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The Political Graveyard: Politicians in Trouble or Disgrace: Obstruction of Justice
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Politicians in Trouble or Disgrace: Obstruction of Justice</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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Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/trea.html">Minnesota state treasurer</a>, 1872-73. After disclosure that he had accepted his predecessor's note for $112,000 of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">missing state funds</a>, and had <b>concealed</b> this fact from investigators, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a>; in spite of that, he was subsequently <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">impeached</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">removed from office</a>. The lost money was recovered from Seeger's bondsmen, and no criminal prosecution was made. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Asa Bird Gardiner (1839-1919)</b> — also known as <b>Asa Bird Gardner</b> — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Suffern, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RO-lived.html">Rockland 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/1839/09-30.html">September 30, 1839</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the Union Army during the Civil War; received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-honor.html">Medal of Honor</a> for actions in Civil War War battles, but it was revoked in 1917 when no evidence was found to support his award; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">law professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-officials.html">New York County District Attorney</a>, 1898-1900; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1900/NY.html">1900</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">removed from office</a> as District Attorney in December 1900, by Gov. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#741.57.28">Theodore Roosevelt</a>, over <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> that he had <b>interfered</b> with the prosecution of election cases against Tammany Hall. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/tammany-hall.html">Tammany Hall</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/loyal-legion.html">Loyal Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grand-army-republic.html">Grand Army of the Republic</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-war-1812.html">Society of the War of 1812</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-kappa-epsilon.html">Delta Kappa Epsilon</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">stroke of apoplexy</a>, in Suffern, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RO-died.html">Rockland County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/05-24.html">May 24, 1919</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 236 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms00142">Green-Wood Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y. <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 Asa Gardner and Rebekah Willard (Bentley) Gardner; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/10-17.html">October 17, 1865</a>, to Mary Austen; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/11-05.html">November 5, 1902</a>, to Harriet Isabelle Lindsay.</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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa Bird Gardiner">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/28512325">Find-A-Grave memorial</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>Clarence Seward Darrow (1857-1938)</b> — also known as <b>Clarence S. Darrow</b> — of Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in Kinsman, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/TR-born.html">Trumbull County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/04-18.html">April 18, 1857</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Illinois</a>, 1896; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/sthse.html">Illinois state house of representatives</a> 17th District, 1903-05; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/IL.html">1904</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/IL.html">1924</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aclu.html">American Civil Liberties Union</a>. Defense attorney for, among many others, Patrick Eugene Prendergast, who murdered Chicago mayor <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#656.69.21">Carter H. Harrison</a>. In 1911, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <b>bribing jurors</b> in a California case; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and acquitted; a second <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">trial</a> resulted in a hung jury. Famously cross-examined <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bryan.html#717.72.21">William Jennings Bryan</a> during the 1925 "Scopes Monkey Trial.". Died in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-died.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/03-13.html">March 13, 1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 329 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes scattered; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/RH-buried.html# ">Rhea County Courthouse Grounds</a>, Dayton, Tenn. <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 Amirus Darrow and Emily (Eddy) Darrow.</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/lloyd.html#305.11.57">William B. Lloyd</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>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence Darrow">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/813/000082567">NNDB dossier</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>Books by Clarence Darrow:</i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0879759402/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0879759402&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0306807386/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0306807386&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Story of My Life</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>Books about Clarence Darrow:</i> Arthur Weinberg, ed., <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226136493/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0226136493&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom</a> — Mike Papantonio, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0964971119/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0964971119&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Clarence Darrow, the journeyman</a> — Irving Stone, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451159306/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0451159306&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Clarence Darrow for the Defense</a> — Richard J. Jensen, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0313259909/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0313259909&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Clarence Darrow : The Creation of an American Myth</a> — Geoffrey Cowan, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/081296361X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=081296361X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The People v. Clarence Darrow : The Bribery Trial of America's Greatest Lawyer</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>Frederick J. Harwood</b> — of Newark, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-lived.html">Essex County</a>, N.J.; New York. Socialist. State Secretary, New Jersey Socialist Party, 1919; when <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/protest.html">attempting to speak</a> to a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/protest.html">Socialist rally</a> in Rahway, N.J., May 31, 1919, he was sprayed with a fire hose by Mayor <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/trelease-trimarchi.html#770.69.29">David H. Trembley</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <b>opposing and obstructing</b> a police officer, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $50; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 24th District, 1938. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>William Joseph Fallon (1886-1927)</b> — also known as <b>William J. Fallon</b>; <b>"The Great Mouthpiece"</b>; <b>"Broadway's Cicero"</b> — of Mamaroneck, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester 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/1886/index.html">1886</a>. Republican. <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 Westchester County 2nd District, 1918; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> in 1924 with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">bribing</a> a <b>juror</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and acquitted. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart disease</a>, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">Hotel</a> Oxford, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/04-29.html">April 29, 1927</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/40.html">about 40 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-buried.html#cms01209">Calvary Cemetery</a>, Woodside, Queens, N.Y. <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 M. Fallon; married to Agnes Rafter.</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>Books about William J. Fallon:</i> Gene Fowler, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007FMVB4/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0007FMVB4&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Great Mouthpiece : A Life Story of William J. Fallon</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>Florence Elizabeth Smith Knapp (1875-1949)</b> — also known as <b>Florence E. S. Knapp</b>; <b>Florence Elizabeth Smith</b> — of Syracuse, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ON-lived.html">Onondaga County</a>, N.Y. Born in Syracuse, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ON-born.html">Onondaga County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/03-25.html">March 25, 1875</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">superintendent of schools</a>; dean, College of Home Economics, Syracuse University; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/NY.html">1920</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/NY.html">1924</a> (alternate); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of New York</a>, 1925-27; in 1927, an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a> discovered her <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/misfeasance.html">maladministration</a> of the 1925 state census; she had paid salaries to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/nepotism.html">relatives</a> and others who did no census work, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/forgery.html">forged</a> indorsements on checks, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">received</a> money she was not entitled to, and burned state records to <b>conceal evidence</b> of these things; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> her position at Syracuse University; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> on various charges in 1928, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> twice and eventually <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">grand larceny</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 30 days in jail. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grange.html">Grange</a>. Died, following a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in Marcy State Hospital (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/asylum.html">insane asylum</a>), Marcy, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OE-died.html">Oneida County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1949/10-26.html">October 26, 1949</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 215 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ON-buried.html#cms00239">Oakwood Cemetery</a>, Syracuse, N.Y. <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> Daughter of James E. Smith and Mary (Hancock) Smith; married to Philip Schuyler Knapp.</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://findagrave.com/memorial/102055411">Find-A-Grave memorial</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>Michael Joseph Hogan (1871-1940)</b> — also known as <b>Michael J. Hogan</b> — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y.; Rockville Centre, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, 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/1871/04-22.html">April 22, 1871</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 7th District, 1921-23; defeated, 1922 (7th District), 1932 (at-large); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/trucking.html">trucking business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in 1934 for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">accepting money</a> from applicants for New York City plumbing licenses; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> on federal charges in 1935 of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">accepting bribes</a> from illegal immigrants and helping them file <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">false affidavits</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to a year and a day in federal prison; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">testified</a> in 1936 that he had assisted in a <b>jury tampering</b> conspiracy. Died in Rockville Centre, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1940/05-07.html">May 7, 1940</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 15 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms00142">Green-Wood Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y. <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>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000693">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405546">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael J. Hogan">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/3889">Find-A-Grave memorial</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>Hulan Edwin Jack (1906-1986)</b> — also known as <b>Hulan E. Jack</b> — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ST-born.html">St. Lucia</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/12-29.html">December 29, 1906</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/papermaking.html">Paper box manufacturer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a>, 1941-53, 1968-72 (New York County 17th District 1941-44, New York County 14th District 1945-53, 70th District 1968-72); defeated in primary, 1972; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html#3">borough president of Manhattan, New York</a>, 1954-61; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/NY.html">1956</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in 1960 on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of conspiracy to <b>obstruct justice</b> and violation of the City Charter, over <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">acceptance of $4,400</a> from a real estate developer; the indictment was dismissed, but then reinstated on appeal; a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">trial</a>, in June and July 1960, resulted in a hung jury; at a second <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">trial</a> was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>; his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentence</a> was suspended, but he was automatically <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">removed from office</a> as Borough President; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in 1970 on federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of conspiracy and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/conflict-of-interest.html">conflict of interest</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to three months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $5,000. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-sigma.html">Phi Beta Sigma</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. Died, in St. Luke's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1986/12-19.html">December 19, 1986</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 355 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> Married to Almira Wilkinson.</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>Tito Carinci (1928-2006)</b> — of Newport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CA-lived.html">Campbell County</a>, Ky.; Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/12-15.html">December 15, 1928</a>. President and manager of the Glenn <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hotel-biz.html">Hotel</a> and the Tropicana <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/tavern-biz.html">bar</a> and casino; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in 1961 on <b>obstruction of justice</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>; candidate in primary for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/newport.html">mayor of Newport, Ky.</a>, 1963. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2006/11-12.html">November 12, 2006</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 332 days</a>). Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/7764013546/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/772/43.57.jpg" width=70 height=109 border=0 alt="William Wallace Barron"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>William Wallace Barron (1911-2002)</b> — also known as <b>W. Wallace Barron</b>; <b>Wally Barron</b> — of Elkins, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/RN-lived.html">Randolph County</a>, W.Va. Born in Elkins, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/RN-born.html">Randolph County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/12-08.html">December 8, 1911</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/elkins.html">mayor of Elkins, W.Va.</a>, 1949-50; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Randolph County, 1951-53; resigned 1953; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/attygn.html">West Virginia state attorney general</a>; elected 1956; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/gov.html">Governor of West Virginia</a>, 1961-65. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/civitan.html">Civitan</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-jud-soc.html">American Judicature Society</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/40-8.html">Forty and Eight</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> of <b>jury tampering</b> in 1971, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to five years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Died in Charlotte, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ME-died.html">Mecklenburg County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2002/11-12.html">November 12, 2002</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 339 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/RN-buried.html#cms00192">Maplewood Cemetery</a>, Elkins, W.Va. <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 Rev. Frederick H. Barron and Mary (Butler) Barron; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/02-15.html">February 15, 1936</a>, to Opal B. Wilcox.</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/trelease-trimarchi.html#911.43.06">Curtis B. Trent, Jr.</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>See also</i> <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/william-w-barron/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Wallace Barron">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/703/000121340">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/181695014">Find-A-Grave memorial</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> West Virginia Blue Book 1951</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>Thomas James Mackell (1914-1992)</b> — also known as <b>Thomas J. Mackell</b> — of Rego Park, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-lived.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y.; Little Neck, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-lived.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y. 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/1914/07-19.html">July 19, 1914</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawenforcement.html">Police detective</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a>, 1955-66 (9th District 1955-65, 14th District 1966); alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/NY.html">1960</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/NY.html">1964</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-officials.html">Queens County District Attorney</a>, 1967-73. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Resigned</a> as District Attorney in 1973, following his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indictment</a> on charges of <b>hindering prosecution</b> in a get-rich-quick scheme; he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried and convicted</a> in 1974, but the verdict was reversed on appeal. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stomach-cancer.html">stomach cancer</a>, in Douglaston Manor, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-died.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1992/01-27.html">January 27, 1992</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 192 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-buried.html#cms01530">Mount St. Mary Cemetery</a>, Flushing, Queens, N.Y. <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 Mary Ann (Keating) Mackell and Peter Francis Mackell; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1939/">1939</a> to Dorothea R. Lang.</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>Epitaph:</i> "Loving Husband, Father and Poppie."</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://findagrave.com/memorial/31457598">Find-A-Grave memorial</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>Maurice Hubert Stans (1908-1998)</b> — also known as <b>Maurice H. Stans</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Born in Shakopee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/SC-born.html">Scott County</a>, Minn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/03-22.html">March 22, 1908</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/accounting.html">Accountant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of Commerce</a>, 1969-72. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in 1973, along with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell5.html#634.62.28">John N. Mitchell</a>, for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">perjury</a> and <b>obstruction</b> over a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/campaign-finance.html">contribution</a> from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/organized-crime.html">fugitive financier</a> Robert Vesco to President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nixon.html#870.67.93">Richard M. Nixon</a>'s re-election campaign; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and acquitted; later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to five violations of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/campaign-finance.html">campaign finance</a> laws and paid a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fine</a> of $5,000. Suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, and died five days later, at Huntington Memorial <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Pasadena, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-died.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1998/04-14.html">April 14, 1998</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 23 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 J. Hubert Stans and Mathilda (Nyssen) Stans; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/09-07.html">September 7, 1933</a>, to Kathleen Carmody.</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/sears.html#108.48.25">Harry L. Sears</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>See also</i> <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/304/000167800">NNDB dossier</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>John Newton Mitchell (1913-1988)</b> — also known as <b>John N. Mitchell</b> — of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Born in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-born.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/09-15.html">September 15, 1913</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Attorney General</a>, 1969-72. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. A central figure in the Watergate <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in 1973, along with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell5.html#634.62.28">Maurice Stans</a>, for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">perjury</a> and <b>obstruction</b> over a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/campaign-finance.html">contribution</a> from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/organized-crime.html">fugitive financier</a> Robert Vesco to President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nixon.html#870.67.93">Richard M. Nixon</a>'s re-election campaign; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and acquitted. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in February 1975 of conspiracy, <b>obstruction of justice</b> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">perjury</a>, over his role in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/burglary.html">Watergate break-in</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to two and a half to eight years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; served 19 months. Suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, and died later the same day, at George Washington University <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1988/11-09.html">November 9, 1988</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 55 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-buried.html#cms00004">Arlington National Cemetery</a>, Arlington, Va. <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 Charles Mitchell and Margaret Agnes (McMahon) Mitchell; married to Martha Beall.</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/stanly-stansel.html#471.17.89">Maurice H. Stans</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sears.html#108.48.25">Harry L. Sears</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>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John N. Mitchell">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/574/000055409">NNDB dossier</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>Books about John Mitchell:</i> James Rosen, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385508646/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0385508646&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate</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>George Bradford Cook (b. 1936)</b> — also known as <b>G. Bradford Cook</b> — of Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in Lincoln, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/LA-born.html">Lancaster County</a>, Neb., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/index.html">1936</a>. Chair, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1973; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned under fire</a> from the SEC, following disclosure that he had <b>modified</b> a commission complaint to delete references to a secret $200,000 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/campaign-finance.html">campaign contribution</a> to President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nixon.html#870.67.93">Richard Nixon</a>'s re-election campaign from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/organized-crime.html">fugitive financier</a> Robert Vesco; admitted that he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">testified falsely</a> to a Senate committee and to a grand jury investigating the matter; his license to practice law in Illinois and Nebraska was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">suspended</a> for three years. Still living as of 1975. <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 George Brash Cook; married to Jo Anne Thatcher and Laura Armour.</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>James M. Turner (1928-1981)</b> — of Woodbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/GL-lived.html">Gloucester County</a>, N.J. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/11-08.html">November 8, 1928</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> District 3-B; elected 1969; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/stsen.html">New Jersey state senate</a> District 3-A, 1972-73; removed 1973; defeated, 1973 (3rd District); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in 1973 of accepting a $10,000 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">bribe</a> to "fix" a stolen property case, and conspiring to <b>frame</b> Assemblyman <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gersch-gibbon.html#264.96.56">Kenneth A. Gewertz</a>, by planting <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/illegal-drugs.html">narcotics</a> in his home and his car. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1981/07-20.html">July 20, 1981</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 254 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>See also</i> <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=167892">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://catalog.usmint.gov/richard-m-nixon-engraved-presidential-portrait-large-BEP216.html"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/870/67.93.jpg" width=70 height=108 border=0 alt="Richard M. Nixon"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994)</b> — also known as <b>Richard M. Nixon</b>; <b>"Tricky Dick"</b>; <b>"Searchlight"</b> — of Whittier, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in Yorba Linda, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/01-09.html">January 9, 1913</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from California</a> 12th District, 1947-50; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from California</a>, 1950-53; appointed 1950; resigned 1953; delegate to Republican National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/CA.html">1952</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/committees.html">Resolutions Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/CA.html">1956</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1953-61; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1969-74; defeated, 1960; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of California</a>, 1962; candidate for Republican nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1964/index.html">1964</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/quaker.html">Quaker</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ord-coif.html">Order of the Coif</a>. Discredited by the Watergate <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a>, as many of his subordinates were charged with crimes; in July 1974, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee voted three <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">articles of impeachment</a> against him, over <b>obstruction of justice</b>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/abuse-authority.html">abuse of power</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/contempt.html">contempt of Congress</a>; soon after, a tape recording emerged which directly <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">implicated</a> him in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/burglary.html">Watergate break-in</a>; with impeachment certain, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pardon.html">pardoned</a> in 1974 by President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ford.html#906.13.45">Gerald R. Ford</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">stroke</a>, at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/ny-hospital.html">New York Hospital</a>/Cornell Medical Center, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1994/04-22.html">April 22, 1994</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 103 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/OR-buried.html#cms02215">Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace</a>, Yorba Linda, Calif. <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 Francis Anthony 'Frank' Nixon and Hannah (Milhous) Nixon; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1940/06-21.html">June 21, 1940</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nixon.html#694.14.50">Thelma Catherine Ryan</a>; father of Julie Nixon (daughter-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eichelroth-elcan.html#095.44.43">John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower</a>; granddaughter-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eichelroth-elcan.html#075.91.63">Dwight David Eisenhower</a>); second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/albritton-aldous.html#038.35.13">John Duffy Alderson</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>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0460.html">Carroll family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0294.html">Eisenhower-Nixon family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</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>Cross-reference:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanly-stansel.html#471.17.89">Maurice H. Stans</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holder-hollan.html#533.83.81">John H. Holdridge</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/macdougal-maciora.html#582.41.71">Clark MacGregor</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sears.html#108.48.25">Harry L. Sears</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dent.html#134.79.50">Harry S. Dent</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/herring-heslop.html#453.10.52">Christian A. Herter, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell5.html#634.62.28">John N. Mitchell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cook4.html#025.48.00">G. Bradford Cook</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/moffat-molumby.html#982.18.80">Raymond Moley</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buchanan.html#864.93.16">Patrick J. Buchanan</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boe-boggess.html#243.87.72">Nils A. Boe</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/choate-chrisman.html#551.02.50">Murray M. Chotiner</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blow-blumrosen.html#530.22.41">Richard Blumenthal</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewison-lifshitz.html#680.12.42">G. Gordon Liddy</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/saal-sacket.html#369.14.57">Robert D. Sack</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/larue-latchaw.html#278.37.28">Edward G. Latch</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mills.html#502.28.28">William O. Mills</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kerrey-keydel.html#600.17.79">Meyer Kestnbaum</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>Campaign slogan (1968):</i> "Nixon's the One!"</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>Epitaph:</i> "The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker."</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=N000116">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408200">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard Nixon">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/110/000024038">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0633271">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/1418">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4033">OurCampaigns candidate detail</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>Books by Richard M. Nixon:</i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671707418/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0671707418&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">RN : The Memoirs of Richard Nixon</a> (1978) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679433236/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0679433236&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Beyond Peace</a> (1994) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671659928/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0671659928&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">1999: Victory Without War</a> (1988) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568494971/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1568494971&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Leaders</a> (1982) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/156849498X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=156849498X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Memoirs</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385991258/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0385991258&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Six Crises</a> (1962) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product//ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Challenges We Face</a> (1960) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671700960/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0671700960&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat and Renewal</a> (1990) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0877957266/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0877957266&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">No More Vietnams</a> (1985) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0843103590/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0843103590&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Poetry of Richard Milhous Nixon</a> (1974) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316611492/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0316611492&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Real Peace</a> (1984) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/044651201X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=044651201X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Real War</a> (1980) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671743430/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0671743430&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Seize The Moment: America's Challenge in a One-Superpower World</a> (1992)</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>Books about Richard M. Nixon:</i> Melvin Small, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0700609733/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0700609733&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Presidency of Richard Nixon</a> — Joan Hoff, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465051057/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0465051057&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Nixon Reconsidered</a> — Jonathan Aitken, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895267209/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0895267209&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Nixon : A Life</a> — Garry Wills, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0877971986/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0877971986&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Nixon Agonistes : The Crisis of the Self-Made Man</a> — Thomas Monsell, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/078640163X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=078640163X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Nixon on Stage and Screen : The Thirty-Seventh President As Depicted in Films, Television, Plays and Opera</a> — Stephen E. Ambrose, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671657224/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0671657224&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Nixon : Education of a Politician, 1913-1962</a> — Richard Reeves, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684802317/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684802317&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">President Nixon: Alone in the White House</a> — Roger Morris, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805011218/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805011218&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician</a> — Robert Mason, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807829056/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807829056&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority</a> — Jules Witcover, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1586484702/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1586484702&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Very Strange Bedfellows : The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Richard Nixon & Spiro Agnew</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>Critical books about Richard M. Nixon:</i> Nathan Miller, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684852063/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684852063&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Star-Spangled Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents</a> — Lance Morrow, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465047238/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0465047238&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948: Learning the Secrets of Power</a> — Don Fulsom, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312662963/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312662963&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Nixon's Darkest Secrets: The Inside Story of America's Most Troubled President</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> United States Mint engraving</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>J. Herbert Burke (1913-1993)</b> — of Hollywood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/BR-lived.html">Broward County</a>, Fla.; Fort Lauderdale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/BR-lived.html">Broward County</a>, Fla. Born in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-born.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/01-14.html">January 14, 1913</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Florida</a>, 1967-79 (10th District 1967-73, 12th District 1973-79); defeated, 1955 (6th District), 1978 (12th District); delegate to Republican National Convention from Florida, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/FL.html">1972</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/eagles.html">Eagles</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/40-8.html">Forty and Eight</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/disabled-am-vets.html">Disabled American Veterans</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a> in 1978 for being <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/intoxication.html">drunk and disruptive</a> in the parking lot of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">strip club</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/intoxication.html">public drunkenness</a>, disorderly conduct and <b>witness tampering</b>. Died in Fern Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/SE-died.html">Seminole County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1993/06-16.html">June 16, 1993</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 153 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-buried.html#cms00004">Arlington National Cemetery</a>, Arlington, Va. <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>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001091">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402037">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/31541750">Find-A-Grave memorial</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>Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche Jr. (1922-2018)</b> — also known as <b>Lyndon LaRouche</b>; <b>Lyn Marcus</b> — of New York City (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ZZ-lived.html">unknown county</a>), N.Y.; Leesburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/LO-lived.html">Loudoun County</a>, Va. Born in Rochester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ST-born.html">Strafford County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/09-08.html">September 8, 1922</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S. Labor candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1976; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1980/index.html">1980</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1984/index.html">1984</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/index.html">1988</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1992/index.html">1992</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/index.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/index.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/index.html">2004</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a>, with others, on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/fraud.html">fraud</a> and conspiracy <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> in 1986 over solicitation of loans from supporters without intending to repay them; also <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <b>obstruction of justice</b> over destruction of financial records; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in federal court in Boston; a mistrial was declared in 1988; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">re-indicted</a> in federal court in Virginia on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of conspiracy, mail fraud, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/tax-evasion.html">tax evasion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to fifteen years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; released on parole in 1994; Independent candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a> 10th District, 1990. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2018/index.html">2018</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/95.html">about 95 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>Relatives:</i> Son of Jessie Lenore (Weir) LaRouche and Lyndon H. LaRouche, Sr.; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/">1954</a> to Janice Neuberger; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1977/">1977</a> to Helga Zepp.</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/clark7.html#939.65.45">Ramsey Clark</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>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon LaRouche">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/916/000022850">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3227515">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2011/06/228-lyndon-larouche.html">Encyclopedia of American Loons</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>Books by Lyndon H. LaRouche:</i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0943235189/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0943235189&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Now, Are You Ready To Learn Economics?</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0933488033/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0933488033&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">How to Defeat Liberalism and William F. Buckley</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BR4JTU/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000BR4JTU&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Earth's Next Fifty Years</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>Books about Lyndon H. LaRouche:</i> Michael O. Billington, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0943235170/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0943235170&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Reflections of an American Political Prisoner : The Repression and Promise of the LaRouche Movement</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>Critical books about Lyndon H. LaRouche:</i> Helen Gilbert, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0932323219/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0932323219&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Lyndon Larouche: Fascism Restyled for the New Millennium</a> — Dennis King, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385238800/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0385238800&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Lyndon Larouche and the New American Fascism</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19870713,00.html"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/033/53.03.jpg" width=70 height=98 border=0 alt="Oliver L. North"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Oliver Laurence North (b. 1943)</b> — also known as <b>Oliver L. North</b>; <b>Ollie North</b> — of Virginia. Born in San Antonio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BX-born.html">Bexar County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/10-07.html">October 7, 1943</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War; central figure in the Iran-Contra <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> of 1986; he was in charge of a secret (and illegal) government operation to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/smuggling.html">sell weapons to Iran</a> and provide the profits to the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/diplomatic-offenses.html">then-unrecognized</a> Nicaraguan "contras", who were fighting a civil war against the "Sandinista" government there; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in 1989 on federal charges of <b>obstructing</b> Congress, destroying documents, and accepting an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">illegal gratuity</a>; an appeals court later overturned the guilty verdict; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Virginia</a>, 1994; host of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">radio talk show</a> in 1995-2003, and is a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">television commentator</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/nra.html">National Rifle Association</a>. Still living as of 2014. <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/1968/11-13.html">November 13, 1968</a>, to Betsy Stuart.</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/bergan-berkstresser.html#373.49.75">Harry E. Bergold, Jr.</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>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver North">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/498/000024426">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0636048">Internet Movie Database profile</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> Time Magazine, July 13, 1987</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>Mario Biaggi (1917-2015)</b> — of Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-lived.html">Bronx County</a>, N.Y. 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/1917/10-26.html">October 26, 1917</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawenforcement.html">Police officer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1969-88 (24th District 1969-73, 10th District 1973-83, 19th District 1983-88); defeated, 1988 (Republican), 1992 (Democratic primary); delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1972/NY.html">1972</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1980/NY.html">1980</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1984/NY.html">1984</a>; Conservative candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1973. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in 1987 on federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> that he had accepted <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">bribes</a> from former Brooklyn political boss <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/esaias-esters.html#820.53.31">Meade Esposito</a> in in return for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/lobbyists.html">influence</a> on federal contracts for a Brooklyn ship-repair company; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> on September 22, 1987 of <b>obstructing justice</b> and accepting <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">illegal gratuities</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Tried</a> in 1988 on federal racketeering charges in connection with the Wedtech Corporation; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> on August 4, 1988 on 15 felony counts. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Resigned</a> from Congress following the Wedtech conviction; served more than two years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Died in Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-died.html">Bronx County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2015/06-24.html">June 24, 2015</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/97.html">97 years, 241 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-buried.html#cms00567">Gate of Heaven Cemetery</a>, Hawthorne, N.Y. <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 Marie Wassil.</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>Campaign slogan (1973):</i> "He wins, you win."</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>Campaign slogan (1973):</i> "He's right for what's wrong with New York."</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=B000432">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401418">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/875/000129488">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/148284006">Find-A-Grave memorial</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>Ricardo Jerome Bordallo (1927-1990)</b> — also known as <b>Ricardo J. Bordallo</b>; <b>Ricky Bordallo</b> — of Agana (now Hagatna), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GU/ZZ-lived.html">Guam</a>. Born in Agana (now Hagatna), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GU/ZZ-born.html">Guam</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/12-11.html">December 11, 1927</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/restaurant.html">Restaurant owner</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/autodealer.html">automobile dealer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GU/ofc/legis.html">Guam legislature</a>, 1956-70; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/GU.html">Guam Democratic Party chair</a>, 1960-63, 1971-73; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Guam, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/GU.html">1964</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GU/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Guam</a>, 1975-78, 1983-86; defeated, 1970; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in 1987 on corruption <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>, including <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">bribery</a>, <b>obstruction of justice</b>, and <b>witness tampering</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to nine years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a>; some of the charges were overturned on appeal in 1988; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resentenced</a> to four years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> in December, 1989. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/asian-pacific.html">Chamorro</a> ancestry. Just before he was to report to prison, he chained himself to a statue of Chief Quipuha, in a busy traffic circle at rush hour; wrapped in a Guam flag and wearing a sign saying "I regret I have but one life to give for my island," he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">killed himself</a>, in Agana (now Hagatna), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GU/ZZ-died.html">Guam</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1990/02-01.html">February 1, 1990</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 52 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GU/ZZ-buried.html# ">Pigo Catholic Cemetery</a>, Hagatna, Guam. <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 Baltazar Jeronimo 'B. J.' Bordallo and Josefina Torres (Pangelinan) Bordallo; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boothby-borunda.html#291.24.01">Paul Joseph Bordallo</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/">1953</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boothby-borunda.html#182.18.25">Madeleine Mary Zeien</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>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/15842.html">Bordallo family</a> of Minnesota.</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://www.nga.org/governor/ricardo-jerome-bordallo/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo Bordallo">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/138311537">Find-A-Grave memorial</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>Clarence M. Mitchell III (b. 1939)</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-lived.html">Baltimore</a>, Md. Born in St. Paul, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/RA-born.html">Ramsey County</a>, Minn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1939/12-14.html">December 14, 1939</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/sthse.html">Maryland state house of delegates</a>, 1963-66; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/stsen.html">Maryland state senate</a> District 10, 1967-86; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in 1987, along with his brother, by a federal grand jury in connection with the a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">bribery</a> investigation of Wedtech Corporation; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">accepting $50,000</a> to <b>stop</b> the Congressional investigation of Wedtech; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to two and a half years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in 1988 of <b>obstructing</b> an investigation of Baltimore <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/illegal-drugs.html">drug dealer</a> Melvin D. 'Little Melvin' Williams, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to two years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> in 1988 with failure to file <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/tax-evasion.html">income tax</a> returns; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and acquitted. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/urban-league.html">Urban League</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kappa-alpha-psi.html">Kappa Alpha Psi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jaycees.html">Jaycees</a>. Still living as of 1988. <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 Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. and Juanita Elizabeth (Jackson) Mitchell; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell6.html#678.51.39">Michael Bowen Mitchell</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell2.html#016.44.99">Clarence M. Mitchell IV</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell7.html#346.58.56">Parren James Mitchell</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell6.html#393.52.79">Keiffer Jackson Mitchell Jr.</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>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/15982.html">Mitchell family</a> of Baltimore, Maryland.</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>Michael Bowen Mitchell (b. 1945)</b> — also known as <b>Michael B. Mitchell</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-lived.html">Baltimore</a>, Md. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-born.html">Baltimore</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1945/11-07.html">November 7, 1945</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/stsen.html">Maryland state senate</a> 39th District, 1987; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in 1987, along with his brother, by a federal grand jury in connection with the a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">bribery</a> investigation of Wedtech Corporation; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">accepting $50,000</a> to <b>stop</b> the Congressional investigation of Wedtech; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to two and a half years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in 1988 of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/forgery.html">forging</a> documents to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">obtain</a> $77,000 in life insurance proceeds intended for the child of a murder victim, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to six years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</a>. Still living as of 1988. <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 Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. and Juanita Elizabeth (Jackson) Mitchell; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell2.html#540.03.16">Clarence M. Mitchell III</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell7.html#346.58.56">Parren James Mitchell</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell2.html#016.44.99">Clarence M. Mitchell IV</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell6.html#393.52.79">Keiffer Jackson Mitchell Jr.</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>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/15982.html">Mitchell family</a> of Baltimore, Maryland.</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>James E. Roark (b. 1945)</b> — also known as <b>Mike Roark</b>; <b>"Mad Dog"</b> — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Nitro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-born.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1945/index.html">1945</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/charleston.html">mayor of Charleston, W.Va.</a>, 1983-87; resigned 1987. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in August, 1987, on felony charges of possessing and distributing <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/illegal-drugs.html">cocaine</a>, and conspiring to <b>obstruct</b> the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a> by inducing a witness to commit <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">perjury</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to misdemeanors in November, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> as mayor. Still living as of 1987. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Evan Mecham (1924-2008)</b> — of Ajo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/PI-lived.html">Pima County</a>, Ariz.; Glendale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/MA-lived.html">Maricopa County</a>, Ariz. Born in Duchesne, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/DU-born.html">Duchesne County</a>, Utah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/05-12.html">May 12, 1924</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/autodealer.html">automobile dealer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper publisher</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/ofc/sthse.html">Arizona state house of representatives</a>, 1952; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/ofc/stsen.html">Arizona state senate</a>, 1960-62; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Arizona</a>, 1962 (Republican), 1992 (Independent); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Arizona</a>, 1987-88; defeated, 1964, 1974, 1978, 1982. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/mormon.html">Mormon</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/john-birch-soc.html">John Birch Society</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in 1988 on six felony counts of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">perjury</a> and filing a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/campaign-finance.html">false campaign report</a>, specifically of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/disclosure.html">failing to report</a> a $350,000 loan to his campaign by Barry Wolfson, a real estate developer; later acquitted of these charges. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Impeached</a> by the Arizona House of Representatives on February 5, 1988, on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of <b>obstructing justice</b> and illegally <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">lending state money</a> to his business; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted and removed from office</a> by the Arizona Senate on April 4, 1988. A <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">recall election</a> was scheduled against him, but it was cancelled by the Arizona Supreme Court. Died, from complications of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/dementia.html">Alzheimer's disease</a>, in Phoenix, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/MA-died.html">Maricopa County</a>, Ariz., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2008/02-22.html">February 22, 2008</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 286 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> Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1945/">1945</a> to Florence Lambert.</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://www.nga.org/governor/evan-mecham/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan Mecham">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/916/000103607">NNDB dossier</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>Arch Alfred Moore Jr. (1923-2015)</b> — also known as <b>Arch A. Moore, Jr.</b> — of Moundsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MH-lived.html">Marshall County</a>, W.Va.; Glen Dale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MH-lived.html">Marshall County</a>, W.Va. Born in Moundsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MH-born.html">Marshall County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/04-16.html">April 16, 1923</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Marshall County, 1953-54; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a> 1st District, 1957-69; defeated, 1954; delegate to Republican National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1960/WV.html">1960</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/WV.html">1972</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1984/WV.html">1984</a> (delegation chair); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/WV.html">Republican National Committee from West Virginia</a>, 1963-73; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/gov.html">Governor of West Virginia</a>, 1969-77, 1985-89; defeated, 1980, 1988; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from West Virginia</a>, 1978. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/40-8.html">Forty and Eight</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/eagles.html">Eagles</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-phi.html">Phi Delta Phi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/beta-theta-pi.html">Beta Theta Pi</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Pleaded guilty</a> in 1990 to five <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">felonies</a>, over findings that he had accepted <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/campaign-finance.html">illegal contributions</a> to his 1984 and 1988 election campaigns, had <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">extorted</a> over $500,000 from a coal company, and <b>obstructed</b> the investigation; served two years and eight months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2015/01-07.html">January 7, 2015</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/91.html">91 years, 266 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MH-buried.html# ">Riverview Cemetery</a>, Moundsville, W.Va. <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 Arch A. Moore and Genevieve (Jones) Moore; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1949/08-11.html">August 11, 1949</a>, to Shelley S. Riley; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/canon-caplis.html#332.77.82">Shelley Moore Capito</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>Cross-reference:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ballam-bancroft.html#737.84.36">Wade H. Ballard III</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>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000892">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407864">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/arch-a-moore/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch A. Moore, Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/696/000121333">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/141035904">Find-A-Grave memorial</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>Robert William Packwood (b. 1932)</b> — also known as <b>Bob Packwood</b> — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-lived.html">Multnomah County</a>, Ore.; Lake Oswego, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/CL-lived.html">Clackamas County</a>, Ore. Born in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-born.html">Multnomah County</a>, Ore., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/09-11.html">September 11, 1932</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-parties.html">chair of Multnomah County Republican Party</a>, 1960-62; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/ofc/sthse.html">Oregon state house of representatives</a>, 1963-68; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Oregon</a>, 1969-95; resigned 1995; delegate to Republican National Convention from Oregon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/OR.html">1972</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/unitarian.html">Unitarian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jaycees.html">Jaycees</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/beta-theta-pi.html">Beta Theta Pi</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Resigned</a> from the U.S. Senate in 1995, after the Select Committee on Ethics <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">recommended his expulson</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">sexual misconduct</a>, attempting to <b>obstruct</b> the committee's investigation, and using his position to solicit employment for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/nepotism.html">his wife</a>. Still living as of 2014. <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 Frederick William Packwood and Gladys (Taft) Packwood; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1964/11-25.html">November 25, 1964</a>, to Georgie Ann Oberteuffer; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/paca-paganelli.html#590.23.46">William Henderson Packwood</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/branchfield-brandofino.html#675.27.28">Augustus Brandegee</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/paca-paganelli.html#858.61.68">Otis Larry Packwood</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>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0421.html">Wolcott-Griswold-Packwood-Brandegee family</a> of Connecticut (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</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>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000009">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408420">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/643/000023574">NNDB dossier</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>Henry Gabriel Cisneros (b. 1947)</b> — also known as <b>Henry G. Cisneros</b> — of San Antonio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BX-lived.html">Bexar County</a>, Tex. Born in San Antonio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BX-born.html">Bexar County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/06-11.html">June 11, 1947</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sanantonio.html">Mayor of San Antonio, Tex.</a>, 1981-89; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development</a>, 1993-97. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/hispanic.html">Hispanic</a> ancestry. In 1995, an independent counsel was appointed to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigate</a> allegations that he had made <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">false statements</a> to the FBI about payments he made to his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">mistress</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in 1997 on 18 counts of conspiracy, making <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">false statements</a>, and <b>obstruction of justice</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to a misdemeanor count of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">lying to the FBI</a>, and was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $10,000; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pardon.html">pardoned</a> in 2001 by President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#673.06.95">Bill Clinton</a>. Still living as of 2014. <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 George Cisneros and Elvira Cisneros; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1969/">1969</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cisco-clague.html#872.85.99">Mary Alice Perez</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>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry Cisneros">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/005/000025927">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1188933">Internet Movie Database profile</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>Books by Henry Cisneros:</i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1890346012/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1890346012&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Mayor : An Inside View of San Antonio Politics, 1981-1995</a> (1997)</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>Books about Henry Cisneros:</i> Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1562943685/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1562943685&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Henry Cisneros : Mexican-American Leader</a> (for young readers)</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>Melvin Jay Reynolds (b. 1952)</b> — also known as <b>Mel Reynolds</b> — of Illinois. Born in Mound Bayou, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/BO-born.html">Bolivar County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1952/01-08.html">January 8, 1952</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">University professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Illinois</a> 2nd District, 1993-95; defeated in primary, 1988, 1990; resigned 1995. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in 1995 on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">sexual misconduct</a> and <b>obstruction of justice</b> charges and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to five years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in federal court in 1997 of 15 counts of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bank-fraud.html">bank fraud</a>, wire fraud, and lying to the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/campaign-finance.html">Federal Election Commission</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 78 more months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Still living as of 2014. <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>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000178">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409154">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/857/000088593">NNDB dossier</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>William Jefferson Clinton (b. 1946)</b> — also known as <b>Bill Clinton</b>; <b>William Jefferson Blythe IV</b>; <b>"Slick Willie"</b>; <b>"Bubba"</b>; <b>"Elvis"</b>; <b>"Eagle"</b>; <b>"The Big Dog"</b> — of Arkansas; Chappaqua, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y. Born in Hope, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/HE-born.html">Hempstead County</a>, Ark., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1946/08-19.html">August 19, 1946</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/rhodes-scholars.html">Rhodes scholar</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Arkansas</a> 3rd District, 1974; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/attygn.html">Arkansas state attorney general</a>, 1977-79; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Arkansas</a>, 1979-81, 1983-92; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Arkansas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/AR.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/AR.html">2000</a>; speaker, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1984/speakers.html">1984</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/speakers.html">1988</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1993-2001; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/NY.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/NY.html">2008</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/trilateral-commission.html">Trilateral Commission</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/cfr.html">Council on Foreign Relations</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/pi-sigma-alpha.html">Pi Sigma Alpha</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-alpha-delta.html">Phi Alpha Delta</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. On October 29, 1994, Francisco Duran fired 27 shots from the sidewalk at the White House in an apparent <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">assassination attempt</a> against President Clinton. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Impeached</a> by the House of Representatives in December 1998 over allegations of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">perjury</a> and <b>obstruction of justice</b> in connection with his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">sexual contact</a> with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, but acquitted by the Senate. Still living as of 2020. <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> Step-son of Roger Clinton; son of William Jefferson Blythe II and Virginia (Cassidy) Clinton; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1975/10-11.html">October 11, 1975</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#754.43.91">Hillary Diane Rodham</a> (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rodgers-rodriguez.html#569.11.84">Hugh Edwin Rodham</a>); father of Chelsea Clinton (daughter-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meyering-michalski.html#383.21.19">Edward Maurice Mezvinsky</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mara-margolis.html#859.96.47">Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky</a>); third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/locker-lockport.html#261.79.43">James Alexander Lockhart</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>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0948.html">Clinton family</a> of Wadesboro, North Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0256.html">Ashe-Polk family</a> of North Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</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>Cross-reference:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hipke-hisson.html#240.53.29">Abraham J. Hirschfeld</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/starr.html#203.18.03">Kenneth W. Starr</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/elystus-emerich.html#602.91.13">Rahm Emanuel</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cisco-clague.html#079.28.34">Henry G. Cisneros</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eberhart-eddleman.html#751.59.87">Maria Echaveste</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#618.71.93">Thurgood Marshall, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/onen-orner.html#623.31.44">Walter S. Orlinsky</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ruble-ruggero.html#203.34.90">Charles F. C. Ruff</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maloney.html#619.24.48">Sean Patrick Maloney</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis6.html#899.39.58">Lanny J. Davis</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;">The William Jefferson Clinton <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Federal Building</a> (built 1934; renamed 2012) in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-names.html">Washington, D.C.</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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://www.nga.org/governor/william-jefferson-clinton/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill Clinton">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/427/000026349">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001051">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4019">OurCampaigns candidate detail</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>Books by Bill Clinton:</i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679459316/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0679459316&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Between Hope and History : Meeting America's Challenges for the 21st Century</a> (1996) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375414576/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375414576&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">My Life</a> (2004)</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>Books about Bill Clinton:</i> David Maraniss, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684818906/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684818906&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">First in His Class : The Biography of Bill Clinton</a> — Joe Conason, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312273193/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312273193&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Hunting of the President : The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton</a> — Gene Lyons, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1879957523/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1879957523&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Fools for Scandal : How the Media Invented Whitewater</a> — Sidney Blumenthal, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374125023/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0374125023&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Clinton Wars</a> — Dewayne Wickham, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345450329/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0345450329&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Bill Clinton and Black America</a> — Joe Klein, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767914120/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0767914120&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Natural : The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton</a> — Nigel Hamilton, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375506101/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375506101&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Bill Clinton: An American Journey</a> — Bob Woodward, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671666843/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0671666843&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House</a> — George Stephanopolous, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316930164/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0316930164&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">All Too Human</a> — John F. Harris, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375508473/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375508473&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Survivor : Bill Clinton in the White House</a> — Mark Katz, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786869496/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0786869496&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Clinton & Me: A Real Life Political Comedy</a> — Michael Takiff, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/030012130X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=030012130X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">A Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Him</a> — Tim O'Shei, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0766051498/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0766051498&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Bill Clinton</a> (for young readers)</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>Critical books about Bill Clinton:</i> Barbara Olson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895261677/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0895261677&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Final Days : The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House</a> — Meredith L. Oakley, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895267195/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0895267195&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">On the Make : The Rise of Bill Clinton</a> — Robert Patterson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895261405/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0895261405&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Endangered America's Long-Term National Security</a> — Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895264080/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0895264080&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories</a> — Ann Coulter, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895261138/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0895261138&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton</a> — Dick Morris & Eileen McGann, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060784156/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060784156&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Because He Could</a> — Jack Cashill, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0785262377/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0785262377&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Ron Brown's Body : How One Man's Death Saved the Clinton Presidency and Hillary's Future</a> — Christopher Hitchens, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1859842844/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1859842844&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">No One Left To Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family</a> — Rich Lowry, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895261294/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0895261294&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years</a> — Richard Miniter, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260743/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0895260743&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Losing Bin Laden : How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror</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>Paul J. Silvester (born c.1963)</b> — of West Hartford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/HA-lived.html">Hartford County</a>, Conn. Born about 1963. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/trea.html">Connecticut state treasurer</a>, 1997-99; appointed 1997. In September 1999, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of racketeering, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/money-laundering.html">money laundering</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">bribery</a>. His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">bail was revoked</a> in January 2002 for <b>improper contacts</b> with a defendant in another corruption trial. Still living as of 2002. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Sara B. Bost (born c.1948)</b> — of Irvington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-lived.html">Essex County</a>, N.J. Born about 1948. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/irvington.html">Mayor of Irvington, N.J.</a>, 1994-2002. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in April 2002 on federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">bribery</a> and <b>witness tampering</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> in April 2003 to one count of <b>witness tampering</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to one year in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Still living as of 2004. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua (1923-2012)</b> — also known as <b>Anthony Bevilacqua</b> — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa.; Wynnewood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/MO-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Pa. Born in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-born.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/06-17.html">June 17, 1923</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Catholic priest</a>; bishop of Pittsburgh, 1983-88; archbishop of Philadelphia, 1988-2003; cardinal from 1991; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/2000 /speakers.html">offered prayer</a>, Republican National Convention, 2000 ; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">accused</a> in 2003-04 of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/vice.html">protecting</a> priests who were suspected of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">sexually abusing children</a>; later, it was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">found</a> that he had ordered a subordinate to <b>destroy a list</b> of 35 abusive priests, and that he had <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/abuse-authority.html">punished a priest</a> who had raised concerns about possible abuse. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> ancestry. Died in Wynnewood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/MO-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2012/01-31.html">January 31, 2012</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 228 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-buried.html#cms08011">Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul</a>, Philadelphia, Pa. <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 Luigi Bevilacqua and Maria (Codella) Bevilacqua.</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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony Bevilacqua">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/192992617">Find-A-Grave memorial</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>Christopher Lee Bollyn (born c.1957)</b> — also known as <b>Christopher Bollyn</b> — of Hoffman Estates, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born about 1957. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Journalist</a>; promoter of theory that Israeli agents were responsible for the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center; candidate in primary for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/hoffmanestates.html">village president of Hoffman Estates, Illinois</a>, 2001; in August 2006, he called 911 to report a suspicious vehicle in his neighborhood; got into an altercation and scuffle with police; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> and charged with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/assault.html">aggravated assault</a> and <b>resisting arrest</b>; tried and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in 2007; did not appear for sentencing. Still living as of 2006. <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>See also</i> <a href="https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2010/06/32-christopher-bollyn.html">Encyclopedia of American Loons</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>William Shannon Lerach (b. 1946)</b> — also known as <b>William S. Lerach</b>; <b>Bill Lerach</b> — of Rancho Santa Fe, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SD-lived.html">San Diego County</a>, Calif. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1946/index.html">1946</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/CA.html">1996</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Plead guilty</a> in 2007 to federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of conspiracy to commit <b>obstruction of justice</b> and making <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">false declarations under oath</a> in connection with a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/kickbacks.html">kickback</a> scheme; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to two years in prison, fined $250,000, and ordered to do 1,000 hours of community service. 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>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Lerach">Wikipedia article</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>Kwame Malik Kilpatrick (b. 1970)</b> — also known as <b>Kwame M. Kilpatrick</b> — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-born.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1970/06-08.html">June 8, 1970</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> 9th District, 1997-2001; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/MI.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/MI.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/MI.html">2008</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/detroit.html">mayor of Detroit, Mich.</a>, 2002-08; resigned 2008; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/MI.html">Democratic National Committee from Michigan</a>, 2004-08; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> in 2008 with <b>obstruction of justice</b>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">perjury</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/misfeasance.html">misconduct in office</a>, in connection with his denial under oath of an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">affair</a> 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/assault.html">assaulting</a> two police officers who were serving a subpoena; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to two felony counts of <b>obstruction of justice</b> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">no contest</a> to one <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/assault.html">assault</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charge</a>; he also agreed to four months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jail</a>, payment of $1 million in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">restitution</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resign</a> as mayor, and to give up his law license and pension. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</a>. Still living as of 2020. <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 Bernard Kilpatrick and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kilguss-kim.html#920.71.24">Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick</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>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame Kilpatrick">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/157/000162668">NNDB dossier</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>Phill Kline (b. 1959)</b> — of Overland Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/JO-lived.html">Johnson County</a>, Kan. Born in Kansas City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/WY-born.html">Wyandotte County</a>, Kan., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1959/12-31.html">December 31, 1959</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">radio show host</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Kansas</a>, 1986 (2nd District), 2000 (3rd District); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/ofc/sthse.html">Kansas state house of representatives</a> 18th District, 1993-2000; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/ofc/attygn.html">Kansas state attorney general</a>, 2003-07; defeated, 2006; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/JO-officials.html">Johnson County District Attorney</a>, 2007-08. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/nazarene.html">Nazarene</a>. In October, 2011, the Kansas Supreme Court <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indefinitely suspended</a> his license to practice law, citing <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/misfeasance.html">misconduct</a> while investigating abortion clinics, including <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">perjury</a> and deliberately deceiving <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/contempt.html">judges</a>, state officials, a <b>grand jury</b>, and the investigating panel of the Board for Discipline of Attorneys. Still living as of 2014. <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>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phill Kline">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=970">OurCampaigns candidate detail</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>James Daniel Jordan (b. 1964)</b> — also known as <b>Jim Jordan</b> — of Urbana, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CH-lived.html">Champaign County</a>, Ohio. Born in Troy, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MI-born.html">Miami County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1964/02-17.html">February 17, 1964</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/coach.html">Athletic coach</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/sthse.html">Ohio state house of representatives</a> 85th District, 1995-2000; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/stsen.html">Ohio state senate</a> 12th District, 2001-06; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Ohio</a> 4th District, 2007-; in 2018, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">accused</a> by former Ohio State University wrestlers of ignoring <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">sexual abuse</a> by the team physician; he denied this, but refused to cooperate with an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a>; in a lawsuit, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <b>witness tampering</b> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">intimidation</a>; received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-freedom.html">Medal of Freedom</a> on January 11, 2021; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/2020 /speakers.html">speaker</a>, Republican National Convention, 2020. Still living as of 2022. <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>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000289">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412226">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim Jordan (American politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Jim Jordan (Ohio)">Ballotpedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/098/000207474">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6269733">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2017/03/1806-joseph-jordan.html">Encyclopedia of American Loons</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>Mark Thomas McCloskey</b> — also known as <b>Mark McCloskey</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-lived.html">St. Louis</a>, Mo. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-born.html">St. Louis</a>, Mo. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; on June 28, 2020, as a group of Black Lives Matter protesters passed by their home, he and his wife <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mccloskey-mcclung.html#843.47.25">Patty</a> yelled at the protesters and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/weapons.html">brandished guns</a> at them; the incident was captured on video and received national publicity; they were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/weapons.html">weapons violation</a> and <b>tampering with evidence</b>; ultimately pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/2020 /speakers.html">speaker</a>, Republican National Convention, 2020 ; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Missouri</a>, 2022. Still living as of 2022. <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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mccloskey-mcclung.html#843.47.25">Patricia McCloskey</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>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark McCloskey">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8036676">Internet Movie Database profile</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>Patricia McCloskey</b> — also known as <b>Patty McCloskey</b>; <b>Patricia Novak</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-lived.html">St. Louis</a>, Mo. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; on June 28, 2020, as a group of Black Lives Matter protesters passed by their home, she and her husband <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mccloskey-mcclung.html#086.27.15">Mark</a> yelled at the protesters and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/weapons.html">brandished guns</a> at them; the incident was captured on video and received national publicity; they were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/weapons.html">weapons violation</a> and <b>tampering with evidence</b>; ultimately pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/2020 /speakers.html">speaker</a>, Republican National Convention, 2020. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Still living as of 2020. <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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mccloskey-mcclung.html#086.27.15">Mark Thomas McCloskey</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>See also</i> <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11699190">Internet Movie Database profile</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-9588757529416233"; /* TPG general sideline */ google_ad_slot = "2646840196"; google_ad_width = 160; google_ad_height = 600; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-9588757529416233"; /* TPG general bottomline */ google_ad_slot = "1170106998"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;"> <span style="font-family:garamond,serif"> <i>"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."</i></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:8pt;">Henry L. 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