven co-defendants, but during the trial, the charges
against him were dismissed.
Died in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio.
Interment at Monnett
Chapel Graveyard, Dallas Township, Crawford County, Ohio.
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Paris Montrose (c.1895-1961) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born about 1895.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for New York
state assembly from Kings County 22nd District, 1927, 1928.
In 1929, he was one of several Brooklyn lawyers who were disciplined
for ambulance
chasing activities and paying
insurance company adjusters for favorable settlement of claims; his
license to practice law was suspended
for two years.
Died, of cancer,
in the Memorial Center
for Cancer and Allied Diseases of the Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Institute, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
14, 1961 (age about 66
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Arch Alfred Moore Jr. (1923-2015) —
also known as Arch A. Moore, Jr. —
of Moundsville, Marshall
County, W.Va.; Glen Dale, Marshall
County, W.Va.
Born in Moundsville, Marshall
County, W.Va., April
16, 1923.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Marshall County, 1953-54;
U.S.
Representative from West Virginia 1st District, 1957-69;
defeated, 1954; delegate to Republican National Convention from West
Virginia, 1960
(alternate), 1972
(alternate), 1984
(delegation chair); member of Republican
National Committee from West Virginia, 1963-73; Governor of
West Virginia, 1969-77, 1985-89; defeated, 1980, 1988; candidate
for U.S.
Senator from West Virginia, 1978.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Moose; Eagles;
Elks; Rotary;
Phi
Delta Phi; Beta
Theta Pi.
Pleaded
guilty in 1990 to five felonies,
over findings that he had accepted illegal
contributions to his 1984 and 1988 election campaigns, had extorted
over $500,000 from a coal company, and obstructed
the investigation; served two years and eight months in prison.
Died in Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va., January
7, 2015 (age 91 years, 266
days).
Interment at Riverview Cemetery, Moundsville, W.Va.
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John Brown Moore (1835-1926) —
of Anderson
County, S.C.; Colusa, Colusa
County, Calif.
Born in Anderson District (now Anderson
County), S.C., March
22, 1835.
Democrat. Lawyer;
major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Anderson County,
1868-70; vice-chair of
South Carolina Democratic Party, 1878; member of South
Carolina state senate from Anderson County, 1882-86; involved in
a dispute over alcohol prohibition in Anderson County, which he
opposed; on September 15, 1885, in the public square of Anderson,
S.C., he shot
at Edwards
Bobo Murray, and was shot and
injured; subsequently pleaded
guilty to disturbing
the peace and to carrying a concealed
weapon; charges against Murray were dismissed.
Presbyterian.
Died in Colusa, Colusa
County, Calif., November
22, 1926 (age 91 years, 245
days).
Interment at Colusa Community Cemetery, Colusa, Calif.
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Thomas Overton Moore (1804-1876) —
of Louisiana.
Born in Sampson
County, N.C., April
10, 1804.
Democrat. Planter;
member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1848; member of Louisiana
state senate, 1856; Governor of
Louisiana, 1860-64; delegate
to Louisiana secession convention, 1861.
Presbyterian.
At the end of the Civil War, the military governor of Louisiana
ordered his arrest
as a Confederate
leader; he fled
to Mexico and settled in Havana, Cuba. Pardoned
by President Andrew
Johnson.
Died near Alexandria, Rapides
Parish, La., June 25,
1876 (age 72 years, 76
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Episcopal Cemetery, Pineville, La.
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Edward S. Moran Jr. (b. 1901) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
19, 1901.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 12th District, 1927-38.
Arrested
in June 1938 and charged
with accepting $36,000 in bribes
from two taxicab companies; released on bail; again arrested
in April 1939 and charged
with state
income tax evasion; again released; tried on
the bribery
charges
in June 1939 and convicted;
sentenced
to two and a half to five years in prison;
released pending appeal, which was unsuccessful; disbarred;
started prison
term in January 1941; released on parole in September 1942.
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
New York Red Book 1936 |
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James Patrick Moran Jr. (b. 1945) —
also known as James P. Moran, Jr.; Jim
Moran —
of Alexandria,
Va.
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., May 16,
1945.
Democrat. Mayor
of Alexandria, Va., 1985-91; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 8th District, 1991-; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Pleaded
no contest to a misdemeanor conflict
of interest charge
and was forced to
resign as vice mayor of Alexandria, in June 1984.
Still living as of 2014.
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Richard Morford (c.1903-1986) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Onaway, Presque
Isle County, Mich., about 1903.
Presbyterian
minister; vice-chair of New York American Labor Party, 1945-49;
director, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 1946-80;
this organization and its leaders were investigated
for subversion
by the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities; charged
in 1946 with contempt
of Congress for his refusal to provide records demanded by the
committee; tried in
federal court in Washington; convicted
in March 1948; his conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court; convicted
again on re-trial; sentenced
to three months in prison and fined
$250.
Presbyterian.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Madison, Dane
County, Wis., September
7, 1986 (age about 83
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Aileen Hutson. |
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Judith K. Moriarty (b. 1942) —
of Pettis
County, Mo.
Born February
2, 1942.
Democrat. Secretary
of state of Missouri, 1993-94; removed 1994.
Female.
Impeached
and removed from
office, 1994.
Still living as of 1994.
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Karen Morley (1909-2003) —
also known as Mildred Linton —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Santa Monica, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Ottumwa, Wapello
County, Iowa, December
12, 1909.
Actress;
her career ended in 1947, when she was blacklisted
as a suspected
Communist; American Labor candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1954.
Female.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 8,
2003 (age 93 years, 86
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in North Pacific Ocean.
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Ernest A. Moross (c.1874-1949) —
of Mosherville, Hillsdale
County, Mich.
Born about 1874.
Manager for Indianapolis Speedway, and for many early 20th century race car
drivers; retired from automobile racing in 1916; candidate in
Republican primary for Michigan
state house of representatives from Hillsdale County, 1930;
Communist candidate for Michigan
state senate 10th District, 1932; in 1933, he refused to renew
his car's license
plates as a protest
against the cost; when his car was seized, he and his wife locked the
doors and remained
inside it for a month; finally police broke into the car and arrested
them; convicted
of resisting
arrest, and sentenced
to 30 days in jail.
Died in Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April 4,
1949 (age about 75
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Buckner Stith Morris (1800-1879) —
also known as Buckner S. Morris —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Augusta, Bracken
County, Ky., August
19, 1800.
Whig. Lawyer; mayor
of Chicago, Ill., 1838-39; candidate for secretary
of state of Illinois, 1852; circuit judge in Illinois, 1853-55;
served as treasurer of the Sons of Liberty, a Northern pro-Confederate
organization; in 1864, he was arrested
and imprisoned
for taking part in an alleged plot to break
out prisoners of war held at Camp Douglas in Chicago.
Catholic.
Thought to be the originator of "to hell in a handbasket," though the
phrase wasn't widely used before the 1940s.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., December
16, 1879 (age 79 years, 119
days).
Interment at Rosehill
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Earle Elias Morris Jr. (1928-2011) —
also known as Earle E. Morris, Jr. —
of Pickens, Pickens
County, S.C.
Born in Pickens, Pickens
County, S.C., July 14,
1928.
Democrat. Banker; merchant;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1951-54; member of South
Carolina state senate, 1954-70 (Pickens County 1954-66, 2nd
District 1966-70); delegate to Democratic National Convention from
South Carolina, 1956,
1968,
1972;
South
Carolina Democratic state chair, 1966-68; Lieutenant
Governor of South Carolina, 1971-74; South
Carolina state comptroller general, 1976-99; convicted
in 2004 of securities
fraud following the collapse of Carolina Investors, though he
denied any intent to defraud anyone; sentenced
to 44 months in prison.
Presbyterian.
Member, Lions; Elks; Moose; Woodmen of
the World; Jaycees;
Kiwanis;
Blue
Key; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Phi
Kappa Phi.
Died, from prostate
cancer, in Lexington, Lexington
County, S.C., February
11, 2011 (age 82 years, 212
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Bush River Memorial Gardens, Columbia, S.C.
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Richard Valentine Morris (1768-1815) —
also known as Richard V. Morris —
of Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Morrisania, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, Bronx
County), N.Y., March 8,
1768.
U.S. Navy Captain, starting in 1798; criticized
by his superiors for his inaction
as commander during an attempted blockade of Tripoli in 1803; he
faced a Naval Court of Inquiry
in 1804 and was dismissed
from the Navy; member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County, 1813-14.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 13,
1815 (age 47 years, 66
days).
Interment at St.
Anne's Episcopal Churchyard, Bronx, N.Y.
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Robert Morris (1734-1806) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Liverpool, England,
January
31, 1734.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1776; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1785; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1789-95.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry.
Financier of the American Revolution, but went broke in the process.
Imprisoned
for debt from
February 1798 to August 1801.
Slaveowner.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 8,
1806 (age 72 years, 97
days).
Entombed at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; statue at Independence
National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pa.; memorial monument at
Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Robert Morris (1711-1750) and Elizabeth (Murphet) Morris; married,
March
2, 1769, to Mary White; father of Thomas
Morris and Henrietta 'Hetty' Morris (who married James
Markham Marshall); great-grandfather of John
Augustine Marshall. |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph
family; Biddle-Randolph
family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Morris Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at
Harvard University
Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. |
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $10 silver certificate in the 1870s and
1880s. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Robert Morris: Charles
Rappleye, Robert
Morris: Financier of the American Revolution |
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Robert Page Walter Morris (1853-1924) —
also known as R. Page W. Morris —
of Lynchburg,
Va.; Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Lynchburg,
Va., June 30,
1853.
Republican. College
professor; lawyer;
postmaster at Lynchburg,
Va., 1883-85; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Virginia 6th District, 1884; district judge
in Minnesota 11th District, 1895-96; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 6th District, 1897-1903; U.S.
District Judge for Minnesota, 1903-23; took senior status 1923.
Arrested
in Salt Lake City, 1921, following an accident in which his
car struck a pedestrian, Mrs. Elizabeth Holmes.
Died in Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn., December
16, 1924 (age 71 years, 169
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Duluth, Minn.
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Paul J. Morrison (b. 1954) —
of Lenexa, Johnson
County, Kan.
Born in Dodge City, Ford
County, Kan., June 1,
1954.
Democrat. Lawyer; Johnson
County District Attorney, 1990-2006; Kansas
state attorney general, 2007-08; resigned 2008.
Catholic.
Member, Phi
Delta Theta.
Resigned
as Attorney General following disclosure of an extramarital
affair with a subordinate, who filed a sexual
harrassment claim with the federal EEOC.
Still living as of 2014.
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Peter R. Morrissey (1859-1895) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in St. Louis
County, Mo., August
14, 1859.
Democrat. Saloon
keeper; arrested
in December 1886 on federal charges
of vote
fraud; found
guilty in April 1887, but released because the indictment did not
specify that the ballots were for a federal office; indicted
again soon after, but the charges were dropped in November; indicted
for naturalization
fraud in 1889, but not convicted; member of Missouri
state senate 31st District, 1893-95; died in office 1895.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
While in bed, he was shot
twice with his own pistol, and killed,
by his mistress,
Maud Lewis, in her "house of ill
repute", in St.
Louis, Mo., May 13,
1895 (age 35 years, 272
days). After a dramatic and highly publicized trial, Maud Lewis
was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to fifteen years
in prison; she was pardoned by Gov. Lon
Vest Stephens in January 1901.
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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John Singleton Mosby (1833-1916) —
also known as John S. Mosby; "The Gray
Ghost" —
of Bristol,
Va.; Warrenton, Fauquier
County, Va.
Born in Powhatan
County, Va., December
6, 1833.
In 1852, he shot
and wounded George R. Turpin, with whom he had quarreled; arrested
and tried,
ultimately convicted
only of the misdemeanor charge of unlawful
shooting and sentenced
to one year in jail; pardoned
by Gov. Joseph
Johnson in 1853; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil
War; U.S. Consul in Hong Kong, 1878-85.
Scottish
and Welsh
ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 30,
1916 (age 82 years, 176
days).
Interment at Warrenton
Cemetery, Warrenton, Va.
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Grover M. Moscowitz (1886-1947) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Hot Springs, Garland
County, Ark., August
31, 1886.
Lawyer;
U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, 1925-47;
died in office 1947; his practice of giving lucrative bankruptcy
receiverships to members of his former partner's law firm was condemned
as unethical
by the U.S. House on April 8, 1930.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March
31, 1947 (age 60 years, 212
days).
Cremated.
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Alexander Moultrie (1750-1807) —
Born in Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C., July 2,
1750.
South
Carolina state attorney general, 1776-92; impeached
for embezzling
state money into the Yazoo Land Company, and resigned.
Died in Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C., August, 1807
(age 57
years, 0 days).
Interment at St.
Philip's Churchyard, Charleston, S.C.
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Frank Munch (born c.1925) —
of Palatine, Cook
County, Ill.
Born about 1925.
Real
estate broker; village
president of Palatine, Illinois, 1985-87; charged
with failing
to disclose a loan and a partnership on financial disclosure
forms; tried in
January 1987 and found not guilty.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Robert V. Mundy (b. 1854) —
of Bay City, Bay
County, Mich.
Born in New Jersey, 1854.
Hardware
business; mayor
of Bay City, Mich., 1917-21.
In March, 1921, a grand jury charged
him with misfeasance
in office and neglect of
duty, in his tolerance of
vice such as illegal liquor sales, prostitution, and gambling in
Bay City, and called for the common council to remove him from
office. Mundy disputed the grand jury's authority to make this kind
of report, and on his motion, it was stricken from the court record.
Nonetheless, his organization was defeated in the election shortly
afterward.
Burial location unknown.
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Frank Murphy (1897-1944) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Rensselaer, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., May 15,
1897.
Democrat. Accountant;
Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, 1941-42; defeated, 1942; charged
with bribery
in 1944; pleaded
guilty.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus; Gamma
Eta Gamma.
Died, from a heart
ailment, December
25, 1944 (age 47 years, 224
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Constance Kirchner. |
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John Michael Murphy (1926-2015) —
also known as John M. Murphy —
of Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., August
3, 1926.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; served in the
U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1963-81 (16th District 1963-73,
17th District 1973-81); defeated, 1960 (15th District), 1980 (17th
District); delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1964;
Parliamentarian, 1968.
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Knights
of Columbus.
Implicated
in the Abscam sting, in which FBI agents impersonating Arab
businessmen offered bribes
to political figures; indicted
June 18 and convicted
December 3, 1980, of conspiracy, conflict
of interest, and accepting an illegal
gratuity; sentenced
to three years in prison
and fined $20,000; paroled in 1985.
Died in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., May 25,
2015 (age 88 years, 295
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Edwards Bobo Murray (1854-1894) —
of Anderson, Anderson
County, S.C.
Born in Newberry District (now Newberry
County), S.C., February
5, 1854.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; chair of
Anderson County Democratic Party, 1878-90; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Anderson County,
1878-84; involved in a dispute over alcohol prohibition in Anderson
County, which he supported; on September 15, 1885, in the public
square of Anderson, S.C., he was shot
at by John
Brown Moore, and fired
back, injuring Moore; charges
against him were dismissed; member of South
Carolina state senate from Anderson County, 1886-90.
Baptist.
Member, Sons of
Temperance.
Drowned
while rescuing his daughter in a swimming pond, Anderson, Anderson
County, S.C., July 7,
1894 (age 40 years, 152
days).
Interment at Silver Brook Cemetery, Anderson, S.C.
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Lawrence J. Murray Jr. (1910-2000) —
of Haverstraw, Rockland
County, N.Y.; Pearl River, Rockland
County, N.Y.; Nyack, Rockland
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, June 20,
1910.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Rockland County, 1938-40; removed 1940; charged,
in January 1940, with embezzling
$49,102 from Miss May Dunnigan, his mentally incompetent law client
(also sister-in-law to U.S. Postmaster General James
A. Farley); the money was lost in gambling
on horse races; tried,
convicted
on all counts, and hence automatically disbarred
and removed from
office; sentenced
to five to ten years in prison;
his sentence was commuted in 1942; arrested
in 1952, along with other bookmakers, for illegally taking
bets.
Irish
ancestry.
Died March
15, 2000 (age 89 years, 269
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Lawrence J. Murray and Emma (Brennan) Murray. |
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John Patrick Murtha Jr. (1932-2010) —
also known as John P. Murtha; Jack Murtha;
"King of Pork" —
of Johnstown, Cambria
County, Pa.
Born in New Martinsville, Wetzel
County, W.Va., June 17,
1932.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1969-74; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 12th District, 1974-; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1984,
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008.
Catholic.
Implicated
in the Abscam sting, in which FBI agents impersonating Arab
businessmen offered bribes
to political figures; never charged, but cited by the grand jury in
1980 as an unindicted
co-conspirator.
During gall bladder surgery, suffered an intestinal
cut, which led to infection;
he subsequently died at Virginia Medical
Center, Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., February
8, 2010 (age 77 years, 236
days).
Interment at Grandview
Cemetery, Southmont, Pa.
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Mark E. Musselwhite (b. 1966) —
of Gainesville, Hall
County, Ga.
Born March
13, 1966.
Republican. Mayor
of Gainesville, Ga., 2006; arrested
for public
indecency in June 2009, when he was found nude
and intoxicated
at a public camp site in Rabun County, Ga.
Still living as of 2009.
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William Vincent Musto (1917-2006) —
also known as William V. Musto —
of Union City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in West Hoboken (now part of Union City), Hudson
County, N.J., March
27, 1917.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Hudson County, 1947-65; mayor
of Union City, N.J., 1962-70, 1974-82; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New Jersey, 1964,
1976;
member of New
Jersey state senate, 1966-82 (District 12 1966-73, 33rd District
1974-82); indicted
in 1981 on federal charges
that he took part in a scheme to collect $440,000 in kickbacks
from a construction company connected to organized
crime; convicted
in May 1982.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Elks.
Died February
27, 2006 (age 88 years, 337
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Michael Joseph Myers (b. 1943) —
also known as Michael Myers; Ozzie Myers —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Pennsylvania, May 4,
1943.
Democrat. Longshoreman;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1971-76; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 1st District, 1976-80; defeated,
1980.
Implicated
in the Abscam sting, in which FBI agents impersonating Arab
businessmen offered bribes
to political figures; indicted
on May 27, and convicted
on August 31, 1980 of bribery
and conspiracy; sentenced
to three years in prison
and fined
$20,000; expelled
from the House of Representatives on October 2, 1980.
Still living as of 1998.
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Bess Myerson (1924-2014) —
Born in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., July 16,
1924.
Democrat. Miss America, 1945; first
and only Jewish woman to win the pageant; musician; television
personality; New York City commissioner of consumer affairs,
1969-73, and commissioner of cultural affairs, 1983-87; candidate for
U.S.
Senator from New York, 1980; accused in 1987 of bribing
Justice Hortense
Gabel by giving her daughter
a city job; meanwhile, the judge reduced child support payments for
Carl Andrew Capasso, Myerson's married
lover; the scandal
was called the "Bess Mess"; she was forced to resign as city consumer
affairs commissioner; indicted
on federal bribery
charges in 1988, along with Capasso and Gabel; tried
and found not guilty.
Female.
Jewish.
Died in Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
14, 2014 (age 90 years, 151
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Santa Monica, Calif.
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