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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Politicians in Trouble or Disgrace: Fraud</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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Schenck — of Dayton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MY-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Ohio. Born in Franklin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/WR-born.html">Warren County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/10-04.html">October 4, 1809</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/sthse.html">Ohio state house of representatives</a>, 1839-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Ohio</a>, 1843-51, 1863-71 (3rd District 1843-51, 1863-67, 5th District 1867-69, 3rd District 1869-71); U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BZ-diplomats.html ">Brazil</a>, 1851-53; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UK-diplomats.html ">Great Britain</a>, 1870-76; general in the Union Army during the Civil War. While U.S. minister to Great Britain in 1871, he promoted the sale of shares in the Emma Silver Mine Company, of which was a director; quietly sold his own shares before news about the mine's depletion caused their value to collapse. His diplomatic immunity enabled him to avoid facing fraud <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> in a British court. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/03-23.html">March 23, 1890</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 170 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MY-buried.html#cms00752">Woodland Cemetery</a>, Dayton, 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">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#799.25.22">John W. Chanler</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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000118">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409626">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/schenck-robert-cumming ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</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. Flaherty (1832-1904) — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y. Born in Youghal, County Cork, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EI-born.html">Ireland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/index.html">1832</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">Ship</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/construction.html">carpenter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/construction.html">contractor</a>; Independent Democratic candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Kings County 7th District, 1874; Brooklyn Commissioner of City Works; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a>, along with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bennett4.html#711.57.00">George C. Bennett</a>, in December 1878, for conspiracy to defraud the city of $50,000; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $250; the conviction, which he claimed was the work of Mayor <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howell.html#676.95.57">James Howell</a> and the corrupt "Brooklyn Ring", was reversed on appeal; Independent Democratic candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/brooklyn.html#2">mayor of Brooklyn, N.Y.</a>, 1879. <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/friendly-sons-st-patrick.html">Friendly Sons of St. Patrick</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">Bright's disease</a>, in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-died.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/10-26.html">October 26, 1904</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">about 72 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms00158">Holy Cross Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Stephen Wallace Dorsey (1842-1916) — also known as Stephen W. Dorsey — of Helena (now part of Helena-West Helena), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/PH-lived.html">Phillips County</a>, Ark.; Little Rock, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/PU-lived.html">Pulaski County</a>, Ark.; Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in Benson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/RU-born.html">Rutland County</a>, Vt., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/02-28.html">February 28, 1842</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Arkansas</a>, 1873-79; delegate to Republican National Convention from Arkansas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1876/AR.html">1876</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1880/AR.html">1880</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in 1881 for his participation in the Star Route frauds against the U.S. Post Office Department; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> twice in 1882-83 and ultimately acquitted. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/03-20.html">March 20, 1916</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 21 days</a>). Interment 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000441">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403551">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen Wallace Dorsey">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7363219">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 H. Houghton — of Metuchen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MI-lived.html">Middlesex County</a>, N.J. Born in New York. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">lost a leg</a> in a Civil War battle; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/NJcc nPA">U.S. Collector of Customs</a>, 1875-82. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grand-army-republic.html">Grand Army of the Republic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a> in May 1882, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">embezzlement</a>, fraud, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/forgery.html">forgery</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</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> Albert Hiram Lennox (1842-1907) — also known as Albert H. Lennox; Albert Hiram Lenox — of Camden, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/CA-lived.html">Camden County</a>, N.J. Born in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/12-22.html">December 22, 1842</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">Shipbroker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">commission merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/HT-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Haiti</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1877-83; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GC-consuls.html">Consul for Greece</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1881-91; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/HT-consuls.html">Consul for Haiti</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1883-91; in 1891, he and other officers of some mutual benefit associations were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> in Philadelphia with obtaining money under false pretenses; in 1894, he resisted <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">eviction</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/debt.html">non-payment of rent</a>; he was no longer consul, but <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">falsely claimd</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/diplomatic-offenses.html">diplomatic immunity</a>; the government of Haiti contradicted his claim, and a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> resulted. Died in Camden, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/CA-died.html">Camden County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/07-04.html">July 4, 1907</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 194 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/CA-buried.html#cms02420">Colestown Cemetery</a>, Cherry Hill Township, Camden County, 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">Relatives: Son of Elizabeth Jane Lenox and Hiram Lenox; married to Emma Stoy.</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/130790391">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> John Hampton Hoge (1856-1903) — also known as J. Hampton Hoge — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/MO-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/index.html">1856</a>. Republican. In October 1893, he was appointed Consul at Amoy, China, and set out for San Francisco en route to his post; just before leaving town, he gave a bad check to settle a debt; on the train to San Francisco, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/intoxication.html">conspicuously drunk</a> on the entire journey; President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#531.34.01">Cleveland</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">rescinded</a> the appointment, and Hoge was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">ridiculed</a> in newspapers all over the U.S.; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a> 6th District, 1894, 1896; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Virginia</a>, 1901. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/index.html">1903</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/47.html">about 47 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/MO-buried.html# ">Westview Cemetery</a>, Blacksburg, 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hogarth-hogenauer.html#368.72.84">Daniel Howe Hoge</a> and Ann Hawes (DeJarnette) Hoge; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hogarth-hogenauer.html#710.33.25">Samuel Harris Hoge</a>; married to Lulu Otey; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#980.48.51">James Hoge Tyler</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/45152.html">Hoge family</a> of Virginia.</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/7433943">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=100006">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> Louis Stern (c.1856-1901) — of St. Paul, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/RA-lived.html">Ramsey County</a>, Minn. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a>, about 1856. Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper reporter</a>; U.S. Commercial Agent (Consul) in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-consuls.html ">Bamberg</a>, 1893-1901. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> in Kissingen, Germany, 1895, for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/libel-slander.html">insulting</a> the Baron von Thuengen; also <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with misrepresenting his 15-year-old son as being twelve in order to get cheaper passage to Europe for him on a steamship; the U.S. Consul General in Berlin asserted that Mr. Stern was "very harshly and unjustly treated". Depressed over financial problems and perceived anti-Semitism, he began <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/misfeasance.html">neglecting his work</a>; he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">recalled</a> as commercial agent in 1901, but remained at Bamberg; his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">failure to return money</a> he had collected on behalf of U.S. citizens led to a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">judgement against him</a> for 2,000 marks, which he was unable to pay; he died by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">self-inflicted</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot</a>, in the public gardens at Bamberg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-died.html">Germany</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/06-10.html">June 10, 1901</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/45.html">about 45 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> John Looney (1865-1942) — also known as Patrick John Looney — of Rock Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/RI-lived.html">Rock Island County</a>, Ill. Born in Ottawa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/LS-born.html">La Salle County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/10-05.html">October 5, 1865</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper publisher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> with others in 1897 over a scheme to defraud the city of Rock Island in connection with a storm drain construction project; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, but the verdict was overturned on appeal; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/sthse.html">Illinois state house of representatives</a>, 1900; created and led a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/organized-crime.html">crime syndicate</a> in northwest Illinois, with interests in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/vice.html">gambling</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/vice.html">prostitution</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">extortion</a>, and eventually <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/alcohol-crimes.html">bootlegging</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/theft.html">automobile theft</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in 1907 on 37 counts of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">bribery</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">extortion</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/libel-slander.html">libel</a>, but acquitted; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">shot</a> and wounded by hidden snipers on two occasions in 1908; on February 22, 1909, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">shot</a> and wounded in a gunfight with business rival W. W. Wilmerton; on March 22, 1912, after <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/libel-slander.html">publishing personal attacks</a> on Rock Island Mayor <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schneiderman-schrock.html#631.97.44">Henry M. Schriver</a>, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a>, brought to the police station, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">severely beaten</a> by the mayor himself; subsequent rioting killed two men and injured nine others; resumed control of the Rock Island rackets in 1921; in 1922, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> for the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">murder</a> of saloon keeper William Gabel, who had provided evidence against Looney to federal agents; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in Belen, N.M., in 1924, and later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> of conspiracy and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">murder</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 5 years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> for conspiracy and 14 years for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">murder</a>; served 8 1/2 years. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/tuberculosis.html">tuberculosis</a>, in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/nursing-homes.html">sanitarium</a> at El Paso, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/EP-died.html">El Paso County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/index.html">1942</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">about 76 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 Patrick Looney and Margaret Looney; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/">1892</a> to Nora O'Connor; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maloney.html#458.59.01">Maurice T. Maloney</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/John Patrick Looney">Wikipedia article</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 Hipple Mitchell (1835-1905) — also known as John H. Mitchell; John Mitchell Hipple — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-lived.html">Multnomah County</a>, Ore. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/WA-born.html">Washington County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1835/06-22.html">June 22, 1835</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/ofc/stsen.html">Oregon state senate</a>, 1862-66; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Oregon</a>, 1873-79, 1885-97, 1901-05; died in office 1905. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in December 1904 in connection with land frauds; a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">bribery</a> charge was added later. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-died.html">Multnomah County</a>, Ore., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/12-08.html">December 8, 1905</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 169 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-buried.html#cms00797">River View Cemetery</a>, Portland, Ore. <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=M000818">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407793">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John H. Mitchell">Wikipedia article</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 P. Demarest — of Mont Moor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RO-lived.html">Rockland County</a>, N.Y.; West Nyack, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RO-lived.html">Rockland County</a>, N.Y. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Rockland County, 1888-89, 1891, 1900. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> several times on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/other-crimes.html">various offenses</a> in 1891-03; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in 1903 and acquitted; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> on fraud <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> in 1904; he had presented claims against the Town of Clarkstown for services he had not provided; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in Rockland County and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> on November 18, 1904. 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> John Hicklin Hall (1854-1937) — also known as John H. Hall — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-lived.html">Multnomah County</a>, Ore. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-born.html">Multnomah County</a>, Ore., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/07-17.html">July 17, 1854</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/ofc/sthse.html">Oregon state house of representatives</a>, 1891-92; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Oregon</a>, 1897-1904. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Removed from office</a> as district attorney; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in 1905 on land fraud <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>; later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pardon.html">pardoned</a> by President Taft. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-died.html">Multnomah County</a>, Ore., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/07-27.html">July 27, 1937</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 10 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-buried.html#cms00797">River View Cemetery</a>, Portland, Ore. <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: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hall5.html#561.69.52">John Hubert Hall</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/everette-ewin.html#406.36.37">Louis Blasdel Ewbank</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/12898.html">Hall family</a> of Oregon.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/690/03.50.jpg" width=70 height=118 border=0 alt="Henry Wulff"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Wulff (1854-1907) — of Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in Meldorf, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/08-24.html">August 24, 1854</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-officials.html">Cook County Clerk</a>, 1886-94; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1892/IL.html">1892</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/trea.html">Illinois state treasurer</a>, 1895-97; president of Continental Financing Company, which in 1905 was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigated</a> by the Illinois Attorney General as a fraud scheme; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> in federal court with using the mails to defraud, he and an associate <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> in 1906, and were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced to prison</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/foresters.html">Foresters</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/redmen.html">Redmen</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>. Died in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-died.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/12-27.html">December 27, 1907</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 125 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-buried.html#cms01261">Union Ridge 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 Claus Wulff and Catherine Wulff; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/">1875</a> to Katherine Englehart.</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/112606529">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: Chicago Tribune, June 19, 1905</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 H. Reynolds (1868-1931) — of Long Beach, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-born.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/02-29.html">February 29, 1868</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/construction.html">Builder</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">real estate developer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 3rd District, 1894-95; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> by a grand jury in August 1917 for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">perjury</a>, over his 1912 expert testimony on the value of land sought by the city for a park; the grand jury alleged that he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">falsely denied</a> any <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/conflict-of-interest.html">personal interest</a> in the realty company which owned the property; also <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in October 1917, with three others, for conspiracy defraud the city of $500,000 by inflating the appraisal; the indictments were dismissed in May 1920 over the prosecutor's delay of the trial; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/longbeach.html#2">village president of Long Beach, New York</a>, 1921-22; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/longbeach.html">mayor of Long Beach, N.Y.</a>, 1922-24; removed 1924; defeated, 1925; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> on May 1, 1924, along with the Long Beach city treasurer, for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">misappropriating</a> city funds in connection with a bond issue; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in June 1924, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to six months in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">county jail</a>, and automatically <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">removed from office</a> as mayor; released pending appeal; the Appellate Division reversed the conviction in June 1925 and ordered a new trial; the indictment was dismissed in June 1927. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scotch-irish.html">Scotch-Irish</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart disease</a>, in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/10-13.html">October 13, 1931</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms00142">Green-Wood Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Reynolds and Margaret (McChesney) Reynolds; married to Elise Guerrier.</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> Harry Micajah Daugherty (1860-1941) — also known as Harry M. Daugherty — of Washington Court House, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/FY-lived.html">Fayette County</a>, Ohio; Columbus, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/FR-lived.html">Franklin County</a>, Ohio. Born in Washington Court House, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/FY-born.html">Fayette County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/01-26.html">January 26, 1860</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/FY-officials.html">Fayette County Prosecuting Attorney</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/sthse.html">Ohio state house of representatives</a>, 1890-94; delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/OH.html">1904</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/OH.html">1908</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1912/OH.html">1912</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/OH.html">1924</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Attorney General</a>, 1921-24. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scotch-irish.html">Scotch-Irish</a> ancestry. Subject of a Senate <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a> of his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/misfeasance.html">conduct</a> as Attorney General; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned under fire</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> on charges of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government, but acquitted in 1927. Died in Columbus, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/FR-died.html">Franklin County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/10-12.html">October 12, 1941</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 259 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/FY-buried.html#cms02135">Washington Cemetery</a>, Washington Court House, 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 John H. Daugherty and Jane A. (Draper) Daugherty; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/09-03.html">September 3, 1884</a>, to Lucie Walker.</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/Harry M. Daugherty">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/364/000167860">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 by Harry M. Daugherty: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0836958330/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0836958330&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Inside Story of the Harding Tragedy</a> (1932)</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> Motley H. Flint (1864-1930) — of Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in Somerville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/02-19.html">February 19, 1864</a>. Republican. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/losangeles.html#2">Los Angeles, Calif.</a>, 1904-10; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; provided critical support for the Warner Brothers <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">Movie studio</a> in its early years; one of the promoters of Julian Petroleum Corporation, a Ponzi scheme which collapsed in 1927; about 40,000 investors lost their money; tainted by the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a>, he moved to Europe for a time. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Called as a witness in a civil suit involving <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seldenright-semrow.html#523.60.93">David O. Selznick</a>; after his testimony, as he returned to the audience section of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/courtroom.html">courtroom</a>, in Los Angeles <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/courthouse.html">City Hall</a>, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">killed</a> by Frank Keaton, in Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-died.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/07-14.html">July 14, 1930</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 145 days</a>). Keaton, who had lost his money in Julian Petroleum, was immediately arrested, and subsequently tried, convicted, and hanged. Entombed in mausoleum at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-buried.html#cms00954">Forest Lawn Memorial Park</a>, Glendale, 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">Relatives: Son of Francis Eaton Flint and Althea Louise (Hewes) Flint; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#807.37.45">Frank Putnam Flint</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#803.40.72">Benjamin Dexter Sprague</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/10001-0336.html">Bache-Dallas family</a> of Pennsylvania and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0708.html">Flint-Bache 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/8977">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> Maurice E. Connolly (1881-1935) — of Corona, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-lived.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y.; Forest Hills Gardens, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-lived.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y. Born in Corona, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-born.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/index.html">1881</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/queens.html">borough president of Queens, New York</a>, 1911-28; resigned 1928; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/NY.html">1912</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/NY.html">1916</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/NY.html">1924</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 2nd District, 1918; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> as borough president in April, 1928 during an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a> of a sewer graft <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in October 1928 of conspiracy to defraud the city; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to one year in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $500; following an unsuccessful appeal, he served the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison sentence</a> in 1930-31. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">cerebral hemorrhage</a>, in Forest Hills Gardens, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-died.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/11-24.html">November 24, 1935</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">about 54 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-buried.html#cms01530">Mount St. Mary Cemetery</a>, Flushing, Queens, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Maurice Connolly and Mary Jane Connolly; married to Helen M. Connell; father of Helen F. Connolly (daughter-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faalevao-fairbanks.html#810.57.67">Leander Bernard Faber</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/shawcroft-sheean.html#754.96.14">Clarence J. Shearn</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.federalreservehistory.org/-/media/images/crissinger_daniel.jpg"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/108/00.88.jpg" width=70 height=107 border=0 alt="Daniel R. Crissinger"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Daniel Richard Crissinger (1860-1942) — also known as Daniel R. Crissinger — of Marion, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MR-lived.html">Marion County</a>, Ohio. Born in Tully Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MR-born.html">Marion County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/12-10.html">December 10, 1860</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MR-officials.html">Marion County Prosecuting Attorney</a>, 1889-94; Marion city solicitor, 1895-1900; one of the organizers of the Marion County <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/telephone.html">Telephone</a> Company; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Ohio</a> 13th District, 1904, 1906; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, 1921-23; member, board of governors, Federal Reserve, 1923-27; in December 1929, he, along with U.S. Rep. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/zielinziger-zimmerer.html#622.54.85">Frederick N. Zihlman</a>, and five others, officers of the F. H. Smith Company, which had promoted and sold apparently worthless securities, were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> on federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of using the mails to commit fraud; most of those indicted went to prison, but Crissinger and Zihlman were never tried, and charges against them were dismissed in 1932. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</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/group/eagles.html">Eagles</a>. Died in Marion, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MR-died.html">Marion County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/07-12.html">July 12, 1942</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 214 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MR-buried.html#cms01695">Marion Cemetery</a>, Marion, 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 John Crissinger and Margaret Ganshorn (Dunham) Crissinger; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1888/">1888</a> to Ella Frances Scranton.</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/Daniel Richard Crissinger">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/126792321">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.federalreservehistory.org/people/daniel-r-crissinger">Federal Reserve History</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: Federal Reserve History</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> Frederick Nicholas Zihlman (1879-1935) — also known as Frederick N. Zihlman — of Cumberland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/AL-lived.html">Allegany County</a>, Md. Born in Carnegie, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-born.html">Allegheny County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/10-02.html">October 2, 1879</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/glass.html">Glass blower</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/labor.html">president</a>, Maryland Federation of Labor, 1906-07; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/stsen.html">Maryland state senate</a>, 1910-17; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maryland</a> 6th District, 1917-31; defeated, 1914, 1930; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigated</a> in 1924 by the U.S. House over an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">accusation</a> that he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">accepted a bribe</a> of $5,000 from a "fixer"; the charges were not substantiated; delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/MD.html">1928</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/committees.html">Resolutions Committee</a>); in December 1929, he, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#108.00.88">Daniel R. Crissinger</a>, and five others, officers of the F. H. Smith Company, which had promoted and sold apparently worthless securities, were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> on federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of using the mails to commit fraud; most of those indicted went to prison, but Zihlman and Crissinger were never tried, and charges against them were dismissed in 1932. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/swiss.html">Swiss</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>. Died in Cumberland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/AL-died.html">Allegany County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/04-22.html">April 22, 1935</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 202 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-buried.html#cms00886">St. John the Evangelist Cemetery</a>, Forest Glen, Md. <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 Nicholas Zihlman and Julia (Etzel) Zihlman; married to Margaret C. Dahl.</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=Z000007">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412000">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7092987">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19261129,00.html"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/218/79.14.jpg" width=70 height=100 border=0 alt="Samuel Insull"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Insull (1859-1938) — of Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill.; Kenilworth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill.; near Libertyville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/LA-lived.html">Lake County</a>, Ill. Born in London, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/11-11.html">November 11, 1859</a>. Republican. Associate of Thomas Edison and executive of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/utilities.html">electric utilities</a>; one of the founders of the company that became General Electric; also had major holdings in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">railroads</a>; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/IL.html">1904</a>; when his utility holding company collapsed, wiping out the stockholders, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/flight-escape.html">fled</a> the country; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in 1932 on fraud and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">embezzlement</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>; ultimately <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">extradited</a> from Turkey in 1934; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in Chicago and found not guilty. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/union-league.html">Union League</a>. Died from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in the Place de la Concorde <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/rr-stations.html">station</a> on the Paris Métro subway system, Paris, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-died.html">France</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/07-16.html">July 16, 1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 247 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-buried.html#cms07543">Putney Vale Cemetery</a>, London, England. <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 Insull and Emma (Short) Insull; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/05-24.html">May 24, 1899</a>, to Margaret A. Bird.</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/harms-harpending.html#372.36.96">Forest A. Harness</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/Samuel Insull">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: Time Magazine, November 29, 1926</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> Stephen J. Stilwell (1866-1942) — of Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-lived.html">Bronx County</a>, N.Y.; Mamaroneck, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/05-10.html">May 10, 1866</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 21st District, 1909-13; removed 1913; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> in 1913 with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">extorting</a> a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">bribe</a> of $3,500 from George H. Kendall, president of the New York Bank Note company, over a bill that Kendall supported; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in the State Senate and found not guilty on April 15 by a vote of 28 to 21; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> on May 12 by a grand jury for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">soliciting a bribe</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> soon after, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> on May 24; this removed him from office; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to four to eight years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; after his release, he moved to Mamaroneck and entered the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">real estate</a> business; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in 1934 on charges that he defrauded his former stenographer of $9,000 when she came to him seeking a Naval Academy appointment for her son, but the case did not go to trial; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in March 1941 and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in April on charges that he attempted to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">bribe</a> a Mamaroneck village trustee $1,000 to obtain a police job for an associate; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a>, but never sentenced; while incarcerated, his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">legs were amputated</a>. Died, while a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/captivity.html">prisoner awaiting sentence</a>, in Grasslands <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Valhalla, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-died.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/04-20.html">April 20, 1942</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 345 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 Mary Delia (Archer) Stilwell and William Jewitt Stilwell; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/02-14.html">February 14, 1887</a>, to Celia A. Blanck.</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> Washington Irving Vanderpoel (born c.1880) — also known as W. Irving Vanderpoel — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y.; Freeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in New York, about 1880. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper reporter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">insurance broker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/freeport.html#2">village president of Freeport, New York</a>, 1925-26; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 1st District, 1926. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/low-countries.html">Dutch</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in December 1936, along with his brother Edwin and others, by a federal grand jury, over his involvement in a stock swindle; found not guilty, but his brother was convicted. 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">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/irvine-irving.html#849.39.16">Washington Irving</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 Edwin Colburn Vanderpoel.</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> Jacob P. Nathanson (1901-1986) — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y.; Lake Worth (now Lake Worth Beach), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/PB-lived.html">Palm Beach County</a>, Fla. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RU-born.html">Russia</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/02-21.html">February 21, 1901</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Kings County 14th District, 1927-33; defeated in primary, 1933. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Charged</a> in 1930 with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/misfeasance.html">professional misconduct</a> by the Brooklyn Bar Association, over his handling of a client's $500 bail payment; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">suspended</a> from the practice of law in 1931, and ordered to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pay restitution</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in October and November 1938 on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/forgery.html">forgery</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/theft.html">grand larceny</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">subornation of perjury</a>, over his involvement in fraudulent bail bonds; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">subornation of perjury</a>, and testified against other conspirators; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">disbarred</a> in 1939. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/PB-died.html">Palm Beach County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1986/03-02.html">March 2, 1986</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 9 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/PB-buried.html#cms08332">somewhere</a> in Palm Beach County, Fla. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Nathan Lieberman (c.1888-1939) — also known as Leonard Madden — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born about 1888. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1912/NY.html">1912</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 17th District, 1921; in March 1939, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a>, along with two others, over a stock fraud scheme; he pleaded not guilty and was released on bail; meanwhile, in a separate case, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in Broome County. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. Died, apparently of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, while attempting to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">kill himself</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/poison.html">poison</a>, in his room at the Tudor <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">Hotel</a> (where he had registered under the assumed name "Leonard Madden"), Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1939/03-12.html">March 12, 1939</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">about 51 years</a>). Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/8382590778/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/635/40.98.jpg" width=70 height=101 border=0 alt="Frank D. McKay"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Frank D. McKay (1883-1965) — of Grand Rapids, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Mich. Born in Grand Rapids, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/11-04.html">November 4, 1883</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/finance.html">Financier</a>; political boss who dominated Republican politics in Michigan for years; delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/MI.html">1920</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/MI.html">1928</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1932/MI.html">1932</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1936/MI.html">1936</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/MI.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1944/MI.html">1944</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/trea.html">Michigan state treasurer</a>, 1925-30; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigated</a> by a grand jury in 1931 over his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/misfeasance.html">handling of state funds</a> while Treasurer; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/MI.html">Republican National Committee from Michigan</a>, 1940-44; subject of three federal grand jury <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigations</a> in 1940 over alleged fraud, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">extortion</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/kickbacks.html">kickbacks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in 1944 for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">bribery</a> of state legislators; hired a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/organized-crime.html">Purple Gang</a> figure to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">murder</a> the star witness, State Sen. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hooper.html#347.50.58">Warren G. Hooper</a>, and the case collapsed; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> in 1945, along with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mckeegan-mckenty.html#600.94.08">William McKeighan</a>, with conspiracy to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/alcohol-crimes.html">violate state liquor laws</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in 1946; the judge directed a verdict of not guilty. Died in Miami Beach, Dade County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/DA-died.html">Miami-Dade County</a>), Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1965/01-12.html">January 12, 1965</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 69 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/KE-buried.html#cms00496">Greenwood Cemetery</a>, Grand Rapids, 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 James D. McKay and Ellen (Zimmerman) McKay; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/05-31.html">May 31, 1906</a>, to Agnes Christine Hermansen.</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/barna-barnert.html#453.20.50">Edward N. Barnard</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/green9.html#883.02.88">William Green</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/123684654">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: Michigan Manual 1927</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> James Michael Curley (1874-1958) — also known as James M. Curley; "The Rascal King" — of Jamaica Plain, Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass. Born in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/11-20.html">November 20, 1874</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">Real estate</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">insurance</a> business; president, Hibernia Savings <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html">Massachusetts state house of representatives</a>, 1902-03; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a>, 1911-14, 1943-47 (10th District 1911-13, 12th District 1913-14, 11th District 1943-47); resigned 1914; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/boston.html">mayor of Boston, Mass.</a>, 1914-18, 1922-26, 1930-34, 1946-50; defeated, 1917, 1937, 1941, 1949, 1951, 1955; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/MA.html">1928</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/MA.html">1936</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/MA.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/MA.html">1944</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/MA.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/MA.html">1952</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/MA.html">1956</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Massachusetts</a>, 1935-37; defeated, 1924, 1938; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Massachusetts</a>, 1936; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/MA.html">Democratic National Committee from Massachusetts</a>, 1940-54; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in federal court in 1943, with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith2.html#260.07.40">Donald W. Smith</a> and others, over his participation in Engineers Group, Inc., which fraudulently obtained war contracts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">re-indicted</a> in 1944; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in 1945-46 and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to six to eighteen months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $1,000; released in November 1947 when his sentence was commuted by President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/trippe-trumbo.html#556.54.36">Harry Truman</a>. <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/eagles.html">Eagles</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/anc-ord-hibernians.html">Ancient Order of Hibernians</a>. Died in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-died.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1958/11-12.html">November 12, 1958</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 357 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-buried.html# ">Mt. Calvary Cemetery</a>, Roslindale, Boston, Mass. <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 Michael Curley and Sarah (Clancy) Curley; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cuomo-curlin.html#758.82.18">John J. Curley</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/06-27.html">June 27, 1906</a>, to Mary Emelda Herlihy; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/01-07.html">January 7, 1937</a>, to Gertrude Marion (Casey) Dennis.</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/sanger-sargeant.html#674.20.18">Joseph Santosuosso</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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000996">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403103">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/james-michael-curley/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James Michael Curley">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/093/000208466">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/1875">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">Books about James M. Curley: Jack Beatty, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0306810026/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0306810026&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley</a> — Gerald Leinwand, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786418451/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0786418451&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Mackerels in the Moonlight : Four Corrupt American Mayors</a> — William M. Bulger & Robert J. Allison, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933212977/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1933212977&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">James Michael Curley</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> Donald Wakefield Smith — also known as Donald W. Smith — of Pittsburgh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-lived.html">Allegheny County</a>, Pa.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Democrat. Member, National Labor Relations Board, 1936-39; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in federal court in 1943, with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cuomo-curlin.html#960.34.84">James M. Curley</a> and others, over his participation in Engineers Group, Inc., which fraudulently obtained war contracts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">re-indicted</a> in 1944; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in 1945-46 and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to four months to one year and one day in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $1,000. 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> Major B. Coxson (c.1929-1973) — of Camden, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/CA-lived.html">Camden County</a>, N.J. Born about 1929. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> 10 times on fraud and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/theft.html">larceny</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>, most related to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/theft.html">automobile theft</a>; served 22 months in federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/camden.html">mayor of Camden, N.J.</a>, 1973. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Admitted four men to his house, who bound and gagged him and his family, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shot</a> each one, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">killing</a> him and wounding the others, in Cherry Hill, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/CA-died.html">Camden County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1973/06-09.html">June 9, 1973</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/44.html">about 44 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> Jack Paul Faustin Gremillion (1914-2001) — also known as Jack P. F. Gremillion — of Baton Rouge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/EB-lived.html">East Baton Rouge Parish</a>, La. Born in Donaldsonville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/AS-born.html">Ascension Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/06-15.html">June 15, 1914</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/attygn.html">Louisiana state attorney general</a>, 1956-72; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/LA.html">1960</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/disabled-am-vets.html">Disabled American Veterans</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ord-alhambra.html">Order of Alhambra</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. While opposing New Orleans school desegregation in federal court in 1960, walked out of the courtroom, calling the court a "den of iniquity"; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/contempt.html">contempt of court</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentence</a> was suspended. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in 1969 for fraud and conspiracy over his dealings with the bankrupt Louisiana Loan and Thrift Corp.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in 1971 and acquitted. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> later that year on federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">perjury</a> charges in a related case; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to three years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; served 15 months. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pardon.html">Pardoned</a> in 1976 by Gov. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwards3.html#472.55.83">Edwin Edwards</a>. Died in Our Lady of the Lake Regional <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Medical Center</a>, Baton Rouge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/EB-died.html">East Baton Rouge Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2001/03-02.html">March 2, 2001</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 260 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/EB-buried.html#cms06038">Greenoaks Memorial Park</a>, Baton Rouge, La. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Salvador Anzelmo (born c.1924) — of New Orleans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-lived.html">Orleans Parish</a>, La. Born about 1924. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/sthse.html">Louisiana state house of representatives</a>, 1969. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in 1969 on fraud and conspiracy <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> in connection with the bankrupt Louisiana Loan and Thrift Corporation. Still living as of 1969. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Bruce Bennett — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/attygn.html">Arkansas state attorney general</a>, 1957; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in 1969 on fraud and conspiracy <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> over his relationship with the bankrupt Arkansas Loan and Thrift Corporation. Presumed deceased. 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> Raymond James Donovan (1930-2021) — also known as Raymond J. Donovan — of Short Hills, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-lived.html">Essex County</a>, N.J. Born in Bayonne, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HU-born.html">Hudson County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/08-31.html">August 31, 1930</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Insurance business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/construction.html">construction executive</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of Labor</a>, 1981-85; in 1982, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigated</a> by a federal special prosecutor over allegations of links to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/organized-crime.html">organized crime</a> figures, but insufficient evidence was found for any prosecution; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in 1984 over alleged fraud on a subway construction project in the Bronx, New York City; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> from the Cabinet; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in 1987 and found not guilty; following his acquittal, he famously asked, "Which office do I go to, to get my reputation back?". <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">congestive heart failure</a>, in New Vernon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MR-died.html">Morris County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2021/06-02.html">June 2, 2021</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 275 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 David Donovan and Eleanor Donovan; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1957/">1957</a> to Catherine Sblendorio.</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.nndb.com/people/708/000061525">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> Joseph L. Galiber (c.1924-1995) — of Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-lived.html">Bronx County</a>, N.Y. Born about 1924. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a>, 1969-95 (32nd District 1969-82, 31st District 1983-95); died in office 1995; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1984/NY.html">1984</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/NY.html">1988</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> twice on fraud <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>; acquitted both times. Died at Columbia-Presbyterian <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Medical Center</a>, New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1995/11-21.html">November 21, 1995</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">about 71 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> Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche Jr. (1922-2018) — also known as Lyndon LaRouche; Lyn Marcus — of New York City (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ZZ-lived.html">unknown county</a>), N.Y.; Leesburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/LO-lived.html">Loudoun County</a>, Va. Born in Rochester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ST-born.html">Strafford County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/09-08.html">September 8, 1922</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S. Labor candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1976; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1980/index.html">1980</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1984/index.html">1984</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/index.html">1988</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1992/index.html">1992</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/index.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/index.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/index.html">2004</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a>, with others, on fraud and conspiracy <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> in 1986 over solicitation of loans from supporters without intending to repay them; also <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">obstruction of justice</a> over destruction of financial records; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in federal court in Boston; a mistrial was declared in 1988; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">re-indicted</a> in federal court in Virginia on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of conspiracy, mail fraud, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/tax-evasion.html">tax evasion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to fifteen years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; released on parole in 1994; Independent candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a> 10th District, 1990. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2018/index.html">2018</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/95.html">about 95 years</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Jessie Lenore (Weir) LaRouche and Lyndon H. LaRouche, Sr.; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/">1954</a> to Janice Neuberger; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1977/">1977</a> to Helga Zepp.</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/clark7.html#939.65.45">Ramsey Clark</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/Lyndon LaRouche">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/916/000022850">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3227515">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2011/06/228-lyndon-larouche.html">Encyclopedia of American Loons</a></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 Lyndon H. LaRouche: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0943235189/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0943235189&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Now, Are You Ready To Learn Economics?</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0933488033/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0933488033&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">How to Defeat Liberalism and William F. Buckley</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BR4JTU/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000BR4JTU&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Earth's Next Fifty Years</a></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 Lyndon H. LaRouche: Michael O. Billington, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0943235170/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0943235170&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Reflections of an American Political Prisoner : The Repression and Promise of the LaRouche Movement</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Critical books about Lyndon H. LaRouche: Helen Gilbert, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0932323219/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0932323219&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Lyndon Larouche: Fascism Restyled for the New Millennium</a> — Dennis King, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385238800/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0385238800&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Lyndon Larouche and the New American Fascism</a></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> Edwin Meese III (b. 1931) — also known as Ed Meese; "Reagan's Geographer" — Born in Oakland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AL-born.html">Alameda County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/12-02.html">December 2, 1931</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; legal affairs secretary to Gov. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reade-rector.html#386.15.19">Ronald Reagan</a>, 1967-68; executive assistant and chief of staff, 1969-74; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">law professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Attorney General</a>, 1985-88. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lutheran.html">Lutheran</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/federalist-soc.html">Federalist Society</a>. The independent counsel who <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigated</a> the Wedtech <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> reported that Meese, who had worked as a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/lobbyists.html">lobbyist</a> for Wedtech, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">complicit</a> in the company's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">bribery</a> and fraud; following this disclosure, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> from the Cabinet. Still living as of 2020. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Edwin Meese, Jr. and Leona Meese; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1959/">1959</a> to Ursula Herrick.</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/Edwin Meese">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/462/000023393">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0576242">Internet Movie Database profile</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> Gentry Crowell (1932-1989) — of Tennessee. Born in Chestnut Mound, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SI-born.html">Smith County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/12-10.html">December 10, 1932</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/sthse.html">Tennessee state house of representatives</a>, 1969-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Tennessee</a>, 1977-89; died in office 1989. His office was a target of the federal "Operation Rocky Top" <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a> into fraudulent charity bingo games; his administrative assistant admitted to longtime <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">embezzlement</a>. Suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">self-inflicted</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot wound</a> on December 12, 1989, and died eight days later in Vanderbilt <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Nashville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DA-died.html">Davidson County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1989/12-20.html">December 20, 1989</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 10 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/WL-buried.html#cms01965">Cedar Grove Cemetery</a>, Lebanon, Tenn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentry Crowell">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/74790979">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> Gerald McCann (born c.1950) — of Jersey City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HU-lived.html">Hudson County</a>, N.J. Born in Jersey City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HU-born.html">Hudson County</a>, N.J., about 1950. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/jerseycity.html">Mayor of Jersey City, N.J.</a>, 1981-85, 1989-92; defeated, 1985; removed 1992; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HU-parties.html">chair of Hudson County Democratic Party</a>, 1984-85. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in 1992 on federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of fraud and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/tax-evasion.html">tax evasion</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Still living as of 2003. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alberto Gutman (b. 1959) — also known as Al Gutman — of Florida. Born in Havana (La Habana), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CU-born.html">Cuba</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1959/01-04.html">January 4, 1959</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/sthse.html">Florida state house of representatives</a>, 1984-92; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/stsen.html">Florida state senate</a> 34th District, 1992-99. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/hispanic.html">Cuban</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-theta-kappa.html">Phi Theta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-kappa-phi.html">Phi Kappa Phi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/bnai-brith.html">B'nai B'rith</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. In 1999, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a>, along with his wife and 23 others, on charges of Medicaid fraud and conspiracy; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to felony conspiracy <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> that he helped set up home health care companies that never did any legitimate business, got names of purported patients from voter lists, and received over $800,000 in Medicare payments; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> from the Florida Senate as part of the plea bargain; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> in 2000 to five years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a>, and ordered to pay <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">restitution</a>. Still living as of 1999. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Nick Wilson (born c.1943) — of Pocahontas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/RA-lived.html">Randolph County</a>, Ark. Born about 1943. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/stsen.html">Arkansas state senate</a>, 1971-98. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in November, 1999, on federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/tax-evasion.html">tax evasion</a> charges. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Pleaded guilty</a> in March, 2000 to fraud; 128 other charges were dropped in return for his agreement to testify against three others. Still living as of 2000. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edward Maurice Mezvinsky (b. 1937) — also known as Edward Mezvinsky — of Iowa City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/JO-lived.html">Johnson County</a>, Iowa; Harrisburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/DA-lived.html">Dauphin County</a>, Pa. Born in Ames, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/ST-born.html">Story County</a>, Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/01-17.html">January 17, 1937</a>. Democrat. Member of Iowa state legislature, 1970; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Iowa</a> 1st District, 1973-77; defeated, 1970, 1976; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/PA.html">Pennsylvania Democratic state chair</a>, 1981-86; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1984/PA.html">1984</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/russian.html">Ukrainian</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in March, 2001 on 56 federal fraud <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to 31, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1963/">1963</a> to Myra Shulman; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1975/">1975</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mara-margolis.html#859.96.47">Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky</a>; father of Marc Mezvinsky (son-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#673.06.95">William Jefferson Clinton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#754.43.91">Hillary Rodham Clinton</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/10001-0948.html">Clinton family</a> of Wadesboro, North Carolina (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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000686">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407671">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/650/000243918">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> Wallace G. Wilkinson (1941-2002) — also known as "The Weasel" — of Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-lived.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CS-born.html">Casey County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/12-12.html">December 12, 1941</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Kentucky</a>, 1987-91. During bankruptcy proceedings in 2001, it was revealed that Wilkinson had been operating a Ponzi scheme, and that his liabilities exceeded his assets by $300 million; he repeatedly refused to answer questions under oath, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">self-incrimination</a>. However, he died before any prosecution could take place. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">lymphatic cancer</a> and a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">stroke</a>, in St. Joseph <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-died.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2002/07-05.html">July 5, 2002</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 205 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/SA-buried.html# ">Sarasota Memorial Park</a>, Sarasota, 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">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/wallace-g-wilkinson/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace G. Wilkinson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/476/000120116">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> James W. Treffinger — of Verona, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-lived.html">Essex County</a>, N.J. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-officials.html">Essex County Executive</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New Jersey</a>, 2000. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Pleaded guilty</a> in 2003 to corruption and fraud <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>; ordered to pay $30,000 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">restitution</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 13 months in federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Still living as of 2003. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Earle Elias Morris Jr. (1928-2011) — also known as Earle E. Morris, Jr. — of Pickens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/PI-lived.html">Pickens County</a>, S.C. Born in Pickens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/PI-born.html">Pickens County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/07-14.html">July 14, 1928</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">merchant</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1951-54; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a>, 1954-70 (Pickens County 1954-66, 2nd District 1966-70); delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/SC.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/SC.html">1968</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1972/SC.html">1972</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/SC.html">South Carolina Democratic state chair</a>, 1966-68; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1971-74; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/compg.html">South Carolina state comptroller general</a>, 1976-99; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in 2004 of securities fraud following the collapse of Carolina Investors, though he denied any intent to defraud anyone; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 44 months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</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/woodmen.html">Woodmen of the World</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jaycees.html">Jaycees</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/blue-key.html">Blue Key</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/phi-kappa-phi.html">Phi Kappa Phi</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/prostate-cancer.html">prostate cancer</a>, in Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/LX-died.html">Lexington County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2011/02-11.html">February 11, 2011</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 212 days</a>). Entombed in mausoleum at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/LX-buried.html# ">Bush River Memorial Gardens</a>, Columbia, S.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 Earle Elias Morris and Bernice (Carey) Morris; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1958/04-12.html">April 12, 1958</a>, to Jane Lewis Boroughs; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1972/10-04.html">October 4, 1972</a>, to Carol Telford.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Epitaph: "Life Journey Of Dignity" / Beloved Husband, Father and Friend.</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/Earle Morris Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/65513936">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> Robert W. Levy (b. 1947) — also known as Bob Levy — of Atlantic City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/AT-lived.html">Atlantic County</a>, N.J. Born in Atlantic City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/AT-born.html">Atlantic County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/05-16.html">May 16, 1947</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/atlanticcity.html">mayor of Atlantic City, N.J.</a>, 2005-07; resigned 2007. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Falsely claimed</a> to have served in the U.S. Army <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/military.html">U.S. Army Special Forces</a> (Green Berets); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">admitted</a> that he used false information in his service record to obtain benefits; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/flight-escape.html">disappeared</a> on September 26, 2007; his lawyer announced on October 10 that he had <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> in November to defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to three years <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">probation</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a>, and ordered to pay <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">restitution</a>. Still living as of 2008. <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/1964/">1964</a> to Hazel Washington.</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/Bob Levy (politician)">Wikipedia article</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> Tony F. Mack (b. 1966) — of Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1966/01-08.html">January 8, 1966</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-officials.html">Mercer County Freeholder</a>, 1997-2008; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/NJ.html">2000</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/trenton.html">mayor of Trenton, N.J.</a>, 2010-14; removed 2014; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in September 2012, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">accepting a bribe</a>, fraud, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">extortion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in 2014, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to five years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/urban-league.html">Urban League</a>. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony F. Mack">Wikipedia article</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> Stephen Ernest Stockman (b. 1956) — also known as Steve Stockman — of Beaumont, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Tex. Born in Bloomfield Hills, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/OA-born.html">Oakland County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1956/11-14.html">November 14, 1956</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/accounting.html">Accountant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 9th District, 1995-97; defeated, 1992 (9th District), 1996 (9th District), 2006 (22nd District); candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rrco.html">Texas railroad commissioner</a>, 1998; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Texas</a>, 2014; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in March 2017 and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> in federal court on multiple counts, including obtaining $1.25 millon under false pretenses, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/money-laundering.html">money laundering</a>, making <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/campaign-finance.html">false statements to the FEC</a>, not reporting income on his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/tax-evasion.html">tax return</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> starting in January 2018; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in April of 23 felonies; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to ten years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> and ordered to pay more than $1 million <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">restitution</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/nra.html">National Rifle Association</a>. Still living as of 2020. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1988/">1988</a> to Patti Ferguson.</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=S000937">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410396">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve Stockman">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/399/000168892">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=13157">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a> — <a href="https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2020/01/2302-steve-stockman.html">Encyclopedia of American Loons</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"> "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." 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