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William Stanbery (1788-1873) —
of Newark, Licking
County, Ohio.
Born in Essex
County, N.J., August
10, 1788.
Lawyer;
member of Ohio
state senate, 1824-25; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 8th District, 1827-33; censured
by the Congress for use of unparliamentary language, July 11,
1832.
Died in Newark, Licking
County, Ohio, January
23, 1873 (age 84 years, 166
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Newark, Ohio.
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Robert Wilson (1793-1856) —
also known as "Honest Bob" —
of Texas.
Born in Easton, Talbot
County, Md., December
7, 1793.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1832 from District of San Jacinto, 1832;
served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member
of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Harrisburg and Liberty, 1836-38,
1839; candidate for President
of the Texas Republic, 1838, 1843; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845.
Member, Freemasons.
Expelled
from Texas Republic Senate, December 26, 1838, for using
profanity and disclosing
secrecy; subsequently returned to office.
Died May 25,
1856 (age 62 years, 170
days).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Houston, Tex.
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Joseph Barker (c.1806-1862) —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Allegheny
County, Pa., about 1806.
Mayor
of Pittsburgh, Pa., 1850-51; defeated, 1851, 1852.
In 1849, after an anti-Catholic
speech, he was arrested,
charged
with using obscene language, obstructing
the streets, and causing a
riot, convicted,
and sentenced
to a year in prison;
elected mayor in 1850 while still incarcerated. While mayor, he was
twice arrested
on charges
of assault
and battery. In 1851, he was convicted
of riot.
Struck and killed by a railroad
train, in Ross Township, Allegheny
County, Pa., August
2, 1862 (age about 56
years).
Interment at Allegheny
Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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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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Fernando Wood (1812-1881) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., June 14,
1812.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York, 1841-43, 1863-65, 1867-81 (3rd
District 1841-43, 5th District 1863-65, 9th District 1867-73, 10th
District 1873-75, 9th District 1875-81); died in office 1881; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1855-58, 1860-62; censured
by the House of Representatives in 1868 for using unparliamentary
language.
Died in Hot Springs, Garland
County, Ark., February
14, 1881 (age 68 years, 245
days).
Interment at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.
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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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Thomas Edward Watson (1856-1922) —
also known as Thomas E. Watson —
of Thomson, McDuffie
County, Ga.
Born in Columbia
County, Ga., September
5, 1856.
Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1882-83; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Georgia; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 10th District, 1891-93; Populist
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1896; Populist candidate for President
of the United States, 1904, 1908; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Georgia, 1912;
controversial for his writings attacking
the Catholic Church; arrested
in 1912 on obscenity charges
over three chapters in his book The Catholic Hierarchy; tried
and acquitted in 1916; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1921-22; died in office 1922.
Died September
26, 1922 (age 66 years, 21
days).
Interment at Thomson
Cemetery, Thomson, Ga.
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Thomas Lindsay Blanton (1872-1957) —
also known as Thomas L. Blanton —
of Abilene, Taylor
County, Tex.
Born in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., October
25, 1872.
Democrat. Lawyer;
district judge in Texas 42nd District, 1908-16; U.S.
Representative from Texas, 1917-29, 1930-37 (16th District
1917-19, 17th District 1919-29, 1930-37).
Presbyterian.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Woodmen.
Censured
in 1921 for inserting a letter into the Congressional Record
which contained words said to be "unspeakable, vile, foul, filthy,
profane, blasphemous and obscene." A motion to expel
him from the House of Representatives failed by eight votes. Indicted
in 1923 for criminal
libel over his claim that former U.S. Rep. Oscar
Callaway had urged his frends not to buy Liberty bonds during
World War I.
Died in Albany, Shackelford
County, Tex., August
11, 1957 (age 84 years, 290
days).
Interment at Albany
Cemetery, Albany, Tex.
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Larry Claxton Flynt (1942-2021) —
also known as Larry Flynt; "The King of
Smut" —
of Ohio; California.
Born in Lakeville, Magoffin
County, Ky., November
1, 1942.
Democrat. Owner of night
clubs; publisher of Hustler, a pornographic
magazine;
convicted
in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1977 on obscenity and organized
crime charges,
and sentenced
to 25 years in prison,
but the verdict was overturned on appeal; shot by a
sniper in Lawrenceville, Georgia, 1978, and paralyzed
from the waist down; candidate for Governor of
California, 2003.
Atheist.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
10, 2021 (age 78 years, 101
days).
Interment a private or family graveyard, Magoffin County, Ky.
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Jello Biafra (b. 1958) —
also known as Eric Reed Boucher; "Occupant";
"Count Ringworm" —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Boulder, Boulder
County, Colo., June 17,
1958.
Co-founder, lead singer,
and songwriter
for the punk
rock band Dead Kennedys (1978-86); founder of the Alternative
Tentacles record
label; candidate for mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1979; charged,
in Los Angeles in 1986, with distributing obscene "harmful
matter" in the form of a sexually
explicit print distributed with a Dead Kennedys record album;
following a trial,
the jury deadlocked, a mistrial was declared, and charges were
dismissed; Biafra went on to become a spoken
word performer; on May 7, 1994, he was assaulted
and injured at a music club in Berkeley, Calif., by five or six
attackers who called him a "sellout".
Atheist.
Still living as of 2014.
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Mary Carey (b. 1981) —
also known as Mary Ellen Cook —
of California.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, June 15,
1981.
Actress
in pornographic
movies;
Independent candidate for Governor of
California, 2003; arrested
in April 2005 during a raid on a strip
club in Lakewood, Wash.; charged
with touching herself while dancing; pleaded
guilty and received a suspended
sentence.
Female.
Still living as of 2013.
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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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Anthony David Weiner (b. 1964) —
also known as Anthony D. Weiner; "Carlos
Danger" —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Forest Hills, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Kew Gardens, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., September
4, 1964.
Democrat. Staff for U.S. Rep. Charles
E. Schumer, 1985-91; member, New York city council, 1992-98 (at
age 27, the youngest member ever elected); U.S.
Representative from New York 9th District, 1999-2011; resigned
2011; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 2000,
2004,
2008;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 2005, 2013; in 2011, a scandal
developed over his Internet communications with much younger women,
including sexually
suggestive and sexually
explicit photos and texts; after initially denying
responsibility, he admitted that the photos were of him, and that he
had sent them; resigned
from Congress in June 2011; in July 2013, more pictures and sexting,
sent under the name "Carlos Danger", were revealed, which discredited
his mayoral candidacy; in September 2017, he pleaded
guilty to a federal charge
of transferring obscene material to a minor; sentenced
to 21 months in prison.
Jewish.
Still living as of 2018.
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