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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Politicians: Death in Offices</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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Merrill; Ferrand Fassett Merrill — of Vermont. Born in Montpelier, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/WA-born.html">Washington County</a>, Vt., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1814/10-24.html">October 24, 1814</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Vermont</a>, 1849-53; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/WA-officials.html">Washington County State's Attorney</a>, 1854-56; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/ofc/sthse.html">Vermont state house of representatives</a>, 1856-57. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">stroke</a> or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in his law office, Montpelier, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/WA-died.html">Washington County</a>, Vt., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/05-02.html">May 2, 1859</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/44.html">44 years, 190 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/WA-buried.html#cms01008">Green Mount Cemetery</a>, Montpelier, Vt. <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">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/merrill.html#001.75.05">Timothy Merrill</a> and Clara (Fassett) Merrill; married to Eliza Wright; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/merrill.html#118.03.57">Orsamus Cook Merrill</a>; fifth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/welles-wellmerling.html#111.95.76">Thomas Welles</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#576.03.61">Jason Kellogg</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#868.32.79">Aaron Kellogg</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#770.34.45">Silas Dewey Kellogg</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#849.24.85">William Sheffield Cowles (1846-1923)</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#062.20.35">Charles Kellogg (1773-1842)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#194.32.12">Daniel Fiske Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#629.48.00">William Pitt Kellogg</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#717.74.29">William Sheffield Cowles (1898-1986)</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#469.29.30">Josiah Cowles</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seymour.html#683.55.96">Thomas Seymour</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seymour.html#358.48.30">Moses Seymour</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#542.61.26">Charles Collins Kellogg</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#353.94.65">Henry Theodore Kellogg</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/murphy4.html#247.65.34">Irene Ellis Murphy</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baczkowski-baile.html#924.72.11">Luther Walter Badger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hotchkiss-hougen.html#472.46.19">Elisha Hotchkiss Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronson.html#437.89.78">Greene Carrier Bronson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashley.html#844.96.95">Chester Ashley</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#316.08.43">Daniel Kellogg (1791-1875)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#262.96.22">Alvan Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nash.html#879.06.51">Alvah Nash</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#526.52.89">John Russell Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#216.73.47">Day Otis Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#049.84.76">Dwight Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/castleberry-catone.html#082.28.77">George Smith Catlin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#922.22.69">Albert Gallatin Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#481.85.10">Francis William Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#785.33.52">Ensign Hosmer Kellogg</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#320.61.72">Charles Kellogg (1839-1903)</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#222.26.90">Daniel Chapin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/merrill.html#559.08.23">Abel Merrill</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#039.79.42">Gaylord Griswold</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mason.html#998.41.69">Jeremiah Mason</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tiernon-tilgham.html#102.07.68">Stephen Daniel Tilden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodnutt-woodrum.html#484.35.05">Morris Woodruff</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seymour.html#737.15.66">Horatio Seymour</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phelps.html#743.86.80">Elisha Phelps</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seymour.html#388.11.15">Henry Seymour</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fort-fossum.html#669.66.02">Oliver Owen Forward</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/upjohn-upston.html#967.04.59">Daniel Upson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fort-fossum.html#373.23.51">Walter Forward</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fort-fossum.html#346.43.04">Chauncey Forward</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#352.67.90">Orlando Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#013.58.69">William Dean Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#699.76.10">Stephen Wright Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#273.22.68">George Bradley Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#599.32.89">Daniel Kellogg (1835-1918)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#969.08.53">Arthur Tappan Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/merrill.html#247.17.45">Selah Merrill</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#335.49.90">Rowland Case Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodcock-woodley.html#731.62.11">Arthur Burnham Woodford</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/merrill.html#059.96.72">Benjamin Baker Merrill</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/154631357">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Harvey Myers (1828-1874) — of Kentucky. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/02-10.html">February 10, 1828</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Kentucky</a> 6th District, 1872. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">killed</a> by Col. William G. Terrell, whose wife he had represented in a divorce case, in the Stevenson & Myers law office, Greer Building, Covington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/KE-died.html">Kenton County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/03-28.html">March 28, 1874</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/46.html">46 years, 46 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/KE-buried.html#cms01782">Highland Cemetery</a>, Fort Mitchell, Ky. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Frank B. Arnold (1839-1890) — also known as Michael Edwards; Benjamin Franklin Arnold — of Unadilla, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OG-lived.html">Otsego County</a>, N.Y. Born in County Clare, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EI-born.html">Ireland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/03-29.html">March 29, 1839</a>. Republican. <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/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Otsego County 2nd District, 1885-87; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 23rd District, 1888-89; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 24th District, 1890, 1890. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Died from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">self-inflicted</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot</a>, in his law office, Unadilla, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OG-died.html">Otsego County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/12-11.html">December 11, 1890</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">51 years, 257 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OG-buried.html#cms02759">St. Matthew's Cemetery</a>, Unadilla, 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">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/franklin.html#370.29.47">Benjamin Franklin</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/">1873</a> to Clarissa Mygatt Sands.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank B. Arnold">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/85664848">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Frank Hatton (1846-1894) — of Burlington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/DM-lived.html">Des Moines County</a>, Iowa. Born in Cambridge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/GU-born.html">Guernsey County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/04-28.html">April 28, 1846</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Postmaster General</a>, 1884-85. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">stroke</a>, in his office at the Washington Post, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/04-30.html">April 30, 1894</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/48.html">48 years, 2 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00376">Rock Creek Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C. <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">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9424797">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Charles Henry Voorhis (1833-1896) — also known as Charles H. Voorhis — of New Jersey. Born in Spring Valley (now Paramus), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/BE-born.html">Bergen County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/03-13.html">March 13, 1833</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1864/NJ.html">1864</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> 5th District, 1879-81. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in 1881 for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bank-fraud.html">bank fraud</a> over his actions as president of two banks, which later became insolvent; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and found not guilty. Fearing oncoming total blindness, he died from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">self-inflicted</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot</a>, in his office at the Davidson Building, Jersey City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HU-died.html">Hudson County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/04-15.html">April 15, 1896</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 33 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HU-buried.html#cms07025">Bayview - New York Bay Cemetery</a>, Jersey City, N.J.; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/BE-buried.html#cms02050">Hackensack Cemetery</a>, Hackensack, N.J. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000117">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411171">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles H. Voorhis">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6859208">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Henrique J. Laidley (1828-1904) — also known as Henrique Laidley; Henry Laidley — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PT-born.html">Portugal</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/06-24.html">June 24, 1828</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/misc-occ.html">Debt collector</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PT-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Portugal</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-consuls.html">San Francisco, Calif.</a>, 1870-1904. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/portugese.html">Portugese</a> ancestry. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in his consular office, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-died.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/12-07.html">December 7, 1904</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 166 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes interred at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-buried.html#cms07888">San Francisco Columbarium</a>, San Francisco, 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">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/203790030">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> George Wallace Delamater (1849-1907) — also known as George W. Delamater — of Meadville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CR-lived.html">Crawford County</a>, Pa. Born in Meadville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CR-born.html">Crawford County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/03-31.html">March 31, 1849</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/meadville.html">mayor of Meadville, Pa.</a>, 1877; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CR-parties.html">chair of Crawford County Republican Party</a>, 1878; candidate for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a> 50th District, 1887-90; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Pennsylvania</a>, 1890. Died from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">self-inflicted</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot wound</a>, in his office at the Diamond Banking Building, Pittsburgh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-died.html">Allegheny County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/08-07.html">August 7, 1907</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 129 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CR-buried.html#cms00484">Greendale Cemetery</a>, Meadville, 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">Relatives: Son of Susan (Town) Delamater and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dehart-deland.html#520.83.81">George Benjamin Delamater</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/36087735">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Paul Charles Barth (1858-1907) — also known as Paul C. Barth — of Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a>, December, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/index.html">1858</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/louisville.html">Mayor of Louisville, Ky.</a>, 1905-07; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">removed from office</a> over alleged <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/vote-fraud.html">vote fraud</a>, 1907. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">Killed himself</a> by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot</a>, in the lavatory of his office, Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-died.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/08-21.html">August 21, 1907</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/48.html">48 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-buried.html#cms02715">St. Louis Cemetery</a>, Louisville, Ky. <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">Relatives: Son of Jacob Frederick Barth and Louisa A. (Barth) Barth; married to Jewel Small.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul C. Barth">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/006/000164511">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/45300060">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Harvey Watterson (1879-1908) — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/02-12.html">February 12, 1879</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a>, 1906. While trying to close a window in his law office, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/falls.html">fell</a> through the window to his death 110 feet below, in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/11-11.html">November 11, 1908</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/29.html">29 years, 273 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-buried.html#cms00479">Cave Hill Cemetery</a>, Louisville, Ky. <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">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/watt-wattles.html#772.78.42">Henry Watterson</a> and Rebecca (Ewing) Watterson; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/watt-wattles.html#063.00.10">Harvey Magee Watterson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ewing.html#692.90.09">Andrew Ewing</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ewing.html#538.19.16">Edwin Hickman Ewing</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#677.68.68">John Overton Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#547.41.02">James Harlan Cleveland Jr.</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#123.19.22">Joseph Wheeler Bloodgood</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0427.html">Ewing-Matthews-Watterson-Harrison family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/86006593">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> William C. Mains (c.1872-1909) — of Mt. Vernon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y. Born about 1872. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; crusader against saloons in Mt. Vernon, N.Y.; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Westchester County 1st District, 1901. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">self-inflicted</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot wound</a>, in his office at Mt. Vernon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-died.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/01-23.html">January 23, 1909</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/37.html">about 37 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">Relatives: Son of Rev. George P. Mains.</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> Henry Bischoff Jr. (1852-1913) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/08-16.html">August 16, 1852</a>. Common pleas court judge in New York, 1895; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 1st District, 1896-1913; died in office 1913. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. While taking an ascending <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/elevator.html">elevator</a> to his office in the Emigrants Industrial Savings Bank Building, he got off at the wrong floor, and while trying to re-enter the elevator, he hit his head on a door frame, smashing some glass, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/falls.html">fell</a> about 150 feet down the elevator shaft to his death, in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/03-28.html">March 28, 1913</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 224 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-buried.html#cms00342">Woodlawn Cemetery</a>, Bronx, 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">Relatives: Son of Henry Bischoff and Amelia (Bolte) Bischoff; married to Annie Louise Moshier.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/22383130">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=iYdBkBWv0QsC&pg=PA280"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/663/03.32.jpg" width=70 height=105 border=0 alt="John C. Sheehan"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Charles Sheehan (1848-1916) — also known as John C. Sheehan — of New York. Born in Buffalo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ER-born.html">Erie County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1848/08-05.html">August 5, 1848</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; New York City <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawenforcement.html">Police</a> Commissioner, 1892; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1896/NY.html">1896</a>; vice-president and director, Long Acre <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/utilities.html">Electric Light & Power</a> Company. <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/tammany-hall.html">Tammany Hall</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart failure</a>, in his law office, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/02-09.html">February 9, 1916</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 188 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-buried.html#cms07425">Holy Sepulchre Cemetery</a>, New Rochelle, 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">Relatives: Son of William Sheehan and Honora (Crowley) Sheehan; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sheehan.html#413.31.72">William Francis Sheehan</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/">1902</a> to Marian Mulhall.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/38236785">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: American Monthly Review of Reviews, September 1897</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> Owen Thomas Rouse (1843-1919) — also known as Owen T. Rouse — of Paris, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/MO-lived.html">Monroe County</a>, Mo.; Moberly, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/RA-lived.html">Randolph County</a>, Mo.; Tucson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/PI-lived.html">Pima County</a>, Ariz. Born in Florence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/BO-born.html">Boone County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/01-04.html">January 4, 1843</a>. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/stsen.html">Missouri state senate</a> 7th District, 1881-84; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Arizona</a>, 1885-89. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>. Suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">stroke of apoplexy</a> in his law office, was found unconscious, and died a few hours later, in Tucson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/PI-died.html">Pima County</a>, Ariz., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/09-09.html">September 9, 1919</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 248 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/PI-buried.html#cms01373">Evergreen Memorial Park</a>, Tucson, Ariz. <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">Relatives: Son of Joshua Rouse and Tulitha (Souther) Rouse; married to Louise Mosely.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/50691909">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Nicholas Jay Paul (1841-1921) — also known as Nicholas J. Paul — of St. Paul, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/HW-lived.html">Howard County</a>, Neb. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MG-born.html">Meigs County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/07-27.html">July 27, 1841</a>. Probate judge in Nebraska, 1872-75; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/ofc/sthse.html">Nebraska state house of representatives</a>, 1877; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/HW-officials.html">Howard County Treasurer</a>, 1880-83; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">apoplexy</a>, at his desk in his office, in St. Paul, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/HW-died.html">Howard County</a>, Neb., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/07-18.html">July 18, 1921</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 356 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">Relatives: Brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/patty-payn.html#932.98.55">James N. Paul</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/HW-names.html">St. Paul, Nebraska</a>, is partly <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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> Eugene Foster (1860-1928) — of Gladwin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/GL-lived.html">Gladwin County</a>, Mich. Born in Caroga town, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/FU-born.html">Fulton County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/08-08.html">August 8, 1860</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/GL-parties.html">chair of Gladwin County Republican Party</a>, 1892-1928; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/MI.html">1896</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/cncn6.html">delegate to Michigan state constitutional convention</a> 28th District, 1907-08; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 28th District, 1909-12. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/royal-arch-masons.html">Royal Arch Masons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/oes.html">Order of the Eastern Star</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/foresters.html">Foresters</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/woodmen.html">Woodmen</a>. Died, probably from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart disease</a>, in his office at the Gladwin County Record newspaper, Gladwin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/GL-died.html">Gladwin County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/10-02.html">October 2, 1928</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 55 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/GL-buried.html# ">Highland Cemetery</a>, Gladwin, Mich. <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">Relatives: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/09-30.html">September 30, 1916</a>, to Cora W. Mills.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/68020107">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Clarence Elwyn Pitts (1876-1928) — also known as Clarence E. Pitts — of Oswego, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OS-lived.html">Oswego County</a>, N.Y.; Stuart, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/MT-lived.html">Martin County</a>, Fla. Born in New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/03-27.html">March 27, 1876</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; New York Prohibition state chair, 1909-11; Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 5th District, 1909, 1910, 1913; Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn7.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a> at-large, 1914; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/FL.html">Florida Republican state chair</a>, 1927. Died in his law office, Stuart, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/MT-died.html">Martin County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/12-22.html">December 22, 1928</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 270 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/MT-buried.html# ">Fernhill Memorial Gardens</a>, Stuart, Fla. <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">Relatives: Son of Rev. Edwin Basil Pitts and Jennie Irene (Scouton) Pitts; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/">1899</a> to Pearle Stranahan.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10533352">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> William M. Bennett (1869-1930) — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Nashville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DA-born.html">Davidson County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/07-11.html">July 11, 1869</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 New York County 15th District, 1908-10; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 15th District, 1910; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 18th District, 1915-16; defeated (Independence League), 1912; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1916; Republican candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1917, 1921 (primary), 1925 (primary); candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of New York</a>, 1918, 1920. Suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">stroke of paralysis</a> in his office, and died soon after in Broad Street <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/1930/01-16.html">January 16, 1930</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 189 days</a>). Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/146/73.79.jpg" width=70 height=114 border=0 alt="Gallatin Roberts"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edward Gallatin Roberts (1878-1931) — also known as Gallatin Roberts — of Asheville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BU-lived.html">Buncombe County</a>, N.C. Born in Flat Creek, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BU-born.html">Buncombe County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/10-26.html">October 26, 1878</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BU-officials.html">Buncombe County Attorney</a>, 1907-08; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/sthse.html">North Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Buncombe County, 1911-16; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/asheville.html">mayor of Asheville, N.C.</a>, 1919-23, 1927-30; as mayor, he found that millions of dollars of city money were held in the failing Asheville Central Bank and Trust Company; rather than bringing the bank down and losing the money, he helped sustain it for a while by maintaining city deposits there. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>. Following the collapse of Central Bank and Trust, and the city's loss of $4 million in deposits, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">forced to resign</a> as mayor, and later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> over his alleged <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">misuse of city funds</a> to support the bank; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">killed himself</a> in an office lavatory, Asheville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BU-died.html">Buncombe County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/02-25.html">February 25, 1931</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 122 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BU-buried.html# ">Green Hills Cemetery</a>, Asheville, N.C. <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">Relatives: Son of Jacob R. Roberts and Mary Elizabeth (Buckner) Roberts; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/01-19.html">January 19, 1907</a>, to Mary Altha Sams.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/45690950">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Knoxville News-Sentinel, May 13, 1931</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/459/15.42.jpg" width=70 height=119 border=0 alt="Edward F. Peters"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edward Frederick Peters (1875-1931) — also known as Edward F. Peters — of Cincinnati, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HA-lived.html">Hamilton County</a>, Ohio. Born in Cincinnati, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HA-born.html">Hamilton County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/01-29.html">January 29, 1875</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UR-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Uruguay</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HA-consuls.html">Cincinnati, Ohio</a>, 1902-07; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/HO-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Honduras</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HA-consuls.html">Cincinnati, Ohio</a>, 1903; served in the U.S. Army during World War I. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gun-accidents.html">Accidentally</a> or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">deliberately</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shot</a> himself, in his law office, in Cincinnati, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HA-died.html">Hamilton County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/03-04.html">March 4, 1931</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 34 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HA-buried.html#cms00470">Spring Grove Cemetery</a>, Cincinnati, Ohio. <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">Relatives: Son of Adolph Peters and Eva (Stermer) Peters; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/">1900</a> to Bertha M. Rice.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/79013601">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Cincinnati Post, March 4, 1931</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> Homer Hancock (1881-1931) — of Jefferson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/JA-lived.html">Jackson County</a>, Ga. Born in Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/08-06.html">August 6, 1881</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Banker</a>; mayor of Jefferson, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/JA-officials.html">Jackson County Superior Court Clerk</a>, 1917-20; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a>, 1927-30; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/stsen.html">Georgia state senate</a> 33rd District, 1931. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">self-inflicted</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot</a>, in the directors room of the Citizens Bank and Trust Company, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/JA-died.html">Jackson County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/03-28.html">March 28, 1931</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 234 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/JA-buried.html# ">Woodbine Jefferson City Cemetery</a>, Jefferson, Ga. <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">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hancock.html#843.93.64">Hugh Haroldson Hancock</a> and Sarah Anna 'Sallie' (Johnson) Hancock; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/12-17.html">December 17, 1906</a>, to Ethel McElhannon (sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holder-hollan.html#430.15.66">John Nathaniel Holder</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/43155.html">Hancock family</a> of Jefferson, Georgia.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/95722951">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Samuel Austin Kendall (1859-1933) — also known as Samuel A. Kendall — of Jefferson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/GE-lived.html">Greene County</a>, Iowa; Myersdale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/SO-lived.html">Somerset County</a>, Pa. Born in Greenville Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/SO-born.html">Somerset County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/11-01.html">November 1, 1859</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>; officer in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">lumber</a> manufacturing companies; president of two small <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">railroads</a>; vice-president of Citizens National <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a> of Myersdale, Pa.; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a> from Somerset County, 1899-1902; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/PA.html">1904</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/PA.html">1908</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1912/PA.html">1912</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a>, 1919-33 (23rd District 1919-23, 24th District 1923-33); died in office 1933. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>. Died of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">self-inflicted</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot wound</a>, in the House Office Building, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/01-08.html">January 8, 1933</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 68 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/SO-buried.html#cms01488">Hochstetler Cemetery</a>, Greenville Township, Somerset County, 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">Relatives: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/09-22.html">September 22, 1883</a>, to Minnie Edith Wiley.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000097">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406265">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/764/000118410">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/444/21.09.jpg" width=70 height=105 border=0 alt="Victor J. Dowling"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Victor James Dowling (1866-1934) — also known as Victor J. Dowling — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/07-20.html">July 20, 1866</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; law partner of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/titus.html#980.43.66">William Q. Titus</a>, 1887-1901; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 16th District, 1894; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 18th District, 1901-04; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/NY.html">1904</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 1st District, 1905-31; resigned 1931; Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 1st Department, 1911-31. <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/tammany-hall.html">Tammany Hall</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/friendly-sons-st-patrick.html">Friendly Sons of St. Patrick</a>. Stricken with a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">cerebral hemorrhage</a> in the office of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, and died soon after, in Harbor <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/nursing-homes.html">Sanitarium</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/03-23.html">March 23, 1934</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 246 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">Relatives: Son of Denis Dowling and Eliza Fierlants (Faider) Dowling; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/06-16.html">June 16, 1891</a>, to Mary Agnes Ford.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor J. Dowling">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: New York Times, March 24, 1934</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> John A. Reeve (1859-1935) — of Burlington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/HA-lived.html">Hartford County</a>, Conn. Born in New Haven, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-born.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/07-25.html">July 25, 1859</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">lumber business</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Burlington, 1887, 1929-30; probate judge in Connecticut, 1890. Died, in his office, in Burlington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/HA-died.html">Hartford County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/01-15.html">January 15, 1935</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 174 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/HA-buried.html# ">Center Cemetery</a>, Burlington, Conn. <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">Relatives: Married to Annie Laura Lovett.</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> Marion Anthony Zioncheck (1901-1936) — also known as Marion A. Zioncheck — of Seattle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-lived.html">King County</a>, Wash. Born in Kety, Galicia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PL-born.html">Poland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/12-05.html">December 5, 1901</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Washington</a> 1st District, 1933-36; died in office 1936. While <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/campaigning.html">running for re-election</a>, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">jumped</a> from the window of his campaign office in the Arctic Building, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/falls.html">fell</a> to his death, in Seattle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-died.html">King County</a>, Wash., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/08-07.html">August 7, 1936</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/34.html">34 years, 246 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-buried.html#cms04242">Evergreen-Washelli Memorial Park</a>, Seattle, Wash. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=Z000011">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412004">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion Zioncheck">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/752/000118398">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Marion A. Zioncheck: Phil Campbell, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1560257504/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1560257504&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Zioncheck for President: A True Story of Idealism and Madness in American Politics</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/666/36.22.jpg" width=70 height=98 border=0 alt="Julius S. Berg"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Julius S. Berg (1895-1938) — of Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-lived.html">Bronx 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/1895/07-15.html">July 15, 1895</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; injured in combat and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">lost a leg</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Bronx County 3rd District, 1923-30; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 22nd District, 1931-38; died in office 1938. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish-war-vets.html">Jewish War Veterans</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/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">receiving money</a> for his aid in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/alcohol-crimes.html">procuring liquor licenses</a> and arranging for concessions at the New York World's Fair; that same day, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">killed himself</a> by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot</a>, in his law office, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/07-20.html">July 20, 1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">43 years, 5 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-buried.html#cms05363">Mt. Ararat Cemetery</a>, East Farmingdale, Long Island, 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">Relatives: Son of Morris Berg and Celia (Weinstein) Berg; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/06-20.html">June 20, 1920</a>, to Rose Schram.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius S. Berg">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/162541413">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: New York Red Book 1936</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> Eugene P. Booze (c.1880-1939) — of Mound Bayou, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/BO-lived.html">Bolivar County</a>, Miss. Born in Mississippi, about 1880. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from Mississippi, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/MS.html">1920</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/MS.html">1924</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/MS.html">1928</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1932/MS.html">1932</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1936/MS.html">1936</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> by an unknown assailant as he was leaving his office, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">died</a> the next day in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">hospital</a> at Greenville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/WA-died.html">Washington County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1939/11-07.html">November 7, 1939</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">about 59 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">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/">1901</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boothby-borunda.html#870.69.22">Mary C. Booze</a> (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/montgomery.html#808.49.36">Isaiah T. Montgomery</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/13633.html">Booze family</a> of Mound Bayou, Mississippi.</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> Herschel L. Carnahan (c.1879-1941) — also known as H. L. Carnahan — of Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in Aledo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, Ill., about 1879. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/CA.html">1920</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of California</a>, 1928-31; candidate for Presidential Elector for California. Suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">self-inflicted</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot wound</a> in the head, at his downtown law office and died shortly afterward, at Georgia Street Receiving <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-died.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/03-13.html">March 13, 1941</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">about 62 years</a>). Entombed in mausoleum at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/RI-buried.html#cms03349">Evergreen Memorial Park</a>, Riverside, Calif. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thaddeus Franklin Daniel (1900-1942) — also known as T. Franklin Daniel — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ly-lived.html">Lynchburg</a>, Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/BW-born.html">Brunswick County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/02-25.html">February 25, 1900</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Lynchburg city, 1934-42; died in office 1942. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/tau-kappa-alpha.html">Tau Kappa Alpha</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">killed</a>, along with Lynchburg city attorney T. G. Hobbs, by Warren Guy Myers, in his office, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ly-died.html">Lynchburg</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/06-30.html">June 30, 1942</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/42.html">42 years, 125 days</a>). Myers was judged to be insane, committed to the Southwestern State Hospital, and died in 1963. Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/BW-buried.html# ">Macedonia United Methodist Church Cemetery</a>, Brunswick County, 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">Relatives: Son of Lee Andrew Daniel and Susan (Pritchett) Daniel.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/46894612">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://history.house.virginia.gov/members/9744">Virginia House History</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=839PAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA64-IA19"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/817/23.91.jpg" width=70 height=101 border=0 alt="Christopher D. Sullivan"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Christopher Daniel Sullivan (1870-1942) — also known as Christopher D. Sullivan — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/07-14.html">July 14, 1870</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">Real estate business</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a>, 1907-16 (13th District 1907-08, 11th District 1909-16); delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/NY.html">1916</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/NY.html">1924</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/NY.html">1928</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/NY.html">1940</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 13th District, 1917-41; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/NY.html">leader of New York County Democratic Party</a>, 1940-41. <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/tammany-hall.html">Tammany Hall</a>. Died, of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in his office at the Second Assembly District Tammany Club, in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/08-03.html">August 3, 1942</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 20 days</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">Relatives: Married to Nell Donohue.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S001051">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410505">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: New York Red Book 1907</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> Joseph A. Boyle (c.1883-1948) — of Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., about 1883. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stamford.html">Mayor of Stamford, Conn.</a>, 1930-34; Stamford Commissioner of Finance, 1934-36; Stamford Tax Assessor, 1937-48. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, at his office desk, in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/05-25.html">May 25, 1948</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">about 65 years</a>). 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> James Everett Sanders (1882-1950) — also known as Everett Sanders — of Terre Haute, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/VI-lived.html">Vigo County</a>, Ind. Born in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/born-log-cabin.html">log cabin</a> near Coalmont, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/CY-born.html">Clay County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/03-08.html">March 8, 1882</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Indiana</a> 5th District, 1917-25; secretary to President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coolidge.html#826.74.23">Calvin Coolidge</a>, 1925-29; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/index.html">Chairman of Republican National Committee</a>, 1932-34. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart ailment</a>, in his law office, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1950/05-12.html">May 12, 1950</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 65 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/VI-buried.html#cms00649">Highland Lawn Cemetery</a>, Terre Haute, Ind. <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">Relatives: Son of James Sanders and Melissa Everal (Stark) Sanders; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/12-13.html">December 13, 1903</a>, to Ella Neal; married to Hilda Sims.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000034">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409551">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/342/000055177">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/290/98.35.jpg" width=70 height=113 border=0 alt="George J. Burke"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George James Burke, Sr. (1885-1950) — also known as George J. Burke — of Ann Arbor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WA-lived.html">Washtenaw County</a>, Mich. Born in Northfield Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WA-born.html">Washtenaw County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/12-05.html">December 5, 1885</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WA-officials.html">Washtenaw County Prosecuting Attorney</a>, 1911-14; law partner of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cavanaugh.html#019.38.43">Martin J. Cavanaugh</a>; president, Citizens Mutual Auto <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Insurance</a> Co.; counsel and director, International <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">Radio</a> Co.; director, Ann Arbor <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Trust Company</a>, Farmers and Mechanics <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a>, Michigan <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Life Insurance</a> Co.; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/attygn.html">Michigan state attorney general</a>, 1916; candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/spju.html">justice of Michigan state supreme court</a>, 1923, 1926; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/MI.html">1944</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/committees.html">Platform and Resolutions Committee</a>); served as a judge in the Nuremburg war crimes trials. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>. Died, in his law office, Ann Arbor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WA-died.html">Washtenaw County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1950/10-03.html">October 3, 1950</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 302 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WA-buried.html#cms05301">St. Thomas Catholic Cemetery</a>, Ann Arbor, Mich. <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">Relatives: Son of Anthony Burke and Ellen (Dealy) Burke; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/12-29.html">December 29, 1910</a>, to Edna J. Fritts; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burke.html#825.79.38">George James Burke Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/12440.html">Fordney-Burke family</a> of Ann Arbor, Michigan.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/27784367">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Ann Arbor Daily News, October 8, 1928</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> Charles Walter Tillett Jr. (1888-1952) — also known as Charles W. Tillett, Jr. — of Charlotte, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ME-lived.html">Mecklenburg County</a>, N.C. Born in Mangum, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/RI-born.html">Richmond County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1888/02-06.html">February 6, 1888</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/NC.html">1928</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/NC.html">1944</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-alpha-epsilon.html">Sigma Alpha Epsilon</a>. Major proponent of the United Nations. While suffering from depression, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">jumped</a> from the eighth floor of an office building, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/falls.html">fell</a> to his death, in Charlotte, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ME-died.html">Mecklenburg County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1952/12-23.html">December 23, 1952</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 321 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ME-buried.html#cms00379">Elmwood Cemetery</a>, Charlotte, N.C. <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">Relatives: Son of Charles Walter Tillett and Carrie (Patterson) Tillett; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/07-21.html">July 21, 1917</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/till-tillinghaust.html#767.92.54">Gladys Avery Tillett</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/59349784">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Guy Kurtz Bard (1895-1953) — also known as Guy K. Bard — of Lancaster, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LA-lived.html">Lancaster County</a>, Pa.; Denver, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LA-lived.html">Lancaster County</a>, Pa.; Ephrata, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LA-lived.html">Lancaster County</a>, Pa. Born in Lincoln, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LA-born.html">Lancaster County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/10-24.html">October 24, 1895</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LA-parties.html">chair of Lancaster County Democratic Party</a>, 1925-34; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania</a>, 1930; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1932/PA.html">1932</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania</a>, 1937; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/attygn.html">Pennsylvania state attorney general</a>, 1938-39; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania</a>, 1939-52; resigned 1952; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania</a>, 1952. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lutheran.html">Lutheran</a>. Member, <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/masons.html">Freemasons</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/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-acad-pol-soc-sci.html">American Academy of Political and Social Science</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-kappa-tau.html">Phi Kappa Tau</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-theta-phi.html">Delta Theta Phi</a>. Collapsed, probably from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in his law office, and died en route to Jefferson <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/11-23.html">November 23, 1953</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 30 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LA-buried.html#cms04612">Fairview Cemetery</a>, Denver, 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">Relatives: Son of Silas E. Bard and Miranda S. (Kurtz) Bard.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=93&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/30227170">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Clyde Roark Hoey (1877-1954) — also known as Clyde R. Hoey — of Shelby, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CL-lived.html">Cleveland County</a>, N.C. Born in Shelby, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CL-born.html">Cleveland County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/12-11.html">December 11, 1877</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/sthse.html">North Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1899-1902; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/stsen.html">North Carolina state senate</a>, 1903-06; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/NC.html">1904</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/NC.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/NC.html">1944</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/NC.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/NC.html">1952</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 9th District, 1919-21; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of North Carolina</a>, 1937-41; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/NC.html">Democratic National Committee from North Carolina</a>, 1941-44; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from North Carolina</a>, 1945-54; died in office 1954; member, Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1953-54; died in office 1954. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/woodmen.html">Woodmen</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jr-ord-un-am-mechanics.html">Junior Order</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/omicron-delta-kappa.html">Omicron Delta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-chi.html">Sigma Chi</a>. Died from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">stroke</a>, at his desk in his congressional office, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/05-12.html">May 12, 1954</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 152 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CL-buried.html#cms01102">Sunset Cemetery</a>, Shelby, N.C. <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">Relatives: Son of Samuel Alberta Hoey and Mary Charlotte (Roark) Hoey; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/03-22.html">March 22, 1900</a>, to Bessie Gardner (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gardner.html#249.70.03">Oliver Max Gardner</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11536.html">Gardner family</a> of Shelby, North Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000679">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405532">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/clyde-roark-hoey/">National Governors Association biography</a></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> Lester Callaway Hunt (1892-1954) — of Lander, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/FR-lived.html">Fremont County</a>, Wyo. Born in Isabel, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ED-born.html">Edgar County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/07-08.html">July 8, 1892</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/dentist.html">dentist</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/ofc/sthse.html">Wyoming state house of representatives</a>, 1933-34; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Wyoming</a>, 1935-43; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Wyoming, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/WY.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/WY.html">1944</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/WY.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/WY.html">1952</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Wyoming</a>, 1943-49; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Wyoming</a>, 1949-54; died in office 1954. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/tau-kappa-epsilon.html">Tau Kappa Epsilon</a>. In despair over his poor health and threats to expose his son's arrest for homosexual solicitation, he died from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">self-inflicted</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">rifle shot</a>, at his desk in the Senate Office Building, and died soon after, in Casualty <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/1954/06-19.html">June 19, 1954</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 346 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/LA-buried.html#cms02545">Beth El Cemetery</a>, Cheyenne, Wyo. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000975">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405819">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/lester-calloway-hunt/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester C. Hunt">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/755/000118401">NNDB dossier</a></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> Jean Baptiste Adoue Jr. (1884-1956) — also known as J. B. Adoue, Jr. — of Dallas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/DA-lived.html">Dallas County</a>, Tex. Born in Dallas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/DA-born.html">Dallas County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/11-04.html">November 4, 1884</a>. President, Dallas National <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a> of Commerce, 1924-56; chairman, Gulf <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Insurance</a> Company; chairman, Universal Life and Accident <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Insurance</a> Company; director, Graham-Brown <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/leather.html">Shoe</a> Company; director, First Texas <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/chemical.html">Chemical</a> Company; director, Cosmopolitan <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hotel-biz.html">Hotel</a> Company; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/dallas.html">mayor of Dallas, Tex.</a>, 1951-53; defeated, 1949. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-arbitration-assoc.html">American Arbitration Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-theta.html">Phi Delta Theta</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/newcomen.html">Newcomen Society</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, while working at his bank, in Dallas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/DA-died.html">Dallas County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1956/11-17.html">November 17, 1956</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 13 days</a>). Entombed in mausoleum at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/DA-buried.html#cms04331">Crown Hill Memorial Park</a>, Dallas, Tex. <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">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pols-named-for-famous.html">John the Baptist</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adamske-aedanus.html#445.11.12">Jean Baptiste Adoue</a> and Mittie Neosha (Simpson) Adoue; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/10-12.html">October 12, 1909</a>, to Hester Ann Allen; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/05-12.html">May 12, 1937</a>, to Mary J. Wilson.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean Baptiste Adoue">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7752213">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Burton Gordon Cameron (1894-1957) — also known as Burton G. Cameron — of Grand Ledge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/EA-lived.html">Eaton County</a>, Mich.; Charlotte, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/EA-lived.html">Eaton County</a>, Mich. Born in Torch Lake, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/AN-born.html">Antrim County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/02-17.html">February 17, 1894</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <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> from Eaton County, 1927-28; defeated in primary, 1924; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/EA-officials.html">Eaton County Prosecuting Attorney</a>, 1943-46. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart ailment</a>, in his law office, Charlotte, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/EA-died.html">Eaton County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1957/02-01.html">February 1, 1957</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 350 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/EA-buried.html#cms00190">Maple Hill Cemetery</a>, Charlotte, Mich. <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">Relatives: Son of John Cameron and Effie (Salisbury) Cameron; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/">1911</a> to Katherine Burch; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1945/">1945</a> to Helen M. Brugh.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/51502797">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> William Lee Knous (1889-1959) — also known as W. Lee Knous — of Montrose, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/MO-lived.html">Montrose County</a>, Colo. Born in Ouray, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/OU-born.html">Ouray County</a>, Colo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/02-02.html">February 2, 1889</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/ofc/stsen.html">Colorado state senate</a> 17th District, 1930-37; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/ofc/spju.html">justice of Colorado state supreme court</a>, 1937-47; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Colorado Supreme Court</a>, 1946-47; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Colorado</a>, 1947-50; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for Colorado</a>, 1950. Suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a> at his office, and died soon after in St. Joseph's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/de-died.html">Denver</a>, Colo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1959/12-11.html">December 11, 1959</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 312 days</a>). Entombed in mausoleum at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/de-buried.html#cms00627">Fairmount Cemetery</a>, Denver, Colo. <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">Relatives: Married to Elsie Marie Grabow; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/knill-knowland.html#113.86.91">Robert Lee Knous</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/william-lee-knous/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8740144">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/600/17.79.jpg" width=70 height=114 border=0 alt="Meyer Kestnbaum"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Meyer Kestnbaum (1896-1960) — of Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. 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/1896/10-31.html">October 31, 1896</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; president, Hart, Schaffner and Marx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">clothing manufacturers</a>, from 1941; director, Chicago and North Western <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railway</a>; chair, Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1954-55; special assistant to Pres. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eichelroth-elcan.html#075.91.63">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a>, 1955-60; accompanied Vice President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nixon.html#870.67.93">Richard M. Nixon</a> on an official visit to Moscow, 1959. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/cfr.html">Council on Foreign Relations</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in his office, in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-died.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1960/12-14.html">December 14, 1960</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 44 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-buried.html#cms00293">Rosehill Cemetery</a>, Chicago, Ill. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Benjamin Kestnbaum and Julia (Weintraub) Kestnbaum; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/06-02.html">June 2, 1925</a>, to Gertrude Dana; father-in-law of Kate Trynin (niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#933.10.87">David Theodore Wilentz</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#899.48.12">Warren W. Wilentz</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#848.38.47">Robert Nathan Wilentz</a>); granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kerrey-keydel.html#030.06.13">Lawrence Kestenbaum</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/12208.html">Wilentz family</a> of Perth Amboy, New Jersey.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer Kestnbaum">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/142237034">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: New York Times, April 22, 1954</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> Arthur Francis Lamey (1892-1963) — also known as Arthur F. Lamey — of Havre, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/HI-lived.html">Hill County</a>, Mont.; Billings, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/YE-lived.html">Yellowstone County</a>, Mont. Born in Big Sandy, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/CH-born.html">Chouteau County</a>, Mont., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/12-24.html">December 24, 1892</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/HI-officials.html">Hill County Attorney</a>, 1923-27; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/MT.html">Montana Democratic state chair</a>, 1938-44; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Montana, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/MT.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/MT.html">1944</a> (delegation chair); candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Montana</a>, 1940, 1948. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/eagles.html">Eagles</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>. Died, in his law office, Billings, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/YE-died.html">Yellowstone County</a>, Mont., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1963/06-04.html">June 4, 1963</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 162 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">Relatives: Son of James H. Lamey and Mary J. (Glassford) Lamey; married to Frances B. Kasmer.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/424/37.44.jpg" width=70 height=113 border=0 alt="Leo Bernard"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Leo Bernard (1938-1966) — 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/1938/10-24.html">October 24, 1938</a>. Socialist. Socialist Workers candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Michigan</a> 17th District, 1964; candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">killed</a>, by Edward Waniolek, a former taxicab driver who wanted to "kill some Communists", in the offices of the Socialist Workers Party, Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-died.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1966/05-16.html">May 16, 1966</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/27.html">27 years, 204 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">Relatives: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1966/03-13.html">March 13, 1966</a>, to Garlene Boone.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/garrett.html#119.76.46">Jan Garrett</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: The Militant, May 23, 1966</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> John W. Peters (c.1921-1970) — of Webster Groves, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/SS-lived.html">St. Louis County</a>, Mo. Born about 1921. Republican. Nominated in primary for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Missouri</a> 2nd District 1970, but died before election. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">killed himself</a>, in his campaign office, Brentwood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/SS-died.html">St. Louis County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1970/09-27.html">September 27, 1970</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">about 49 years</a>). Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2010/0925/Notable-architects-of-US-foreign-policy"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/561/19.64.jpg" width=70 height=101 border=0 alt="Dean Acheson"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Dean Gooderham Acheson (1893-1971) — also known as Dean Acheson — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Born in Middletown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/04-11.html">April 11, 1893</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; private secretary to U.S. Supreme Court Justice <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/branchfield-brandofino.html#911.46.53">Louis D. Brandeis</a>, 1919-21; undersecretary of treasury, 1933; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of State</a>, 1949-53. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-acad-arts-sciences.html">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-kappa-epsilon.html">Delta Kappa Epsilon</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/cfr.html">Council on Foreign Relations</a>. Received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-freedom.html">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> in 1964; received a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pulitzer-prize.html">Pulitzer Prize</a> in History, 1970, for his book Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department. Died, probably from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, over his desk in his study, Sandy Spring, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1971/10-12.html">October 12, 1971</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 184 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00803">Oak Hill Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C. <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">Relatives: Son of Edward Campion Acheson and Eleanor Gertrude (Gooderham) Acheson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/05-05.html">May 5, 1917</a>, to Alice Caroline Stanley; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/acampora-adamowski.html#014.72.06">David Campion Acheson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/battle.html#530.76.17">Lucius D. Battle</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mellette-memorial.html#535.29.56">Francis E. Meloy, Jr.</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean Acheson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/425/000054263">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6661729">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=19805">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books by Dean Acheson: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039307448X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=039307448X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Present at the Creation : My Years in the State Department</a> (1969)</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Dean Acheson: Walter Isaacson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684837714/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684837714&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Wise Men : Six Friends and the World They Made</a> — Robert L. Beisner, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195045785/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0195045785&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Dean Acheson : A Life in the Cold War</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Christian Science Monitor, September 25, 2010</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> Allard Kenneth Lowenstein (1929-1980) — also known as Allard K. Lowenstein — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y.; Long Beach, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Newark, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/01-16.html">January 16, 1929</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/NY.html">1960</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/NY.html">1968</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1972/NY.html">1972</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 5th District, 1969-71; defeated, 1970, 1972 (primary), 1972 (Liberal), 1974, 1976, 1978 (primary). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ams-dem-action.html">Americans for Democratic Action</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">mortally wounded</a> by Dennis Sweeney, in his law office in Rockefeller Center, and died about seven hours later, in St. Clare'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/1980/03-14.html">March 14, 1980</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">51 years, 58 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">Relatives: Son of Gabriel Abraham Lowenstein and Augusta (Goldberg) Lowenstein; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1966/11-25.html">November 25, 1966</a>, to Jennifer Lyman.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000477">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406966">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allard Lowenstein">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/091/000054926">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=16906">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Allard K. Lowenstein: Richard Cummings, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0967351413/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0967351413&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Pied Piper : Allard K. Lowenstein and the Liberal Dream</a> — William H. Chafe, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/069105973X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=069105973X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Never Stop Running</a></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> Ray Charles Bliss (1907-1981) — also known as Ray C. Bliss — of Akron, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/SU-lived.html">Summit County</a>, Ohio. Born in Akron, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/SU-born.html">Summit County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/12-16.html">December 16, 1907</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Insurance business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/SU-parties.html">chair of Summit County Republican Party</a>, 1942-60; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/OH.html">Ohio Republican State Central Committee</a>, 1944-65; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/OH.html">Ohio Republican state chair</a>, 1949-65; delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/OH.html">1952</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/committees.html">Committee on Rules and Order of Business</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/OH.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1960/OH.html">1960</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1964/OH.html">1964</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/OH.html">1972</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/OH.html">Republican National Committee from Ohio</a>, 1952-80; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/index.html">Chairman of Republican National Committee</a>, 1965-69; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/index.html">Vice-Chair of Republican National Committee</a>, 1960-64. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-kappa-tau.html">Phi Kappa Tau</a>; <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/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>. Suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a> at his office, and died soon after at Akron City <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Akron, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/SU-died.html">Summit County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1981/08-06.html">August 6, 1981</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 233 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/SU-buried.html#cms07933">Mt. Peace Cemetery</a>, Akron, Ohio. <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">Relatives: Son of Emil Bliss and Emilie (Wieland) Bliss; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1959/">1959</a> to Ellen F. Palmer.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray C. Bliss">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6602925">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Charles Clifton Finch (1927-1986) — also known as Cliff Finch — of Mississippi. Born near Pope, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/PA-born.html">Panola County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/04-04.html">April 4, 1927</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/sthse.html">Mississippi state house of representatives</a>, 1960; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/PA-officials.html">Panola County District Attorney</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi</a>, 1971; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Mississippi</a>, 1976-80; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Mississippi</a>, 1978; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1980/index.html">1980</a>. Died, of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in his law office, Batesville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/PA-died.html">Panola County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1986/04-22.html">April 22, 1986</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">59 years, 18 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/PA-buried.html#cms05931">Magnolia Cemetery</a>, Batesville, Miss. <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">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/charles-clifton-finch/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff Finch">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/852/000121489">NNDB dossier</a></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> Eleuthere Irenee du Pont (1921-1994) — also known as Eleuthere I. du Pont; "Brud" — of Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-lived.html">New Castle County</a>, Del. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/05-21.html">May 21, 1921</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">insurance executive</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/DE.html">treasurer of Delaware Republican Party</a>, 1956; delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/DE.html">1956</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a> in his office, in Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-died.html">New Castle County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1994/03-29.html">March 29, 1994</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 312 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">Relatives: Son of Katherine (Clark) du Pont and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dupont.html#719.67.74">Francis Victor du Pont</a>; married to Arminda Dunning; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dupont.html#611.99.88">Thomas Coleman du Pont</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dupont.html#248.98.41">Charles Irénée du Pont</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dupont.html#788.31.23">Henry DuPont</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vandyke.html#635.31.97">Nicholas Van Dyke (1770-1826)</a>; fourth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vandyke.html#766.88.23">Nicholas Van Dyke (1738-1789)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dupont.html#036.51.54">Alfred Irénée du Pont</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dupont.html#411.73.99">Pierre Samuel du Pont</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dupont.html#855.24.36">Henry Algernon du Pont</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dupont.html#721.47.52">Henry Belin du Pont Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coots-corbly.html#860.40.34">Lammot du Pont Copeland</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dupont.html#699.07.73">Reynolds du Pont</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dupont.html#702.33.15">Francis Irenee du Pont</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bradby-bradish.html#562.58.99">Edward Green Bradford Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#140.98.32">Elizabeth Bradford du Pont Bayard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lambdin-lamy.html#567.45.47">Eugene Lammot</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dupont.html#459.84.42">Pierre Samuel du Pont IV</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#449.01.75">Thomas Francis Bayard III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#379.41.92">Alexis Irenee du Pont Bayard</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#804.11.34">Richard Henry Bayard</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0030.html">DuPont family</a> of Wilmington, Delaware (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</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> John W. Rollins Sr. (1916-2000) — also known as "Big John" — of Lewes, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-lived.html">Sussex County</a>, Del.; Greenville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-lived.html">New Castle County</a>, Del. Born in Keith, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CS-born.html">Catoosa County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/08-24.html">August 24, 1916</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Delaware</a>, 1953-57; delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/DE.html">1956</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/DE.html">1972</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Delaware</a>, 1960. Died, while napping in his office, in Greenville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-died.html">New Castle County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2000/04-04.html">April 4, 2000</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 224 days</a>). 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> Andrew Nichols (c.1937-2001) — also known as Andy Nichols — of Tucson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/PI-lived.html">Pima County</a>, Ariz. Born about 1937. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/peace-corps.html">Served in the Peace Corps</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">physician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">medical school professor</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/ofc/sthse.html">Arizona state house of representatives</a> 13th District, 1993-2000; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Arizona, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/AZ.html">2000</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/ofc/stsen.html">Arizona state senate</a> 13th District, 2001; died in office 2001. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/disciples-of-christ.html">Disciples of Christ</a>. Suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, collapsed in his office at the Arizona State Senate office building, and was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Joseph's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Phoenix, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/MA-died.html">Maricopa County</a>, Ariz., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2001/04-19.html">April 19, 2001</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">about 64 years</a>). 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> Arthur E. Teele (1946-2005) — also known as Art Teele — of Florida. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/PG-born.html">Prince George's County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1946/05-14.html">May 14, 1946</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; director, U.S. Urban Mass Transportation Administration, 1981-83; candidate for Presidential Elector for Florida; as Miami city commissioner in 1997-2004, he chaired the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA); an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a> of corruption in the agency, started in 2003, led to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> that he had accepted $135,000 in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/kickbacks.html">kickbacks</a> from two construction companies; as a result, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">removed from office</a> in 2004 by Gov. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#670.03.91">Jeb Bush</a>; in August, 2004, when he and his wife were under surveillance, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/traffic.html">drove his car</a> at a police detective in an attempt to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/assault.html">run him over</a>, and also <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">threatened to kill</a> police officers who had been following his wife during the investigation; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in March 2005 on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> related to this incident; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> on July 14, 2005, on federal conspiracy and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/money-laundering.html">money laundering</a> charges, over a scheme to fraudulently obtain contracts for electrical work at the Miami International Airport through a "minority-owned" shell company; published police reports revealed that he had put his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">mistress</a> on the CRA payroll, that he regularly bought and used <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/illegal-drugs.html">cocaine</a>, and that he frequently made use of a male <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">prostitute</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/pentecostal.html">Church of God in Christ</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kappa-alpha-psi.html">Kappa Alpha Psi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Came to the offices of the Miami Herald newspaper, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shot</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">himself</a> in the head with a semiautomatic pistol; he died two hours later in the trauma unit of Jackson Memorial <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Miami, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/DA-died.html">Miami-Dade County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2005/07-27.html">July 27, 2005</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">59 years, 74 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-buried.html# ">Culley's MeadowWood Memorial Park</a>, Tallahassee, Fla. <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">Relatives: Married to Stephanie Kerr.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur Teele">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=21965">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></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> Jerry Lamon Falwell (1933-2007) — also known as Jerry Falwell — Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ly-born.html">Lynchburg</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/08-11.html">August 11, 1933</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Pastor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">television</a> evangelist; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/univfound.html">founder</a> (1971) of Liberty Baptist College, now Liberty University; also served as its <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/univpres.html">chancellor</a>; founder of the Moral Majority, political group advocating conservative Christian views; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1996 /speakers.html">speaker</a>, Republican National Convention, 1996. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/nra.html">National Rifle Association</a>. Suffered <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">cardiac arrythmia</a>, collapsed in his office at Liberty University, and died soon after at Lynchburg General <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ly-died.html">Lynchburg</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2007/05-15.html">May 15, 2007</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 277 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ly-buried.html#cms08009">Montview Grounds</a>, Liberty University, Lynchburg, 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">Relatives: Son of Carey Hezekiah Falwell and Helen V. 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