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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Politicians in Trouble or Disgrace: Gambling</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Noland (d. 1926)</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/JA-lived.html">Jackson County</a>, Mo. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/trea.html">Missouri state treasurer</a>, 1889-90; resigned 1890. In March 1890, following reports of his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/intoxication.html">drunkenness</a> and <b>gambling</b>, his accounts were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigated</a>; a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">shortage</a> of about $32,000 was discovered; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">suspended</a> from office as state treasurer, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> a few days later; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> soon after, and charged with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">embezzlement</a>; tried in 1891, and ultimately <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> and sentenced to two years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/06-26.html">June 26, 1926</a>. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=839PAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA64-IA19"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/314/40.50.jpg" width=70 height=99 border=0 alt="Thomas F. Grady"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Thomas Francis Grady (1853-1912)</b> — also known as <b>Thomas F. Grady</b>; <b>Tom Grady</b>; <b>"Silver-Tongued Grady"</b> — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1853/11-29.html">November 29, 1853</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 2nd District, 1877-79; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a>, 1882-83, 1889, 1896-1912 (6th District 1882-83, 1889, 14th District 1896-1912); died in office 1912; Independent Democratic candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 8th District, 1886; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1896/NY.html">1896</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1900/NY.html">1900</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/NY.html">1904</a> (chair, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/committees.html">Committee on Rules and Order of Business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/speakers.html">speaker</a>). Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/tammany-hall.html">Tammany Hall</a>. In 1883, then-Gov. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#531.34.01">Grover Cleveland</a> wrote to Tammany leader <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kelly5.html#461.59.55">John Kelly</a> to request that Grady not be renominated to the State Senate; Kelly complied with the Governor's request. In 1908, a police raid on a poolroom <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">revealed</a> betting slips showing that Grady had <b>bet on a horse</b> named Azelina; this detail became a running joke in political cartoons about Mr. Grady. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/index.html">1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">about 58 years</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> New York Red Book 1907</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Frank Frankel (1886-1975)</b> — of Long Beach, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y.; Houston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-lived.html">Harris County</a>, Tex.; Beverly Hills, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/10-02.html">October 2, 1886</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/longbeach.html">Mayor of Long Beach, N.Y.</a>, 1924, 1930-33; defeated, 1925 (Democratic primary), 1925 (Republican), 1929 (Democratic primary); founder of Long Beach Memorial <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hospital-biz.html">Hospital</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in September 1927 on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of maintaining a <b>gambling</b> place; the charges were later dropped; in December 1929, his right to take office as mayor was unsuccessfully <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">challenged</a> by the Long Beach police chief, based on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/vote-fraud.html">vote fraud</a> (for which many had been arrested and prosecuted) and the expectation that Frankel would <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/vice.html">tolerate gambling</a> in the city; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in January 1933 for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bank-fraud.html">fraud</a> over his transfer of $90,000 in city funds to the Long Beach Trust Company, which subsequently closed; the indictment was dismissed in February; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> again in May 1933, along with two city council members, over the diversion of $750,000 of state and county tax revenue to city projects; pleaded not guilty; no trial was held; the indictment was dismissed in 1937; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/oilgas.html">oil producer</a>. Died, in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">hospital</a> at Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-died.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1975/06-12.html">June 12, 1975</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 253 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-buried.html#cms05742">somewhere</a> in Houston, Tex. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Thomas Joseph O'Brien (1878-1964)</b> — also known as <b>Thomas J. O'Brien</b>; <b>"Blind Tom"</b> — of Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-born.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/04-30.html">April 30, 1878</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/accounting.html">Accountant</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/sthse.html">Illinois state house of representatives</a>, 1907-10, 1929-32; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Illinois</a> 6th District, 1933-39, 1943-64; died in office 1964; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in a police raid on a <b>gambling</b> establishment, 1935; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-officials.html">Cook County Sheriff</a>, 1939-42; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/IL.html">1960</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>. Died in Bethesda, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1964/04-14.html">April 14, 1964</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 350 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-buried.html#cms04538">Queen of Heaven Cemetery</a>, Hillside, Ill. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Thomas O'Brien and Mary (Murphy) O'Brien; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/07-15.html">July 15, 1920</a>, to Nettie Kaufer.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000016">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408267">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Lawrence J. Murray Jr. (1910-2000)</b> — of Haverstraw, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RO-lived.html">Rockland County</a>, N.Y.; Pearl River, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RO-lived.html">Rockland County</a>, N.Y.; Nyack, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RO-lived.html">Rockland County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/06-20.html">June 20, 1910</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Rockland County, 1938-40; removed 1940; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a>, in January 1940, with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">embezzling</a> $49,102 from Miss May Dunnigan, his mentally incompetent law client (also sister-in-law to U.S. Postmaster General <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/farley.html#271.60.14">James A. Farley</a>); the money was lost in <b>gambling</b> on horse races; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> on all counts, and hence automatically <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">disbarred</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">removed from office</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to five to ten years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; his sentence was commuted in 1942; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in 1952, along with other bookmakers, for illegally <b>taking bets</b>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2000/03-15.html">March 15, 2000</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 269 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Lawrence J. Murray and Emma (Brennan) Murray.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Edwin J. Szarzynski (born c.1907)</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-lived.html">St. Louis</a>, Mo. Born in East St. Louis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/SC-born.html">St. Clair County</a>, Ill., about 1907. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/misc-occ.html">Credit manager</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> in 1937 with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">embezzlement</a> of $2,553 from his employer; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to a reduced charge, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to six months in the workhouse; served three and a half months; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in 1942 in a raid on a <b>gambling</b> operation; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $15; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">dock worker</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/stsen.html">Missouri state senate</a> 5th District, 1960. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/249/40.12.jpg" width=70 height=102 border=0 alt="Herman Methfessel"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Herman Methfessel (1900-1963)</b> — of Staten Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RI-lived.html">Richmond County</a>, N.Y.; Miami, Dade County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/DA-lived.html">Miami-Dade County</a>), Fla. Born in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/11-23.html">November 23, 1900</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper reporter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Richmond County 2nd District, 1935-38; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RI-officials.html">Richmond County District Attorney</a>, 1948-51. In September 1951, the New York State Crime Commission, investigating rackets on the Staten Island waterfront, heard testimony from Mrs. Anna Wentworth that she had seen District Attorney Methfessel in a <b>gambling house</b>, which implied that he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/vice.html">protecting vice</a>; in response, he ordered her arrest and charged her with perjury. At the request of the Crime Commission, citing <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/abuse-authority.html">abuse of power</a>, Gov. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewey.html#203.15.22">Thomas E. Dewey</a> superseded him from all cases related to the investigation; in the meantime, he was defeated for re-election. In 1952, he and a subordinate were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/misfeasance.html">official misconduct</a>, but found not guilty. Injured in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/automobile.html">one-car accident</a>, and died the next day, in North Shore <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Miami, Dade County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/DA-died.html">Miami-Dade County</a>), Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1963/07-07.html">July 7, 1963</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 226 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Cross-reference:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buck.html#720.04.30">Ellsworth B. Buck</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> New York Red Book 1936</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Joseph E. Venuti (born c.1915)</b> — of Tuckahoe, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y. Born about 1915. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/plumbing-heating.html">Plumber</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 27th District, 1944. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> ancestry. He and two others were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in July 1951, and charged with conspiring to violate <b>gambling</b> laws; the trial was delayed while he was hospitalized with a stomach ailment; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in his hospital bed and transferred to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jail</a>; the other two co-defendants were tried separately and convicted; later, the convictions were reversed, and the indictment of Mr. Venuti was dismissed. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Joseph Venuti and Pauline Venuti.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Cross-reference:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gibbons.html#505.75.38">Milton A. Gibbons</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Milton A. Gibbons (born c.1900)</b> — of Tuckahoe, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y. Born about 1900. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawenforcement.html">Police officer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/tuckahoe.html">mayor of Tuckahoe, N.Y.</a>, 1949-65; defeated (Republican), 1965; he and two others, including <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/venables-vermillion.html#733.25.63">Joseph Venuti</a>, were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in July 1951, and charged with conspiring to violate <b>gambling</b> laws; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to three months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jail</a>, but released on bail a week later, pending appeal; in January 1953, the appellate court unanimously reversed his conviction and dismissed the indictment.; in 1962, he started a petition drive for a Constitutional amendment to allow prayer in public schools. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Elisa Cuyar.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>William John Bennett (b. 1943)</b> — also known as <b>Bill Bennett</b> — Born in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-born.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/07-03.html">July 3, 1943</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of Education</a>, 1985-88; director, U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy ("Drug Czar"), 1989-91; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">radio show host</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">television commentator</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kappa-alpha-soc.html">Kappa Alpha Society</a>. In 2003, news media reported that Bennett had <b>lost millions gambling</b> in Las Vegas, a minor <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> in light of his advocacy for self-discipline and other virtues; he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">acknowledged</a> that he had done "too much gambling" and that it "set a bad example". Still living as of 2010. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1982/05-29.html">May 29, 1982</a>, to Mary Elayne Glover.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Cross-reference:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eichelroth-elcan.html#185.23.79">Allison H. 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