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David Brydie Mitchell (1760-1837) —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.; Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga.
Born in Muthill, Perthshire, Scotland,
October
22, 1760.
Georgia
state attorney general, 1795; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1796; mayor
of Savannah, Ga., 1801-02; U.S.
Attorney for Georgia, 1802-04; Governor of
Georgia, 1809-13, 1815-17; U.S. Indian Agent to the Creek Nation,
1817-21; resigned
from this position following charges
that he was smuggling African
slaves into the country.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died in Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga., April
22, 1837 (age 76 years, 182
days).
Interment at Memory
Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Ga.
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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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Luke Lea (1879-1945) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., April
12, 1879.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor and publisher; founder of the Nashville Tennesseean; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1911-17; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Tennessee, 1912
(speaker);
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; in January 1919, after
the war was over, he led a group of U.S. Army officers in an unauthorized
attempt to seize former German leader Kaiser Wilhelm; they
illegally entered the Netherlands (which was neutral
territory) using forged
passports; he and the others were reprimanded
by the Army; following the collapse of the Asheville Central Bank and
Trust, he and others were indicted
in 1931 for bank
fraud; convicted
on three counts; sentenced to prison,
served two years before being paroled; ultimately pardoned
in 1937.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Alpha
Tau Omega; Phi
Delta Phi; Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Redmen.
Died, in Vanderbilt University Hospital,
Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., November
18, 1945 (age 66 years, 220
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
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David C. Kerr —
U.S. Vice Consul in Birmingham, as of 1917; arrested
in Washington, D.C. in May 1924, and charged
with accepting
bribes while vice consul at Vancouver, to issue visas to
Chinese, so they could enter the U.S. illegally.
Burial location unknown.
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Earl Russel Browder (1891-1973) —
also known as Earl Browder —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan., May 20,
1891.
Communist. As a result of his opposition to U.S. participation in
World War I, he was convicted
in 1917 of conspiracy
against
the draft laws and sentenced
to sixteen months in prison;
imprisoned
again in 1919; pardoned
in 1933; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1930 (6th District), 1932 (20th
District), 1940 (14th District); General Secretary of the Communist
Party of the U.S., 1934-44; candidate for President
of the United States, 1936, 1940; arrested
in 1939 for a passport violation, convicted,
and sentenced
to four years in prison
(sentence commuted after fourteen months); expelled from the
Communist Party, 1946.
Died in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., June 27,
1973 (age 82 years, 38
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Edgar J. Lauer (1871-1948) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
10, 1871.
Republican. Lawyer;
Judge, New York City Municipal Court, 1906-33; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1934-39; resigned 1939.
In 1938, his wife pleaded guilty in Federal Court to charges that she
smuggled expensive clothing and diamonds from Europe to the U.S.; she
was fined and sentenced to three months in prison and fined. In 1939,
the state legislature moved to investigate
whether Judge Lauer had knowledge of his wife's smuggling
activities; he denied this, but immediately resigned
his seat.
Died, in Mount Sinai Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
9, 1948 (age 76 years, 365
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Emanuel Lauer and Cecilia (Hornthal) Lauer; married to
Elma M. Kramer. |
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Oliver Laurence North (b. 1943) —
also known as Oliver L. North; Ollie North —
of Virginia.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., October
7, 1943.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War;
central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal
of 1986; he was in charge of a secret (and illegal) government
operation to sell weapons to Iran and provide the profits to
the then-unrecognized
Nicaraguan "contras", who were fighting a civil war against the
"Sandinista" government there; convicted
in 1989 on federal charges of obstructing
Congress, destroying documents, and accepting an illegal
gratuity; an appeals court later overturned the guilty verdict;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1994; host of a radio talk
show in 1995-2003, and is a television
commentator.
Member, National Rifle
Association.
Still living as of 2014.
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Tom Metzger —
of California; Warsaw, Kosciusko
County, Ind.
Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 43rd District, 1980; candidate in
Democratic primary for U.S.
Senator from California, 1982; convicted
in 1991 of burning a
cross (as a form of hate speech
or intimidation) and sentenced
to prison;
in 1992, he was arrested
in Canada for violating immigration laws.
Member, John
Birch Society; Ku Klux Klan.
Still living as of 2012.
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