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Henry Osborne (1751-1800) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Camden
County, Ga.
Born in Newtown Limavady (now Limavady), County Londonderry, Ireland
(now Northern
Ireland), August
21, 1751.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1786; justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1787-89; superior court judge in
Georgia, 1789-91.
Removed
from offices he held in Pennsylvania in June 1783 following the
supreme executive council's determination that he was a
bigamist; convicted
by the Georgia senate in December 1791 of election
fraud.
Died in St. Simons Island, Glynn
County, Ga., November
9, 1800 (age 49 years, 80
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Henry Eaton (1790-1856) —
also known as John H. Eaton —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born near Scotland Neck, Halifax
County, N.C., June 18,
1790.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1815-16; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1818-21, 1821-29; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1829-31; Governor
of Florida Territory, 1834-36; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1836-40.
Member, Freemasons.
Resigned
from Cabinet in 1831 during the scandal
(called the "Petticoat Affair") over past infedelities of his
second wife, Peggy Eaton.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
17, 1856 (age 66 years, 152
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Isaac Smith Kalloch (1832-1887) —
also known as Isaac S. Kalloch —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Rockland, Knox
County, Maine, July 10,
1832.
Pastor;
mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1879-81.
Baptist.
Indicted
for adultery, in East Cambridge, Mass., 1857; tried,
but the jury was unable to agree on a verdict. Shot and
wounded, on August 23, 1879, by newspaper editor Charles DeYoung.
A few months later, before DeYoung was to be tried for the shooting,
Kalloch's son, I. M. Kalloch, shot and killed DeYoung in his office.
Died, of diabetes,
in Whatcom (now part of Bellingham), Whatcom
County, Wash., December
9, 1887 (age 55 years, 152
days).
Interment at Bayview
Cemetery, Bellingham, Wash.
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Philip Barton Key (1818-1859) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Georgetown, Washington,
D.C., April 5,
1818.
U.S.
Attorney for the District of Columbia, 1853-59; died in office
1859.
Shot
and killed by
Daniel
E. Sickles, in retaliation
for Key's affair with his wife Teresa, at Lafayette Park, Washington,
D.C., February
27, 1859 (age 40 years, 328
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; cenotaph at Westminster
Burying Ground, Baltimore, Md.
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Charles W. Bryant (born c.1830) —
of Harris
County, Tex.
Born about 1830.
Delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1868-69.
African
ancestry.
Expelled
from the Texas Constitutional Convention after being accused of
raping an 11-year-old girl; jailed
briefly, but then the charges were dropped.
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn., June 24,
1813.
Republican. Minister;
orator;
abolitionist; candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 2nd District, 1867;
in 1872, he was accused
of an adulterous affair with Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton, the wife
of a friend of his; Beecher's church conducted an investigation
and declared him innocent; in 1874, Elizabeth Tilton's husband
Theodore sued Beecher; a highly-publicized months-long trial
took place in 1875; the jury was unable to reach a verdit.
Presbyterian;
later Congregationalist.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March 8,
1887 (age 73 years, 257
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.; memorial monument at Cadman Plaza Park, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Lyman Beecher and Roxana Ward (Foote) Beecher; brother of Harriet
Beecher Stowe; married, August
3, 1837, to Eunice White Bullard; uncle of George
Buckingham Beecher; second cousin twice removed of Jonathan
Elmer, Ebenezer
Elmer and Eli
Elmer; second cousin thrice removed of Erastus
Wolcott and Oliver
Wolcott Sr.; third cousin of Leveret
Brainard; third cousin once removed of Amaziah
Brainard and Lucius
Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer; third cousin twice removed of Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Roger
Griswold, John
Allen, Frederick
Wolcott, Walter
Keene Linscott, Sidney
Smythe Linscott and Frances
Payne Bolton; third cousin thrice removed of Aaron
Kellogg, Daniel
Chapin and Oliver
Payne Bolton; fourth cousin of Ambrose
Tuttle, Joseph
H. Elmer and George
Frederick Stone; fourth cousin once removed of Gaylord
Griswold, Luther
Walter Badger, Daniel
Kellogg, Gideon
Hotchkiss, Asahel
Augustus Hotchkiss, John
William Allen, Julius
Hotchkiss, Giles
Waldo Hotchkiss, Charles
Francis Chidsey, Ernest
Harvey Woodford and Samuel
Russell Chidsey. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Eastman
family; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Henry
W. Beecher |
| | | The World War II Liberty
ship SS Henry Ward Beecher (built 1942 at Terminal
Island, California; scrapped 1969) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Corliss P. Stone (1838-1906) —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Franklin
County, Vt., March
20, 1838.
Mayor
of Seattle, Wash., 1872-73.
Caused a scandal
in 1873, when he suddenly vacated
his mayoralty; he fled
to San Francisco with a married woman and $15,000 he had embezzled
from his firm. Later returned to Seattle.
Died in Seattle, King
County, Wash., September
14, 1906 (age 68 years, 178
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Seattle, Wash.
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Almar F. Dickson (1846-1915) —
of Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes
County, Mass.; East Haddam, Middlesex
County, Conn.
Born in East Haddam, Middlesex
County, Conn., January
20, 1846.
Democrat. On August 1, 1874, in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, in
response to the suspected seduction of his wife and her two
sisters, he and his brother-in-law Caleb Smith were among a group of
five men who, at midnight during a storm, attempted to kidnap at
gunpoint Samuel K. Elliot, one of the supposed perpetrators, so
they could tar and
feather him; Elliot successfully defended himself from the group,
and during the affray, Caleb Smith was shot dead; Elliot was ruled to
have acted in self-defense, and denied any improper relations with
the women; the scandal
was widely publicized in the press; Dickson and his wife were
divorced soon after; U.S. Consul in Gaspé Basin, 1887-1908; candidate for Connecticut
state house of representatives from East Haddam, 1910, 1912.
Died in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., April
17, 1915 (age 69 years, 87
days).
Interment at Moodus Cemetery, Moodus, East Haddam, Conn.
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George Quayle Cannon (1827-1901) —
also known as George Q. Cannon —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Liverpool, England,
January
11, 1827.
Democrat. Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member
Utah territorial council, 1865-66, 1869-72; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Utah Territory, 1873-81; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Utah Territory, 1880
(not seated).
Mormon.
Had five wives and 32 children; spent six months in federal penitentiary
for cohabitation.
Died in Monterey, Monterey
County, Calif., April
12, 1901 (age 74 years, 91
days).
Interment at Salt
Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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David King Udall (1851-1938) —
of St. Johns, Apache
County, Ariz.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., September
7, 1851.
Member of Arizona
territorial legislature, 1899.
Mormon.
Indicted
in 1884 on charges of polygamy and unlawful
cohabitation; not convicted because his second wife Ida could
not be found to testify against him. Convicted
in 1885 of perjury
in connection with a land claim, and sentenced
to three years in prison.
On December 12, 1885, he received a "full and unconditional pardon"
from President Grover
Cleveland, and was released from prison.
Died, as a result of an accidental
fall and myocardial
insufficiency, in St. Johns, Apache
County, Ariz., February
18, 1938 (age 86 years, 164
days).
Interment at St.
Johns Cemetery, St. Johns, Ariz.
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Relatives: Son
of Eliza (King) Udall and David Udall; brother of Mary Ann Udall (who
married William
Thomas Stewart (1853-1935)); married, February
1, 1875, to Eliza Luella Stewart (sister of William
Thomas Stewart (1853-1935)); married, May 25,
1882, to Ida Frances Hunt (granddaughter of Jefferson
Hunt); married, April 9,
1903, to Mary Ann (Linton) Morgan (widow of John
Hamilton Morgan); father of John
Hunt Udall, Levi
Stewart Udall, Jesse
Addison Udall and Don
Taylor Udall; grandfather of John
Nicholas Udall, Stewart
Lee Udall, Morris
King Udall and Lee
Kenyon Udall; great-grandfather of Milan
Dale Smith Jr., Thomas
Stewart Udall, Mark
E. Udall and Gordon
Harold Smith. |
| | | Political family: Udall
family of Arizona. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Robert Ray Hamilton (1851-1890) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
18, 1851.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 11th District, 1881, 1886-89;
in July 1889, while staying in Atlantic City, he was caught in a
national scandal,
after his wife, Eva, stabbed a nurse; she was arrested and tried; it
came out that Eva was still married to another man, that she
had bought a baby for $10 and told Hamilton he was the father, to
induce him to marry her; when this was publicized,
Hamilton sued for divorce; as the case dragged on, he moved to
Wyoming to help a friend establish a hotel.
While on a hunting
trip, he drowned
while attempting to ford the Snake River, in Uinta County (part now
in Teton
County), Wyo., August
23, 1890 (age 39 years, 158
days).
Original interment somewhere in Teton County, Wyo.; reinterment in 1892 at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Schuyler Hamilton and Cornelia (Ray) Hamilton; grandnephew of James
Alexander Hamilton; great-grandson of Alexander
Hamilton; great-grandnephew of Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler; second great-grandson of Philip
John Schuyler; second great-grandnephew of Stephen
John Schuyler, Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer and Robert
Van Rensselaer; third great-grandson of Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746); fourth great-grandson of Stephanus
Van Cortlandt, Robert
Livingston the Younger and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); fourth great-grandnephew of Jacobus
Van Cortlandt; fifth great-grandson of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724); fifth great-grandnephew of Robert
Livingston the Elder; first cousin twice removed of Philip
Schuyler; first cousin thrice removed of Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792) and Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer; first cousin four times removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Volkert
Petrus Douw, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Hendrick
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, James
Livingston and Killian
Killian Van Rensselaer; first cousin five times removed of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775), Gilbert
Livingston and Philip
P. Schuyler; first cousin six times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin twice removed of Henry
Walter Livingston; second cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Bayard, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Leonard
Gansevoort, Leonard
Gansevoort Jr., Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr., Edward
Livingston (1764-1836), Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Maturin
Livingston and James
Parker; second cousin four times removed of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Philip
Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), William
Livingston, James
Jay, John
Jay, Frederick
Jay and Peter
Samuel Schuyler; second cousin five times removed of Matthew
Clarkson; third cousin once removed of Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer and John
Eliot Thayer Jr.; third cousin twice removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Peter
Gansevoort, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Gerrit
Smith, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and John
Cortlandt Parker; third cousin thrice removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Henry
Brockholst Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay and William
Jay; fourth cousin once removed of Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, James
Adams Ekin, John
Jacob Astor III, Richard
Wayne Parker, Charles
Wolcott Parker, Charles
Ludlow Livingston and Bronson
Murray Cutting. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; VanRensselaer
family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Frank R. Aikens (b. 1855) —
of Canton, Lincoln
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.); Sioux Falls, Minnehaha
County, S.Dak.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
14, 1855.
Lawyer;
member of Dakota
territorial legislature, 1887-89; justice of
Dakota territorial supreme court, 1889; district judge in South
Dakota, 1889-94.
In 1891, when affluent Easterners came to South Dakota to live in a
hotel for 90 days, so as to be eligible for the state's easy divorce
law, he ruled that hotel guests were not bona fide South Dakota
residents, disrupting the divorce plans of a number of celebrities.
Later that year, a committee of Sioux Falls ministers accused
the judge of drunkenness
and licentiousness.
Burial location unknown.
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William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (1837-1904) —
also known as William C. P. Breckinridge —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., August
28, 1837.
Democrat. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1876,
1880;
U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 7th District, 1885-95; defeated
(Gold Democratic), 1896.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
In 1894, he was successfully sued for breach of promise by a
former mistress; he acknowledged the affair, affair, but the
scandal
ended his political career.
Slaveowner.
Died, of apoplexy,
in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., November
18, 1904 (age 67 years, 82
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge and Ann Sophonisba (Preston) Breckinridge;
brother of Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge Jr.; married, March
17, 1859, to Lucretia Hart Clay (daughter of Thomas
Hart Clay); married, September
19, 1861, to Issa Desha (granddaughter of Joseph
Desha); married to Louisa Rucks (Scott) Wing; father of Desha
Breckinridge; nephew of Joseph
Cabell Breckinridge, William
Campbell Preston and John
Smith Preston; uncle of Levin
Irving Handy and Henry
Skillman Breckinridge; grandson of John
Breckinridge and Francis
Smith Preston; grandnephew of James
Patton Preston; granduncle of John
Bayne Breckinridge; great-grandson of William
Preston and William
Campbell; great-grandnephew of William
Cabell and Patrick
Henry; first cousin of John
Cabell Breckinridge and Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864); first cousin once removed of James
Douglas Breckinridge, Benjamin
William Sheridan Cabell, James
McDowell, John
Buchanan Floyd, George
Rogers Clark Floyd, Clifton
Rodes Breckinridge and Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925); first cousin twice removed of William
Cabell Jr. and William
Henry Cabell; second cousin of Carter
Henry Harrison, William
Lewis Cabell and George
Craighead Cabell; second cousin once removed of Valentine
Wood Southall, Frederick
Mortimer Cabell, Samuel
Meredith Garland (1802-1880), Edward
Carrington Cabell, Benjamin
Earl Cabell and Carter
Henry Harrison II; second cousin twice removed of Earle
Cabell; third cousin of John
William Leftwich and Stephen
Valentine Southall; third cousin once removed of Samuel
Meredith Garland (1861-1945). |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd
family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Walker-Randolph
family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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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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Brigham Henry Roberts (1857-1933) —
also known as Brigham H. Roberts —
of Utah.
Born in Warrington, Lancashire, England,
March
13, 1857.
Democrat. Delegate
to Utah state constitutional convention, 1894; U.S.
Representative from Utah at-large, 1899-1900.
Mormon.
His seat in Congress was declared
vacant in January 1900, because he was a polygamist.
Died in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, September
27, 1933 (age 76 years, 198
days).
Interment at Centerville
Ward Cemetery, Centerville, Utah.
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Benjamin Franklin Tilley (1848-1907) —
also known as B. F. Tilley —
Born in Bristol, Bristol
County, R.I., March
29, 1848.
U.S. Navy commander; Governor of
American Samoa; court
martialed in 1901 on charges
of immorality and drunkenness;
tried
and found not guilty.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March
18, 1907 (age 58 years, 354
days).
Interment at Naval
Academy Cemetery, Annapolis, Md.
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John J. Girimondi —
of Hazleton, Luzerne
County, Pa.; Shakopee, Scott
County, Minn.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Catholic
priest; naturalized U.S. citizen; concealed his clerical
background from Congressmen who recommended him for a consular
appointment; U.S. Consul in Santos, 1900-01; removed
as consul for neglect
of duty and possible embezzlement;
went to Italy and misrepresented
himself as U.S. Consul to Persia; arrested
by Italian authorities on charges
of betraying a young woman, and imprisoned
there.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Arthur Brown (1843-1906) —
of Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo
County, Mich.; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo
County, Mich., March 8,
1843.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Senator from Utah, 1896-97; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Utah, 1896
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization; speaker);
his relationship with Mrs. Anna Bradley gave rise to scandal;
in 1902, the two were arrested
and charged
with adultery; she pleaded guilty, but he pleaded not guilty,
was tried, and acquitted by a jury; he fathered two children with
her, but refused to marry her.
Shot
and killed,
in his room at the Raleigh Hotel, by
his former mistress Anna Bradley, in Washington,
D.C., December
12, 1906 (age 63 years, 279
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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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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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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Charles Edward Sebastian (1873-1929) —
also known as Charles E. Sebastian —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Farmington, St.
Francois County, Mo., March
30, 1873.
Democrat. Police
officer; Los Angeles Chief of Police, 1911-15; in 1915, he was
accused of molesting several teenage girls in a rooming house
next to the police station; indicted
by the county grand jury for contributing to the delinquency of a
minor; also indicted
for criminal contempt
of court for attempting to influence grand jurors; won election
for mayor while these cases were pending; tried
and acquitted on the molestation charge, but found
guilty of contempt for interference with the grand jury; mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1915-16; resigned 1916; defeated, 1917.
Died April
17, 1929 (age 56 years, 18
days).
Interment at Glen
Haven Memorial Park, Sylmar, Calif.
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Jake Louis Hamon (1873-1920) —
also known as Jake L. Hamon —
of Ardmore, Carter
County, Okla.
Born in Grenola, Elk
County, Kan., June 5,
1873.
Republican. Lawyer; oil
business; member of Republican
National Committee from North Dakota, 1920.
Shot
and killed by
Clara Smith Hamon, his secretary, mistress, and the wife of
his nephew, in Ardmore, Carter
County, Okla., November
26, 1920 (age 47 years, 174
days). The scandal
received national publicity. She was tried and found not guilty of
murder, on grounds of self-defense.
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Ardmore, Okla.
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Relatives: Son
of Nancy (Tuggle) Hamon and Franklin Hamon; married 1898 to
Georgia Worth Perkins. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: The Daily Ardmoreite
(Ardmore, Okla.), November 29, 1920 |
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Lena Marietta Thankful Clarke (1886-1967) —
also known as Lena M. T. Clarke —
of West Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla.
Born in Sheldon, Franklin
County, Vt., March 1,
1886.
Democrat. Postmaster at West
Palm Beach, Fla., 1915-16, 1920-21 (acting, 1915-16, 1920); under
suspicion
for a shortage
of $32,000 at the post office, she fled
to Orlando, where she found Fred Miltimore, her married
ex-lover, and apparently tried to get him to sign a statement
confessing to the theft; when he refused, she shot
and killed him; she was indicted
and tried
for murder,
and found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Female.
Died in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., August
5, 1967 (age 81 years, 157
days).
Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery, West Palm Beach, Fla.
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Harold Knutson (1880-1953) —
of St. Cloud, Stearns
County, Minn.
Born in Skein, Norway,
October
20, 1880.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota, 1917-49 (6th District 1917-33,
at-large 1933-35, 6th District 1935-49); delegate to Republican
National Convention from Minnesota, 1940
(Honorary
Vice-President).
Lutheran.
Norwegian
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Elks.
On March 9, 1924, he and Leroy M. Hull, a 29-year-old clerk for the
Labor Department, sitting in his parked car alongside a rural road
near Arlington National Cemetery, were arrested
by officers of the Arlington County vice squad; he vainly offered a
$100 bribe,
but was charged,
apparently with sodomy (press reports avoided mentioning the
specific crime, only that it was a "grave moral offense"), and jailed
overnight; tried
before a jury, and found not guilty.
Died, following a series of heart
attacks, in Wesley Memorial Hospital,
Wadena, Wadena
County, Minn., August
21, 1953 (age 72 years, 305
days).
Interment at North
Star Cemetery, St. Cloud, Minn.
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Lee Maurice Russell (1875-1943) —
also known as Lee M. Russell —
of Oxford, Lafayette
County, Miss.
Born in Dallas, Lafayette
County, Miss., November
16, 1875.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Mississippi, 1912;
Governor
of Mississippi, 1920-24.
Charged
by a former stenographer with breach of promise and seduction;
tried
in federal court, where a jury found in his favor.
Died May 16,
1943 (age 67 years, 181
days).
Interment at Lakewood
Memorial Park, Jackson, Miss.
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Albert Edward Bogdon (1891-1927) —
also known as Albert E. Bogdon —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Mahanoy City, Schuylkill
County, Pa., 1891.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Colorado
state senate 1st District, 1925-27; died in office 1927.
While visiting his mistress, (scandalous
behavior at the time), he was shot and
killed
by her estranged husband, Joseph S. Minter, in Denver,
Colo., June 10,
1927 (age about 35
years).
Entombed in mausoleum at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Wheat Ridge, Colo.
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Roy T. Yates (1895-1960) —
of Passaic
County, N.J.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J., August
8, 1895.
Republican. Banker;
member of New Jersey
Republican State Committee, 1925-27; member of New
Jersey state senate from Passaic County, 1928-31; resigned 1931.
Member, Freemasons;
Junior
Order; Patriotic
Order Sons of America.
Shot
in the abdomen, on August 14, 1931, by Miss Ruth Cranmer, in her
apartment in Manhattan, New York; this incident led to the discovery
that Miss Cranmer, apparently his mistress, had also received
checks from the State of New Jersey; the New Jersey State Senate
Judiciary committee began an investigation
into whether Sen. Yates should be impeached;
but then he resigned.
Died, of a heart
ailment, in Doctors Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 8,
1960 (age 64 years, 213
days).
Interment somewhere
in Easton, Conn.
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Relatives:
Married to Elsie Southrope. |
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Elliott Roosevelt (1910-1990) —
of Fort Worth, Tarrant
County, Tex.; Buford, Rio Blanco
County, Colo.; Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.; Miami Beach, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.; Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Palm Springs, Riverside
County, Calif.; Scottsdale, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
23, 1910.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1940;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; investigated
and called to testify by a U.S. Senate subcommittee in 1947 over lavish
entertainment in Hollywood and Manhattan, many paid
escorts, and paid hotel
bills provided to Roosevelt and others, in a successful effort to
persuade them to recommend Hughes reconnaissance aircraft for
purchase by the U.S. military;
owned a radio
station in Texas; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Colorado, 1960;
mayor
of Miami Beach, Fla., 1965-69; member of Democratic
National Committee from Florida, 1968; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Florida, 1968.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, in Scottsdale, Maricopa
County, Ariz., October
27, 1990 (age 80 years, 34
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor
Roosevelt; brother of James
Roosevelt and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt Jr.; married, January
16, 1932, to Elizabeth Browning Donner; married, July 22,
1933, to Ruth Josephine Googins; married, December
3, 1944, to Faye Margaret Emerson; married, March
15, 1951, to Minnewa (Bell) Gray Burnside Ross; married, November
3, 1960, to Patricia (Peabody) Whithead; grandnephew of Theodore
Roosevelt and Corinne
Roosevelt Robinson; great-grandnephew of Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt; second great-grandnephew of James
I. Roosevelt; third great-grandson of Edward
Hutchinson Robbins; third great-grandnephew of William
Bellinger Bulloch; fourth great-grandson of Archibald
Bulloch; first cousin once removed of Theodore
Douglas Robinson, Alice
Roosevelt Longworth, Warren
Delano Robbins, Corinne
Robinson Alsop, Theodore
Roosevelt Jr. and William
Sheffield Cowles; first cousin thrice removed of Elizabeth
Monroe; first cousin five times removed of Ebenezer
Huntington; first cousin seven times removed of Benjamin
Huntington; second cousin of Corinne
A. Chubb and John
deKoven Alsop; second cousin once removed of Susan
Roosevelt Weld; second cousin twice removed of Samuel
Laurence Gouverneur; second cousin four times removed of Nicholas
Roosevelt Jr., Philip
DePeyster and Jabez
Williams Huntington. |
| | | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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article |
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Theophilus Eugene Connor (1897-1973) —
also known as Bull Connor —
of Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.
Born in Selma, Dallas
County, Ala., July 11,
1897.
Democrat. Sports
reporter on Birmingham radio;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1935-37; Birmingham Commissioner
of Public
Safety, 1936-52, 1956-63; candidate for Governor of
Alabama, 1940, 1954; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Alabama, 1948,
1956,
1960,
1964,
1968;
arrested
on December 26, 1951, on being found having a tryst in a hotel
room with his secretary, Christina Brown; convicted
of adultery, fined
and sentenced
to jail,
but the conviction was overturned in 1952; member of Democratic
National Committee from Alabama, 1960-63; an ardent white
supremacist; his use of police dogs and fire hoses against civil
rights demonstrators in 1962-63 provoked national outrage;
candidate for mayor
of Birmingham, Ala., 1963.
Died in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., March
10, 1973 (age 75 years, 242
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Birmingham, Ala.
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Silvio Joseph Failla (1910-1972) —
also known as Silvio J. Failla; Si Failla —
of Hoboken, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in New Jersey, May 23,
1910.
Democrat. Undertaker;
mayor
of Hoboken, N.J., 1965; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly District 12-C, 1972; died in
office 1972.
Italian
ancestry.
According to published
reports, he left a bar with
a prostitute, Deborah Dell; just outside, he was robbed, shot
multiple times, and killed,
in Neptune Township, Monmouth
County, N.J., September
16, 1972 (age 62 years, 116
days). Dell and an associate were later convicted of first-degree
murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Entombed in mausoleum at St.
Catharine Cemetery, Sea Girt, N.J.
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Gerald Norman Springer (b. 1944) —
also known as Jerry Springer; "Sultan of
Salaciousness" —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in London, England,
February
13, 1944.
Democrat. Resigned
from Cincinnati city council in 1974 after admitting he paid a
prostitute with a personal check, which was found in a police
raid on a massage parlor; won back his council seat in 1975 and went
on to become mayor; mayor
of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1977-78; candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1982; local television
news anchor; host of a raucus national television
talk show; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio,
2004.
Jewish.
Member, Tau
Epsilon Phi.
Still living as of 2014.
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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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Joe David Waggonner Jr. (1918-2007) —
also known as Joe Waggonner, Jr. —
of Plain Dealing, Bossier
Parish, La.
Born near Plain Dealing, Bossier
Parish, La., September
7, 1918.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; served in the
U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict; wholesale petroleum
products distribution business; member, Louisiana state board of
education, 1960-61; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 4th District, 1961-79.
Methodist.
Member, American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Lions; Kappa
Sigma.
Arrested
in Washington, D.C., 1976, for soliciting a policewoman posing
as a prostitute.
Died in Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La., October
7, 2007 (age 89 years, 30
days).
Interment at Plain
Dealing Cemetery, Plain Dealing, La.
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Wayne Levere Hays (1911-1989) —
also known as Wayne L. Hays —
of Flushing, Belmont
County, Ohio.
Born in Bannock, Belmont
County, Ohio, May 13,
1911.
Democrat. Mayor of Flushing, Ohio, 1939-45; member of Ohio
state senate, 1941-42; Belmont
County Commissioner, 1945-48; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 18th District, 1949-76; resigned 1976;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1960,
1964;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1976;
member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1979.
In May 1976, he was caught up in a scandal
when a clerk in his congressional office, Elizabeth Ray, charged
that she was on the public payroll solely to provide sexual
favors to the Congressman; Hays admitted
most of the allegations; he resigned
as committee chair in June, and resigned
from Congress in September.
Died February
13, 1989 (age 77 years, 276
days).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, St. Clairsville, Ohio.
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Allan Turner Howe (1927-2000) —
of Utah.
Born in South Cottonwood (now part of Murray), Salt Lake
County, Utah, September
6, 1927.
Democrat. Lawyer;
administrative assistant and field representative for U.S. Sen. Frank
Moss, 1959-64; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Utah, 1960;
administrative assistant to Gov. Calvin
L. Rampton, 1966-68; U.S.
Representative from Utah 2nd District, 1975-77; defeated, 1976.
Arrested
in Salt Lake City, Utah, 1976, for soliciting sex from a
policewoman posing as a prostitute.
Died in Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., December
14, 2000 (age 73 years, 99
days).
Burial location unknown.
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J. Herbert Burke (1913-1993) —
of Hollywood, Broward
County, Fla.; Fort Lauderdale, Broward
County, Fla.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., January
14, 1913.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Florida, 1967-79 (10th District 1967-73, 12th
District 1973-79); defeated, 1955 (6th District), 1978 (12th
District); delegate to Republican National Convention from Florida,
1972.
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion; Eagles;
Forty and
Eight; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans; Elks; Moose; Kiwanis.
Arrested
in 1978 for being drunk
and disruptive in the parking lot of a strip club; pleaded
guilty to public
drunkenness, disorderly conduct and witness
tampering.
Died in Fern Park, Seminole
County, Fla., June 16,
1993 (age 80 years, 153
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Frederick William Richmond (b. 1923) —
also known as Frederick W. Richmond; Fred
Richmond —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Massachusetts, November
15, 1923.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1964;
U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1975-82.
Jewish.
Arrested
in Washington, D.C., in 1978 for soliciting sex from a minor
and from an undercover police officer; pleaded
guilty to a misdemeanor. In 1982, charged
with tax
evasion, marijuana
possession, and improper
payments to a federal employee, he pleaded
guilty and was sentenced
to a year and a day in prison;
served nine months.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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William Brown Stansbury (1923-1985) —
also known as William B. Stansbury —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Corydon, Harrison
County, Ind., March
18, 1923.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; lawyer; chair of
Jefferson County Democratic Party, 1968-76; mayor
of Louisville, Ky., 1977-81; in 1978, during a firemen's strike,
he left the city, saying that he was going to a conference in
Atlanta; instead, he went to New Orleans for a tryst with his
administrative assistant; the scandal
led to an effort to impeach
him; soon after, a city official pleaded guilty to extorting
$16,000 from local businessmen; when questioned by a federal grand
jury as to whether this money came to his campaign
or to him personally, Stansbury refused to answer, claiming the Fifth
Amendment right against self-incrimination.
Member, Delta
Upsilon; American Bar
Association.
While crossing Bardstown Road to enter St. Francis of Assisi Church,
he was hit by a
car, and died soon after, in Humana Hospital-University,
Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., April 4,
1985 (age 62 years, 17
days); His mother was killed in the same accident, and his wife
was injured.
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Robert Edmund Bauman (b. 1937) —
also known as Robert E. Bauman —
of Easton, Talbot
County, Md.
Born in Bryn Mawr, Montgomery
County, Pa., April 4,
1937.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1964,
1972
(alternate); member of Maryland
state senate, 1971-73; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 1st District, 1973-81; defeated,
1971, 1980.
Catholic.
Member, Young
Americans for Freedom; American Bar
Association; Elks; Humane
Society; Jaycees;
Izaak
Walton League; Gay.
Pleaded
guilty in 1980 to a sex-solicitation charge.
Still living as of 1998.
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Jon Clifton Hinson (1942-1995) —
also known as Jon Hinson —
of Mississippi.
Born in Tylertown, Walthall
County, Miss., March
16, 1942.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 4th District, 1979-81; resigned
1981.
Gay.
Resigned
from Congress in 1981 after being arrested
in a men's restroom and charged
with oral sodomy. After leaving politics, became a gay rights
activist.
Died, from acquired immune
deficiency syndrome, Silver Spring, Montgomery
County, Md., July 21,
1995 (age 53 years, 127
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Alben W. Barkley II (born c.1945) —
of Marion, Crittenden
County, Ky.
Born about 1945.
Democrat. Kentucky
commissioner of agriculture, 1980-83; convicted
in 1981 by the Kentucky Personnel Board of sexual harassing
his secretary, but the board had no authority to punish him;
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1983.
Still living as of 1983.
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Gerry Eastman Studds (1937-2006) —
also known as Gerry E. Studds —
of Cohasset, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Mineola, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., May 12,
1937.
Democrat. Foreign Service officer; member of White House staff during
the administration of President John
F. Kennedy, 1962-63; legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. Harrison
A. Williams, 1964; state coordinator for U.S. Sen. Eugene
J. McCarthy's presidential primary campaign, 1968; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1968,
1996;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1973-97 (12th District
1973-83, 10th District 1983-97).
Episcopalian.
Gay.
First
openly gay member of Congress. Censured
by the House of Representatives on July 20, 1983, for having
sexual relations with a teenage House page ten years earlier.
Died, of respiratory
failure, in Boston Medical
Center, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
14, 2006 (age 69 years, 155
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Daniel Bever Crane (b. 1936) —
also known as Dan Crane —
of Illinois.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., January
10, 1936.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1979-85 (22nd District 1979-83,
19th District 1983-85).
Censured
by the House of Representatives in 1983 for having sexual
relations with a teenage House page in 1980.
Still living as of 2014.
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Daniel Grove (1923-1999) —
of Colorado.
Born in Millport, Lamar
County, Ala., December
14, 1923.
Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of Colorado
state house of representatives, 1960.
Sponsored legislation to create Colorado's prison work release
program. Served ten years on Colorado's State Adult Parole Board
before being fired in
1984 over allegations of sexual harassment; later reinstated;
the sexual harassment allegations were never substantiated.
Died of bone
cancer, in Denver,
Colo., September
13, 1999 (age 75 years, 273
days).
Interment at Fort
Logan National Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Vincent Albert Cianci (1941-2016) —
also known as Buddy Cianci —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., April
30, 1941.
Republican. Lawyer; mayor
of Providence, R.I., 1975-84, 1991-2002; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1976 ;
candidate for Governor of
Rhode Island, 1980; talk
show host.
Italian
ancestry.
Pleaded
no contest in 1984 to charges
that he beat
his estranged wife's lover with a fireplace log. Charged
with twelve federal counts of bribery,
conspiracy and racketeering; convicted
in June, 2002 on two counts.
Died in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., January
28, 2016 (age 74 years, 273
days).
Interment at St.
Ann's Cemetery, Cranston, R.I.
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Basil W. Brown (1927-1997) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Highland Park, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Vandalia, Cass
County, Mich., March
20, 1927.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
member of Michigan
state senate, 1957-88 (3rd District 1957-64, 6th District
1965-74, 3rd District 1975-82, 2nd District 1983-88); resigned 1988;
in 1985, a prostitute working for the police went to visit him
several times, and exchanged sex for marijuana
and cocaine;
arrested
November 8, 1985; pleaded
guilty in 1987 and resigned
from the Senate; sentenced
to six months in jail, fines, and probation; his law license was also
suspended; the state supreme court threw out the conviction in 1991.
Episcopalian.
African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi; Elks; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Amvets;
NAACP.
Injured in a fire at his
home, while also suffering cancer,
and died two weeks later, in Harper Hospital,
Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., October
28, 1997 (age 70 years, 222
days).
Burial location unknown.
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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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Gary Warren Hart (b. 1936) —
also known as Gary Hart; Gary Warren
Hartpence —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Ottawa, Franklin
County, Kan., November
28, 1936.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Senator from Colorado, 1975-87; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1984,
1988;
his presidential campaign was derailed in 1987 by the scandal
over disclosure of an extramarital affair with model Donna
Rice.
Still living as of 2014.
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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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Harold Joseph Scott (b. 1938) —
also known as Harold J. Scott —
of Flint, Genesee
County, Mich.
Born in Flint, Genesee
County, Mich., October
5, 1938.
Democrat. School
teacher; member of Michigan
state house of representatives 80th District, 1973-77; resigned
1977; member of Michigan
state senate 29th District, 1977-82.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus; Eagles.
Convicted on rape charges
and sentenced
to prison
in 1988.
Still living as of 1988.
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Donald Edgar Lukens (1931-2010) —
also known as Donald E. Lukens; Buz Lukens —
of Middletown, Butler
County, Ohio.
Born in Harveysburg, Warren
County, Ohio, February
11, 1931.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1967-71, 1987-90 (24th District
1967-71, 8th District 1987-90); member of Ohio
state senate, 1975.
Member, Sertoma;
Farm
Bureau; Delta
Chi; Order of
Ahepa; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Kiwanis;
Toastmasters.
Convicted
in 1989 on a misdemeanor charge
of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, by having sex with
a 16 year old girl; sentenced
to 30 days in jail. Indicted
in February 1995 on five counts of bribery
and conspiracy; a jury in October 1995 found him not guilty on three
counts but was unable to reach a verdict on the other two; a mistrial
was declared. Reindicted
in March 1996; tried
and convicted.
Died May 22,
2010 (age 79 years, 100
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Barney Frank (b. 1940) —
of Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Bayonne, Hudson
County, N.J., March
31, 1940.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1973-80; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1981-; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008.
Jewish.
Gay.
Admitted
in 1990 to having paid Stephen L. Gobie, a male prostitute,
for sex, subsequently hiring Gobie as his personal assistant, and
getting 33 parking tickets dismissed for him; Gobie also used the
congressman's apartment for prostitution. A move to expel
Frank from the House of Representatives failed on a 38 to 390 vote; a
motion to censure
him failed 141-287; finally, the House voted to reprimand
him by a vote of 408 to 18.
Still living as of 2014.
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Arlan Ingehart Stangeland (1930-2013) —
also known as Arlan Stangeland —
of Barnesville, Clay
County, Minn.
Born in Fargo, Cass
County, N.Dak., February
8, 1930.
Republican. Member of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1966-74 (District 56-B 1966-72,
District 9-B 1973-74); U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 7th District, 1977-91; defeated
(Independent Republican), 1990; news media reported in January 1990
that he had made hundreds of phone calls on his House phone credit
card, to or from the home of a female lobbyist;
he denied having an extramarital affair, but the scandal
contributed to his defeat in November 1990.
Lutheran.
Member, Delta
Sigma Phi.
Died in Otter Tail
County, Minn., July 2,
2013 (age 83 years, 144
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Brockman Adams (1927-2004) —
also known as Brock Adams —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Stevensville, Queen
Anne's County, Md.
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., January
13, 1927.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Washington, 1961-64; U.S.
Representative from Washington 7th District, 1965-77; U.S.
Secretary of Transportation, 1977-79; resigned 1979; U.S.
Senator from Washington, 1987-93; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1988 ;
in 1992, he was accused
by eight women of sexual misconduct including sexual
harassment and rape; he denied the allegations, and no
charges were ever brought, but the scandal
ended his political career.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Federal
Bar Association.
Died, from Parkinson's
disease, in Stevensville, Queen
Anne's County, Md., September
10, 2004 (age 77 years, 241
days).
Interment at Broad
Creek Cemetery, Stevensville, Md.
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Sol Wachtler —
of Manhasset, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Judge
of New York Court of Appeals, 1972; chief
judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1985-93.
In 1993, he was sentenced
to 15 months in prison
for extortion
in connection with his harassment of an ex-lover.
Still living as of 1993.
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Melvin Jay Reynolds (b. 1952) —
also known as Mel Reynolds —
of Illinois.
Born in Mound Bayou, Bolivar
County, Miss., January
8, 1952.
Democrat. University
professor; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 2nd District, 1993-95; defeated in
primary, 1988, 1990; resigned 1995.
Baptist.
African
ancestry.
Convicted
in 1995 on sexual misconduct and obstruction
of justice charges and sentenced
to five years in prison.
Convicted
in federal court in 1997 of 15 counts of bank
fraud, wire fraud, and lying to the Federal
Election Commission; sentenced
to 78 more months in prison.
Still living as of 2014.
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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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Henry Gabriel Cisneros (b. 1947) —
also known as Henry G. Cisneros —
of San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., June 11,
1947.
Mayor
of San Antonio, Tex., 1981-89; U.S.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1993-97.
Hispanic
ancestry.
In 1995, an independent counsel was appointed to investigate
allegations that he had made false
statements to the FBI about payments he made to his
mistress; indicted
in 1997 on 18 counts of conspiracy, making false
statements, and obstruction
of justice; pleaded
guilty to a misdemeanor count of lying to
the FBI, and was fined
$10,000; pardoned
in 2001 by President Bill
Clinton.
Still living as of 2014.
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Edward Brooke Lee Jr. (1917-2004) —
also known as E. Brooke Lee, Jr. —
of Silver Spring, Montgomery
County, Md.; Washington,
D.C.; Chevy Chase, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Silver Spring, Montgomery
County, Md., October
25, 1917.
Real
estate developer; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Maryland, 1944,
1952
(member, Credentials
Committee); marketing and accounting executive with Scott Paper
Company; candidate for mayor
of Washington, D.C., 1982; pleaded
guilty in July 1995 to misdemeanor child abuse after being charged
with fondling a babysitter; reportedly fined
and given a suspended sentence; later settled a
civil suit against him by the babysitter's parents.
Died, from congestive
heart failure, in Chevy Chase, Montgomery
County, Md., August
20, 2004 (age 86 years, 300
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Elmer Peter Black Cloud (1953-2014) —
also known as Elmer Black Cloud; Woody Black
Cloud —
of Wakpala, Corson
County, S.Dak.
Born March
24, 1953.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from South
Dakota, 1992;
when his 14-year-old niece became pregnant, he was charged
with sexual abuse of a minor and incest; tried
and convicted;
in December 1996, the conviction was affirmed on appeal.
Sioux
Indian ancestry.
Died, in the Mobridge Regional Hospital,
Mobridge, Walworth
County, S.Dak., March
10, 2014 (age 60 years, 351
days).
Interment at Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery, Little Eagle, S.Dak.
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Hollis Earl Roberts (1943-2011) —
also known as Hollis E. Roberts —
of Hugo, Choctaw
County, Okla.
Born in Hochatown, McCurtain
County, Okla., May 9,
1943.
Member of Oklahoma
state house of representatives, 1970; chief of the Choctaw
Nation, 1978-97.
Choctaw
Indian ancestry.
Convicted
in 1997 of aggravated sexual abuse and abusive sexual
contact, involving two female employees.
Died in Hugo, Choctaw
County, Okla., October
19, 2011 (age 68 years, 163
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Drew Nixon (b. 1959) —
of Carthage, Panola
County, Tex.
Born November
21, 1959.
Republican. Real estate
sales; accountant;
insurance
business; member of Texas
state senate 3rd District, 1995-2000; arrested
in February 1997, after he offered money to a police officer
posing as a prostitute; a loaded
revolver was found under the seat of his car, though he had no
concealed hangun permit; pleaded
guilty and sentenced to six months in jail.
Baptist.
Still living as of 2000.
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William Jefferson Clinton (b. 1946) —
also known as Bill Clinton; William Jefferson Blythe
IV; "Slick Willie"; "Bubba";
"Elvis"; "Eagle"; "The Big
Dog" —
of Arkansas; Chappaqua, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Hope, Hempstead
County, Ark., August
19, 1946.
Democrat. Rhodes
scholar; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 3rd District, 1974; Arkansas
state attorney general, 1977-79; Governor of
Arkansas, 1979-81, 1983-92; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Arkansas, 1996,
2000;
speaker, 1984,
1988;
President
of the United States, 1993-2001; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 2004,
2008.
Baptist.
Member, Trilateral
Commission; Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Beta Kappa; Pi
Sigma Alpha; Phi
Alpha Delta; American Bar
Association.
On October 29, 1994, Francisco Duran fired 27 shots from the sidewalk
at the White House in an apparent assassination
attempt against President Clinton. Impeached
by the House of Representatives in December 1998 over allegations of
perjury
and obstruction
of justice in connection with his sexual contact with a
White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, but acquitted by the Senate.
Still living as of 2020.
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Relatives:
Step-son of Roger Clinton; son of William Jefferson Blythe II and
Virginia (Cassidy) Clinton; married, October
11, 1975, to Hillary
Diane Rodham (sister of Hugh
Edwin Rodham); father of Chelsea Clinton (daughter-in-law of Edward
Maurice Mezvinsky and Marjorie
Margolies-Mezvinsky); third cousin twice removed of James
Alexander Lockhart. |
| | | Political families: Clinton
family of Wadesboro, North Carolina; Ashe-Polk
family of North Carolina (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Abraham
J. Hirschfeld — Kenneth
W. Starr — Rahm
Emanuel — Henry
G. Cisneros — Maria
Echaveste — Thurgood
Marshall, Jr. — Walter
S. Orlinsky — Charles
F. C. Ruff — Sean
Patrick Maloney — Lanny
J. Davis |
| | | The William Jefferson Clinton Federal
Building (built 1934; renamed 2012) in Washington,
D.C., is named for
him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Bill Clinton: Between
Hope and History : Meeting America's Challenges for the 21st
Century (1996) — My
Life (2004) |
| | | Books about Bill Clinton: David
Maraniss, First
in His Class : The Biography of Bill Clinton — Joe
Conason, The
Hunting of the President : The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and
Hillary Clinton — Gene Lyons, Fools
for Scandal : How the Media Invented Whitewater —
Sidney Blumenthal, The
Clinton Wars — Dewayne Wickham, Bill
Clinton and Black America — Joe Klein, The
Natural : The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill
Clinton — Nigel Hamilton, Bill
Clinton: An American Journey — Bob Woodward, The
Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House — George
Stephanopolous, All
Too Human — John F. Harris, The
Survivor : Bill Clinton in the White House — Mark
Katz, Clinton
& Me: A Real Life Political Comedy — Michael Takiff,
A
Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know
Him — Tim O'Shei, Bill
Clinton (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Bill Clinton:
Barbara Olson, The
Final Days : The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White
House — Meredith L. Oakley, On
the Make : The Rise of Bill Clinton — Robert
Patterson, Dereliction
of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Endangered
America's Long-Term National Security — Ambrose
Evans-Pritchard, The
Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories —
Ann Coulter, High
Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill
Clinton — Dick Morris & Eileen McGann, Because
He Could — Jack Cashill, Ron
Brown's Body : How One Man's Death Saved the Clinton Presidency and
Hillary's Future — Christopher Hitchens, No
One Left To Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family —
Rich Lowry, Legacy:
Paying the Price for the Clinton Years — Richard
Miniter, Losing
Bin Laden : How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global
Terror |
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Gerald Steven Ackerman (b. 1956) —
also known as Gerald Ackerman; Ajax
Ackerman —
of Port Huron, St. Clair
County, Mich.
Born August
5, 1956.
Mayor
of Port Huron, Mich., 1997-99; resigned 1999.
Arraigned
in April 1999 on 14 counts of criminal sexual conduct
involving children; tried in
October 1999 and convicted
only of the indecent exposure charges, with the jury unable to
agree on the others; sentenced
to one year imprisonment;
retried
in May 2000 and convicted
on 10 felony counts of criminal sexual conduct; sentenced
to 18 to 38 years imprisonment.
Still living as of 2007.
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William Hackel (born c.1942) —
Born about 1942.
Macomb
County Sheriff, 1977-2000; charged
in November 1999 of raping a 26-year-old woman at a sheriffs'
convention; tried
and convicted
in April 2000, and sentenced
to three to fifteen years in prison.
Still living as of 2000.
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David E. Giles (born c.1950) —
of Washington.
Born about 1950.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Washington 8th District, 1986, 1990.
Convicted
in June 2000 of child rape.
Still living as of 2000.
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Philip A. Giordano (born c.1963) —
also known as Phil Giordano —
of Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born about 1963.
Republican. Mayor
of Waterbury, Conn., 1995-2001; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 2000.
In 2001, he was arrested
and charged
with sexual assault on two preteen girls; convicted
in federal court, in March 2003, of violating their civil rights, and
sentenced,
in June 2003, to 37 years in prison.
Still living as of 2001.
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Parker J. Bena (born c.1963) —
of Virginia
Beach, Va.
Born about 1963.
Republican. Candidate for Presidential Elector for Virginia.
Pleaded
guilty in 2001 to possession of child pornography on his
home computer; sentenced
to 30 months in federal prison
and fined
$18,000.
Still living as of 2001.
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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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Martin G. Barnes (born c.1949) —
also known as Marty Barnes —
of Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J.
Born about 1949.
Republican. Mayor
of Paterson, N.J., 1997-2002; defeated, 2002.
African
ancestry.
Indicted
in federal court in 2002 on 40 counts of bribery
and other offenses, over his solicitation and acceptance of more than
$200,000 in gratuities
from city contractors, including home improvements, designer
suits, and paid female companions; pleaded
guilty to two counts, including tax
evasion, and sentenced
in 2003 to 37 months in prison.
Still living as of 2003.
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Steven Effman (b. 1950) —
also known as Steve Effman —
of Sunrise, Broward
County, Fla.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
13, 1950.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Sunrise, Fla., 1993-96; member of Florida
state house of representatives 98th District, 1997-; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Florida, 2000.
Jewish.
Member, B'nai
B'rith.
Admitted
in 2003 to inappropriate
relationships with three divorce clients; suspended
from the practice of law for 91 days.
Still living as of 2003.
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Robert Ellsworth Wise Jr. (b. 1948) —
also known as Bob Wise —
of Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va.; Clendenin, Kanawha
County, W.Va.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Washington,
D.C., January
6, 1948.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of West
Virginia state senate 17th District, 1981-82; resigned 1982; U.S.
Representative from West Virginia, 1983-2001 (3rd District
1983-93, 2nd District 1993-2001); delegate to Democratic National
Convention from West Virginia, 1996,
2000,
2004;
Governor
of West Virginia, 2001-05.
Member, American Bar
Association.
In 2003, he was accused
of having an extramarital affair with a married female state
employee; he admitted
the affair, and dropped
his campaign for re-election.
Still living as of 2014.
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Marshall Clement Sanford Jr. (b. 1960) —
also known as Mark Sanford; "The Love
Gov" —
of South Carolina.
Born in Fort Lauderdale, Broward
County, Fla., March
28, 1960.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 1st District, 1995-2001; Governor of
South Carolina, 2003-11.
In June 2009, he disappeared from the state capital and was
unavailable for several days; his office said he was "hiking the
Appalachian Trail." In truth, he had gone to Argentina for an
extramarital affair; the scandal
ended his chances as a presidential candidate.
Still living as of 2011.
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Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua (1923-2012) —
also known as Anthony Bevilacqua —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Wynnewood, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 17,
1923.
Republican. Catholic
priest; bishop of Pittsburgh, 1983-88; archbishop of
Philadelphia, 1988-2003; cardinal from 1991; offered prayer, Republican National Convention,
2000 ; accused
in 2003-04 of protecting
priests who were suspected of sexually abusing children;
later, it was found
that he had ordered a subordinate to destroy
a list of 35 abusive priests, and that he had punished
a priest who had raised concerns about possible abuse.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Died in Wynnewood, Montgomery
County, Pa., January
31, 2012 (age 88 years, 228
days).
Entombed at Cathedral
Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Johnnie M. Smith (born c.1934) —
of Greenville, Greenville
County, S.C.; Simpsonville, Greenville
County, S.C.
Born about 1934.
Republican. Bishop;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from South
Carolina, 1988.
African
ancestry.
Arrested
in 2004 and charged
with sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl in 1973.
Still living as of 2004.
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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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James Elton West (1951-2006) —
also known as James E. West; Jim West —
of Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash.
Born in Salem, Marion
County, Ore., March
28, 1951.
Republican. Deputy
sheriff; member of Washington
state house of representatives, 1982-86; member of Washington
state senate 6th District, 1986-2003; mayor
of Spokane, Wash., 2004-05.
Member, Rotary;
Gay.
Following a scandal
involving use
of his position to obtain sex with young men, and an FBI
investigation,
he was recalled
from office as mayor in 2005.
Died, from complications of colon
cancer, in the University of Washington Medical
Center, Seattle, King
County, Wash., July 22,
2006 (age 55 years, 116
days).
Burial location unknown.
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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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Arthur E. Teele (1946-2005) —
also known as Art Teele —
of Florida.
Born in Prince
George's County, Md., May 14,
1946.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; lawyer;
director, U.S. Urban Mass Transportation Administration, 1981-83;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Florida; as Miami city
commissioner in 1997-2004, he chaired the Community Redevelopment
Agency (CRA); an investigation
of corruption in the agency, started in 2003, led to charges
that he had accepted $135,000 in kickbacks
from two construction companies; as a result, he was removed from
office in 2004 by Gov. Jeb
Bush; in August, 2004, when he and his wife were under
surveillance, he drove his
car at a police detective in an attempt to run him
over, and also threatened
to kill police officers who had been following his wife during
the investigation; convicted
in March 2005 on charges
related to this incident; indicted
on July 14, 2005, on federal conspiracy and money
laundering charges, over a scheme to fraudulently obtain
contracts for electrical work at the Miami International Airport
through a "minority-owned" shell company; published police reports
revealed that he had put his mistress on the CRA payroll, that
he regularly bought and used cocaine,
and that he frequently made use of a male prostitute.
Church
of God in Christ. African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi; NAACP; Freemasons.
Came to the offices
of the Miami Herald newspaper, and shot himself
in the head with a semiautomatic pistol; he died two hours later in
the trauma unit of Jackson Memorial Hospital,
Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., July 27,
2005 (age 59 years, 74
days).
Interment at Culley's MeadowWood Memorial Park, Tallahassee, Fla.
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Mark Adam Foley (b. 1954) —
also known as Mark A. Foley —
of West Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla.
Born in Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
8, 1954.
Republican. Real estate
agent; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1990-92; defeated, 1986; member
of Florida
state senate, 1993-94; U.S.
Representative from Florida 16th District, 1995-2006; resigned
2006.
Catholic.
Gay.
Forced to
resign in September, 2006, over sexually explicit messages
he had sent to teenage Congressional pages; no criminal charges were
filed.
Still living as of 2014.
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Larry Edwin Craig (b. 1945) —
also known as Larry Craig —
of Midvale, Washington
County, Idaho; Payette, Payette
County, Idaho.
Born in Council, Adams
County, Idaho, July 20,
1945.
Republican. Member of Idaho
state senate, 1975-81; U.S.
Representative from Idaho 1st District, 1981-91; U.S.
Senator from Idaho, 1991-2009.
Methodist.
Member, National Rifle
Association.
Arrested
for soliciting sex in a men's bathroom at the Minneapolis-St.
Paul International Airport, June 11, 2007; charged
with disorderly conduct; pleaded
guilty, and was fined.
Still living as of 2014.
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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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Eliot Laurence Spitzer (b. 1959) —
also known as Eliot Spitzer; "Steamroller";
"Client No. 9" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., June 10,
1959.
Democrat. New York
state attorney general, 1999-2006; defeated, 1994; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 2000,
2004;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; Governor of
New York, 2007-08; resigned 2008.
Jewish.
Resigned
as governor following disclosure that he had paid a prostitution
ring for sex.
Still living as of 2016.
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John Reid Edwards (b. 1953) —
also known as John Edwards; Johnny Reid Edwards;
"Silk Pony"; "The Breck
Girl" —
of North Carolina.
Born in Seneca, Oconee
County, S.C., June 10,
1953.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1999-2005; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from North Carolina, 2000,
2004;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 2004,
2008;
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 2004; in August 2008, he acknowledged
an extramarital affair with filmmaker Rielle Hunter, though at
first he denied having fathered her baby; this revelation discredited
him and ended his
political career.
Methodist.
In June, 2011, he was indicted
in federal court on campaign
finance charges, based on the argument that the donations he
received in 2007-08 to cover up his affair were illegal
contributions to his presidential campaign.
Still living as of 2014.
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Kwame Malik Kilpatrick (b. 1970) —
also known as Kwame M. Kilpatrick —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., June 8,
1970.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives 9th District, 1997-2001; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 2000,
2004,
2008;
mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 2002-08; resigned 2008; member of Democratic
National Committee from Michigan, 2004-08; charged
in 2008 with obstruction
of justice, perjury,
and misconduct
in office, in connection with his denial under oath of an
affair with his chief of staff, Christine Beatty, and
misleading the city council over a payment of $8.4 million to settle
a whistleblower lawsuit filed by two police officers, which included
a secret deal to prevent evidence of the affair from being disclosed;
later charged
with assaulting
two police officers who were serving a subpoena; pleaded
guilty to two felony counts of obstruction
of justice and no
contest to one assault
charge;
he also agreed to four months in jail,
payment of $1 million in restitution,
to resign
as mayor, and to give up his law license and pension.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP.
Still living as of 2020.
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Vito John Fossella (b. 1965) —
also known as Vito Fossella —
of Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., March 9,
1965.
Republican. Lawyer;
member, New York City Council, 1994-97; U.S.
Representative from New York 13th District, 1997-2009.
Catholic.
Italian
and Irish
ancestry.
In May, 2008, he was arrested
in Alexandria, Virginia, for driving
while intoxicated;
a week later, he admitted to an extramarital affair with Air
Force Lt. Col Laura Fay, and that he was the father of her 3-year-old
child; the scandal
led him to retire from
Congress.
Still living as of 2014.
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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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John Eric Ensign (b. 1958) —
also known as John E. Ensign —
of Las Vegas, Clark
County, Nev.
Born in Roseville, Placer
County, Calif., March
25, 1958.
Republican. Veterinarian;
hotel
and casino manager; U.S.
Representative from Nevada 1st District, 1995-99; U.S.
Senator from Nevada, 2001-; defeated, 1998; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Nevada, 2008.
Pentecostal.
Italian,
German,
and Filipino
ancestry.
In June 2009, he admitted
to an extramarital affair with Cindy Hampton, a member of his
campaign staff and the wife of his Senate aide Doug Hampton. In an
unsuccessful attempt to keep the Hamptons quiet about the affair, he
gave them $96,000 (an illegally
undisclosed severance payment) through his parents. He also used
his influence to set up Jeff Hampton as a lobbyist,
in violation of laws restricting lobbying by former congressional
aides. A grand jury investigation
is in progress.
Still living as of 2014.
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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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Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (b. 1947) —
also known as Arnold Schwarzenegger; "Arnie";
"Conan the Republican"; "The
Governator"; "The Austrian Oak" —
of Brentwood, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Thal, Styria, Austria,
July
30, 1947.
Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; actor
in numerous movies,
including Pumping Iron, the Terminator series, Conan the
Barbarian, Predator, Total Recall, and others; Governor of
California, 2003-; he and his wife separated
in 2011 after revealing that his sexual contact with a member
of his household staff resulted in a child ten years earlier.
Catholic.
Austrian
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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Relatives: Son
of Gustav Schwarzenegger and Aurelia (Jadrny) Schwarzenegger;
married, April
26, 1986, to Maria Owings Shriver (daughter of Robert
Sargent Shriver Jr.; sister of Mark
Kennedy Shriver; niece of John
Fitzgerald Kennedy). |
| | | Political family: Kennedy
family. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Arnold Schwarzenegger: Arnold
: The Education of a Bodybuilder (1977) — Total
Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story (2012) |
| | | Books about Arnold Schwarzenegger:
Nigel Andrews, True
Myths : The Life and Times of Arnold Schwarzenegger, from Pumping
Iron to Governor of California — Susan Zannos, Arnold
Schwarzenegger — Laurence Leamer, Fantastic
: The Life of Arnold Schwarzenegger — Michael Blitz &
Louise Krasniewicz, Why
Arnold Matters: The Rise of a Cultural Icon — Ian
Halperin, The
Governator: From Muscle Beach to His Quest for the White House, the
Improbable Rise of Arnold Schwarzenegger — Colleen A.
Sexton, Arnold
Schwarzenegger (for young readers) |
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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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David Wu (b. 1955) —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in Hsinchu, Taiwan,
April
8, 1955.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oregon, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
U.S.
Representative from Oregon 1st District, 1999-2011; resigned
2011; in July 2011, news media reported that he had been accused
of an unwanted sexual encounter by the 18-year-old daughter of
a friend of his; episodes of erratic and intoxicated
behavior alienated his campaign aides, his congressional staff, and
his colleagues in Congress; he resigned
in August 2011.
Chinese
ancestry.
Still living as of 2017.
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Randolph Blake Farenthold (b. 1961) —
also known as R. Blake Farenthold —
Born in Corpus Christi, Nueces
County, Tex., December
12, 1961.
Republican. Lawyer; radio
commentator; U.S.
Representative from Texas 27th District, 2011-18; resigned 2018;
sued
in 2014 by a former staffer, alleging sexual harassment, a
hostile work environment, and that she was fired in retaliation for
complaints; the case was settled out of court with $84,000 in public
funds; in December 2017, another former staffer made further detailed
allegations
of his behavior; resigned
in April 2018.
Still living as of 2018.
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Duncan Duane Hunter (b. 1976) —
also known as Duncan D. Hunter —
of Lakeside, San Diego
County, Calif.; Alpine, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., December
7, 1976.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq; real estate
developer; U.S.
Representative from California, 2009-20 (52nd District 2009-13,
50th District 2013-20); resigned 2020; in 2016, he was investigated
over his misuse of some $250,000 in campaign
funds for personal expenses, including family travel, overseas
hotel stays, and luxury
clothing items; he also spent campaign funds on extramarital
affairs with five women, including lobbyists and congressional
staffers; in August 2018, he and his wife were indicted
in federal court; both eventually pleaded
guilty; he was sentenced
to 11 months in prison;
in December 2020, before he was scheduled to report for
incarceration, he was pardoned
by President Donald
Trump.
Still living as of 2020.
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John James Conyers Jr. (1929-2019) —
also known as John Conyers, Jr. —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Highland Park, Wayne
County, Mich., May 16,
1929.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Michigan, 1965-2017 (1st District 1965-93,
14th District 1993-2013, 13th District 2013-17); resigned 2017;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1968,
1972,
1976,
1984,
1988,
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
arrested
during an anti-apartheid
protest outside the South African Embassy in Washington, 1984;
candidate for mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 1989; in 2017, it was reported that a former
member of Conyers' staff had alleged
that he had sexually harassed her, and had been paid a
settlement of $27,000; subsequently, the House Ethics Committee
started an investigation
into multiple such allegations; he subsequently resigned
from Congress.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP.
Recipient of the Spingarn
Medal, 2007.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., October
27, 2019 (age 90 years, 164
days).
Entombed at Detroit
Memorial Park East, Warren, Mich.
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Alan Stuart Franken (b. 1951) —
also known as Al Franken; "Stuart
Smalley" —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 21,
1951.
Democrat. Comedian;
author;
U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 2009-18; resigned 2018; in November 2017,
Leeann Tweeden alleged that Franken had forcibly kissed her on
a 2006 USO tour; Franken was also photographed appearing to place his
hands on or near her breasts; other women made similar
allegations; resigned
from the Senate in January.
Jewish.
Still living as of 2018.
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Robert Julian Bentley (b. 1943) —
also known as Robert J. Bentley; "The Love
Gov" —
of Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
County, Ala.
Born in Columbiana, Shelby
County, Ala., February
3, 1943.
Republican. Physician;
dermatologist;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 2003-10; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Alabama, 2008;
Governor
of Alabama, 2011-17; resigned 2017; accused
in 2016 of having an extramarital affair with Rebekah Caldwell
Mason, a politcal advisor on his campaign staff; an impeachment
resolution was brought; as part of an agreement with prosecutors, he
pleaded
guilty to two campaign
finance violations, including failing
to disclose a $50,000 personal loan to his campaign account; his
sentence was suspended, but he was placed on probation,
ordered to do community
service, and fined
$7,000.
Still living as of 2017.
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Eric Tradd Schneiderman (b. 1954) —
also known as Eric T. Schneiderman —
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., December
31, 1954.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 31st District; elected 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008; New York
state attorney general, 2011-18; resigned 2018; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York; published
reports alleged that he had physically
abused four women; at first, he claimed that this had been
sexual role playing, but within hours, he resigned
his position; following an investigation,
no criminal charges were brought.
Jewish
ancestry.
Still living as of 2019.
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James Daniel Jordan (b. 1964) —
also known as Jim Jordan —
of Urbana, Champaign
County, Ohio.
Born in Troy, Miami
County, Ohio, February
17, 1964.
Republican. Athletic
coach; member of Ohio
state house of representatives 85th District, 1995-2000; member
of Ohio
state senate 12th District, 2001-06; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 4th District, 2007-; in 2018, he was accused
by former Ohio State University wrestlers of ignoring sexual
abuse by the team physician; he denied this, but refused to
cooperate with an investigation;
in a lawsuit, he was charged
with witness
tampering and intimidation;
received the Medal
of Freedom on January 11, 2021; speaker, Republican National Convention, 2020.
Still living as of 2022.
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