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Stanley J. Pacholek (1890-1932) —
of Hamtramck, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Poland,
December
8, 1890.
Undertaker;
candidate for mayor
of Hamtramck, Mich., 1932 (primary), 1932.
Polish
ancestry.
Arrested
in April, 1932, for drunk
driving;
died by suicide
in his jail
cell, by hanging
himself with his scarf, in Birmingham, Oakland
County, Mich., April
19, 1932 (age 41 years, 133
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert William Packwood (b. 1932) —
also known as Bob Packwood —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.; Lake Oswego, Clackamas
County, Ore.
Born in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., September
11, 1932.
Republican. Lawyer; chair of
Multnomah County Republican Party, 1960-62; member of Oregon
state house of representatives, 1963-68; U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1969-95; resigned 1995; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Oregon, 1972.
Unitarian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Jaycees;
Beta
Theta Pi.
Resigned
from the U.S. Senate in 1995, after the Select Committee on Ethics recommended
his expulson for sexual
misconduct, attempting to obstruct
the committee's investigation, and using his position to solicit
employment for his
wife.
Still living as of 2014.
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Ernest Page —
of Orlando, Orange
County, Fla.
Orlando City Commissioner, 1980-83, 1996-2005; in 1983, he was indicted
and convicted
of grand
theft involving stolen equipment, and served eight months in jail; mayor
of Orlando, Fla., 2005.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2005.
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Daniel Frederick Pagelsen (1873-1939) —
also known as Daniel F. Pagelsen —
of Grand Haven, Ottawa
County, Mich.
Born in Grand Haven, Ottawa
County, Mich., September
26, 1873.
Republican. Lawyer; Vice-Consul
for Sweden & Norway in Grand
Haven, Mich., 1904; justice of the peace; Vice-Consul
for Sweden in Grand
Haven, Mich., 1914; Ottawa
County Circuit Court Commissioner, 1919-34; arrested
in March 1930, charged
with driving
while drunk,
and fined
$50; arrested
again in August, and pleaded
guilty to driving
while intoxicated,
second offense; the Ottawa County Bar Association urged leniency, but
he was sentenced
to six months in prison.
Danish
and German
ancestry.
Died in Grand Haven, Ottawa
County, Mich., January
31, 1939 (age 65 years, 127
days).
Interment at Lake
Forest Cemetery, Grand Haven, Mich.
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Ephraim Paine (1730-1785) —
of New York.
Born in Canterbury, Windham
County, Conn., August
19, 1730.
County judge in New York, 1778-81; member of New York
state senate Middle District, 1779-81, 1782-85; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1784.
Expelled
from the New York State Senate on March 15, 1781, for neglect
of duty.
Died in Amenia, Dutchess
County, N.Y., August
10, 1785 (age 54 years, 356
days).
Interment at Red
Meeting House Cemetery, Near Amenia, Dutchess County, N.Y.
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Steven Dana Pankey (born c.1951) —
also known as Steve Pankey —
of Greeley, Weld
County, Colo.; Shoshone, Lincoln
County, Idaho; Twin Falls, Twin Falls
County, Idaho.
Born in California, about 1951.
Candidate in Republican primary for Lieutenant
Governor of Idaho, 2010; candidate for Governor of
Idaho, 2014 (Constitution), 2018 (Republican primary); indicted
in October 2020 for the kidnapping
and murder
of Jonelle Matthews, a 12-year-old girl who disappeared in Greeley,
Colo., in 1984.
Nazarene.
Still living as of 2020.
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Joseph E. Parisi (1913-1990) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 10,
1913.
Republican. Real estate
broker; candidate for New York
state assembly from Kings County 16th District, 1942; member of
New
York state senate 14th District, 1945-48; defeated, 1948, 1950;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1948,
1952,
1956,
1960,
1964;
Chief Clerk, Criminal Term, Brooklyn Supreme Court; indicted
in 1973, along with retired Justice David
L. Malbin, on federal charges
of aiding and abbetting an embezzlement
scheme, involving officials of the International Production, Service
and Sales Employees Union; in 1975, both men were acquitted.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Died, from kidney
disease, in United Hospital,
Port Chester, Westchester
County, N.Y., May 29,
1990 (age 77 years, 19
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Union Cemetery, Rye, N.Y.
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Harvey Parnell (1880-1936) —
of Dermott, Chicot
County, Ark.
Born near Orlando, Cleveland
County, Ark., February
28, 1880.
Democrat. Member of Arkansas
state house of representatives, 1919-22; member of Arkansas
state senate, 1923-26; Lieutenant
Governor of Arkansas, 1927-28; Governor of
Arkansas, 1928-33.
Southern
Methodist. Member, Freemasons.
In 1928, he was charged
with violating the Corrupt Practices Act (early campaign
finance law) by spending more than $5,000 on his campaign; the
charges were later dropped.
Died, following two heart
attacks, in St. Vincent's Infirmary,
Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark., January
16, 1936 (age 55 years, 322
days).
Interment at Roselawn
Memorial Park, Little Rock, Ark.
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Otto Ernest Passman (1900-1988) —
also known as Otto E. Passman —
of Monroe, Ouachita
Parish, La.
Born near Franklinton, Washington
Parish, La., June 27,
1900.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; furniture
business; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 5th District, 1947-77; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, 1948,
1956,
1960.
Baptist.
Member, American
Legion; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Knights
Templar; Shriners.
Charged
in 1978 with accepting
$200,000 from Korean businessman Tongsun Park, in what became
known as the "Koreagate" influence
buying scandal;
also charged
with tax
evasion; tried
and found not guilty.
Died in Monroe, Ouachita
Parish, La., August
13, 1988 (age 88 years, 47
days).
Interment at Mulhearn
Memorial Park Cemetery, Monroe, La.
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Joel Patterson —
of Benton Harbor, Berrien
County, Mich.
Mayor
of Benton Harbor, Mich., 1981; defeated, 1981.
Indicted
in 1981, along with the City Attorney, on federal embezzlement
and bribery
charges
in connection with a housing program.
Still living as of 1981.
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Lewis Brooks Patterson (1939-2019) —
also known as L. Brooks Patterson —
of Oakland
County, Mich.
Born in Loogootee, Martin
County, Ind., January
4, 1939.
Republican. Lawyer; Oakland
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1972-88; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1978; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Michigan, 1984
(alternate), 1988;
Oakland
County Executive, 1993-2019; charged
with reckless
driving following a traffic stop in 2003.
Died, from pancreatic
cancer, in Independence Township, Oakland
County, Mich., August
3, 2019 (age 80 years, 211
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Nathaniel Peabody (1741-1823) —
of Atkinson, Rockingham
County, N.H.
Born in Topsfield, Essex
County, Mass., March 1,
1741.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1776-79, 1781-85,
1787-90, 1793-96; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Hampshire, 1779-80, 1785; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1782-83; member
of New
Hampshire Governor's Council, 1784-86; member of New
Hampshire state senate from Rockingham County, 1785-86, 1790-93.
Confined
in a debtor's
prison
for about twenty years.
Died, from consumption
(tuberculosis),
in Exeter, Rockingham
County, N.H., June 7,
1823 (age 82 years, 98
days).
Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery, East Kingston, N.H.
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Thomas W. Pearlman (born c.1928) —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born about 1928.
Republican. Member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1960.
Found
guilty of lawyer
misconduct by the Rhode Island Supreme Court, for fee-gouging
and providing incompetent
counsel; censured
in 1993, suspended
in 2004, and ordered to pay restitution
in 2010.
Still living as of 2010.
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Paul Martin Pearson (1871-1938) —
Born in Litchfield, Montgomery
County, Ill., October
22, 1871.
College
professor; author; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands, 1931-35; forced to
resign in July, 1935 during a Congressional investigation
of financial
mismanagement in the Islands government.
Suffered a stroke,
and died a month later, March
26, 1938 (age 66 years, 155
days).
Interment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Henry Everard Peck (1821-1867) —
also known as H. E. Peck —
of Oberlin, Lorain
County, Ohio.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., July 20,
1821.
Republican. College
professor; delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio,
1856;
U.S. Diplomatic Commissioner to Haiti, 1865-66; U.S. Minister to Haiti, 1866-67, died in office 1867.
Abolitionist; involved in rescue of an escaping slave in Wellington,
near Oberlin, Ohio, in September 1858; among the 20 men who were arrested
and charged
with "infringement of the Fugitive
Slave Law"; the trial
ended when the slave catchers (who had pressed the charges) were
indicted for kidnapping.
Died, of yellow
fever, in Haiti,
June
9, 1867 (age 45 years, 324
days).
Interment somewhere
in Oberlin, Ohio.
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Edward C. Peirce (c.1895-1955) —
of New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born about 1895.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1930; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1944,
1952;
mayor
of New Bedford, Mass., 1952-53; convicted
in 1953 on charges of conspiracy to
protect gambling, and sentenced
to four years in prison;
served twenty months.
Died, of cancer,
in a nursing
home at New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass., January
31, 1955 (age about 60
years).
Burial location unknown.
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William Dudley Pelley (1890-1965) —
of Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C.; Noblesville, Hamilton
County, Ind.
Born in Lynn, Essex
County, Mass., March
12, 1890.
Hollywood screenwriter
in 1917-29 for about 12 films,
including The Light in the Dark and The Shock, both
starring Lon Chaney; founder (1933) and leader of the anti-Semitic
Silver Legion of America organization (the "Silver Shirts",
explicitly modeled after Adolf
Hitler's Brownshirts); Christian candidate for President
of the United States, 1936; arrested
in April 1942 and charged
with criminal
sedition; convicted
and sentenced
to fifteen years in prison;
released in 1950.
Died in Noblesville, Hamilton
County, Ind., July 1,
1965 (age 75 years, 111
days).
Interment at Crownland
Cemetery, Noblesville, Ind.
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Leonard Peltier (b. 1944) —
Born in Grand Forks, Grand Forks
County, N.Dak., September
12, 1944.
American Indian activist and member of the American Indian Movement;
alleged to have been involved in a shoot-out at the Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation in South Dakota, June 26, 1975, in which three died,
including two FBI agents; fled
South Dakota, was arrested
in Canada, and extradited
to the U.S.; tried
and convicted
of murder
in 1977, and sentenced
to two life terms in prison;
Peace and Freedom candidate for President
of the United States, 2004; Socialism and Liberation candidate
for Vice
President of the United States, 2020.
American
Indian ancestry.
Still living as of 2020.
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John J. Peluso (b. 1923) —
also known as "Johnny TV" —
of Newport, Campbell
County, Ky.
Born June 1,
1923.
Mayor
of Newport, Ky., 1964-68, 1976-80; defeated, 1971, 1983.
Indicted
in 1973 on charges
of possession
of stolen bonds; later dismissed. Convicted
in 1983 of promoting
gambling. Indicted
in 1984 on federal charges
of bribery
and conspiracy; pleaded
guilty to perjury
in 1985; sentenced
to ten years in prison;
released in 1989.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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John Bradford Pengelly (1880-1973) —
also known as J. Bradford Pengelly —
of Flint, Genesee
County, Mich.; Leamington, Ontario.
Born in Brantford, Ontario,
May
12, 1880.
Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; Episcopal
priest; candidate for Michigan
state senate 13th District, 1922; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 6th District, 1926; Flint city
commissioner; in June, 1932, he was charged
with accepting
bribes from real estate developers; he denied the allegations and
pleaded not guilty; venue was changed from Flint to Grand Rapids; tried in
October 1932, but the jury was unable to reach a verdict; retried
in January 1934 and found not guilty; meanwhile, in November 1932, he
was recalled
from office as City Commissioner.
Episcopalian.
Died in Coquitlam, British
Columbia, October
16, 1973 (age 93 years, 157
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Elizabeth Ann (Bradford) Pengelly and John Henry Pengelly;
married, September
17, 1913, to Edith Maude Campbell; married to Agnes (Richardson)
Mathews. |
| | | Image source: Port Huron Times Herald,
Octover 25, 1932 |
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Eddie Alberto Perez (born c.1957) —
also known as Eddie A. Perez —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Corozal, Corozal
Municipio, Puerto Rico, about 1957.
Democrat. Mayor
of Hartford, Conn., 2001-08; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Connecticut, 2004;
investigated
in 2007 over possible conflict
of interest in hiring a city contractor for renovations at his
home.
Catholic.
Hispanic
ancestry.
Still living as of 2008.
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Carl Christopher Perkins (b. 1954) —
also known as Carl C. Perkins; Chris
Perkins —
of Leburn, Knott
County, Ky.
Born in Washington,
D.C., August
6, 1954.
Democrat. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1981-84; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 7th District, 1985-93; pleaded
guilty in 1994 to bank
fraud in connection with the House banking scandal;
he wrote overdrafts totaling about $300,000 (covered by the House
bank) and made false statements to obtain
loans from commercial banks; also pleaded
guilty to charges of filing false statements with the Federal
Election Commission and false financial
disclosure reports; sentenced
to 21 months in prison;
in March 2000, pleaded
guilty to criminal
contempt of court for lying to a federal probation officer about
his income; minister.
Baptist;
later Presbyterian.
Still living as of 2014.
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J. William Petro (c.1940-2002) —
of Ohio.
Born about 1940.
U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, 1982-84.
Fired
as U.S. attorney amid charges
that he leaked
confidential information; found
guilty of criminal
contempt of court in 1985.
Died, of a cerebral
hemorrhage, May 23,
2002 (age about 62
years).
Burial location unknown.
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John Jones Pettus (1813-1867) —
also known as John J. Pettus —
of Mississippi.
Born in Wilson
County, Tenn., October
9, 1813.
Governor
of Mississippi, 1854, 1859-63.
Slaveowner.
After the Civil War, as a Confederate
leader, amnesty was
refused to him, and he became a fugitive;
the manhunt continued until his death, from pneumonia,
in Pulaski County (part now in Lonoke
County), Ark., January
25, 1867 (age 53 years, 108
days).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment at Flat
Bayou Burial Ground, Near Wabbaseka, Jefferson County, Ark.
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Frederick Waldron Phelps (1929-2014) —
also known as Fred Phelps —
of Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan.
Born in Meridian, Lauderdale
County, Miss., November
13, 1929.
Democrat. Lawyer; disbarred
by the state of Kansas in 1979 over harassment
of a court reporter and perjury
during the proceedings; in 1985, nine Federal judges filed a
disciplinary complaint against him over alleged false
accusations, which led to an agreement that he cease law
practice in Federal court; pastor of
the Westboro Baptist Church, which is widely
reviled for its extreme hatred
of homosexuals, and its tactics, such as picketing at military
funerals; candidate for Governor of
Kansas, 1990, 1994, 1998; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1992; candidate for mayor of
Topeka, Kan., 1993, 1997.
Baptist.
Died in Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan., March
19, 2014 (age 84 years, 126
days).
Cremated.
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Leon Chase Phillips (1890-1958) —
also known as Leon C. Phillips; Red
Phillips —
of Okemah, Okfuskee
County, Okla.
Born in Worth
County, Mo., December
9, 1890.
Democrat. Member of Oklahoma
state house of representatives; elected 1932, 1934, 1936; Speaker of
the Oklahoma State House of Representatives, 1935; Governor of
Oklahoma, 1939-43; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Oklahoma, 1940.
Charged
with accepting
a bribe while governor; tried
twice and ultimately acquitted.
Died, of a heart
attack, while waiting for a client at the post
office in Okmulgee, Okmulgee
County, Okla., March
27, 1958 (age 67 years, 108
days).
Interment at Hillcrest
Cemetery, Weleetka, Okla.
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Timothy Pickering (1745-1829) —
of Salem, Essex
County, Mass.; Luzerne
County, Pa.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., July 17,
1745.
Farmer;
Essex
County Register of Deeds, 1774-77; common pleas court judge in
Massachusetts, 1775, 1802-03; member of Massachusetts state
legislature, 1776; colonel in the Continental Army during the
Revolutionary War; delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1789; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1791-95; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1795; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1795-1800; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1803-11; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1813-17 (at-large 1813-15, 2nd
District 1815-17); member of Massachusetts
Governor's Council, 1817-18.
Puritan;
later Unitarian.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Censured
by the Senate in 1811 for violating an injunction
of secrecy.
Died in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., January
29, 1829 (age 83 years, 196
days).
Interment at Broad
Street Cemetery, Salem, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Timothy Pickering (1703-1778) and Mary (Wingate) Pickering;
married, April 8,
1776, to Rebecca White; granduncle of Dudley
Leavitt Pickman; second great-granduncle of John
Gardner Coolidge and Augustus
Peabody Gardner; third great-granduncle of John
Lee Saltonstall; fourth great-granduncle of Leverett
Saltonstall, Richard
Saltonstall, William
Gurdon Saltonstall, John
Lee Saltonstall Jr. and William
Amory Gardner Minot; fifth great-granduncle of William
Lawrence Saltonstall and John
Forbes Kerry; ancestor *** of Susan
Walker FitzGerald; first cousin once removed of John
Wingate Weeks (1781-1853); first cousin thrice removed of John
Wingate Weeks (1860-1926); first cousin four times removed of Charles
Sinclair Weeks; second cousin twice removed of John
Albion Andrew; second cousin thrice removed of Isaac
Libbey, John
Forrester Andrew and Henry
Hersey Andrew; second cousin four times removed of Llewellyn
Libby and William
F. Nason; second cousin five times removed of Augustine
B. Libby, Albanah
Harvey Libby and Frederick
Edwin Hanscom; third cousin once removed of Luther
Walter Badger; third cousin twice removed of Amos
Tuck; third cousin thrice removed of Hiram
Augustus Huse (1840-1907) and Hiram
Augustus Huse (1843-1902). |
| | | Political families: Rodney
family of Delaware; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon
family of Massachusetts; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham
family; Saltonstall-Weeks
family of Massachusetts; Lawrence-Andrew-Rodney-Parrish
family of Adel, Georgia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Timothy Pickering: David
McLean, Timothy
Pickering and the Age of the American Revolution —
Gerald H. Clarfield, Timothy
Pickering and the American Republic |
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Samuel Riley Pierce Jr. (1922-2000) —
also known as Samuel R. Pierce, Jr.; "Silent
Sam" —
Born in Glen Cove, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., September
8, 1922.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1981-89.
African
ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Alpha
Phi Alpha.
First
Black partner of a major New York City law firm. First
Black member of the board of directors of a Fortune 500 corporation.
Only Black member of the Reagan Cabinet. An independent counsel
appointed in March 1990 found "a
pervasive pattern of improper and illegal behavior" within HUD,
amounting to a "monumental and calculated abuse of the public trust."
Pierce acknowledged
that he helped
create a climate in which the corruption took place, and in
return for that statement, prosecutors agreed not to pursue charges
against him.
Died October
31, 2000 (age 78 years, 53
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph R. Pisani —
of New Rochelle, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Member of New York
state assembly, 1966-72 (100th District 1966, 91st District
1967-72); member of New York
state senate 36th District, 1973-84.
Indicted
on federal charges
of tax
evasion and embezzling
campaign
funds; convicted
in 1984 on 18 of the 39 counts; the conviction was later reversed on
appeal.
Still living as of 1984.
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Thomas Collier Platt (1833-1910) —
also known as Thomas C. Platt; Tom Platt; "The
Easy Boss"; "The Machiavelli of Tioga
County" —
of Owego, Tioga
County, N.Y.
Born in Owego, Tioga
County, N.Y., July 15,
1833.
Republican. Druggist; lumber
business; Tioga
County Clerk, 1859-61; banker;
director and president, Southern Central Railroad;
U.S.
Representative from New York, 1873-77 (27th District 1873-75,
28th District 1875-77); delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1876,
1880,
1884,
1888,
1892,
1896
(speaker),
1900,
1904,
1908;
U.S.
Senator from New York, 1881, 1897-1909; resigned 1881.
Presbyterian.
In 1903, when he was about to marry his second wife, government clerk
Mae C. Wood, armed with a collection of love letters from Platt, threatened a
lawsuit for breach
of promise to marry; she was induced to drop the lawsuit,
reportedly for $5,000. In 1905, she sued a number of Republican
officials who, she claimed, had taken Platt's letters from her to
stop her from publishing them. She later went on to charge the
Senator with bigamy,
claiming that he had secretly
married her in 1901. This case was thrown out in 1908, and Miss
Wood was arrested and charged with perjury.
Died, from Bright's
disease, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 6,
1910 (age 76 years, 234
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Owego, N.Y.
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Bertram L. Podell (1925-2005) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, 1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1955-67 (Kings County 21st District 1955-65, 53rd
District 1966, 44th District 1967); U.S.
Representative from New York 13th District, 1968-75; charged
in 1974 with conspiracy, the solicitation
and acceptance
of bribes, criminal conflict
of interest, and perjury;
on the tenth day of his trial,
he pleaded
guilty to conspiracy and conflict
of interest; sentenced
to six months in prison;
the prosecutor was Rudolph
W. Giuliani.
Jewish.
Died, of kidney
failure, at Lenox Hill Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August
17, 2005 (age about 80
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Marshall Tate Polk (1831-1884) —
also known as M. T. Polk —
of Bolivar, Hardeman
County, Tenn.
Born in Charlotte, Mecklenburg
County, N.C., May 15,
1831.
Democrat. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1876;
Tennessee
state treasurer, 1877-83.
Wounded at the Battle of Shiloh, during the Civil War, and lost a
leg. In 1883, a $400,000 shortfall was was discovered
in the state treasury. Polk fled
to Texas, was arrested
there, and brought back to Nashville for trial.
Charged
with embezzlement,
he pleaded not guilty -- his lawyer argued he was only guilty of
"default of pay" -- but was convicted,
sentenced
to twenty years in prison,
and fined.
Imprisonment was delayed pending his appeal, and he died in the
meantime.
Died in Bolivar, Hardeman
County, Tenn., February
20, 1884 (age 52 years, 281
days).
Interment at Polk
Cemetery, Bolivar, Tenn.
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Trusten Polk (1811-1876) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born near Bridgeville, Sussex
County, Del., May 29,
1811.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate
to Missouri state constitutional convention 28th District,
1845-46; candidate for Presidential Elector for Missouri; Governor of
Missouri, 1857; U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1857-62; expelled 1862; colonel in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Expelled
from the U.S. Senate on January 10, 1862 over his support
for secession.
Slaveowner.
Died in St.
Louis, Mo., April
16, 1876 (age 64 years, 323
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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John Clinton Porter (1871-1959) —
also known as John C. Porter —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Leon, Decatur
County, Iowa, 1871.
Democrat. Telegraph
operator; automobile
accessories business; mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1929-33; defeated, 1933, 1941.
Christian.
Petitions for his recall
as mayor were filed in 1932; petitioners, led by his political
adversaries on city council, charged that "the Mayor is incompetent,
inefficient
and unsatisfactory"
and that he "has brought ridicule and insult to Los Angeles and its
citizenry by his conduct." The recall, and nine candidates who sought
to replace him, was defeated.
Died, of a lung and heart
condition, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 27,
1959 (age about 87
years).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park - Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, Calif.
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William Nathaniel Porter (1812-1867) —
also known as Nathaniel Porter —
of Tennessee.
Born in Henry
County, Tenn., December
15, 1812.
Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1866.
With others, tried to stop
the ratification of the 14th Amendment in 1866 by staying away
and preventing a quorum; this tactic was not successful. Expelled
from the Tennessee House a few days later.
Died in Henry
County, Tenn., June 11,
1867 (age 54 years, 178
days).
Interment at Poplar
Grove Cemetery, Henry County, Tenn.
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Robert Potter (c.1800-1842) —
of Oxford, Granville
County, N.C.
Born near Williamsboro, Vance
County, N.C., about 1800.
Member of North
Carolina house of commons from Granville County, 1828, 1834; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 6th District, 1829-31; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Nacogdoches, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; Texas
Republic Secretary of the Navy, 1836; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Red River and Fannin, 1840-42;
died in office 1842.
Resigned
from the U.S. Congress in 1831 after maiming
two men in a jealous rage; convicted,
and sentenced
to six months in prison.
Expelled
in 1834 from the North Carolina House for cheating
at cards.
Shot
and killed by
members of an opposing faction who surrounded his home, in Harrison
County (part now in Marion
County), Tex., March 2,
1842 (age about 42
years).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Marion County, Tex.; reinterment in
1928 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908-1972) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., November
29, 1908.
Democrat. Baptist
minister; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1945-71 (22nd District 1945-53,
16th District 1953-63, 18th District 1963-71); delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1952,
1960,
1964;
cited
for contempt
of court in 1966 for refusing to pay damages in a lawsuit against
him; on February 28, 1967, he was expelled
from the House of Representatives on charges
of unbecoming
conduct and misusing
public funds; the Supreme Court overturned the expulsion in 1969.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Phi Alpha; Elks.
Died, of prostate
cancer, in Jackson Memorial Hospital,
Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla., April 4,
1972 (age 63 years, 127
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in a
private or family graveyard, Bahamas.
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Relatives: Son
of Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. and Mattie (Fletcher) Powell; married, March 8,
1933, to Isabel Washington; married, August
1, 1945, to Hazel Scott; married, December
15, 1960, to Yvette Marjorie Diago (Flores) Powell; father of Adam
Clayton Powell IV. |
| | | Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard
(formerly part of Seventh Avenue), in Manhattan,
New York, is named for
him. — The Adam Clayton Powell State
Office Building (opened 1974 as the Harlem State Office Building;
renamed 1983), in Manhattan,
New York, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books by Powell,Adam Clayton,Jr.: Adam
by Adam: The Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell,
Jr. |
| | | Books about Powell,Adam Clayton,Jr.:
Tisha Hamilton, Adam
Clayton Powell, Jr.: The Political Biography of an American
Dilemma — Wil Haygood, King
of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell,
Jr. |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Paul Taylor Powell (1902-1970) —
also known as Paul Powell —
of Vienna, Johnson
County, Ill.
Born in Vienna, Johnson
County, Ill., January
21, 1902.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois,
1944,
1948,
1952,
1956,
1960,
1964;
chair
of Johnson County Democratic Party, 1950; Speaker of
the Illinois State House of Representatives, 1959-63; secretary
of state of Illinois, 1965-70; died in office 1970; in 1966, his
office was investigated
for corruption; he was exonerated, but his chief investigator was
indicted for theft of state funds.
Died in Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn., October
10, 1970 (age 68 years, 262
days). About $800,000 cash was found in shoeboxes in his room at
the St. Nicholas Hotel, Springfield, Ill.
Interment at Fraternal
Cemetery, Vienna, Ill.
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Caleb Powers (1869-1932) —
of Barbourville, Knox
County, Ky.
Born in Whitley
County, Ky., February
1, 1869.
Republican. Lawyer; secretary
of state of Kentucky, 1900; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 11th District, 1911-19; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Kentucky, 1916.
Prosecuted
and thrice convicted
for the murder
of Gov. William
J. Goebel and spent eight years in prison;
pardoned
in 1908 by Gov. Augustus
E. Willson.
Died July 25,
1932 (age 63 years, 175
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Barbourville, Ky.
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George Edward Powers (b. 1892) —
also known as George E. Powers —
of Watertown, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Astoria, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
15, 1892.
Sheet metal
worker; candidate for borough
president of Queens, New York, 1929 (Workers), 1933 (Communist);
Workers candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1930; in April 1932, he was arrested
at City Hall Park, during a demonstration
which was characaterized as "riot"; convicted
of unlawful assembly, but the sentence was suspended; also in 1932,
he was publicly accused
of taking part in an alleged Communist
conspiracy to cause bank failures in Chicago by spreading
rumors (in a "whispering campaign" of "anti-bank propaganda"); he
denied this; Communist candidate for chief
judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1932; vice-president,
International Workers Order; Communist candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1934; Communist candidate
for New York
state assembly from New York County 10th District, 1936;
following the Hitler-Stalin pact in 1939, he resigned from the
Communist Party, took part in anti-Communist organizations; at Earl
Browder's trial for passport fraud in 1940, he testified for the
prosecution; Liberal candidate for New York
state senate 7th District, 1948, 1950.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George E. Powers and Sarah Powers. |
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Nathan Pressman (1912-1993) —
of Ellenville, Ulster
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 24,
1912.
Socialist. Longtime Socialist Labor Party activist; jailed
briefly during World War II for draft
resistance, but subsequently accepted induction into the U.S.
Army; several time candidate for mayor of Ellenville, N.Y.; candidate
for Presidential Elector for New York; expelled from Socialist Labor
Party, 1984.
Died, in Ellenville Community Hospital,
Ellenville, Ulster
County, N.Y., September
25, 1993 (age 81 years, 93
days).
Interment at Workmen's
Circle Cemetery, Wawarsing town, Ulster County, N.Y.
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Edward Fretwell Prichard Jr. (1915-1984) —
also known as E. F. Prichard, Jr.;
"Prich" —
of Paris, Bourbon
County, Ky.; Versailles, Woodford
County, Ky.
Born in Paris, Bourbon
County, Ky., January
21, 1915.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky,
1948,
1960,
1964;
in 1949, he was convicted
of vote
fraud in federal court, over ballot-box
stuffing in Bourbon County, Kentucky; served five months in prison.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died in Kentucky, December
23, 1984 (age 69 years, 337
days).
Interment at Paris
Cemetery, Paris, Ky.
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Carlton Prouty (1864-1931) —
of Winnetka, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Washington,
D.C., November
20, 1864.
Republican. Lawyer; insurance
business; real estate
dealer; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Illinois, 1908.
In May, 1913, he was fined
$500, and sentenced
to three months in the county
jail, for having violated the Illinois law which prohibits the remarriage
of divorced persons within one year; he had married his former
stenographer four days after being divorced from his first wife.
Died in Evanston, Cook
County, Ill., December
10, 1931 (age 67 years, 20
days).
Interment at Rosehill
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Emmett S. Pugh III —
of Beckley, Raleigh
County, W.Va.
Mayor
of Beckley, W.Va., 1988-2013.
In April 2012, he was accused,
in two complaints
filed with the West Virginia Ethics Commission, of accepting improper
gifts, including shares of development firms, in return for free
use of city resources; without admitting guilt, he agreed to
retire as mayor, and repay
the cost of the investigation.
Still living as of 2014.
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Image source:
The State Journal, April 4, 2012 |
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