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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: Bribery</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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Born about 1807. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Cattaraugus County, 1846; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">canal superintendent</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a> in 1863, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with attemping to bribe Assemblyman <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bosa-bouckaert.html#294.71.51">Elias M. Bostwick</a> by offering him $500 to vote for the Broadway Railroad bill. While walking on the Buffalo, New York & Philadelphia railroad track, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/railroad.html">struck and killed</a> by a train, near Franklinville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CA-died.html">Cattaraugus County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/07-06.html">July 6, 1882</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">about 75 years</a>). Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Brooks (1810-1873) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/11-10.html">November 10, 1810</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper publisher</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1835; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 16th District, 1848; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1849-53, 1863-66, 1867-73 (6th District 1849-53, 8th District 1863-66, 1867-73, 6th District 1873); died in office 1873; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn5.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a>, 1867. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Censured</a> by the House in 1873 for his role in the Credit Mobilier bribery <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/04-30.html">April 30, 1873</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 171 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 Betsey (Folsom) Brooks and James Brooks (1788-1814); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/07-10.html">July 10, 1841</a>, to Mary Louisa Randolph; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brooks.html#629.60.58">James Wilton Brooks</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams8.html#103.05.89">Samuel Adams</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen5.html#327.71.65">Joseph Allen</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cushing.html#369.61.01">Caleb Cushing</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bartos-bason.html#477.81.67">Orville Samuel Basford</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0072.html">Fairbanks-Adams family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0121.html">Saltonstall-Weeks family</a> of Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0392.html">Adams-Waite-Forshee-Cowan family</a> of Dexter, Michigan; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0126.html">Pike family</a> of Lubec, Maine; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0260.html">Adams-Rusling 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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000881">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401838">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/3854">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> Oakes Ames (1804-1873) — of North Easton, Easton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BR-lived.html">Bristol County</a>, Mass. Born in Easton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BR-born.html">Bristol County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1804/01-10.html">January 10, 1804</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a> 2nd District, 1863-73. He and his brother <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ames.html#054.90.99">Oliver Ames</a>, president of the Union Pacific Railroad, prime movers in construction of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> transcontinental <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">railroad line</a>, completed in 1869; he was as <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">censured</a> by the House of Representatives in 1873 for his role in the Credit Mobilier bribery <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a>. Died in Easton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BR-died.html">Bristol County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/05-08.html">May 8, 1873</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 118 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BR-buried.html#cms03499">Village Cemetery</a>, North Easton, Easton, Mass.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/AL-buried.html# ">Oliver and Oakes Ames Monument</a>, Sherman, Wyo. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Oliver Ames (1779-1863) and Susannah (Angier) Ames; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ames.html#054.90.99">Oliver Ames Jr.</a>; married to Eveline Gilmore; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ames.html#686.30.96">Oliver Ames (1831-1895)</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams5.html#675.84.63">John Adams</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ames.html#911.07.67">Alfred Elisha Ames</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ames.html#351.49.44">Albert Alonzo Ames</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/10001-0146.html">Ames family</a> of North Easton, Massachusetts (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">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/ST-names.html">Ames, Iowa</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">community</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/DD-names.html">Ames, Nebraska</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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=A000175">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400830">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/24234645">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Worth Belknap (1829-1890) — also known as William W. Belknap — of Iowa. Born in Newburgh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/09-22.html">September 22, 1829</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/ofc/sthse.html">Iowa state house of representatives</a>, 1857-58; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of War</a>, 1869-76. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Impeached</a> in 1876 by the House of Representatives for taking bribes; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> on March 2, 1876. Despite arguments that the Senate lacked jurisdiction after his resignation, an impeachment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">trial</a> was held; on August 1, the Senate voted 35 to 25 for his conviction, short of the necessary two-thirds. Died, of an apparent <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/10-13.html">October 13, 1890</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 21 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-buried.html#cms00004">Arlington National Cemetery</a>, Arlington, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Goldsmith Belknap and Ann (Clark) Belknap; married to Cora LeRoy, Carrie Thompson and Mrs. John Bower; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beldam-belknap.html#249.54.53">Hugh Reid Belknap</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"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Mount</a> Belknap, in the Tushar Mountains, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/BV-names.html">Beaver</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/PI-names.html">Piute</a> counties, Utah, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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/William W. Belknap">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/589/000168085">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> J. Douglass Robertson — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BA-lived.html">Beaufort County</a>, S.C. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Beaufort County, 1872-76; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">expelled</a> from the House on February 25, 1876, for attempting to bribe New York publishers concerning the supply of school textbooks. 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> Henry J. Maxwell — of Bennettsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/MR-lived.html">Marlboro County</a>, S.C. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from Marlboro County, 1868-77; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/bennettsville.html#2">Bennettsville, S.C.</a>, 1869-70; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> of bribery in 1877, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> from the State Senate. 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> Charles S. Minort — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/RI-lived.html">Richland County</a>, S.C. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Richland County, 1872-74, 1876-77; resigned 1877; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> for bribery in 1877. 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> Hastings Gantt — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BA-lived.html">Beaufort County</a>, S.C. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Beaufort County, 1870-74, 1876-84; in 1878, his election was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">protested</a> by W. J. Verdier, who alleged that Gantt was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">not eligible</a> to be a member of the House, because he had <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">confessed</a> to taking a bribe in a previous legislative session; committees of the House considered the matter and were unable to reach a decision. 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> Thomas Jefferson Brady (1839-1904) — also known as Thomas J. Brady; T. J. Brady — Born in Muncie, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/DE-born.html">Delaware County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/02-12.html">February 12, 1839</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper publisher</a>; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VI/ZZ-consuls.html ">St. Thomas</a>, 1870-75; second assistant U.S. Postmaster General; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in 1881 as a participant in the Star Route bribery scheme; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">found guilty</a>, but a judge set aside the conviction; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">retried</a> and acquitted. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/04-22.html">April 22, 1904</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 70 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">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#647.96.43">Thomas Jefferson</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brady.html#041.24.28">John Brady</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/05-10.html">May 10, 1864</a>, to Emeline Wolf.</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/Thomas J. Brady">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> Eugene F. Vacheron — of Ozone Park, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-lived.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y. <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>, 1894-95, 1901 (Queens County 3rd District 1894-95, Queens County 2nd District 1901); resigned 1895; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with bribery in 1895; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and acquitted, but <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> from the Assembly; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/theft.html">grand larceny</a>, February 28, 1912. 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> Robert Philo Anibal (1845-1908) — also known as Robert P. Anibal — of Northville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/FU-lived.html">Fulton County</a>, N.Y.; Johnstown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/FU-lived.html">Fulton County</a>, N.Y. Born in Benson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/HA-born.html">Hamilton County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/02-22.html">February 22, 1845</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/HA-officials.html">Hamilton County Judge and Surrogate</a>, 1872-77; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1896/NY.html">1896</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 4th District, 1901. In May 1901, the Herkimer County District Attorney <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">accused</a> him of offering a bribe to a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/contempt.html">witness in a criminal trial</a>; Anibal denied this. Died in Northville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/FU-died.html">Fulton County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/12-14.html">December 14, 1908</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 296 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 Philo Anibal and Mary (Orcutt) Anibal; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/04-24.html">April 24, 1872</a>, to Frances E. Van Arnam.</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> Albert Alonzo Ames (1842-1911) — also known as Albert A. Ames; "Doc" — of Minneapolis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/HE-lived.html">Hennepin County</a>, Minn.; California. Born in Garden Prairie, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/BO-born.html">Boone County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/01-18.html">January 18, 1842</a>. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">physician</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/sthse.html">Minnesota state house of representatives</a> District 5, 1867; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/minneapolis.html">mayor of Minneapolis, Minn.</a>, 1876-77, 1882-84, 1886-89, 1901-02; resigned 1902; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Minnesota</a>, 1886 (Democratic), 1896 (Independent); delegate to Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1888/MN.html">1888</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in 1902 on bribery <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>, over a scheme to induce county commissioners to appoint his secretary, Thomas R. Brown, Jr., as Sheriff. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>. Died, in Minneapolis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/HE-died.html">Hennepin County</a>, Minn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/11-16.html">November 16, 1911</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 302 days</a>). His body was reportedly <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/donated.html">donated to science</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes interred at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/HE-buried.html#cms00172">Lakewood Cemetery</a>, Minneapolis, Minn. <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/ames.html#911.07.67">Alfred Elisha Ames</a> and Martha Asenath (Pratt) Ames; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/04-21.html">April 21, 1862</a>, to Sarah S. Strout; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ames.html#331.55.57">Oakes Ames</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ames.html#054.90.99">Oliver Ames Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0146.html">Ames family</a> of North Easton, Massachusetts (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/81351176">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/fulldetail?ID=10892">Minnesota Legislator record</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=iYdBkBWv0QsC&pg=PA22"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/002/76.35.jpg" width=70 height=101 border=0 alt="John L. McLaurin"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Lowndes McLaurin (1860-1934) — also known as John L. McLaurin — of Bennettsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/MR-lived.html">Marlboro County</a>, S.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/MR-born.html">Marlboro County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/05-09.html">May 9, 1860</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1890-91; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/attygn.html">South Carolina state attorney general</a>, 1891-97; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 6th District, 1892-97; resigned 1897; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from South Carolina</a>, 1897-1903; in Februry, 1902, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">accused</a>, by fellow South Carolina senator <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tillman.html#279.64.90">Ben Tillman</a>, of accepting a bribe (in the form of federal patronage) to support a treaty; he called Tillman a liar, and the two <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/assault.html">came to blows</a> on the Senate floor; both were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">censured</a> by the Senate; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from Marlboro County, 1913-14; South Carolina Warehouse Commissioner, 1915-17. Died in Bennettsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/MR-died.html">Marlboro County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/07-20.html">July 20, 1934</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 72 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/MR-buried.html#cms02583">McCall Cemetery</a>, Bennettsville, 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">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baker3.html#339.65.70">Frazier B. Baker</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=M000543">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407535">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John L. McLaurin">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: American Monthly Review of Reviews, July, 1897</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> D. Judson Hammond (b. 1841) — of Pontiac, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/OA-lived.html">Oakland County</a>, Mich. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/index.html">1841</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Oakland County 1st District, 1897-1900. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in 1903 of soliciting a bribe of $500 to defeat a bill opposed by wholesale grocers; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to two years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> or a $2,000 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fine</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 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/fraud.html">land frauds</a>; a bribery 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> William P. Sullivan (1870-1925) — of Billings, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/CX-lived.html">Christian County</a>, Mo. Born in Wisconsin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/06-03.html">June 3, 1870</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/sthse.html">Missouri state house of representatives</a> from Christian County, 1899-1900; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/stsen.html">Missouri state senate</a> 19th District, 1901-04; delegate to Republican National Convention from Missouri, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/MO.html">1908</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/MO.html">1916</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in 1905 of accepting a bribe while serving as State Senator, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $100. Died suddenly, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart failure</a>, in Billings, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/CX-died.html">Christian County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/04-17.html">April 17, 1925</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">54 years, 318 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/CX-buried.html# ">Rose Hill Cemetery</a>, Billings, Mo. <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 Sullivan and Angenette 'Nettie' (Glidden) Sullivan; married to Alice Virginia Reid.</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/69756343">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> Tirey L. Ford (1857-1928) — also known as T. L. Ford — of California. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/MO-born.html">Monroe County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/index.html">1857</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/attygn.html">California state attorney general</a>, 1899-1902. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Charged</a> with offering a bribe; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and acquitted in 1907. Died, of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-died.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/06-26.html">June 26, 1928</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">about 70 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SM-buried.html#cms00860">Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery</a>, Colma, Calif. </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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/fraud.html">defraud</a> 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 bribery, <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> Joseph Bermel (1860-1921) — of Middle Village, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-lived.html">Queens County</a>, 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/1860/04-08.html">April 8, 1860</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/masonry.html">Stonecutter</a>; Newtown town supervisor in the 1890s; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">financial irregularities</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and acquitted; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/queens.html">borough president of Queens, New York</a>, 1906-08; resigned 1908; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> as borough president after a grand jury presented <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> against him, related to fraud and bribery in connection with the city's purchase of Kissena Park in Queens. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/royal-arcanum.html">Royal Arcanum</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/foresters.html">Foresters</a>. Died in Carlsbad, Czechoslovakia (now Karlovy Vary, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EZ-died.html">Czechia</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/07-28.html">July 28, 1921</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 111 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-buried.html#cms00305">St. John's Cemetery</a>, Middle Village, 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 Charles Bermel and Elizabeth (Cohn) Bermel; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/10-21.html">October 21, 1884</a>, to Anna Mary Timmes.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=839PAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA64-IA21"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/318/18.10.jpg" width=70 height=106 border=0 alt="Jotham P. Allds"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jotham Powers Allds (1865-1923) — also known as Jotham P. Allds — of Norwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CN-lived.html">Chenango County</a>, N.Y. Born in Claremont, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/SU-born.html">Sullivan County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/02-01.html">February 1, 1865</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Chenango County, 1896-1902; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a>, 1903-10 (26th District 1903-06, 27th District 1907-08, 37th District 1909-10); resigned 1910; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/NY.html">1908</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Accused</a> by Sen. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#934.34.14">Benn Conger</a>, in 1910, of accepting bribes from bridge companies nine years earlier; following an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a>, the State Senate <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">found him guilty</a> by a vote of 40 to 9, and he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> to avoid <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">expulsion</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/liver.html">liver disease</a>, at Norwich Memorial <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Norwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CN-died.html">Chenango County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/09-11.html">September 11, 1923</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 222 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 Jotham Gillis Allds and Lucy Charlotte (Powers) Allds.</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/Jotham P. Allds">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: New York Red Book 1907</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Benn Conger (1856-1922) — of Groton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/TO-lived.html">Tompkins County</a>, N.Y. Born in Groton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/TO-born.html">Tompkins County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/10-29.html">October 29, 1856</a>. President, Corona <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/typewriter.html">Typewriter</a> Co.; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Tompkins County, 1900-01; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 41st District, 1909-10; resigned 1910. In 1910, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">accused</a> Sen. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alexandre-allee.html#318.18.10">Jotham P. Allds</a>, the majority leader, of accepting a bribe from bridge companies; Allds was investigated and ultimately resigned. Conger, who had also taken part in the bribery scheme, was criticized for not coming forward sooner; facing a likely attempt to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">expel</a> him, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> a few days later. Died in Groton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/TO-died.html">Tompkins County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/02-28.html">February 28, 1922</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 122 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/TO-buried.html#cms06399">Groton Rural Cemetery</a>, Groton, 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 Corydon Wilson Conger and Mary Jane (Brown) Conger; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/">1880</a> to Florence C. Buck; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#065.35.89">Hugh Conger</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#317.28.00">James Lockwood Conger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#123.53.84">Anson Griffith Conger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#499.43.84">Harmon Sweatland Conger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#541.81.62">Omar Dwight Conger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#220.73.42">Moore Conger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#087.79.44">Frederick Ward Conger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#398.98.93">Chauncey Stewart Conger</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#909.90.32">Charles Franklin Conger</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/10001-0006.html">Conger family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0168.html">Conger-Hungerford family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William H. Bradley (1859-1925) — of Greenville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/MN-lived.html">Montcalm County</a>, Mich. Born in Spencer Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/02-26.html">February 26, 1859</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/food.html">Wholesale grocer</a>; mayor of Greenville, Mich., 1908-09; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 18th District, 1909-12. In 1911, he was accused of bribery by Sherman M. Townsend, a former Sergeant-at-Arms of the state senate; an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a> was conducted; a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resolution to expel</a> him from the Senate failed on a vote of 14 to 15. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/index.html">1925</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">about 66 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/MN-buried.html#cms00454">Forest Home Cemetery</a>, Greenville, 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">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5753992">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Forte Willett Jr. (1869-1938) — also known as William Willett, Jr. — of Far Rockaway, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-lived.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y.; Woodmere, <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/1869/11-27.html">November 27, 1869</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 14th District, 1907-11; defeated, 1904; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 2nd District, 1911; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in 1912 on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> that he bought the nomination for Supreme Court justice; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in 1914, <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> $1,000; released on parole in 1916. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in his room at the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">Hotel</a> McAlpin, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/02-12.html">February 12, 1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 77 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms01006">The Evergreens 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 Willett and Marion Willett; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/">1895</a> to Marie Rebecca Van Tassel.</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/berl-berrien.html#120.49.74">William Berri</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cassidy.html#634.94.01">Joseph Cassidy</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=W000481">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411638">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/19972">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4WgfAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT177"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/323/91.16.jpg" width=70 height=102 border=0 alt="William Lorimer"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Lorimer (1861-1934) — also known as "The Blond Boss" — of Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in Manchester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/04-27.html">April 27, 1861</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">Real estate business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/construction.html">contractor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/masonry.html">brick manufacturer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Illinois</a>, 1895-1901, 1903-09 (2nd District 1895-1901, 6th District 1903-09); delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/IL.html">1896</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/IL.html">1904</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/IL.html">1908</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Illinois</a>, 1909-12. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish.html">Scottish</a> ancestry. He was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">accused</a> of bribery in winning election to the Senate; in 1912, the Senate <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">invalidated</a> his election. Died in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-died.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/09-13.html">September 13, 1934</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 139 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-buried.html#cms00568">Calvary Cemetery</a>, Evanston, 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: Married to Susan Mooney.</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=L000444">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406935">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Lorimer (politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7672204">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: Autobiographies and Portraits of the President, Cabinet, etc. (1899)</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 bribe 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 soliciting a bribe; <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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/fraud.html">defrauded</a> 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 bribe 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> Donn M. Roberts (1867-1936) — of Indiana. Born in Annapolis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CA-born.html">Crawford County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/09-28.html">September 28, 1867</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/ofc/terrehaute.html">Mayor of Terre Haute, Ind.</a>, 1913-15. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> of bribery in 1915 and spent three and a half years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">embezzlement</a> in 1936 and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Released from prison following a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, and died a few days later, in Terre Haute, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/VI-died.html">Vigo County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/08-03.html">August 3, 1936</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 310 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/VI-buried.html#cms04273">St. Joseph's Cemetery</a>, Terre Haute, Ind. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Crockett Sims — of Hazen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/PR-lived.html">Prairie County</a>, Ark. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/stsen.html">Arkansas state senate</a> 12th District, 1915-17; expelled 1917. In January, 1917, when Anti-Trading Stamp and Coupon bills were pending before his committee, he accepted a bribe to kill the bills, from a detective posing as a lobbyist for Eastern trading-stamp interests; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with bribery, and later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">expelled</a> from the Senate on a vote of 25 to 8. 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> Ivison C. Burgess — of Russellville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/PO-lived.html">Pope County</a>, Ark. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/stsen.html">Arkansas state senate</a> 4th District, 1915-17; expelled 1917. In January, 1917, after he introduced legislation to regulate trading stamps and coupons, he accepted a bribe to kill the bills, from a detective posing as a lobbyist for Eastern trading-stamp interests; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with bribery, and later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">expelled</a> from the Senate on a vote of 25 to 8. 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> Frederic Thomas Woodman (1872-1949) — also known as Frederic T. Woodman — of Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in Concord, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ME-born.html">Merrimack County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/06-25.html">June 25, 1872</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ofc/sthse.html">New Hampshire state house of representatives</a>, 1901-03; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/losangeles.html">mayor of Los Angeles, Calif.</a>, 1916-19; defeated, 1919; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> on bribery charges, March 1919; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and found not guilty; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1949/03-25.html">March 25, 1949</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 273 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-buried.html#cms01088">Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery</a>, Los Angeles, Calif. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick T. Woodman">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5298">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/6674218571/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/248/62.80.jpg" width=70 height=105 border=0 alt="Harold Knutson"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Harold Knutson (1880-1953) — of St. Cloud, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ST-lived.html">Stearns County</a>, Minn. Born in Skein, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NO-born.html">Norway</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/10-20.html">October 20, 1880</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor and publisher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Minnesota</a>, 1917-49 (6th District 1917-33, at-large 1933-35, 6th District 1935-49); delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/MN.html">1940</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/officers.html">Honorary Vice-President</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lutheran.html">Lutheran</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scandinavian.html">Norwegian</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. On March 9, 1924, he and Leroy M. Hull, a 29-year-old clerk for the Labor Department, sitting in his parked car alongside a rural road near Arlington National Cemetery, were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> by officers of the Arlington County vice squad; he vainly offered a $100 bribe, but was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a>, apparently with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">sodomy</a> (press reports avoided mentioning the specific crime, only that it was a "grave moral offense"), and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jailed</a> overnight; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> before a jury, and found not guilty. Died, following a series of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attacks</a>, in Wesley Memorial <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Wadena, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/WD-died.html">Wadena County</a>, Minn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/08-21.html">August 21, 1953</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 305 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ST-buried.html#cms02671">North Star Cemetery</a>, St. Cloud, Minn. <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=K000301">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406457">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold Knutson">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: Minnesota Legislative Manual 1917</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> Edward Laurence Doheny (1856-1935) — also known as Edward L. Doheny — of Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in Fond du Lac, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/FD-born.html">Fond du Lac County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/08-10.html">August 10, 1856</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1920/CA.html">1920</a>; candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1920/index.html">1920</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in 1924 on federal bribery and conspiracy <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>; he had given $100,000 to Secretary of the Interior <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faircloth-farleigh.html#021.96.04">Albert B. Fall</a>, and soon after received a valuable contract to develop the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve in California. Though Fall was convicted of taking a bribe, Doheny was found not guilty. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/09-08.html">September 8, 1935</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 29 days</a>). Entombed in mausoleum at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-buried.html#cms01040">Calvary Cemetery</a>, Los Angeles, 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">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hogan.html#400.27.13">Frank J. Hogan</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Joseph Fallon (1886-1927) — also known as William J. Fallon; "The Great Mouthpiece"; "Broadway's Cicero" — of Mamaroneck, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/index.html">1886</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Westchester County 2nd District, 1918; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> in 1924 with bribing a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">juror</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and acquitted. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart disease</a>, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">Hotel</a> Oxford, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/04-29.html">April 29, 1927</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/40.html">about 40 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-buried.html#cms01209">Calvary Cemetery</a>, Woodside, Queens, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Joseph M. Fallon; married to Agnes Rafter.</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 William J. Fallon: Gene Fowler, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007FMVB4/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0007FMVB4&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Great Mouthpiece : A Life Story of William J. Fallon</a></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> David C. Kerr — U.S. Vice Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-consuls.html ">Birmingham</a>, as of 1917; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in Washington, D.C. in May 1924, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with accepting bribes while vice consul at Vancouver, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/smuggling.html">issue visas</a> to Chinese, so they could <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/smuggling.html">enter the U.S. illegally</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> 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 accepted a bribe 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/fraud.html">fraud</a>; 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"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edwin Denby (1870-1929) — also known as Ned Denby — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Evansville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/VA-born.html">Vanderburgh County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/02-18.html">February 18, 1870</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Wayne County 1st District, 1903-04; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Michigan</a> 1st District, 1905-11; defeated, 1910; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/MI.html">Michigan Republican State Central Committee</a>, 1917; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Navy</a>, 1921-24; persuaded by Secretary of State <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faircloth-farleigh.html#021.96.04">Albert B. Fall</a> to transfer control of the Navy's oil leases to the Interior Department; Fall then accepted large bribes to sell the leases to his friends, in what became known as the Teapot Dome <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a>; in 1924, Denby was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">forced to resign</a> as Secretary of the Navy. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-phi.html">Phi Delta Phi</a>. Died in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-died.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/02-08.html">February 8, 1929</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 356 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-buried.html#cms00088">Elmwood Cemetery</a>, Detroit, 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dempster-denious.html#578.72.49">Charles Harvey Denby</a> and Martha (Fitch) Denby; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dempster-denious.html#750.77.92">Charles Harvey Denby Jr.</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/03-18.html">March 18, 1911</a>, to Marion Bartlett Thurber; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dempster-denious.html#083.70.08">James Orr Denby</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitch.html#362.64.66">Graham Newell Fitch</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/manshel-mapp.html#966.58.30">Jonas Mapes</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/10001-0244.html">Conkling-Seymour family</a> of Utica, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0272.html">Mapes-Jennings-Denby-Harrison family</a> of New York and Arizona; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0335.html">Denby-Fitch family</a> of Evansville, Indiana; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0999.html">Tyler family</a> of Virginia (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">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/obrien6.html#750.37.95">M. Hubert O'Brien</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">Edwin Denby <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a> (opened 1930), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-names.html">Detroit, Michigan</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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=D000232">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403370">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin Denby (politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7253726">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> Jonathan McMillan Davis (1871-1943) — also known as Jonathan M. Davis — of Bronson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/BO-lived.html">Bourbon County</a>, Kan. Born in Bronson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/BO-born.html">Bourbon County</a>, Kan., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/04-27.html">April 27, 1871</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/ofc/sthse.html">Kansas state house of representatives</a>, 1905-13; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/ofc/stsen.html">Kansas state senate</a>, 1913-17; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Kansas</a>, 1923-25; defeated, 1920, 1924, 1926, 1936 (primary), 1938 (Independent); delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kansas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/KS.html">1924</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/committees.html">Committee on Permanent Organization</a>); candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/index.html">1924</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Kansas</a>, 1930. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <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/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a> the day after his gubernatorial term expired; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> twice for bribery; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and acquitted both times. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/06-27.html">June 27, 1943</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 61 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/BO-buried.html#cms04200">Bronson Cemetery</a>, Bronson, Kan. <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 Jonathan McMillan Davis and Eve (Holeman) Davis; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/09-26.html">September 26, 1894</a>, to Mollie Purdom; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/12-16.html">December 16, 1931</a>, to Mary E. (Winston) Raymond.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/jonathan-mcmillan-davis/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Claude E. Negley — of Indianapolis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/MA-lived.html">Marion County</a>, Ind. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/MA-born.html">Marion County</a>, Ind. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/ofc/indianapolis.html">Mayor of Indianapolis, Ind.</a>, 1927. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Pleaded guilty</a> in 1927 to bribery <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a>. Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/MA-buried.html#cms00556">Crown Hill Cemetery</a>, Indianapolis, Ind. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John L. Duvall (1874-1962) — of Indianapolis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/MA-lived.html">Marion County</a>, Ind. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/TA-born.html">Tazewell County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/11-29.html">November 29, 1874</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/ofc/indianapolis.html">Mayor of Indianapolis, Ind.</a>, 1926-27; resigned 1927. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in 1927 of violating the state corrupt practices act by taking bribes from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/hatred.html">Ku Klux Klan</a> leader D. C. Stephenson; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 30 days in jail, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $1,000, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">forced to resign</a> as mayor. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/02-25.html">February 25, 1962</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 88 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/MA-buried.html#cms00556">Crown Hill Cemetery</a>, Indianapolis, Ind. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/936/000163447">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> Edward L. Jackson (1873-1954) — also known as Ed Jackson — of New Castle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/HN-lived.html">Henry County</a>, Ind.; Indianapolis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/MA-lived.html">Marion County</a>, Ind.; Orleans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/OR-lived.html">Orange County</a>, Ind. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/HO-born.html">Howard County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/12-27.html">December 27, 1873</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/HN-officials.html">Henry County Prosecuting Attorney</a>, 1903-05; circuit judge in Indiana, 1909-14; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Indiana</a>, 1917, 1921-25; defeated, 1914; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Indiana</a>, 1925-29; delegate to Republican National Convention from Indiana, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/IN.html">1928</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/christian.html">Christian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Charged</a> with bribery; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and found not guilty. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/11-18.html">November 18, 1954</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 326 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/OR-buried.html#cms05795">Green Hill Cemetery</a>, Orleans, Ind. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Presley E. Jackson and Elizabeth (Howell) Jackson; married to Rosa Wilkinson and Lida Beatty.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/edward-l-jackson/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/640/000206022">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> Albert Bacon Fall (1861-1944) — also known as Albert B. Fall — of Three Rivers, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NM/OT-lived.html">Otero County</a>, N.M. Born in Frankfort, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FR-born.html">Franklin County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/11-26.html">November 26, 1861</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NM/ofc/trhs.html">New Mexico territorial House of Representatives</a>, 1891-92; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NM/ofc/tsju.html">justice of New Mexico territorial supreme court</a>, 1893; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NM/ofc/tatgn.html">New Mexico territory attorney general</a>, 1897; served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NM/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New Mexico</a>, 1912-21; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Mexico, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/NM.html">1916</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Interior</a>, 1921-23. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> of bribery in 1929 for his role in the Teapot Dome oil lease <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a>; served one year in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Died in El Paso, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/EP-died.html">El Paso County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/11-30.html">November 30, 1944</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 4 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/EP-buried.html#cms01665">Evergreen Alameda Cemetery</a>, El Paso, Tex. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William R. Fall and Edmonia (Taylor) Fall; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/05-07.html">May 7, 1883</a>, to Emma Garland Morgan (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan.html#223.62.33">Simpson Harris Morgan</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/dodrill-doheny.html#444.51.80">Edward L. Doheny</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hogan.html#400.27.13">Frank J. Hogan</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dempster-denious.html#183.22.51">Edwin Denby</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=F000011">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403973">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/250/000129860">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9688">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 Albert B. Fall: David H. Stratton, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806130784/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0806130784&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Tempest over Teapot Dome : The Story of Albert B. Fall</a> — Herman B. Weisner, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1880047055/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1880047055&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Politics of Justice: A.B. Fall and the Teapot Dome Scandal</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> Paris Montrose (c.1895-1961) — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y. Born about 1895. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Kings County 22nd District, 1927, 1928. In 1929, he was one of several Brooklyn lawyers who were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">disciplined</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/misfeasance.html">ambulance chasing activities</a> and paying insurance company adjusters for favorable settlement of claims; his license to practice law was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">suspended</a> for two years. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">cancer</a>, in the Memorial <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Center</a> for Cancer and Allied Diseases of the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1961/02-14.html">February 14, 1961</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">about 66 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> Archibald James Carey (1868-1931) — also known as Archibald J. Carey — of Jacksonville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/DU-lived.html">Duval County</a>, Fla.; Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/born-slavery.html">slavery</a>, in Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/08-25.html">August 25, 1868</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher and principal</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/univpres.html">president</a>, Edward Waters College, Jacksonville, Fla., 1895; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">minister</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">bishop</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/cncn5.html">delegate to Illinois state constitutional convention</a> 3rd District, 1920-22; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/IL.html">1924</a>; member, Chicago Civil Service Commission, 1927-29; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in 1929 on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of accepting bribes from job applicants; the case never came to trial. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">African Methodist Episcopal</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart disease</a>, in Billings Memorial <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-died.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/03-23.html">March 23, 1931</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 210 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-buried.html#cms02812">Lincoln Cemetery</a>, Blue Island, 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 Ann Carey and Jefferson Alexander Carey; married to Elizabeth D. Davis; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carey.html#055.46.57">Archibald James Carey Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/185863520">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/192/45.44.jpg" width=70 height=106 border=0 alt="J. Bradford Pengelly"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Bradford Pengelly (1880-1973) — also known as J. Bradford Pengelly — of Flint, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/GE-lived.html">Genesee County</a>, Mich.; Leamington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ON-lived.html">Ontario</a>. Born in Brantford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ON-born.html">Ontario</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/05-12.html">May 12, 1880</a>. Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Episcopal priest</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 13th District, 1922; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Michigan</a> 6th District, 1926; Flint city commissioner; in June, 1932, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with accepting bribes from real estate developers; he denied the allegations and pleaded not guilty; venue was changed from Flint to Grand Rapids; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in October 1932, but the jury was unable to reach a verdict; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">retried</a> in January 1934 and found not guilty; meanwhile, in November 1932, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">recalled</a> from office as City Commissioner. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Coquitlam, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BC-died.html">British Columbia</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1973/10-16.html">October 16, 1973</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/93.html">93 years, 157 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 Elizabeth Ann (Bradford) Pengelly and John Henry Pengelly; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/09-17.html">September 17, 1913</a>, to Edith Maude Campbell; married to Agnes (Richardson) Mathews.</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: Port Huron Times Herald, Octover 25, 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> Tracy W. Southworth — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/MO-lived.html">Monroe County</a>, Mich. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Monroe County; elected 1930, 1932; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in June 1934, along with a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/lobbyists.html">lobbyist</a>, Al Tobin, based on an allegation of bribery in connection with helping a trucking company obtain a license; four marked bills were found in his possession when he was arrested; he claimed the lobbyist had merely made him a loan of $100. 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> Michael Joseph Hogan (1871-1940) — also known as Michael J. Hogan — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y.; Rockville Centre, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/04-22.html">April 22, 1871</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 7th District, 1921-23; defeated, 1922 (7th District), 1932 (at-large); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/trucking.html">trucking business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in 1934 for accepting money from applicants for New York City plumbing licenses; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> on federal charges in 1935 of accepting bribes from illegal immigrants and helping them file <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">false affidavits</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to a year and a day in federal prison; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">testified</a> in 1936 that he had assisted in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">jury tampering</a> conspiracy. Died in Rockville Centre, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1940/05-07.html">May 7, 1940</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 15 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms00142">Green-Wood Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000693">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405546">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael J. Hogan">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/3889">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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 L. Lotsch (1881-1967) — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y.; Scranton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LC-lived.html">Lackawanna County</a>, Pa. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/02-15.html">February 15, 1881</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 6th District, 1928. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in 1935 on federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of taking bribes while serving as a special master overseeing a patent case; the case was dismissed in 1936, but he was immediately <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">reindicted</a> on an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">extortion</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charge</a>; that indictment was thrown out by the Court of Appeals. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Charged</a> in 1938, with other officials of a defunct Brooklyn bank, with conspiracy to violate federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bank-fraud.html">banking laws</a> by accepting fees for granting loans; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> on three counts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to serve one year in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jail</a>; also <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">disbarred</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Pleaded guilty</a> in 1939 to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> that he bribed federal judge <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/manshel-mapp.html#545.20.06">Martin T. Manton</a>, and testified at the judge's bribery trial. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1967/index.html">1967</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">about 86 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> Walter B. Sands (1870-1938) — of Chinook, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/BL-lived.html">Blaine County</a>, Mont. Born in Maiden Rock, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/PI-born.html">Pierce County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/01-28.html">January 28, 1870</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Montana state supreme court</a>, 1935-38; died in office 1938; during his campaign for Chief Justice, he pledged to accept only $6,000 of the $7,500 salary; in 1935, W. D. Tipton <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sued to oust him</a> based on the contention that this promise constituted a bribe, and violated the state's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/other-crimes.html">corrupt practices act</a>; ultimately it was ruled that he had acted in good faith. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/automobile.html">Hit by a bus</a>, was badly injured, suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, and died three days after the accident, in St. Peter's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Helena, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/LC-died.html">Lewis and Clark County</a>, Mont., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/06-13.html">June 13, 1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 136 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/CA-buried.html#cms03939">Hillcrest Lawn Memorial</a>, Great Falls, Mont. <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 Richard Montgomery Sands and Nancy (Butcher) Sands.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/91674310">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> Elmer B. O'Hara — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1932/MI.html">1932</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-officials.html">Wayne County Clerk</a>, 1933-36; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/MI.html">Michigan Democratic state chair</a>, 1935-36; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, along with State Sen. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilkinson-will.html#344.55.11">A. J. Wilkowski</a> and others, on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/vote-fraud.html">vote fraud</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> in 1936; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to four to five years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; also <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of bribing the Macomb County Drain Commissioner. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/817/85.28.jpg" width=70 height=108 border=0 alt="Edward S. Moran, Jr."></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edward S. Moran Jr. (b. 1901) — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, 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/1901/11-19.html">November 19, 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 12th District, 1927-38. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a> in June 1938 and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with accepting $36,000 in bribes from two taxicab companies; released on bail; again <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in April 1939 and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/tax-evasion.html">state income tax evasion</a>; again released; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> on the bribery <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> in June 1939 and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to two and a half to five years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; released pending appeal, which was unsuccessful; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">disbarred</a>; started <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> term in January 1941; released on parole in September 1942. 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">Image source: New York Red Book 1936</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Nathan Spiro (born c.1867) — of Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PL-born.html">Poland</a>, about 1867. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Danbury; defeated, 1930; elected 1932; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a>, 1935. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Pleaded guilty</a> in June 1938 to accepting a bribe while State Senator, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $1,500. 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> Joseph H. Lawlor (born c.1878) — of Waterbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-lived.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn. Born in Waterbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-born.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn., about 1878. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 16th District, 1925-31; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/CT.html">Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee</a>, 1928-30. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Charged</a> in 1938 with accepting a bribe in 1935. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/666/36.22.jpg" width=70 height=98 border=0 alt="Julius S. Berg"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Julius S. Berg (1895-1938) — of Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-lived.html">Bronx County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/07-15.html">July 15, 1895</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; injured in combat and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">lost a leg</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Bronx County 3rd District, 1923-30; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 22nd District, 1931-38; died in office 1938. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish-war-vets.html">Jewish War Veterans</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/disabled-am-vets.html">Disabled American Veterans</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of receiving money for his aid in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/alcohol-crimes.html">procuring liquor licenses</a> and arranging for concessions at the New York World's Fair; that same day, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">killed himself</a> by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot</a>, in his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/offices.html">law office</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/07-20.html">July 20, 1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">43 years, 5 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-buried.html#cms05363">Mt. Ararat Cemetery</a>, East Farmingdale, Long Island, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Morris Berg and Celia (Weinstein) Berg; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/06-20.html">June 20, 1920</a>, to Rose Schram.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius S. Berg">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/162541413">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: New York Red Book 1936</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Martin Thomas Manton (1880-1946) — also known as Martin T. Manton — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y.; Islip, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-lived.html">Suffolk 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/1880/08-02.html">August 2, 1880</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York</a>, 1916-18; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-ct-apps.html">Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit</a>, 1918-39; resigned 1939. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. U.S. District Attorney <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewey.html#203.15.22">Thomas E. Dewey</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> in 1939 that Judge Manton had received more than $400,000 from litigants; Dewey sent six specific instances the U.S. House Judiciary Committee for consideration of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">impeachment</a>. Following the judge's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resignation</a>, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> on bribery <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to two years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $10,000; released in 1941. Died in Fayetteville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ON-died.html">Onondaga County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1946/11-17.html">November 17, 1946</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 107 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ON-buried.html# ">Immaculate Conception Cemetery</a>, Fayetteville, 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 Michael Manton and Catherine (Mullen) Manton; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/07-03.html">July 3, 1907</a>, to Eva M. Morier.</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/lordell-lotus.html#958.36.93">John L. Lotsch</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thomas3.html#055.06.68">Edwin Stark Thomas</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/abbra-abzug.html#155.71.33">Matthew T. Abruzzo</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=1475&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/45428414">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/manton-martin-thomas">Biographical Directory of Federal Judges</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 Stark Thomas (1872-1952) — of New Haven, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-lived.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn. Born in Woodstock, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/MH-born.html">McHenry County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/11-11.html">November 11, 1872</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Orange, 1899-1900; defeated, 1900; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/CT.html">secretary of Connecticut Democratic Party</a>, 1902-12; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1908/CT.html">1908</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/CT.html">1912</a>; executive secretary to Gov. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baldwin.html#707.40.36">Simeon Baldwin</a>, 1911-13; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for Connecticut</a>, 1913-39; resigned 1939. During an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a> of his financial affairs and actions in certain cases by a federal grand jury, prompted by connections to the bribery case of another federal judge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/manshel-mapp.html#545.20.06">Martin T. Manton</a>, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a>, citing illness. Died in Columbia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/TO-died.html">Tolland County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1952/01-21.html">January 21, 1952</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 71 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/WI-buried.html#cms08340">Grove Cemetery</a>, Eastford, Conn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/">1931</a> to Jean Virginia Gordon.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=2365&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11933839">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 J. Condon (1898-1971) — of Yonkers, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y. Born in Yonkers, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-born.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/11-19.html">November 19, 1898</a>. Republican. Auditor for the New York Central <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/yonkers.html">mayor of Yonkers, N.Y.</a>, 1940-41; defeated, 1935; in December 1940, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">named as a conspirator</a> in the indictment of Patrick Fitzgerald, who was charged with seeking a $3,000 bribe from pinball operators. <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/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1971/01-27.html">January 27, 1971</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 69 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-buried.html#cms07710">St. Mary's Cemetery</a>, Yonkers, 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 John J. Condon and Ellen Condon; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/condon.html#703.25.86">William F. Condon</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/condon.html#862.12.80">William F. Condon Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/16036.html">Condon family</a> of Yonkers, New York.</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/108064218">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> Leon Chase Phillips (1890-1958) — also known as Leon C. Phillips; Red Phillips — of Okemah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/OF-lived.html">Okfuskee County</a>, Okla. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/WO-born.html">Worth County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/12-09.html">December 9, 1890</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/ofc/sthse.html">Oklahoma state house of representatives</a>; elected 1932, 1934, 1936; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Oklahoma State House of Representatives</a>, 1935; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Oklahoma</a>, 1939-43; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oklahoma, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/OK.html">1940</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Charged</a> with accepting a bribe while governor; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> twice and ultimately acquitted. Died, of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, while waiting for a client at the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/postoffices.html">post office</a> in Okmulgee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/OM-died.html">Okmulgee County</a>, Okla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1958/03-27.html">March 27, 1958</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 108 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/OF-buried.html#cms05483">Hillcrest Cemetery</a>, Weleetka, Okla. <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/leon-chase-phillips/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/195/000210562">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> George T. Ashe (1905-1975) — of Lowell, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-lived.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass. Born in Lowell, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/02-06.html">February 6, 1905</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html">Massachusetts state house of representatives</a> Fifteenth Middlesex District, 1935-40; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/lowell.html">mayor of Lowell, Mass.</a>, 1940-42; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/MA.html">1940</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> on bribery charges in March, 1942, in connection with sales of equipment and supplies to the city through a dummy company; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in October, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to one year in jail; in December, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to a separate charge of accepting a $1,000 bribe from a construction contractor, dropped his appeal of the other conviction, and immediately went to jail. Died in Lowell, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-died.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass., May, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1975/index.html">1975</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-buried.html#cms06606">St. Patrick's Cemetery</a>, Lowell, 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 Joseph Ashe and Mary Ellen (Sullivan) Ashe; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1940/02-14.html">February 14, 1940</a>, to Margaret Mary Grady; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1956/08-15.html">August 15, 1956</a>, to Helen M. Henderson.</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/George T. Ashe">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> Stanley J. Dombrowski (1901-1977) — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-born.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/05-07.html">May 7, 1901</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Wayne County 1st District, 1935-44; defeated in primary, 1950; in 1943, he repudiated grand jury testimony about being bribed, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">perjury</a>, and was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state legislators) with accepting bribes; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 3-5 years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1977/index.html">1977</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">about 76 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> Charles Coles Diggs Sr. (1894-1967) — also known as Charles C. Diggs, Sr. — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Tallula, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/IS-born.html">Issaquena County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/01-02.html">January 2, 1894</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/funeral.html">Mortician</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 3rd District, 1937-44; defeated in Democratic primary, 1944; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/MI.html">1940</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state legislators) with accepting bribes; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 3-5 years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> in a different bribery case in 1945; <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">charged</a> again on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the entire case collapsed when the star prosecution witness, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helme-hendershott.html#122.85.22">Charles F. Hemans</a>, refused to testify; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Michigan</a> 1st District, 1948 (Republican primary), 1952 (Democratic primary). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1967/index.html">1967</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">about 73 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/MA-buried.html#cms05206">Detroit Memorial Park East</a>, Warren, 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: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dickman-diket.html#510.94.02">Charles Coles Diggs Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/92332740">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> Adam William Sumeracki (b. 1911) — also known as Adam Sumeracki — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Braddock, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-born.html">Allegheny County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/02-06.html">February 6, 1911</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; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a>, 1939-44, 1955-64 (Wayne County 1st District 1939-44, Wayne County 9th District 1955-64); removed 1944; defeated, 1964 (7th District), 1974 (71st District); candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Michigan</a> 1st District, 1942; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Charged</a> on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state legislators) with accepting bribes; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 3-5 years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; also <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the entire case collapsed when the star prosecution witness, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helme-hendershott.html#122.85.22">Charles F. Hemans</a>, refused to testify. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</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> Earl C. Gallagher (b. 1899) — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ON-born.html">Ontonagon County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/10-15.html">October 15, 1899</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; worked for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/automfg.html">carmakers</a> Ford Motor Company and Chrysler Corporation; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Wayne County 1st District, 1937-44; removed 1944; defeated, 1954 (Wayne County 10th District); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state legislators) with accepting bribes; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 3-5 years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the entire case collapsed when the star prosecution witness, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helme-hendershott.html#122.85.22">Charles F. Hemans</a>, refused to testify. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/">1936</a> to Mary Thibault.</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 J. Kowalski (b. 1914) — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-born.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/03-19.html">March 19, 1914</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Wayne County 1st District, 1939-44; nominated, but withdrew 1944; removed 1944; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state legislators) with accepting bribes; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 3-5 years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; also <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the entire case collapsed when the star prosecution witness, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helme-hendershott.html#122.85.22">Charles F. Hemans</a>, refused to testify. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/polish.html">Polish</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/polish-nat-alliance.html">Polish National Alliance</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/maccabees.html">Maccabees</a>. 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> Martin Anthony Kronk (1900-1976) — also known as Martin A. Kronk — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-born.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/07-01.html">July 1, 1900</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Wayne County 1st District, 1937-44; removed 1944; defeated, 1950 (Wayne County 1st District), 1958 (Wayne County 12th District); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state legislators) with accepting bribes; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 3-5 years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 5th District, 1954. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1976/index.html">1976</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">about 75 years</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/07-15.html">July 15, 1925</a>, to Irene Roskivetalski.</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/atwood.html#294.69.17">Orville E. Atwood</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> Ernest George Nagel (1893-1955) — also known as Ernest G. Nagel; "Ernie Hooker" — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Zurich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SZ-born.html">Switzerland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/03-03.html">March 3, 1893</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pro-sports.html">Boxer</a>; served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/automfg.html">automotive</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/engineer.html">engineer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Wayne County 1st District, 1933-40; defeated in primary, 1952; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 1st District, 1941-42; defeated in primary, 1942, 1944; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state legislators) with accepting bribes; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 3-5 years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; also <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the entire case collapsed when the star prosecution witness, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helme-hendershott.html#122.85.22">Charles F. Hemans</a>, refused to testify. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1955/07-26.html">July 26, 1955</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 145 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/MA-buried.html#cms00063">Clinton Grove Cemetery</a>, Clinton Township, Macomb County, 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">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/121323091">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> Leo Joseph Wilkowski (1902-1955) — also known as Leo J. Wilkowski — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-born.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/04-05.html">April 5, 1902</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hardware.html">Hardware business</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 2nd District, 1939-44; nominated, but withdrew 1944; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Charged</a> on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state legislators) with accepting bribes; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 3-5 years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on December 16, 1944 (along with other legislators) with accepting bribes from naturopathic physicians; <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">charged</a> on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the last set of charges were dismissed when he agreed to testify. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/polish.html">Polish</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/polish-nat-alliance.html">Polish National Alliance</a>. Died of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart trouble</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1955/03-23.html">March 23, 1955</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 352 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-buried.html#cms00741">Mt. Olivet Cemetery</a>, Detroit, 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: Brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilkinson-will.html#344.55.11">Anthony J. Wilkowski</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/">1925</a> to Theresa D. Kozlowski.</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 C. Roosevelt (1900-1987) — also known as Joe Roosevelt — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-born.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/10-08.html">October 8, 1900</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; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Wayne County 1st District, 1933-36; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 21st District, 1937-38; defeated in primary, 1938, 1940, 1942; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">implicated</a> in the Michigan legislative bribery <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> in 1944 as a go-between providing bribes to legislators; granted <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">immunity from prosecution</a>, and testified against others. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1987/index.html">1987</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">about 86 years</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/08-24.html">August 24, 1926</a>, to Catherine Miller.</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> Francis J. Nowak (1915-1976) — also known as Frank Nowak — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-born.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/11-14.html">November 14, 1915</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Wayne County 1st District, 1939-44; nominated, but withdrew 1944; removed 1944; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state legislators) with accepting bribes; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 3-5 years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on December 6, 1944 (along with four other legislators) with accepting bribes from naturopathic physicians; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in 1945, but the jury was unable to reach a verdict; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">retried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the last set of charges were dismissed when he agreed to testify. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1976/index.html">1976</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">about 60 years</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1939/07-01.html">July 1, 1939</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/novelli-nowlin.html#600.91.52">Evelyn Marshick</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> Edward John Walsh (1904-1975) — also known as Edward J. Walsh — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-born.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/10-22.html">October 22, 1904</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/automfg.html">Automobile worker</a>; constable; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Wayne County 1st District, 1933-44; removed 1944; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state legislators) with accepting bribes; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 3-5 years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on December 6, 1944 (along with four other legislators) with accepting bribes from naturopathic physicians; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in 1945, but the jury was unable to reach a verdict; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">retried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the entire case collapsed when the star prosecution witness, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helme-hendershott.html#122.85.22">Charles F. Hemans</a>, refused to testify. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1975/index.html">1975</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">about 70 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> William M. Bradley (b. 1892) — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-born.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/05-22.html">May 22, 1892</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 5th District, 1937-40; defeated in primary, 1934, 1940, 1942, 1952; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state legislators) with accepting bribes; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 3-5 years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</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 William A. Bradley and Mary (Riley) Bradley; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/">1912</a> to Edwardine Lenahan.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry F. Shea (1885-1967) — of Laurium, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/HO-lived.html">Houghton County</a>, Mich. Born in Osceola Mine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/HO-born.html">Houghton County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/04-15.html">April 15, 1885</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/mining.html">Miner</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">railroad trainman</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/plumbing-heating.html">plumber</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/plumbing-heating.html">steamfitter</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Houghton County 1st District, 1918; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 32nd District, 1937-40; defeated, 1940; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state legislators) with accepting bribes; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 3-5 years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; granted <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">immunity from prosecution</a> in return for his testimony in another bribery case, 1945. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/eagles.html">Eagles</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1967/index.html">1967</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">about 82 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> Frank Murphy (1897-1944) — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Rensselaer, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RE-born.html">Rensselaer County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/05-15.html">May 15, 1897</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/accounting.html">Accountant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Michigan</a>, 1941-42; defeated, 1942; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with bribery in 1944; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/gamma-eta-gamma.html">Gamma Eta Gamma</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart ailment</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/12-25.html">December 25, 1944</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/47.html">47 years, 224 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Constance Kirchner.</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> Chester Milton Howell (1883-1965) — also known as Chester M. Howell; "Chiseling Chet" — of Saginaw, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SG-lived.html">Saginaw County</a>, Mich. Born in Muskegon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/MU-born.html">Muskegon County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/09-10.html">September 10, 1883</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper reporter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Saginaw County 1st District, 1923-26; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 22nd District, 1927-32, 1939-45; defeated, 1932, 1936; resigned 1945; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on December 6, 1944 with accepting bribes from naturopathic physicians, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a>; testified against other legislators in bribery cases. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>. Died in Owosso, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SH-died.html">Shiawassee County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1965/05-08.html">May 8, 1965</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 240 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SG-buried.html#cms00515">Forest Lawn Cemetery</a>, Saginaw, Mich. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/">1910</a> to Clara Emma Bricker.</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/63786187">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> Michael J. Clancy (b. 1913) — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in County Clare, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EI-born.html">Ireland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/09-09.html">September 9, 1913</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Wayne County 1st District, 1937-40; defeated in primary, 1942; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state legislators) with accepting bribes, but not tried and convicted with the others. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. 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> D. Stephen Benzie (b. 1893) — of Norway, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/DI-lived.html">Dickinson County</a>, Mich. Born in Norway, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/DI-born.html">Dickinson County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/03-10.html">March 10, 1893</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/excavation.html">Road contractor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">lumber business</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 31st District, 1939-42; defeated, 1942; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/MI.html">1940</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state legislators) with accepting bribes; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 3-5 years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/">1913</a> to Lillian Wilson.</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 Gibbs Buckley (b. 1907) — also known as William G. Buckley — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/08-19.html">August 19, 1907</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Wayne County 1st District, 1933-34, 1937-44; defeated in primary, 1944; removed 1944; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Charged</a> on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state legislators) with accepting bribes; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 3-5 years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on December 6, 1944 (along with four other legislators) with accepting bribes from naturopathic physicians; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in 1945, but the jury was unable to reach a verdict; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">retried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the last set of charges were dismissed when he agreed to testify. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/">1933</a> to Kathryn O'Dowd.</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 Fitch Hemans (1896-1971) — also known as Charles F. Hemans; "Baron of the Bathroom"; "Knight of the Doublecross" — of Eaton Rapids, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/EA-lived.html">Eaton County</a>, Mich.; Howell, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/LI-lived.html">Livingston County</a>, Mich.; Lansing, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IN-lived.html">Ingham County</a>, Mich. Born in Mason, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IN-born.html">Ingham County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/04-12.html">April 12, 1896</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/MI.html">1924</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Wayne County 1st District, 1926, 1928; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/uofm.html">University of Michigan board of regents</a>, 1934-41; defeated, 1931, 1941; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Michigan</a> 15th District, 1934; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/cirjd.html">circuit judge in Michigan</a> 30th Circuit, 1935; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Michigan</a>, 1936. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Implicated</a> in the Michigan legislative bribery <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> in 1944; granted <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">immunity from prosecution</a> and testified that he had bribed many legislators in his hotel bathroom; later, another bribery case against legislators fell apart when he refused to testify and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fled</a> to Washington; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> by FBI agents and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arraigned</a> on a federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/flight-escape.html">fugitive witness</a> charge; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to four years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to bribery in 1950 and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to five years <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">probation</a> and a $1,000 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fine</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1971/01-29.html">January 29, 1971</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 292 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IN-buried.html#cms06067">Maple Grove Cemetery</a>, Mason, 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helme-hendershott.html#611.96.64">Lawton Thomas Hemans</a> and Minnie P. Hemans.</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/delano.html#834.36.10">Carl F. DeLano</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/isaac-iverson.html#462.15.59">Gilbert H. Isbister</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mclaughlin-mclay.html#927.87.51">Robert B. McLaughlin</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#576.28.57">Charles S. Blondy</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanley.html#604.17.92">James B. Stanley</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/steiwer-stephen.html#220.15.58">William C. Stenson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcduffee-mcfarlan.html#378.81.49">Earl W. McEwen, Sr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ballam-bancroft.html#279.65.74">Byron L. Ballard</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/naar-nary.html#697.10.87">Ernest G. Nagel</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dickman-diket.html#074.11.52">Charles C. Diggs, Sr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burnquist-burns.html#416.63.63">James A. Burns</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gallagher.html#479.21.35">Earl C. Gallagher</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walsh.html#743.59.52">Edward J. Walsh</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stilgenbauer-stockslager.html#687.34.62">Walter N. Stockfish</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sullivant-summit.html#532.57.42">Adam Sumeracki</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kovach-krapohl.html#522.77.45">Joseph J. Kowalski</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/33197443">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William C. Birk (1885-1950) — of Baraga, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/BG-lived.html">Baraga County</a>, Mich. Born in Calumet, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/HO-born.html">Houghton County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/11-06.html">November 6, 1885</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Ontonagon District, 1927-34; defeated, 1934, 1936; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 32nd District, 1941-42; defeated, 1938, 1942, 1944; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on December 16, 1944, along with other legislators, with accepting bribes; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in 1945 and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to three to five years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1950/index.html">1950</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">about 64 years</a>). Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Carl F. DeLano (1890-1952) — of Cooper Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/KZ-lived.html">Kalamazoo County</a>, Mich. Born in Cooper Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/KZ-born.html">Kalamazoo County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/09-25.html">September 25, 1890</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Kalamazoo County 2nd District, 1931-38; defeated in primary, 1928; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 6th District, 1939-45; resigned 1945; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on December 6, 1944, along with four other legislators, with accepting bribes from naturopathic phyisicians; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in 1945 and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to three to five years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the entire case collapsed when the star prosecution witness, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helme-hendershott.html#122.85.22">Charles F. Hemans</a>, refused to testify. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1952/index.html">1952</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">about 61 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/KZ-buried.html#cms06425">Cooper Township Cemetery</a>, Cooper Township, Kalamazoo County, Mich. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/">1923</a> to Irene Lane.</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> Miles M. Callaghan (1868-1944) — of Reed City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/OS-lived.html">Osceola County</a>, Mich. Born in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IO-born.html">Ionia County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/10-07.html">October 7, 1868</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hardware.html">Hardware dealer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/fruit-produce.html">fruit</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Osceola District, 1929-36, 1943-44; resigned 1944; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 28th District, 1937-40; defeated in primary, 1940; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state legislators) with accepting bribes; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> and testified against others. Suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">stroke</a>, and died, in Reed City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/OS-died.html">Osceola County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/08-22.html">August 22, 1944</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 320 days</a>). Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Lawrence Kaminski (1902-1951) — also known as Joseph L. Kaminski — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-born.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/11-02.html">November 2, 1902</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Wayne County 1st District, 1935-40; defeated in primary, 1940; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state legislators) with accepting bribes; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 3-5 years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Died in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-died.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., November, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1951/index.html">1951</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/48.html">about 48 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-buried.html#cms00741">Mt. Olivet Cemetery</a>, Detroit, Mich. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Anna Wypijewski.</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/92474111">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Green (1880-1956) — of Hillman, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/MY-lived.html">Montmorency County</a>, Mich. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/MY-born.html">Montmorency County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/03-26.html">March 26, 1880</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">Lumberman</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Presque Isle District, 1929-36, 1939-44; defeated, 1936; delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/MI.html">1940</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> for bribery on December 2, 1944 (along with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mckay.html#635.40.98">Frank D. McKay</a>); the case collapsed when the star witness, Sen. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hooper.html#347.50.58">Warren G. Hooper</a> was murdered; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> again on different bribery <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> on December 16, 1944; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in 1945 and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to three to five years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1956/index.html">1956</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">about 76 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> Jerry Thomson Logie (1887-1966) — also known as Jerry T. Logie — of Bay City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/BA-lived.html">Bay 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/1887/index.html">1887</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/drugs.html">Pharmacist</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 24th District, 1939-44; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state legislators) with accepting bribes; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 3-5 years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> in a different bribery case in 1945; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1966/index.html">1966</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">about 79 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> Walter N. Stockfish (1908-1973) — of Hamtramck, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Toledo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/LU-born.html">Lucas County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/07-16.html">July 16, 1908</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Wayne County 3rd District, 1935-44; removed 1944; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state legislators) with accepting bribes; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 3-5 years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the entire case collapsed when the star prosecution witness, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helme-hendershott.html#122.85.22">Charles F. Hemans</a>, refused to testify. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1973/index.html">1973</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">about 64 years</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/06-11.html">June 11, 1935</a>, to Virginia M. Bayer.</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> Isadore A. Weza (b. 1906) — of Ontonagon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ON-lived.html">Ontonagon County</a>, Mich. Born near Ontonagon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ON-born.html">Ontonagon County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/03-22.html">March 22, 1906</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">superintendent of schools</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Ontonagon District, 1937-40; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on January 22, 1944 (along with 19 other current and former state legislators) with accepting bribes, but not tried and convicted with the others. 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/fraud.html">fraud</a>, <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 bribery 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> Warren Green Hooper (1904-1945) — also known as Warren G. Hooper — of Albion, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/CL-lived.html">Calhoun County</a>, Mich. Born in Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-born.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/05-02.html">May 2, 1904</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper reporter</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Calhoun County 1st District, 1939-44; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 9th District, 1945; died in office 1945. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lambda-chi-alpha.html">Theta Kappa Nu</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>. During a grand jury <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">admitted</a> to taking bribes and was given <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">immunity from prosecution</a> in return for his testimony against others; however, four days before the hearing, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">killed</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/in-cars.html">in his car</a>, alongside highway M-99, near Springport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/JA-died.html">Jackson County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1945/01-11.html">January 11, 1945</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/40.html">40 years, 254 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/CL-buried.html#cms00686">Riverside Cemetery</a>, Albion, Mich. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/05-23.html">May 23, 1936</a>, to Callienetta Cobb; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hooper.html#761.57.67">William Hooper</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/green9.html#883.02.88">William Green</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mckay.html#635.40.98">Frank D. McKay</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">Epitaph: "With Honesty He Lived; For Honesty he was Taken."</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/7117220">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/576/28.57.jpg" width=70 height=106 border=0 alt="Charles S. Blondy"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles S. Blondy (1905-1982) — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/01-29.html">January 29, 1905</a>. Democrat. Constable; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">real estate business</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a>, 1941-64 (5th District 1941-54, 4th District 1955-64); defeated in primary, 1934, 1938; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the entire case collapsed when the star prosecution witness, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helme-hendershott.html#122.85.22">Charles F. Hemans</a>, refused to testify; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Michigan</a> 1st District, 1964. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/bnai-brith.html">B'nai B'rith</a>. Died in Southfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/OA-died.html">Oakland County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1982/01-28.html">January 28, 1982</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 364 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/MA-buried.html# ">Hebrew Memorial Park</a>, Clinton Township, Macomb County, 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 Goldie (Grodsky) Blondy and Hyman Blondy; married to Frances Goldberg.</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/191414993">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 1957-58</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 Benjamin Stanley (1903-1977) — also known as James B. Stanley — of Kalamazoo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/KZ-lived.html">Kalamazoo County</a>, Mich. Born in Kalamazoo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/KZ-born.html">Kalamazoo County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/12-29.html">December 29, 1903</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Kalamazoo County 1st District, 1937-46; defeated in primary, 1934; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the entire case collapsed when the star prosecution witness, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helme-hendershott.html#122.85.22">Charles F. Hemans</a>, refused to testify. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Member, <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/eagles.html">Eagles</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1977/index.html">1977</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">about 73 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> Byron L. Ballard (b. 1890) — of Lansing, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IN-lived.html">Ingham County</a>, Mich. Born in Fort Worth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TT-born.html">Tarrant County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/02-21.html">February 21, 1890</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; law partner of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayakawa-haydon.html#045.52.45">Charles H. Hayden</a>, 1917-30, and of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shields.html#935.26.26">Edmund C. Shields</a>, 1931; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IN-parties.html">chair of Ingham County Democratic Party</a>, 1920-24; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 14th District, 1926; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/MI.html">treasurer of Michigan Democratic Party</a>, 1937; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the entire case collapsed when the star prosecution witness, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helme-hendershott.html#122.85.22">Charles F. Hemans</a>, refused to testify. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-phi-epsilon.html">Sigma Phi Epsilon</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 Walter Elgin Ballard and Jennie (Peden) Ballard; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/02-16.html">February 16, 1916</a>, to M. Lucille Juzek.</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> Raymond J. Snow (1913-1999) — of Flint, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/GE-lived.html">Genesee County</a>, Mich. Born in Bay City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/BA-born.html">Bay County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/09-29.html">September 29, 1913</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/alcohol-biz.html">Beer</a> distributor; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/food.html">potato chip</a> manufacturer; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Genesee County 1st District, 1941-46; defeated, 1938; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Charged</a> on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other current and former state legislators) with bribery conspiracy; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> and testified for prosecution, but the charges against the others were eventually dismissed. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/holy-name-soc.html">Holy Name Society</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/eagles.html">Eagles</a>. Died, in McLaren Regional <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Medical Center</a>, Flint, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/GE-died.html">Genesee County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1999/08-25.html">August 25, 1999</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 330 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/GE-buried.html#cms05655">New Calvary Catholic Cemetery</a>, Flint, Mich. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Oscar Harma (1905-1977) — also known as George O. Harma — of Atlantic Mine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/HO-lived.html">Houghton County</a>, Mich. Born in Baltic Mine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/HO-born.html">Houghton County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/11-05.html">November 5, 1905</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Houghton County 2nd District, 1935-44; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 32nd District, 1944; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">implicated</a> as <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">co-conspirator</a> in a legislative branch banking bribery case in 1946; given <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">immunity from prosecution</a> in return for his testimony. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scandinavian.html">Finnish</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/pi-delta-epsilon.html">Pi Delta Epsilon</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1977/index.html">1977</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">about 71 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 Carl Oscar Harma and Mary Susanna (Fjader) Harma.</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> Gilbert H. Isbister (1900-1958) — of Port Huron, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SC-lived.html">St. Clair County</a>, Mich. Born in Port Huron, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SC-born.html">St. Clair County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/07-09.html">July 9, 1900</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SC-officials.html">St. Clair County Register of Deeds</a>, 1925-34; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/trea.html">Michigan state treasurer</a>, 1934; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 11th District, 1939-42; defeated in primary, 1942; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/MI.html">1940</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the entire case collapsed when the star prosecution witness, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helme-hendershott.html#122.85.22">Charles F. Hemans</a>, refused to testify. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1958/index.html">1958</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">about 57 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> Earl W. McEwen Sr. — of Flint, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/GE-lived.html">Genesee County</a>, Mich. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Genesee County 2nd District; elected 1940; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 13th District, 1944; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the entire case collapsed when the star prosecution witness, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helme-hendershott.html#122.85.22">Charles F. Hemans</a>, refused to testify. 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> Robert B. McLaughlin (1903-1965) — of Flint, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/GE-lived.html">Genesee County</a>, Mich. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/index.html">1903</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 13th District, 1941-44; defeated in primary, 1938; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Michigan</a> 6th District, 1944; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the entire case collapsed when the star prosecution witness, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helme-hendershott.html#122.85.22">Charles F. Hemans</a>, refused to testify. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1965/index.html">1965</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">about 62 years</a>). Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James A. Burns (1899-1963) — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-born.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/01-08.html">January 8, 1899</a>. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hotel-biz.html">hotelier</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/misc-occ.html">purchasing agent</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Wayne County 1st District, 1923-24; defeated in Republican primary, 1926, 1928, 1930; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 4th District, 1937-38, 1941-42; defeated, 1924 (Republican primary, 2nd District), 1938 (Democratic primary, 4th District), 1942 (Democratic, 4th District), 1944 (Democratic primary, 4th District); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the entire case collapsed when the star prosecution witness, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helme-hendershott.html#122.85.22">Charles F. Hemans</a>, refused to testify; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/MI.html">1948</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1963/index.html">1963</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">about 64 years</a>). Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William C. Stenson (b. 1900) — of Greenland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ON-lived.html">Ontonagon County</a>, Mich. Born in Wakefield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/GO-born.html">Gogebic County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/07-01.html">July 1, 1900</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/autodealer.html">Automobile dealer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/construction.html">construction superintendent</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">salvage materials dealer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Ontonagon District; defeated, 1938; elected 1940, 1942; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> on July 20, 1946 (along with 18 other legislators) with accepting bribes to vote against a banking bill, but the entire case collapsed when the star prosecution witness, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helme-hendershott.html#122.85.22">Charles F. Hemans</a>, refused to testify. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Andrew Jackson May (1875-1959) — also known as Andrew J. May — of Prestonsburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FL-lived.html">Floyd County</a>, Ky. Born near Langley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FL-born.html">Floyd County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/06-24.html">June 24, 1875</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FL-officials.html">Floyd County Attorney</a>, 1901-09; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Kentucky</a>, 1931-47 (10th District 1931-33, at-large 1933-35, 7th District 1935-47); defeated, 1928 (10th District), 1946 (7th District). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. In 1943, he was briefed about the flaws in the Japanese anti-submarine munitions; he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/spill-secrets.html">revealed this information</a> to the press, and hence to the Japanese, who quickly improved their depth charges. After the war, this <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indiscretion</a> was estimated to have cost the U.S. ten submarines and 800 men. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a>, on July 3, 1947, on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of accepting bribes for his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/lobbyists.html">influence</a> in the award of munitions contracts during World War II; served nine months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; received a full <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pardon.html">pardon</a> from President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/trippe-trumbo.html#556.54.36">Harry S. Truman</a> in 1952. Died in Prestonsburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FL-died.html">Floyd County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1959/09-06.html">September 6, 1959</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 74 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FL-buried.html#cms04058">Mayo Cemetery</a>, Prestonsburg, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson1.html#174.79.95">Andrew Jackson</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 Dorcus (Conley) May and John May; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/may.html#704.20.76">William Harvey May</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=M000272">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407290">Govtrack.us page</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> Elliott Roosevelt (1910-1990) — of Fort Worth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TT-lived.html">Tarrant County</a>, Tex.; Buford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/RB-lived.html">Rio Blanco County</a>, Colo.; Minneapolis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/HE-lived.html">Hennepin County</a>, Minn.; Miami Beach, Dade County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/DA-lived.html">Miami-Dade County</a>), Fla.; Seattle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-lived.html">King County</a>, Wash.; Palm Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/RI-lived.html">Riverside County</a>, Calif.; Scottsdale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/MA-lived.html">Maricopa County</a>, Ariz. Born in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/09-23.html">September 23, 1910</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/TX.html">1940</a>; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigated</a> and called to testify by a U.S. Senate subcommittee in 1947 over lavish entertainment in Hollywood and Manhattan, many <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">paid escorts</a>, and paid hotel bills provided to Roosevelt and others, in a successful effort to persuade them to recommend Hughes reconnaissance aircraft for purchase by the U.S. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/military.html">military</a>; owned a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">radio station</a> in Texas; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Colorado, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/CO.html">1960</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/miamibeach.html">mayor of Miami Beach, Fla.</a>, 1965-69; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/FL.html">Democratic National Committee from Florida</a>, 1968; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/FL.html">1968</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">congestive heart failure</a>, in Scottsdale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/MA-died.html">Maricopa County</a>, Ariz., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1990/10-27.html">October 27, 1990</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 34 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#876.28.99">Franklin Delano Roosevelt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#632.73.38">Eleanor Roosevelt</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#241.11.81">James Roosevelt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#128.53.81">Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/01-16.html">January 16, 1932</a>, to Elizabeth Browning Donner; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/07-22.html">July 22, 1933</a>, to Ruth Josephine Googins; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/12-03.html">December 3, 1944</a>, to Faye Margaret Emerson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1951/03-15.html">March 15, 1951</a>, to Minnewa (Bell) Gray Burnside Ross; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1960/11-03.html">November 3, 1960</a>, to Patricia (Peabody) Whithead; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#741.57.28">Theodore Roosevelt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson2.html#825.26.57">Corinne Roosevelt Robinson</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#795.95.53">Robert Barnwell Roosevelt</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#589.17.33">James I. Roosevelt</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robbins.html#643.57.11">Edward Hutchinson Robbins</a>; third great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#216.33.92">William Bellinger Bulloch</a>; fourth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#822.48.83">Archibald Bulloch</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson8.html#581.70.12">Theodore Douglas Robinson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/longan-looker.html#866.63.42">Alice Roosevelt Longworth</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robbins.html#539.37.12">Warren Delano Robbins</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#148.74.70">Corinne Robinson Alsop</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#639.27.54">Theodore Roosevelt Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#717.74.29">William Sheffield Cowles</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/monroe.html#092.05.28">Elizabeth Monroe</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#075.06.66">Ebenezer Huntington</a>; first cousin seven times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#433.10.72">Benjamin Huntington</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/christinson-chumbler.html#821.65.50">Corinne A. Chubb</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#338.31.34">John deKoven Alsop</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/welcome-wellborn.html#525.16.64">Susan Roosevelt Weld</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goulden-gradison.html#724.26.22">Samuel Laurence Gouverneur</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#279.56.72">Nicholas Roosevelt Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#832.00.97">Philip DePeyster</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#260.28.70">Jabez Williams Huntington</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/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott Roosevelt">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> Anthony Dreier — of Nanticoke, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LU-lived.html">Luzerne County</a>, Pa. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/nanticoke.html">Mayor of Nanticoke, Pa.</a>, 1953; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in 1953 on charges of soliciting and accepting a bribe for a police appointment. 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> Thomas W. Flatley (born c.1888) — of Erie, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ER-lived.html">Erie County</a>, Pa. Born about 1888. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/erie.html">Mayor of Erie, Pa.</a>, 1952-54; resigned 1954; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in October 1954 and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with taking part in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/vice.html">gambling racket</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">admitted</a> to receiving payments and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to one to two years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jail</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> John August Britting (1898-1968) — also known as John A. Britting — of East Farmingdale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/04-03.html">April 3, 1898</a>. Republican. Deputy treasurer of Suffolk County, 1942-54; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Suffolk County 3rd District, 1955-56; called to testify in 1956 during an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a> of his handling of tax-foreclosed properties as deputy county treasurer (known as the "land grab" <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a>), he took the Fifth Amendment right against <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">self-incrimination</a> to refuse to answer questions; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> on bribery and conspiracy <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> for channeling properties to favored speculators and receiving part of the profits; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in 1958 and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to five to ten years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $27,000; released pending appeal; also <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in a related case in 1959; in 1960, his prison sentence was reduced to one to two years. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Died in October, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1968/index.html">1968</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-buried.html#cms04449">Sacred Heart Cemetery</a>, Southampton, Long Island, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Edna Burns.</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/frederick-freels.html#355.42.33">Cadman H. Frederick</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/15543405">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William W. Voisine (1897-1959) — also known as Wilfred William Voisine — of Ecorse, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/11-20.html">November 20, 1897</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/metal.html">Steel executive</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/ecorse.html#2">village president of Ecorse, Michigan</a>, 1936-37; members of a steelworker terrorist group, the Black Legion, repeatedly <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">attempted to kill</a> him in 1936; Jesse Pettijohn and Lawrence Madden were later convicted of conspiracy to commit murder; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/ecorse.html">mayor of Ecorse, Mich.</a>, 1948-49, 1954-57. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French Canadian</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in April, 1950, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">falsely testifying</a> to a Congressional committee in 1948 that he had received only the regular price for steel; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to two years in federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. In October, 1956, a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">warrant</a> was issued for his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrest</a>, along with several members of the city council, for knowingly <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/vice.html">permitting illegal gambling</a> in Ecorse, in return for bribes and gratuities; Gov. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams4.html#624.40.32">G. Mennen Williams</a> initiated <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">removal proceedings</a> against the officials. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1959/index.html">1959</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">about 61 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 Abel Voisine and Eugenia Jennie (Blais) Voisine; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/08-01.html">August 1, 1918</a>, to Helen Pearl O'Brien.</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> Cadman H. Frederick (b. 1880) — of Babylon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born, in the British West Indies, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/05-22.html">May 22, 1880</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">Real estate developer</a>; one of the founders of the Suffolk <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/landtitle.html">Title</a> and Guarantee Company, 1925; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/babylon.html">mayor of Babylon, N.Y.</a>, 1937-38. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Resigned</a> in 1956 as president and director of the Suffolk County Federal Savings and Loan Association, in the midst of an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a> of the sale of tax-foreclosed properties by Suffolk County. He and others shared profits on the sale of these properties with Deputy County Treasurer <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bright-britten.html#642.50.67">John A. Britting</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> Terry Doyle Schrunk (b. 1913) — also known as Terry D. Schrunk — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-lived.html">Multnomah County</a>, Ore. Born in Stayton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MA-born.html">Marion County</a>, Ore., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/03-10.html">March 10, 1913</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawenforcement.html">Fire fighter</a>; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-officials.html">Multnomah County Sheriff</a>, 1949-56; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oregon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/OR.html">1952</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/ofc/portland.html">mayor of Portland, Ore.</a>, 1957-72; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in March, 1957 on bribery and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">perjury</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and found not guilty; another <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indictment</a>, for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/abuse-authority.html">conspiracy to obtain wiretaps</a> and other related charges, was dismissed in September, 1957. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/purple-heart.html">Purple Heart</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/eagles.html">Eagles</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Schrunk and Pearl Margaret (Doyle) Schrunk; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/05-17.html">May 17, 1936</a>, to Virginia Dorothy Price.</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> Llewelyn Sherman Adams (1899-1986) — also known as Sherman Adams; "The Abominable No Man"; "The Great Stone Face" — of Lincoln, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/GR-lived.html">Grafton County</a>, N.H. Born in East Dover, Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/WN-born.html">Windham County</a>, Vt., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/01-08.html">January 8, 1899</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">lumberman</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ofc/sthse.html">New Hampshire state house of representatives</a>, 1941-44; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the New Hampshire State House of Representatives</a>, 1943-44; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1944/NH.html">1944</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/NH.html">1952</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/speakers.html">speaker</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Hampshire</a> 2nd District, 1945-47; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ofc/cncnd.html">delegate to New Hampshire state constitutional convention</a> from Lincoln, 1948; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New Hampshire</a>, 1949-53; defeated, 1946; assistant to President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eichelroth-elcan.html#075.91.63">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a>, 1953-58; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">forced to resign</a> in 1958 following disclosure that he had accepted gifts, including a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/attire.html">vicuna coat</a>, from a Boston businessman seeking preferred treatment from federal agencies. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the American Revolution</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/sigma-alpha-epsilon.html">Sigma Alpha Epsilon</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/40-8.html">Forty and Eight</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grange.html">Grange</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-colonial-wars.html">Society of Colonial Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/foresters.html">Foresters</a>. Died in Hanover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/GR-died.html">Grafton County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1986/10-27.html">October 27, 1986</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 292 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/GR-buried.html#cms07128">Riverside Cemetery</a>, Lincoln, N.H. <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 Clyde A. Adams and Winnie Marian (Sherman) Adams; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/07-28.html">July 28, 1923</a>, to Rachael Leona White.</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=A000046">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400707">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/llewelyn-sherman-adams/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman Adams">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/357/000094075">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6624131">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> Hulan Edwin Jack (1906-1986) — also known as Hulan E. Jack — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ST-born.html">St. Lucia</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/12-29.html">December 29, 1906</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/papermaking.html">Paper box manufacturer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a>, 1941-53, 1968-72 (New York County 17th District 1941-44, New York County 14th District 1945-53, 70th District 1968-72); defeated in primary, 1972; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html#3">borough president of Manhattan, New York</a>, 1954-61; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/NY.html">1956</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in 1960 on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of conspiracy to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">obstruct justice</a> and violation of the City Charter, over acceptance of $4,400 from a real estate developer; the indictment was dismissed, but then reinstated on appeal; a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">trial</a>, in June and July 1960, resulted in a hung jury; at a second <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">trial</a> was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>; his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentence</a> was suspended, but he was automatically <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">removed from office</a> as Borough President; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in 1970 on federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of conspiracy and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/conflict-of-interest.html">conflict of interest</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to three months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $5,000. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-sigma.html">Phi Beta Sigma</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. Died, in St. Luke's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1986/12-19.html">December 19, 1986</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 355 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Almira Wilkinson.</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 J. Dworak (b. 1935) — of Omaha, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/DO-lived.html">Douglas County</a>, Neb. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/01-04.html">January 4, 1935</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/funeral.html">Undertaker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/ofc/omaha.html">mayor of Omaha, Neb.</a>, 1961-65; defeated, 1965; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> on December 16, 1964, on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of seeking thousands of dollars in bribes in connection with a rezoning request; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in 1966 and acquitted. Still living as of 1997. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Hyman E. Mintz (c.1909-1966) — also known as Bucky Mintz — of South Fallsburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SV-lived.html">Sullivan County</a>, N.Y. Born about 1909. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Sullivan County, 1951-65. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/bnai-brith.html">B'nai B'rith</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in 1965 on bribery <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in February 1966, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to a year in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Died, following a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, while serving a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/captivity.html">prison sentence</a>, in Bellevue <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1966/03-25.html">March 25, 1966</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">about 57 years</a>). Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1222116"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/452/48.20.jpg" width=70 height=107 border=0 alt="Carmine G. DeSapio"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Carmine G. DeSapio (1908-2004) — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/12-10.html">December 10, 1908</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/NY.html">1944</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/NY.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/NY.html">1952</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/NY.html">1956</a>; leader of Tammany Hall, 1949-61; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/NY.html">leader of New York County Democratic Party</a>, 1955; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/NY.html">Democratic National Committee from New York</a>, 1957; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in 1969 on Federal bribery conspiracy <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>; served two years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/tammany-hall.html">Tammany Hall</a>. Died, in St. Vincent's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2004/07-27.html">July 27, 2004</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/95.html">95 years, 230 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-buried.html#cms01209">Calvary Cemetery</a>, Woodside, Queens, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine DeSapio">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/599/000055434">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">Image source: New York Public Library</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> Daniel Baugh Brewster (1923-2007) — also known as Daniel B. Brewster — of Glyndon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/BL-lived.html">Baltimore County</a>, Md. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/BL-born.html">Baltimore County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/11-23.html">November 23, 1923</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/sthse.html">Maryland state house of delegates</a>, 1951-58; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maryland</a> 2nd District, 1959-63; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Maryland</a>, 1963-69; defeated, 1968; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/index.html">1964</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/MD.html">1964</a>; speaker, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/speakers.html">1968</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in 1969 on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of accepting an illegal gratuity; after <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">trial</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">conviction</a>, and reversal, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded no contest</a>, 1975. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/liver-cancer.html">liver cancer</a>, in Owings Mills, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/BL-died.html">Baltimore County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2007/08-19.html">August 19, 2007</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 269 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/BL-buried.html#cms02414">St. Thomas Episcopal Church Cemetery</a>, Owings Mills, 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 Daniel Baugh Brewster, Sr. and Ottolie Young (Wickes) Brewster; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1967/">1967</a> to Anne Moen Bullitt (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#559.12.89">William Christian Bullitt</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1976/">1976</a> to Judy Lynn Aarsand; nephew of Anna Willis Baugh Brewster (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/white3.html#111.99.75">Francis White</a>); great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brewster.html#180.64.82">Benjamin Harris Brewster</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker7.html#339.59.21">Robert John Walker</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#150.37.08">Jonathan Hoge Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bacha-backstrom.html#690.87.76">Richard Bache Jr.</a>; third great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dales-dalto.html#289.37.90">George Mifflin Dallas (1792-1864)</a>; fourth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bacha-backstrom.html#869.81.95">Richard Bache</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dales-dalto.html#503.24.91">Alexander James Dallas</a>; fifth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/franklin.html#370.29.47">Benjamin Franklin</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/irwin.html#156.31.03">Robert Walker Irwin</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dales-dalto.html#483.78.52">George Mifflin Dallas (1839-1917)</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pelfrey-pendery.html#356.30.90">Claiborne de Borda Pell</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/10001-0336.html">Bache-Dallas family</a> of Pennsylvania and New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000813">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401770">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel Brewster">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/625/000161142">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21041536">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> Helen Cobb (c.1922-1999) — of San Diego, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SD-lived.html">San Diego County</a>, Calif. Born in Wichita, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/SE-born.html">Sedgwick County</a>, Kan., about 1922. Candidate in primary for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/sandiego.html">mayor of San Diego, Calif.</a>, 1963. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lwv.html">League of Women Voters</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in 1970 on bribery conspiracy <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> in connection with the "Yellow Cab <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Scandal</a>"; acquitted. Died, from complications of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/emphysema.html">emphysema</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/diabetes.html">diabetes</a>, at Chase <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Medical Center</a>, El Cajon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SD-died.html">San Diego County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1999/03-08.html">March 8, 1999</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">about 77 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> Hugh Joseph Addonizio (1914-1981) — also known as Hugh J. Addonizio — of Newark, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-lived.html">Essex County</a>, N.J. Born in Newark, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/01-31.html">January 31, 1914</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; vice-president, A & C <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">Tailoring</a> Co.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> 11th District, 1949-62; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/newark.html">mayor of Newark, N.J.</a>, 1962-70; defeated, 1970; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/NJ.html">1964</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/holy-name-soc.html">Holy Name Society</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/urban-league.html">Urban League</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</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/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in federal court, December, 1969, along with Municipal Judge <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmour-givhan.html#415.91.95">Anthony Giuliano</a>, other city officials, and reputed <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/organized-crime.html">organized crime</a> leader, Anthony 'Tony Boy' Boiardo, on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">extortion</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/tax-evasion.html">income tax evasion</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> over a scheme to share <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/kickbacks.html">kickbacks</a> from a sewer contracting company; pleaded not guilty; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>; during the trial a witness identified him as recipient of thousands of dollars in bribes; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in July, 1970; <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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $25,000; released in 1979. Died in Red Bank, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MO-died.html">Monmouth County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1981/02-02.html">February 2, 1981</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 2 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MR-buried.html#cms01182">Gate of Heaven Cemetery</a>, East Hanover, 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 Frank Addonizio and Livia (Barasso) Addonizio; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adamske-aedanus.html#410.55.47">Victor F. Addonizio</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/07-06.html">July 6, 1942</a>, to Doris Goodheart.</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=A000054">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400715">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh Joseph Addonizio">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/957/000173438">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6712452">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Frank E. Curran — of San Diego, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SD-lived.html">San Diego County</a>, Calif. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/sandiego.html">Mayor of San Diego, Calif.</a>, 1963-71. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in 1970 on bribery and conspiracy <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> in connection with the "Yellow Cab <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Scandal</a>". Still living as of 1971. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Lawrence Alioto (1916-1998) — also known as Joseph L. Alioto — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-born.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/02-12.html">February 12, 1916</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/sanfrancisco.html">mayor of San Francisco, Calif.</a>, 1968-76; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of California</a>, 1974. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in 1971 on federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of bribery, conspiracy, and mail fraud; acquitted in 1972. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/prostate-cancer.html">prostate cancer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-died.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1998/01-29.html">January 29, 1998</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 351 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SM-buried.html#cms01912">Cypress Lawn Memorial Park</a>, Colma, Calif.; cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SM-buried.html#cms00860">Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery</a>, Colma, 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 Guiseppe Alioto and Domenica Mae (Lazio) Alioto; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/06-02.html">June 2, 1941</a>, to Angelina Genaro; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1978/">1978</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alexandre-allee.html#074.31.13">Kathleen Sullivan</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alexandre-allee.html#235.49.58">Angela Mia Alioto</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alexandre-allee.html#654.80.12">Michela Alioto-Pier</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/Joseph Alioto">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/854/000047713">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0019666">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/43501846">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> Kenneth O. Tompkins (born c.1907) — of Johnstown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CA-lived.html">Cambria County</a>, Pa. Born about 1907. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/johnstown.html">Mayor of Johnstown, Pa.</a>, 1964-71; resigned 1971; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in January 1971 on bribery-conspiracy <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> over acceptance of money from Teleprompter Corporation for a cable television franchise; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> and testified against others. 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 Bowden Connally Jr. (1917-1993) — also known as John B. Connally — of Fort Worth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TT-lived.html">Tarrant County</a>, Tex. Born near Floresville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WN-born.html">Wilson County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/02-27.html">February 27, 1917</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/TX.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/TX.html">1964</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Texas</a>, 1963-69; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Treasury</a>, 1971-72; candidate for Republican nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1980/index.html">1980</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">Shot</a> and wounded in Dallas, Tex., November 22, 1963, in the same volley of gunfire that killed President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John F. Kennedy</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Prosecuted</a> for bribery conspiracy in connection with milk price supports; acquitted. Died of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/lung.html">pulmonary fibrosis</a>, in Methodist <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Houston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-died.html">Harris County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1993/06-15.html">June 15, 1993</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 108 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-buried.html#cms01455">Texas State Cemetery</a>, Austin, Tex.; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-buried.html#cms08226">Sam Houston Park</a>, Houston, Tex. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Bowden Connally, Sr. and Lela (Wright) Connally.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/john-bowden-connally/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Connally">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/359/000059182">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0174916">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/4122">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> Otto Kerner Jr. (1908-1976) — of Glenview, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill.; Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-born.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/08-15.html">August 15, 1908</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois</a>, 1947-54; county judge in Illinois, 1954-60; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/IL.html">1960</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/IL.html">1964</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Illinois</a>, 1961-68; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-ct-apps.html">Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit</a>, 1968-74; resigned 1974. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-jud-soc.html">American Judicature Society</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/moose.html">Moose</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/royal-arcanum.html">Royal Arcanum</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/mil-ord-world-wars.html">Military Order of the World Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/alpha-delta-phi.html">Alpha Delta Phi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-phi.html">Phi Delta Phi</a>. While serving as Governor, he and another official made a gain of over $300,000 in a stock deal which prosecutors later characterized as bribery. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in 1973 on 17 counts of bribery, conspiracy, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">perjury</a>, and related charges; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to three years in federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $50,000. Died of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">cancer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1976/05-09.html">May 9, 1976</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 268 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-buried.html#cms00004">Arlington National Cemetery</a>, Arlington, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Rose Barbara (Chmelik) Kerner and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kenton-kerns.html#065.90.83">Otto Kerner</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/10-29.html">October 29, 1934</a>, to Helena Irene Cermak (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cavarly-chaka.html#956.93.06">Anton Josef Cermak</a>; sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graham7.html#477.17.70">Richey V. Graham</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/12621.html">Kerner-Cermak family</a> of Chicago, Illinois.</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/rainie-ralph.html#297.63.62">Milton Rakove</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/otto-kerner/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/683/000119326">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19720828,00.html"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/856/26.45.jpg" width=70 height=109 border=0 alt="Spiro T. Agnew"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Spiro Theodore Agnew (1918-1996) — also known as Spiro T. Agnew; Spiro Theodore Anagnostopoulos; "Spiro T. Eggplant"; "Nixon's Nixon"; "The White Knight" — of Towson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/BL-lived.html">Baltimore County</a>, Md. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-born.html">Baltimore</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/11-09.html">November 9, 1918</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/BL-officials.html">Baltimore County Executive</a>, 1962-66; delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1964/MD.html">1964</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Maryland</a>, 1967-69; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1969-73. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/greek.html">Greek</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ord-ahepa.html">Order of Ahepa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-alpha-delta.html">Phi Alpha Delta</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>. Was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with accepting bribes and falsifying federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/tax-evasion.html">income tax</a> returns; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded no contest</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/tax-evasion.html">tax evasion</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> as Vice-President, October 10, 1973; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">disbarred</a> by a Maryland court in 1974. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/leukemia.html">leukemia</a>, in Atlantic General <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Berlin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/WO-died.html">Worcester County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1996/09-17.html">September 17, 1996</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 313 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/BL-buried.html#cms03848">Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens</a>, Timonium, 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 Theodore Spiro Agnew and Margaret (Akers) Agnew; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/05-27.html">May 27, 1942</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/afan-aieta.html#484.03.85">Judy Agnew</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/buchanan.html#864.93.16">Patrick J. Buchanan</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=A000059">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400719">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/spiro-theodore-agnew/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro T. Agnew">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/475/000027394">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0013152">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2383">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4966">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books by Spiro T. Agnew: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0688036686/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0688036686&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Go Quietly Or Else</a> (1980) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0872234525/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0872234525&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Canfield Decision</a> (1976) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product//ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Frankly Speaking: A Collection of Extraordinary Speeches</a> (1970) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product//ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Where He Stands: The Life and Convictions of Spiro Agnew</a> (1968)</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 Spiro T. Agnew: Richard M. Cohen & Jules Witcover, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670364738/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0670364738&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">A Heartbeat Away : The Investigation and Resignation of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew</a> — Jules Witcover, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1586484702/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1586484702&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Very Strange Bedfellows : The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Richard Nixon & Spiro Agnew</a></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, August 28, 1972</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 James Brasco (1932-1998) — also known as Frank J. Brasco — of New York. Born in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-born.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/10-15.html">October 15, 1932</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 11th District, 1967-75. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in 1973, along with his uncle Joseph Brasco, on federal bribery conspiracy <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>, over payoffs received from a Bronx trucking company which was seeking mail hauling contracts from the Post Office; the first <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">trial</a> led to a hung jury; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">retried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to five years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>, with all but three months suspended, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $10,000, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">disbarred</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1998/10-19.html">October 19, 1998</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 4 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000771">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401730">Govtrack.us page</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> Harry Lloyd Sears Jr. (1920-2002) — also known as Harry L. Sears — of Mountain Lakes, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MR-lived.html">Morris County</a>, N.J.; Mt. Arlington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MR-lived.html">Morris County</a>, N.J. Born in Butler, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MR-born.html">Morris County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/01-16.html">January 16, 1920</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> from Morris County, 1962-67; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1964/NJ.html">1964</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1968/NJ.html">1968</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/NJ.html">1972</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/stsen.html">New Jersey state senate</a> District 10, 1968-71; resigned 1971; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New Jersey</a>, 1969. In 1972, he delivered a briefcase with $200,000 in cash from his client Robert Vesco to President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nixon.html#870.67.93">Richard M. Nixon</a>'s re-election campaign; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in 1973 on bribery conspiracy <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>; granted immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony against co-defendants <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell5.html#634.62.28">John N. Mitchell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanly-stansel.html#471.17.89">Maurice H. Stans</a>, who were both acquitted. His license to practice law was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">suspended</a> for three years. Died in Denville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MR-died.html">Morris County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2002/05-17.html">May 17, 2002</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 121 days</a>). Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Phil Regan (1906-1996) — also known as Philip Joseph Christopher Aloysius Regan; "The Singing Cop" — of Summerland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SA-lived.html">Santa Barbara County</a>, Calif. Born in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-born.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/05-28.html">May 28, 1906</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawenforcement.html">Detective</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/music.html">singer</a>; performed, Democratic National Convention, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/speakers.html">1944</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/speakers.html">1948</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in January 1973, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with attempting to bribe Santa Barbara County Supervisor Frank J. Frost $1,000 for his support of a controversial rezoning; pleaded not guilty; tried and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>; sentenced to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; released after one year. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Died in Santa Barbara, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SA-died.html">Santa Barbara County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1996/02-11.html">February 11, 1996</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 259 days</a>). Entombed in mausoleum at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SA-buried.html# ">Calvary Cemetery</a>, Santa Barbara, 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: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/">1924</a> to Josephine Dwyer.</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/Phil Regan (actor)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716468">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6102730">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> James M. Turner (1928-1981) — of Woodbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/GL-lived.html">Gloucester County</a>, N.J. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/11-08.html">November 8, 1928</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> District 3-B; elected 1969; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/stsen.html">New Jersey state senate</a> District 3-A, 1972-73; removed 1973; defeated, 1973 (3rd District); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in 1973 of accepting a $10,000 bribe to "fix" a stolen property case, and conspiring to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">frame</a> Assemblyman <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gersch-gibbon.html#264.96.56">Kenneth A. Gewertz</a>, by planting <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/illegal-drugs.html">narcotics</a> in his home and his car. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1981/07-20.html">July 20, 1981</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 254 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=167892">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> Bertram L. Podell (1925-2005) — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y.; Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/index.html">1925</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <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>, 1955-67 (Kings County 21st District 1955-65, 53rd District 1966, 44th District 1967); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 13th District, 1968-75; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> in 1974 with conspiracy, the solicitation and acceptance of bribes, criminal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/conflict-of-interest.html">conflict of interest</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">perjury</a>; on the tenth day of his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">trial</a>, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to conspiracy and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/conflict-of-interest.html">conflict of interest</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to six months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; the prosecutor was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmour-givhan.html#097.38.57">Rudolph W. Giuliani</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">kidney failure</a>, at Lenox Hill <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2005/08-17.html">August 17, 2005</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">about 80 years</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Bernice Posen.</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=P000399">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408792">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/630/20.02.jpg" width=70 height=100 border=0 alt="John B. Swainson"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Burley Swainson (1925-1994) — also known as John B. Swainson — of Plymouth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich.; Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich.; Manchester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WA-lived.html">Washtenaw County</a>, Mich. Born in Windsor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ON-born.html">Ontario</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/07-31.html">July 31, 1925</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 18th District, 1955-58; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Michigan</a>, 1959-60; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Michigan</a>, 1961-62; defeated, 1962; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/MI.html">Democratic National Committee from Michigan</a>, 1963; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/cirjd.html">circuit judge in Michigan</a> 3rd Circuit, 1965-70; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/spju.html">justice of Michigan state supreme court</a>, 1971-75; resigned 1975. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/disabled-am-vets.html">Disabled American Veterans</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-theta-phi.html">Delta Theta Phi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/amvets.html">Amvets</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/purple-heart.html">Purple Heart</a>; <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/special/disabled.html">Lost both legs</a> in a land mine explosion on November 15, 1944, near Metz, Alsace-Lorraine, during World War II. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Charged</a> in 1975 with accepting a bribe; found not guilty, but <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">perjury</a> over his testimony to the grand jury. Died, of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in Manchester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WA-died.html">Washtenaw County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1994/05-13.html">May 13, 1994</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 286 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WA-buried.html#cms05284">Oak Grove Cemetery</a>, Manchester, 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/suvacki-swampfox.html#823.14.85">John Adam Carl Swainson</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/fentress-fergus.html#161.42.39">Zolton A. Ferency</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/john-burley-swainson/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/839/000122473">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6234820">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 John Swainson: Lawrence M. Glazer, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0870139711/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0870139711&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Wounded Warrior: The Rise and Fall of Michigan Governor John Swainson</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 1957-58</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Helstoski (1925-1999) — of East Rutherford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/BE-lived.html">Bergen County</a>, N.J. Born in Wallington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/BE-born.html">Bergen County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/03-21.html">March 21, 1925</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; mayor of East Rutherford, N.J., 1957-64; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> 9th District, 1965-77; defeated, 1976, 1978, 1980; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New Jersey</a>, 1969; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper publisher</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in 1976 on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of receiving a bribe from South Americans seeking citizenship; the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the charges. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1999/12-16.html">December 16, 1999</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 270 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000465">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405328">Govtrack.us page</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> Richard Thomas Hanna (1914-2001) — also known as Richard T. Hanna; "The Little Leprechaun" — of Fullerton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/OR-lived.html">Orange County</a>, Calif.; Anaheim, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/OR-lived.html">Orange County</a>, Calif. Born in Kemmerer, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/LI-born.html">Lincoln County</a>, Wyo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/06-09.html">June 9, 1914</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/asmbly.html">California state assembly</a>, 1956-62; while in the Assembly, he helped bring about the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/univfound.html">establishment</a> of the University of California at Irvine and California State University at Fullerton; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/CA.html">1960</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/CA.html">1964</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from California</a> 34th District, 1963-74; resigned 1974. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. In the 1970s, he received payments of about $200,000 from Korean businessman Tongsun Park in what became known as the "Koreagate" <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/lobbyists.html">influence buying</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 6-30 months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">federal prison</a>; served one year. Died in Tryon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/PO-died.html">Polk County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2001/06-09.html">June 9, 2001</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 0 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes scattered in North Atlantic Ocean. <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=H000164">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405046">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard T. Hanna">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7682978">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> Albert Howard Blumenthal (1928-1984) — also known as Albert H. Blumenthal — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Larchmont, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y. Born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-born.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/10-13.html">October 13, 1928</a>. Liberal. <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>, 1963-76 (New York County 5th District 1963-65, 73rd District 1966, 67th District 1967-72, 69th District 1973-76); candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1973. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aclu.html">American Civil Liberties Union</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-jewish-cong.html">American Jewish Congress</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ams-dem-action.html">Americans for Democratic Action</a>. In December, 1975, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">perjury</a> charges over his testimony about a 1971 meeting where he was alleged to intercede on behalf of a nursing home operator; later, bribery charges were added; in April, 1976, all the charges were ruled to be without factual basis, and dismissed. Died, presumably from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">cancer</a>, in the Memorial Sloan-Kettering <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Cancer Center</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1984/07-08.html">July 8, 1984</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 269 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Bennet M. Blumenthal and Matilda Blumenthal; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1958/05-18.html">May 18, 1958</a>, to Joel Marie Winik.</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> Irving H. Saypol (1905-1977) — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/09-03.html">September 3, 1905</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York</a>, 1949-51; prosecuted Ethel and Julius Rosenberg on espionage charges; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 1st District, 1952-68. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/fed-bar-assoc.html">Federal Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in May 1976, along with Surrogate <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dickman-diket.html#008.46.13">S. Samuel DiFalco</a>, on bribery and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">perjury</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>, in connection with an alleged scheme to obtain appraisal and auction commissions for Saypol's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/nepotism.html">son</a>; the charges were later dismissed. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">cancer</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/1977/06-30.html">June 30, 1977</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 300 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 Louis Saypol and Minnie (Michakin) Saypol; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/09-29.html">September 29, 1925</a>, to Adele D. Kaplan.</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> Marvin Mandel (1920-2015) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-lived.html">Baltimore</a>, Md. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-born.html">Baltimore</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/04-19.html">April 19, 1920</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/MD.html">Maryland Democratic State Central Committee</a>, 1951; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/sthse.html">Maryland state house of delegates</a>, 1952-69; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Maryland State House of Delegates</a>, 1963-69; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/MD.html">1964</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1976/MD.html">1976</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/MD.html">Maryland Democratic state chair</a>, 1968-69; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Maryland</a>, 1969-77, 1979. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/omicron-delta-kappa.html">Omicron Delta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish-war-vets.html">Jewish War Veterans</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Charged</a> with mail fraud, over his acceptance of gifts from owners of the Marlboro Race Track, in return for his support for legislation benefiting the track; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in 1977; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; his conviction was later overturned. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/SM-died.html">St. Mary's County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2015/08-30.html">August 30, 2015</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/95.html">95 years, 133 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/">1941</a> to Barbara 'Bootsie' Oberfield; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1974/">1974</a> to Jeanne Blackistone Dorsey.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/marvin-mandel/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin Mandel">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/631/000168127">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 Marvin Mandel: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0975575635/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0975575635&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">I'll Never Forget It: Memoirs of a Political Accident from East Baltimore</a> (2010)</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 Marvin Mandel: Bradford Jacobs, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0801831709/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0801831709&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Thimbleriggers : The Law v. Governor Marvin Mandel</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 Herbert Wilson (1917-1984) — also known as Charles H. Wilson — of Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in Magna, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/SL-born.html">Salt Lake County</a>, Utah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/02-15.html">February 15, 1917</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/asmbly.html">California state assembly</a>, 1955-63; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/CA.html">1960</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/CA.html">1964</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from California</a> 31st District, 1963-81. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Reprimanded</a> by the House of Representatives in 1978 for accepting a $1,000 wedding gift from a key figure in the Koreagate <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">censured</a> by the House of Representatives in 1980 for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/misfeasance.html">financial misconduct</a>; no criminal charges were filed. Died, of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, at Southern Maryland <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Clinton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/PG-died.html">Prince George's County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1984/07-21.html">July 21, 1984</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 157 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-buried.html#cms02104">Inglewood Park Cemetery</a>, Inglewood, Calif. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000571">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411726">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles H. Wilson">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> George Rogers (b. 1933) — of New Bedford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BR-lived.html">Bristol County</a>, Mass. Born in New Bedford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BR-born.html">Bristol County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/08-22.html">August 22, 1933</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html">Massachusetts state house of representatives</a>, 1965-70, 1999-; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/newbedford.html">mayor of New Bedford, Mass.</a>, 1970-71; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1972/MA.html">1972</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/stsen.html">Massachusetts state senate</a>, 1975-78. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> of bribery in 1978 and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to two years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. 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> Otto Ernest Passman (1900-1988) — also known as Otto E. Passman — of Monroe, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OU-lived.html">Ouachita Parish</a>, La. Born near Franklinton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/WA-born.html">Washington Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/06-27.html">June 27, 1900</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/furniture.html">furniture business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Louisiana</a> 5th District, 1947-77; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/LA.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/LA.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/LA.html">1960</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish-rite-masons.html">Scottish Rite Masons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Charged</a> in 1978 with accepting $200,000 from Korean businessman Tongsun Park, in what became known as the "Koreagate" <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/lobbyists.html">influence buying</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a>; also <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/tax-evasion.html">tax evasion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and found not guilty. Died in Monroe, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OU-died.html">Ouachita Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1988/08-13.html">August 13, 1988</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 47 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OU-buried.html#cms05248">Mulhearn Memorial Park Cemetery</a>, Monroe, La. <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 Ed Passman and Pheriby (Carrier) Passman; married to Willie Bateman.</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/grant-graver.html#754.92.72">Camille F. Gravel, Jr.</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000098">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408507">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto Passman">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> Samuel D. Wright (1925-1998) — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y.; Hilton Head Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BA-lived.html">Beaufort County</a>, S.C. Born in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-born.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/02-13.html">February 13, 1925</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a>, 1966-73 (39th District 1966, 37th District 1967-72, 54th District 1973); candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1976. <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/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in 1978 of soliciting a bribe and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced to jail</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/parkinsons.html">Parkinson's disease</a>, in Hilton Head, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BA-died.html">Beaufort County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1998/01-20.html">January 20, 1998</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 341 days</a>). Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Daniel John Flood (1903-1994) — also known as Daniel J. Flood — of Wilkes-Barre, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LU-lived.html">Luzerne County</a>, Pa. Born in Hazleton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LU-born.html">Luzerne County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/11-26.html">November 26, 1903</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 11th District, 1945-47, 1949-53, 1955-80; defeated, 1946, 1952. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-alpha-epsilon.html">Sigma Alpha Epsilon</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-sigma-rho.html">Delta Sigma Rho</a>; <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/eagles.html">Eagles</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Charged</a> in 1979 with taking bribes; a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">trial</a> resulted in a hung jury; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> from the House in 1980; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> in February 1980 to a lesser charge of conspiracy to violate federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/campaign-finance.html">campaign finance laws</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to one year <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">probation</a>. Died in Wilkes-Barre, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LU-died.html">Luzerne County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1994/05-28.html">May 28, 1994</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 183 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LU-buried.html#cms03827">St. Mary's Cemetery</a>, Hanover Township, Luzerne County, Pa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Patrick F. Flood and Sarah (McCarthy) Flood.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The Daniel J. Flood <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">Elementary School</a> (opened 1967), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LU-names.html">Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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=F000209">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404164">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/4937">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> Anthony Scotto (b. 1934) — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y.; Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/index.html">1934</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">Longshoreman</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/labor.html">vice-president</a>, International Longshoremen's Association; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1972/NY.html">1972</a>; member of the Gambino <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/organized-crime.html">crime family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> in 1979 on 44 counts of accepting payoffs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/tax-evasion.html">evading income taxes</a> and racketeering; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> on 33 of the counts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to five years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; released in 1984. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> ancestry. Still living as of 2007. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Marion Anastasio.</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 Michael Murphy (1926-2015) — also known as John M. Murphy — of Staten Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RI-lived.html">Richmond County</a>, N.Y. Born in Staten Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RI-born.html">Richmond County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/08-03.html">August 3, 1926</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1963-81 (16th District 1963-73, 17th District 1973-81); defeated, 1960 (15th District), 1980 (17th District); delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/NY.html">1964</a>; Parliamentarian, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/officers.html">1968</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/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Implicated</a> in the Abscam sting, in which FBI agents impersonating Arab businessmen offered bribes to political figures; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> June 18 and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> December 3, 1980, of conspiracy, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/conflict-of-interest.html">conflict of interest</a>, and accepting an illegal gratuity; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to three years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> and fined $20,000; paroled in 1985. Died in Staten Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RI-died.html">Richmond County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2015/05-25.html">May 25, 2015</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 295 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">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vincente-vliet.html#690.14.39">Eric N. Vitaliano</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=M001098">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408062">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/519/000059342">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> Frank Thompson Jr. (1918-1989) — of Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer 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/1918/07-26.html">July 26, 1918</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> from Mercer County, 1950-54; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> 4th District, 1955-80; defeated, 1980; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/NJ.html">1964</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Implicated</a> in the Abscam sting, in which FBI agents impersonating Arab businessmen offered bribes to political figures; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> on June 18 and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> on December 3, 1980, on bribery and conspiracy charges; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to three years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1989/index.html">1989</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">about 70 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 Frank Thompson and Beatrice (Jameson) Thompson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/01-10.html">January 10, 1942</a>, to Evelina Gleaves Van Metre.</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=T000200">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410779">Govtrack.us page</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> Harrison Arlington Williams Jr. (1919-2001) — also known as Harrison A. Williams; Pete Williams — of Westfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/UN-lived.html">Union County</a>, N.J.; Bedminster, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/SO-lived.html">Somerset County</a>, N.J. Born in Plainfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/UN-born.html">Union County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/12-10.html">December 10, 1919</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a>, 1951; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> 6th District, 1953-57; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New Jersey</a>, 1959-82; resigned 1982; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/NJ.html">1964</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/NJ.html">1968</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1980/NJ.html">1980</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ams-dem-action.html">Americans for Democratic Action</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Implicated</a> in the Abscam sting, in which FBI agents impersonating Arab businessmen offered bribes to political figures; allegedly accepted an 18% interest in a titanium mine; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> on October 30, 1980; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> on May 1, 1981, of nine counts of bribery, conspiracy, receiving an unlawful gratuity, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/conflict-of-interest.html">conflict of interest</a>, and interstate travel in aid of racketeering; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> his seat March 11, 1982, when it appeared that the Senate would vote to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">expel</a> him; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to three years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $50,000; released in 1986. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">cancer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart ailments</a>, in St. Clare's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Denville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MR-died.html">Morris County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2001/11-17.html">November 17, 2001</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 342 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">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stubblefield-styles.html#773.54.04">Gerry E. Studds</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=W000502">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411659">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/609/000059432">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> John Patrick Murtha Jr. (1932-2010) — also known as John P. Murtha; Jack Murtha; "King of Pork" — of Johnstown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CA-lived.html">Cambria County</a>, Pa. Born in New Martinsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WE-born.html">Wetzel County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/06-17.html">June 17, 1932</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1969-74; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 12th District, 1974-; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1984/PA.html">1984</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/PA.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/PA.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/PA.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/PA.html">2008</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Implicated</a> in the Abscam sting, in which FBI agents impersonating Arab businessmen offered bribes to political figures; never charged, but cited by the grand jury in 1980 as an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">unindicted co-conspirator</a>. During gall bladder surgery, suffered an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gastrointestinal.html">intestinal cut</a>, which led to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/infection.html">infection</a>; he subsequently died at Virginia <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Medical Center</a>, Arlington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-died.html">Arlington County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2010/02-08.html">February 8, 2010</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 236 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CA-buried.html#cms00132">Grandview Cemetery</a>, Southmont, Pa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Mary Edna (Ray) Murtha and John Patrick Murtha.</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=M001120">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400286">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Murtha">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/067/000039947">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/47806007">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> Richard Kelly (1924-2005) — of Florida. Born in Atlanta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-born.html">Fulton County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/07-31.html">July 31, 1924</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; circuit judge in Florida, 1960-74; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Florida</a> 5th District, 1975-81. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Implicated</a> in the Abscam sting, in which FBI agents impersonating Arab businessmen offered bribes to political figures; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> June 13, 1980, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> January 26, 1981, on charges of bribery conspiracy, and interstate travel to further illegal activities; the conviction was overturned on appeal, then reinstated; served 13 months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Died in Stevensville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/RA-died.html">Ravalli County</a>, Mont., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2005/08-22.html">August 22, 2005</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 22 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000077">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406247">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard Kelly %28politician%29">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/202/000101896">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> John Wilson Jenrette Jr. (b. 1936) — also known as John W. Jenrette, Jr. — of South Carolina. Born in South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/05-19.html">May 19, 1936</a>. Democrat. Member of South Carolina state legislature, 1970; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 6th District, 1975-80. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Implicated</a> in the Abscam sting, in which FBI agents impersonating Arab businessmen offered bribes to political figures; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> on bribery conspiracy <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> in 1980 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 1998. <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=J000099">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406001">Govtrack.us page</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> Angelo Joseph Errichetti (1928-2013) — also known as Angelo J. Errichetti — of Camden, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/CA-lived.html">Camden County</a>, N.J. Born in Camden, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/CA-born.html">Camden County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/09-29.html">September 29, 1928</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/camden.html">Mayor of Camden, N.J.</a>, 1974-77; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1976/NJ.html">1976</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/stsen.html">New Jersey state senate</a> 5th District, 1976-81. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Implicated</a> in the Abscam sting, in which FBI agents impersonating Arab businessmen offered bribes to political figures; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in 1980, later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Died in Ventnor City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/AT-died.html">Atlantic County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2013/05-16.html">May 16, 2013</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 229 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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo Errichetti">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=20380">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> Michael Joseph Myers (b. 1943) — also known as Michael Myers; Ozzie Myers — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/05-04.html">May 4, 1943</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">Longshoreman</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1971-76; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 1st District, 1976-80; defeated, 1980. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Implicated</a> in the Abscam sting, in which FBI agents impersonating Arab businessmen offered bribes to political figures; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> on May 27, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> on August 31, 1980 of bribery and conspiracy; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to three years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $20,000; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">expelled</a> from the House of Representatives on October 2, 1980. Still living as of 1998. <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=M001132">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408094">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael Myers %28politician%29">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> Raymond Francis Lederer (1938-2008) — also known as Raymond F. Lederer — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/05-19.html">May 19, 1938</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1974; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 3rd District, 1977-81. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Implicated</a> in the Abscam sting, in which FBI agents impersonating Arab businessmen offered bribes to political figures; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> May 28, 1981; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> of bribery January 9, 1981; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to three years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $20,000; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> from Congress on April 29, 1981; began his prison sentence July 7, 1983. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2008/12-01.html">December 1, 2008</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 196 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000187">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406690">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/563/000179026">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> Joel Patterson — of Benton Harbor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/BE-lived.html">Berrien County</a>, Mich. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/bentonharbor.html">Mayor of Benton Harbor, Mich.</a>, 1981; defeated, 1981. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in 1981, along with the City Attorney, on federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">embezzlement</a> and bribery <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> in connection with a housing program. Still living as of 1981. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Walter S. Orlinsky (1938-2002) — also known as Wally Orlinsky; "Wally Appleseed" — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-lived.html">Baltimore</a>, Md. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-born.html">Baltimore</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/05-19.html">May 19, 1938</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/sthse.html">Maryland state house of delegates</a> from Baltimore city 2nd District, 1967-72; candidate for Presidential Elector for Maryland; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Maryland</a>, 1978; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to Federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of accepting a bribe from an FBI informant posing as a sludge hauler; served 4.5 months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pardon.html">pardoned</a> by President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#673.06.95">Bill Clinton</a> in 2000. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/nat-trust-hist-pres.html">National Trust for Historic Preservation</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aclu.html">American Civil Liberties Union</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-alpha-delta.html">Phi Alpha Delta</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2002/02-09.html">February 9, 2002</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 266 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1961/">1961</a> to Jo-Ann Mayer; married to Judy Longenecker Taylor.</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.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=136745">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> Frederick William Richmond (b. 1923) — also known as Frederick W. Richmond; Fred Richmond — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y. Born in Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/11-15.html">November 15, 1923</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/NY.html">1964</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 14th District, 1975-82. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a> in Washington, D.C., in 1978 for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">soliciting sex</a> from a minor and from an undercover police officer; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to a misdemeanor. In 1982, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/tax-evasion.html">tax evasion</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/illegal-drugs.html">marijuana possession</a>, and improper payments to a federal employee, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> and was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to a year and a day in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; served nine months. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000232">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409208">Govtrack.us page</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 C. Green (c.1922-2000) — also known as Jimmy Green — of Clarkton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BL-lived.html">Bladen County</a>, N.C. Born about 1922. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/sthse.html">North Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1961-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the North Carolina State House of Representatives</a>, 1975-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina</a>, 1977-85; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of North Carolina</a>, 1984. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Charged</a> in 1983 with accepting a bribe from an undercover FBI agent, but acquitted; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/tax-evasion.html">tax evasion</a> in 1997, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">home confinement</a>. Died at Bladen County <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Elizabethtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BL-died.html">Bladen County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2000/02-04.html">February 4, 2000</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">about 78 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BL-buried.html#cms05488">Clarkton Cemetery</a>, Clarkton, N.C. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Anthony Traficant Jr. (b. 1941) — also known as James A. Traficant, Jr. — of Warren, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/TR-lived.html">Trumbull County</a>, Ohio. Born in Youngstown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MA-born.html">Mahoning County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/05-08.html">May 8, 1941</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawenforcement.html">Sheriff</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Ohio</a> 17th District, 1985-2002; removed 2002; defeated, 2002; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/OH.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/OH.html">2000</a>. As sheriff in the 1980s, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with accepting bribes, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and acquitted. In May, 2001, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> on ten counts of bribery and racketeering; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">expelled</a> from the U.S. House of Representatives, July 24, 2002. 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">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ryan.html#410.19.05">Tim Ryan</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=T000350">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400611">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/208/000024136">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> John J. Peluso (b. 1923) — also known as "Johnny TV" — of Newport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CA-lived.html">Campbell County</a>, Ky. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/06-01.html">June 1, 1923</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/newport.html">Mayor of Newport, Ky.</a>, 1964-68, 1976-80; defeated, 1971, 1983. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in 1973 on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/other-crimes.html">possession of stolen bonds</a>; later dismissed. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in 1983 of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/vice.html">promoting gambling</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in 1984 on federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of bribery and conspiracy; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">perjury</a> in 1985; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to ten years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; released in 1989. 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> Michael J. Matthews (b. 1934) — of Linwood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/AT-lived.html">Atlantic County</a>, N.J.; Atlantic City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/AT-lived.html">Atlantic County</a>, N.J. Born in Upland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/DE-born.html">Delaware County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/01-07.html">January 7, 1934</a>. Democrat. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/stsen.html">New Jersey state senate</a> 2nd District, 1973; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> 2nd District, 1974; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> 2nd District, 1978-83; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/atlanticcity.html">mayor of Atlantic City, N.J.</a>, 1982-84; recalled 1984; defeated, 1984. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> on March 27, 1984, on federal bribery and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">extortion</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>, over his dealings with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/organized-crime.html">organized crime</a> figures; a trial was started, but then he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to one count of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">extortion</a>, and the other charges were dropped; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to fifteen years in federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; released in 1990. Still living as of 1990. <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/Michael J. Matthews">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=117146">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> William C. Brennan Jr. (1918-2000) — of Far Rockaway, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-lived.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y.; Elmhurst, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-lived.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York City (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ZZ-born.html">unknown county</a>), N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/10-11.html">October 11, 1918</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawenforcement.html">Police officer</a>; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; <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 Queens County 2nd District, 1955-64; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 12th District, 1967-68; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a>, 1970-85; resigned 1985. 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/elks.html">Elks</a>. In July 1985, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in Federal court for accepting bribes in return for reducing or dismissing charges in criminal cases involving <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/organized-crime.html">organized crime</a> figures; also charged with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">extortion</a>; pleaded not guilty and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>; did not testify in his own defense; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in December 1985, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to five years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $209,000. He was released from prison in May 1988. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2000/05-08.html">May 8, 2000</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 210 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/">1941</a> to Gloria M. Lauer.</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 Budd Dwyer (1939-1987) — also known as R. Budd Dwyer — of Pennsylvania. Born in St. Charles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/SC-born.html">St. Charles County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1939/11-21.html">November 21, 1939</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1965-70; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a> 50th District, 1971-81; resigned 1981; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/trea.html">Pennsylvania state treasurer</a>, 1981-87; died in office 1987. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/labor-unions.html">National Education Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/eagles.html">Eagles</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/theta-chi.html">Theta Chi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jaycees.html">Jaycees</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in December 1986 of bribery and conspiracy in federal court. About to be <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a>, and widely expected to resign from office, he called a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/meetings.html">press conference</a>; there, in front of spectators and television cameras, he insisted he was not guilty, and then <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">killed himself</a>, in Harrisburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/DA-died.html">Dauphin County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1987/01-22.html">January 22, 1987</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/47.html">47 years, 62 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CR-buried.html#cms04695">Blooming Valley Cemetery</a>, Blooming Valley, Pa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/asbjornson-ashlay.html#049.55.43">Robert B. Asher</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/Budd Dwyer">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/204/000102895">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1017928">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> Samuel Jerome Bronson (1930-1986) — also known as S. Jerome Bronson — of Franklin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/OA-lived.html">Oakland County</a>, Mich. Born in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-born.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/03-21.html">March 21, 1930</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 12th District, 1960; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/OA-officials.html">Oakland County Prosecuting Attorney</a>, 1965-68; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/cirjd.html">circuit judge in Michigan</a> 6th Circuit, 1966; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/coajd.html">Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals</a> 2nd District, 1969-86; died in office 1986. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with soliciting and accepting a bribe of $20,000 for his vote on a pending case; he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">killed himself</a> by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot</a> the same day, in Franklin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/OA-died.html">Oakland County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1986/11-14.html">November 14, 1986</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 238 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-buried.html# ">Beth El Memorial Park</a>, Livonia, 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">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/campbell-cannington.html#561.40.90">James N. Canham</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/87119772">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 B. Asher — of Pennsylvania. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/PA.html">Pennsylvania Republican state chair</a>, 1985. Along with state treasurer <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dwyer.html#295.02.32">R. Budd Dwyer</a>, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in federal court in 1986, on bribery and conspiracy <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>. Still living as of 1987. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James N. Canham — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/cirjd.html">circuit judge in Michigan</a> 3rd Circuit, 1961-77; appointed 1961. Acted as a go-between between Michigan Court of Appeals Judge <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronson.html#423.63.21">S. Jerome Bronson</a> and an attorney from whom a bribe was solicited. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a> in November 1986; in return for immunity from prosecution, he helped to implicate Judge Bronson, who killed himself the same day he was arrested. Because he aided and abetted bribery, Canham's license to practice law was subsequently <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">revoked</a>. Still living as of 1986. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19870713,00.html"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/033/53.03.jpg" width=70 height=98 border=0 alt="Oliver L. North"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Oliver Laurence North (b. 1943) — also known as Oliver L. North; Ollie North — of Virginia. Born in San Antonio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BX-born.html">Bexar County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/10-07.html">October 7, 1943</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War; central figure in the Iran-Contra <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> of 1986; he was in charge of a secret (and illegal) government operation to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/smuggling.html">sell weapons to Iran</a> and provide the profits to the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/diplomatic-offenses.html">then-unrecognized</a> Nicaraguan "contras", who were fighting a civil war against the "Sandinista" government there; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in 1989 on federal charges of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">obstructing</a> Congress, destroying documents, and accepting an illegal gratuity; an appeals court later overturned the guilty verdict; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Virginia</a>, 1994; host of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">radio talk show</a> in 1995-2003, and is a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">television commentator</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/nra.html">National Rifle Association</a>. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1968/11-13.html">November 13, 1968</a>, to Betsy Stuart.</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/bergan-berkstresser.html#373.49.75">Harry E. Bergold, Jr.</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver North">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/498/000024426">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0636048">Internet Movie Database profile</a></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, July 13, 1987</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> Mario Biaggi (1917-2015) — of Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-lived.html">Bronx County</a>, N.Y. Born in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/10-26.html">October 26, 1917</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawenforcement.html">Police officer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1969-88 (24th District 1969-73, 10th District 1973-83, 19th District 1983-88); defeated, 1988 (Republican), 1992 (Democratic primary); delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1972/NY.html">1972</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1980/NY.html">1980</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1984/NY.html">1984</a>; Conservative candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1973. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in 1987 on federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> that he had accepted bribes from former Brooklyn political boss <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/esaias-esters.html#820.53.31">Meade Esposito</a> in in return for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/lobbyists.html">influence</a> on federal contracts for a Brooklyn ship-repair company; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> on September 22, 1987 of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">obstructing justice</a> and accepting illegal gratuities; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Tried</a> in 1988 on federal racketeering charges in connection with the Wedtech Corporation; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> on August 4, 1988 on 15 felony counts. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Resigned</a> from Congress following the Wedtech conviction; served more than two years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Died in Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-died.html">Bronx County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2015/06-24.html">June 24, 2015</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/97.html">97 years, 241 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-buried.html#cms00567">Gate of Heaven Cemetery</a>, Hawthorne, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Marie Wassil.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Campaign slogan (1973): "He wins, you win."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Campaign slogan (1973): "He's right for what's wrong with New York."</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=B000432">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401418">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/875/000129488">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/148284006">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Ricardo Jerome Bordallo (1927-1990) — also known as Ricardo J. Bordallo; Ricky Bordallo — of Agana (now Hagatna), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GU/ZZ-lived.html">Guam</a>. Born in Agana (now Hagatna), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GU/ZZ-born.html">Guam</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/12-11.html">December 11, 1927</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/restaurant.html">Restaurant owner</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/autodealer.html">automobile dealer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GU/ofc/legis.html">Guam legislature</a>, 1956-70; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/GU.html">Guam Democratic Party chair</a>, 1960-63, 1971-73; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Guam, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/GU.html">1964</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GU/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Guam</a>, 1975-78, 1983-86; defeated, 1970; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in 1987 on corruption <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>, including bribery, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">obstruction of justice</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">witness tampering</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to nine years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a>; some of the charges were overturned on appeal in 1988; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resentenced</a> to four years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> in December, 1989. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/asian-pacific.html">Chamorro</a> ancestry. Just before he was to report to prison, he chained himself to a statue of Chief Quipuha, in a busy traffic circle at rush hour; wrapped in a Guam flag and wearing a sign saying "I regret I have but one life to give for my island," he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">killed himself</a>, in Agana (now Hagatna), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GU/ZZ-died.html">Guam</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1990/02-01.html">February 1, 1990</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 52 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GU/ZZ-buried.html# ">Pigo Catholic Cemetery</a>, Hagatna, Guam. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Baltazar Jeronimo 'B. J.' Bordallo and Josefina Torres (Pangelinan) Bordallo; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boothby-borunda.html#291.24.01">Paul Joseph Bordallo</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/">1953</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boothby-borunda.html#182.18.25">Madeleine Mary Zeien</a>.</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/15842.html">Bordallo family</a> of Minnesota.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/ricardo-jerome-bordallo/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo Bordallo">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/138311537">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Clarence M. Mitchell III (b. 1939) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-lived.html">Baltimore</a>, Md. Born in St. Paul, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/RA-born.html">Ramsey County</a>, Minn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1939/12-14.html">December 14, 1939</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/sthse.html">Maryland state house of delegates</a>, 1963-66; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/stsen.html">Maryland state senate</a> District 10, 1967-86; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in 1987, along with his brother, by a federal grand jury in connection with the a bribery investigation of Wedtech Corporation; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> of accepting $50,000 to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">stop</a> the Congressional investigation of Wedtech; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to two and a half years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in 1988 of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">obstructing</a> an investigation of Baltimore <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/illegal-drugs.html">drug dealer</a> Melvin D. 'Little Melvin' Williams, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to two years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> in 1988 with failure to file <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/tax-evasion.html">income tax</a> returns; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and acquitted. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/urban-league.html">Urban League</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kappa-alpha-psi.html">Kappa Alpha Psi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jaycees.html">Jaycees</a>. Still living as of 1988. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. and Juanita Elizabeth (Jackson) Mitchell; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell6.html#678.51.39">Michael Bowen Mitchell</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell2.html#016.44.99">Clarence M. Mitchell IV</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell7.html#346.58.56">Parren James Mitchell</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell6.html#393.52.79">Keiffer Jackson Mitchell Jr.</a>.</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/15982.html">Mitchell family</a> of Baltimore, Maryland.</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> Michael Bowen Mitchell (b. 1945) — also known as Michael B. Mitchell — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-lived.html">Baltimore</a>, Md. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-born.html">Baltimore</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1945/11-07.html">November 7, 1945</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/stsen.html">Maryland state senate</a> 39th District, 1987; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in 1987, along with his brother, by a federal grand jury in connection with the a bribery investigation of Wedtech Corporation; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> of accepting $50,000 to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">stop</a> the Congressional investigation of Wedtech; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to two and a half years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in 1988 of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/forgery.html">forging</a> documents to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">obtain</a> $77,000 in life insurance proceeds intended for the child of a murder victim, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to six years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</a>. Still living as of 1988. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. and Juanita Elizabeth (Jackson) Mitchell; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell2.html#540.03.16">Clarence M. Mitchell III</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell7.html#346.58.56">Parren James Mitchell</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell2.html#016.44.99">Clarence M. Mitchell IV</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell6.html#393.52.79">Keiffer Jackson Mitchell Jr.</a>.</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/15982.html">Mitchell family</a> of Baltimore, Maryland.</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> Meade Henry Esposito (1909-1993) — also known as Meade H. Esposito; Amadeo Henry Esposito — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, 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/1909/12-28.html">December 28, 1909</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/NY.html">1964</a>; vice-president, Lafayette National <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a>, 1965; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">insurance broker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/NY.html">leader of Kings County Democratic Party</a>, 1969-83. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in 1987 on federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> that he had given bribes to U.S. Rep. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beucher-biddis.html#973.62.14">Mario Biaggi</a> in in return for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/lobbyists.html">influence</a> on federal contracts for a Brooklyn <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">ship-repair</a> company; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> on September 22, 1987 of giving an illegal gratuity; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $500,000; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in 1988 on bribery and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/tax-evasion.html">tax</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>, but the case was dismissed due to his age and poor health. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">renal failure</a> caused by a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, while suffering from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/lung-cancer.html">lung cancer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/bladder-cancer.html">bladder cancer</a>, in North Shore University <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Manhasset, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1993/09-03.html">September 3, 1993</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 249 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 Felicia Esposito; married to Anne De Cunzo.</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> Bess Myerson (1924-2014) — Born in Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-born.html">Bronx County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/07-16.html">July 16, 1924</a>. Democrat. Miss America, 1945; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> and only Jewish woman to win the pageant; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/music.html">musician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">television personality</a>; New York City commissioner of consumer affairs, 1969-73, and commissioner of cultural affairs, 1983-87; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New York</a>, 1980; accused in 1987 of bribing Justice <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gabaldon-gafney.html#520.97.11">Hortense Gabel</a> by giving her <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/nepotism.html">daughter</a> a city job; meanwhile, the judge reduced child support payments for Carl Andrew Capasso, Myerson's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">married lover</a>; the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> was called the "Bess Mess"; she was forced to resign as city consumer affairs commissioner; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> on federal bribery charges in 1988, along with Capasso and Gabel; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and found not guilty. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Died in Santa Monica, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-died.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2014/12-14.html">December 14, 2014</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 151 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-buried.html#cms04397">Woodlawn Cemetery</a>, Santa Monica, 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: Daughter of Louis Myerson and Bella (Podell) Myerson; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1946/">1946</a> to Allan Wayne; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/">1962</a> to Arnold Grant.</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: "You Will Always Be Our Queen."</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/Bess Myerson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/981/000022915">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0616898">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/140941886">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=20019">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> Hortense W. Gabel (1912-1990) — also known as Hortense Wittstein — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-born.html">Bronx County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/12-16.html">December 16, 1912</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; New York City Rent and Rehabilitation Commissioner, 1962-65; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 1st District, 1975-87; appointed 1975; resigned 1987; accused in 1987 of accepting a bribe from New York Consumer Affairs Commissioner <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/myerson-myus.html#855.04.08">Bess Myerson</a> in the form of a city job for her <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/nepotism.html">daughter</a>; allegedly in return, the judge reduced child support payments for Myerson's lover, Carl A. Capasso; the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> was called "the Bess Mess"; she <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> as Justice; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> on federal bribery charges in 1988, along with Myerson and Capasso; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and found not guilty. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</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/1990/12-07.html">December 7, 1990</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 356 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-buried.html#cms06329">Calverton National Cemetery</a>, Calverton, Long Island, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of Rubin J. Wittstein and Bessie Wittstein; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/">1944</a> to Milton Gabel.</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/Hortense Gabel">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/675700">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 Garcia (1933-2017) — of Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-lived.html">Bronx County</a>, N.Y.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Born in Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-born.html">Bronx County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/01-09.html">January 9, 1933</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/infotech.html">computer</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/engineer.html">engineer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a>, 1966-67 (83rd District 1966, 77th District 1967); resigned 1967; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 30th District, 1967-78; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1978-90 (21st District 1978-83, 18th District 1983-90); resigned 1990; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1980/NY.html">1980</a>, <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/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in 1988, along with his wife, on federal bribery and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">extortion</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in October 1989 and <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 104 days); the conviction was reversed on appeal; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">retried</a> and again <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in 1991; the second conviction was also overturned, and prosecutors dropped the case. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/hispanic.html">Puerto Rican</a> ancestry. Died in San Juan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PR/SJ-died.html">San Juan Municipio</a>, Puerto Rico, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2017/01-25.html">January 25, 2017</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 16 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-buried.html#cms00004">Arlington National Cemetery</a>, Arlington, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000047">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404422">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert Garcia (New York politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/310/000129920">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/175744415">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> 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 bribery and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/fraud.html">fraud</a>; 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> Alcee Lamar Hastings (1936-2021) — also known as Alcee L. Hastings — of Miramar, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/BR-lived.html">Broward County</a>, Fla. Born in Altamonte Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/SE-born.html">Seminole County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/09-05.html">September 5, 1936</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Florida</a>, 1979-89; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Florida</a>, 1990; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Florida</a> 23rd District, 1993-; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/FL.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/FL.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/FL.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/FL.html">2008</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">African Methodist Episcopal</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kappa-alpha-psi.html">Kappa Alpha Psi</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Impeached</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">removed from office</a> as federal judge in 1989 over bribery <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pancreatic-cancer.html">pancreatic cancer</a>, in Fort Lauderdale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/BR-died.html">Broward County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2021/04-06.html">April 6, 2021</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 213 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>. <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=H000324">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400170">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/069/000038952">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/225358138">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> James Leroy Usry (1922-2002) — also known as James L. Usry — of Atlantic City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/AT-lived.html">Atlantic County</a>, N.J. Born in Athens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-born.html">Clarke County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/02-02.html">February 2, 1922</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pro-sports.html">Professional basketball</a> player, 1946-51; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/atlanticcity.html">mayor of Atlantic City, N.J.</a>, 1984-90; defeated, 1982; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1988/NJ.html">1988</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a>, on July 28, 1989, along with thirteen others, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with bribery; he later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to improper reporting of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/campaign-finance.html">campaign contributions</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Died in Absecon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/AT-died.html">Atlantic County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2002/02-25.html">February 25, 2002</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 23 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/AT-buried.html#cms08119">Atlantic County Veterans Cemetery</a>, Estell Manor, N.J. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James L. Usry">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11855919">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> James Claude Wright Jr. (1922-2015) — also known as Jim Wright, Jr. — of Weatherford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/PA-lived.html">Parker County</a>, Tex.; Fort Worth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TT-lived.html">Tarrant County</a>, Tex. Born in Fort Worth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TT-born.html">Tarrant County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/12-22.html">December 22, 1922</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1947-49; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/weatherford.html">mayor of Weatherford, Tex.</a>, 1950-54; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 12th District, 1955-89; resigned 1989; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/congr.html">Speaker of the U.S. House</a>, 1987-89; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/TX.html">1960</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/TX.html">1964</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/TX.html">1968</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1980/TX.html">1980</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/TX.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/TX.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/TX.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/TX.html">2008</a>; Permanent Chair, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/officers.html">1988</a>; speaker, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/speakers.html">1988</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Texas</a>, 1961. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. He was subject of an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a> by the House Ethics Committee in 1989; it appeared from the report that he had evaded limits on gifts and speaking fees; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned under fire</a> in June, 1989. Died in Fort Worth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TT-died.html">Tarrant County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2015/05-06.html">May 6, 2015</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/92.html">92 years, 135 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000763">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411912">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim Wright">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/932/000022866">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/077/62.68.jpg" width=70 height=101 border=0 alt="Nicholas Mavroules"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Nicholas James Mavroules (1929-2003) — also known as Nicholas Mavroules — of Peabody, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-lived.html">Essex County</a>, Mass. Born in Peabody, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/11-01.html">November 1, 1929</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/peabody.html">Mayor of Peabody, Mass.</a>, 1967-78; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1976/MA.html">1976</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a> 6th District, 1979-93; defeated, 1992. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/eastern-orthodox.html">Greek Orthodox</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/greek.html">Greek</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Pleaded guilty</a> in 1993 to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/tax-evasion.html">tax fraud</a> and accepting gratuities while in office; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Died in Salem, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-died.html">Essex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2003/12-25.html">December 25, 2003</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 54 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-buried.html# ">Cedar Grove Cemetery</a>, Peabody, 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000264">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407282">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas Mavroules">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/649/000141226">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">Image source: Public Officers of Massachusetts, 1979-80</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> Albert Garza Bustamante (b. 1935) — also known as Albert G. Bustamante — of Laredo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WB-lived.html">Webb County</a>, Tex. Born in Asherton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/DM-born.html">Dimmit County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/04-08.html">April 8, 1935</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BX-officials.html">Bexar County Commissioner</a>, 1973-78; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BX-officials.html">Bexar County Judge</a>, 1979-84; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 23rd District, 1985-93; defeated, 1992. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/hispanic.html">Hispanic</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in 1993 on racketeering and bribery <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>, 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 to Rebecca Pounders.</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=B001172">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402114">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/035/000129645">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> Donald Edgar Lukens (1931-2010) — also known as Donald E. Lukens; Buz Lukens — of Middletown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/BU-lived.html">Butler County</a>, Ohio. Born in Harveysburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/WR-born.html">Warren County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/02-11.html">February 11, 1931</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Ohio</a>, 1967-71, 1987-90 (24th District 1967-71, 8th District 1987-90); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/stsen.html">Ohio state senate</a>, 1975. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sertoma.html">Sertoma</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/farm-bureau.html">Farm Bureau</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-chi.html">Delta Chi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ord-ahepa.html">Order of Ahepa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/toastmasters.html">Toastmasters</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in 1989 on a misdemeanor <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charge</a> of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, by having <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">sex with a 16 year old girl</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 30 days in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jail</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in February 1995 on five counts of bribery and conspiracy; a jury in October 1995 found him not guilty on three counts but was unable to reach a verdict on the other two; a mistrial was declared. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Reindicted</a> in March 1996; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2010/05-22.html">May 22, 2010</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 100 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 William Arthur Lukens and Edith (Greene) Lukens.</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=L000509">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406995">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/256/000129866">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> Albert Michael Espy (b. 1953) — also known as Mike Espy — of Yazoo City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/YA-lived.html">Yazoo County</a>, Miss. Born in Yazoo City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/YA-born.html">Yazoo County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/11-30.html">November 30, 1953</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Mississippi</a> 2nd District, 1987-93; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Mississippi, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/MS.html">1988</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/speakers.html">speaker</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of Agriculture</a>, 1993. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> August 27, 1997, on 30 criminal counts based on acceptance of gifts from organizations and individuals doing business with the Agriculture Department; acquitted December 2, 1998. 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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000218">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403904">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/116/000102807">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> Paul J. Silvester (born c.1963) — of West Hartford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/HA-lived.html">Hartford County</a>, Conn. Born about 1963. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/trea.html">Connecticut state treasurer</a>, 1997-99; appointed 1997. In September 1999, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of racketeering, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/money-laundering.html">money laundering</a> and bribery. His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">bail was revoked</a> in January 2002 for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">improper contacts</a> with a defendant in another corruption trial. Still living as of 2002. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Percy Z. Giles (born c.1952) — of Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born about 1952. Democrat. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Illinois</a> 7th District, 1996. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in 1999 on federal bribery and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">extortion</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</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> Milton Milan (b. 1962) — also known as Milt Milan — of Camden, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/CA-lived.html">Camden County</a>, N.J. Born in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/index.html">1962</a>. Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/NJ.html">1996</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/camden.html">mayor of Camden, N.J.</a>, 1997-2000. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/hispanic.html">Hispanic</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a> in March 2000 and charged with taking payoffs and bribes. 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> Brian Setencich (born c.1962) — of Fresno, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/FR-lived.html">Fresno County</a>, Calif. Born about 1962. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/asmbly.html">California state assembly</a>, 1995-96; defeated, 1996; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the California State Assembly</a>, 1995-96. Professional <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pro-sports.html">basketball</a> player in Europe. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Charged</a> with bribery and mail fraud; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and acquitted in February, 2000. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Charged</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/tax-evasion.html">tax evasion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in federal court and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in June, 2000. 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> Martin G. Barnes (born c.1949) — also known as Marty Barnes — of Paterson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/PA-lived.html">Passaic County</a>, N.J. Born about 1949. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/paterson.html">Mayor of Paterson, N.J.</a>, 1997-2002; defeated, 2002. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in federal court in 2002 on 40 counts of bribery and other offenses, over his solicitation and acceptance of more than $200,000 in gratuities from city contractors, including home improvements, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/attire.html">designer suits</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">paid female companions</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to two counts, including <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/tax-evasion.html">tax evasion</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> in 2003 to 37 months in <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> Sara B. Bost (born c.1948) — of Irvington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-lived.html">Essex County</a>, N.J. Born about 1948. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/irvington.html">Mayor of Irvington, N.J.</a>, 1994-2002. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in April 2002 on federal bribery and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">witness tampering</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> in April 2003 to one count of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">witness tampering</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to one year in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Still living as of 2004. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Vincent Albert Cianci (1941-2016) — also known as Buddy Cianci — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/04-30.html">April 30, 1941</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/providence.html">mayor of Providence, R.I.</a>, 1975-84, 1991-2002; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1976 /speakers.html">speaker</a>, Republican National Convention, 1976 ; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1980; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">talk show host</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Pleaded no contest</a> in 1984 to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> that he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">beat</a> his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">estranged wife's lover</a> with a fireplace log. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Charged</a> with twelve federal counts of bribery, conspiracy and racketeering; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in June, 2002 on two counts. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2016/01-28.html">January 28, 2016</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 273 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-buried.html#cms04394">St. Ann's Cemetery</a>, Cranston, R.I. <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">Campaign slogan (1991): "He never stopped caring about Providence."</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/Buddy Cianci">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/157534586">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 by Vincent Cianci: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312592809/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312592809&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Politics and Pasta: How I Prosecuted Mobsters, Rebuilt a Dying City, Dined with Sinatra, Spent Five Years in a Federally Funded Gated Community, and Lived to Tell the Tale</a> (2011)</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 Buddy Cianci: Mike Stanton, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375507809/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375507809&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Prince of Providence : The True Story of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayor, Some Wiseguys, and the Feds</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> Kenneth E. Saunders Sr. — also known as Butch Saunders — of Asbury Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MO-lived.html">Monmouth County</a>, N.J. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asburypark.html">Mayor of Asbury Park, N.J.</a>, 1997-2001. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> on federal bribery conspiracy charges, December 2003; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to filing <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/tax-evasion.html">false federal tax returns</a>, February 3, 2004. February 3, 2004. Still living as of 2004. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> W. D. Childers (born c.1934) — Born about 1934. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/stsen.html">Florida state senate</a>, 1980; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ES-officials.html">Escambia County Commissioner</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in 2002 of violating the Florida <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/disclosure.html">Sunshine Law</a> by discussing public business in private with other other county commissioners; served 38 days in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in 2003 of bribery; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 3.5 years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; free pending appeal. Still living as of 2006. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Jennings Jefferson (b. 1947) — also known as William J. Jefferson — of New Orleans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-lived.html">Orleans Parish</a>, La. Born in Lake Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/EC-born.html">East Carroll Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/03-14.html">March 14, 1947</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/stsen.html">Louisiana state senate</a>, 1979-90; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/neworleans.html">mayor of New Orleans, La.</a>, 1982, 1986; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Louisiana</a> 2nd District, 1991-; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/LA.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/LA.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/LA.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/LA.html">2008</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Louisiana</a>, 1999; named as <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">unindicted co-conspirator</a> by prosecutors in connection with Brent Pfeffer's guilty plea to bribery charges. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. 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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000070">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400201">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/401/000039284">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 C. Scarpelli (born c.1939) — of Brick Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/OC-lived.html">Ocean County</a>, N.J. Born about 1939. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/brick-twp.html">Mayor of Brick Township, N.J.</a>, 2006; resigned 2006; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> in 2007 to federal bribery <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 18 months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $5,000. Still living as of 2007. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Gerald P. Garson (born c.1932) — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y. Born about 1932. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a>, 1998-2003. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in April 2007 on bribery and misconduct <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to three to ten years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Still living as of 2007. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/garrettson-gartin.html#000.03.30">Robin Garson</a>; cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/garrettson-gartin.html#106.36.19">Michael J. Garson</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/16144.html">Garson family</a> of Brooklyn, New York.</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> Peter Kott (b. 1949) — also known as Pete Kott — of Eagle River, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/an-lived.html">Anchorage</a>, Alaska. Born in Flint, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/GE-born.html">Genesee County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1949/08-29.html">August 29, 1949</a>. Republican. Part-owner and operator of Kott's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">Hardwood Flooring</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/ofc/sthse.html">Alaska state house of representatives</a>, 1993-2007 (24th District 1993-2003, 17th District 2003-07); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Alaska State House of Representatives</a>, 2003-04; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in May 2007, along with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/westover-weymouth.html#708.83.72">Bruce Weyhrauch</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kochendorfer-kolski.html#179.96.59">Vic Kohring</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with bribery and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">extortion</a> over soliciting and receiving money and favors from VECO Corporation (including the promise of a job as a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/lobbyists.html">lobbyist</a>), in return for votes on an oil tax; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in September 2007; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to six years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $10,000. Still living as of 2009. <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/Pete Kott">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> Bruce Weyhrauch — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/ju-lived.html">Juneau</a>, Alaska. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/ofc/sthse.html">Alaska state house of representatives</a> 4th District, 2003-07; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in May 2007, along with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/koraleski-kouzoff.html#924.90.69">Pete Kott</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kochendorfer-kolski.html#179.96.59">Vic Kohring</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with bribery and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">extortion</a> over soliciting and receiving money and favors from VECO Corporation in return for votes on an oil tax; trial pending. Still living as of 2009. <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/Bruce Weyhrauch">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> Vic Kohring (b. 1958) — of Wasilla, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/MS-lived.html">Matanuska-Susitna Borough</a>, Alaska. Born in Waukegan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/LA-born.html">Lake County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1958/08-02.html">August 2, 1958</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/ofc/sthse.html">Alaska state house of representatives</a>, 1995-2007 (26th District 1995-2003, 14th District 2003-07); resigned 2007; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in May 2007, along with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/westover-weymouth.html#708.83.72">Bruce Weyhrauch</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/koraleski-kouzoff.html#924.90.69">Pete Kott</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with bribery and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">extortion</a> over soliciting and receiving money and favors from VECO Corporation in return for votes on an oil tax; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in November 2007; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to three and a half years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; released in 2009. Still living as of 2009. <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/Vic Kohring">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> Thomas T. Anderson (b. 1957) — also known as Tom Anderson — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/an-lived.html">Anchorage</a>, Alaska. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/an-born.html">Anchorage</a>, Alaska, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1957/08-04.html">August 4, 1957</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/ofc/sthse.html">Alaska state house of representatives</a> 19th District, 2003-07; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in December 2006 on federal federal bribery, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">extortion</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/money-laundering.html">money laundering</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in July 2007; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 60 months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lutheran.html">Lutheran</a>. Still living as of 2009. <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 Tom R. Anderson and Christiane Anderson; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2005/">2005</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcguire.html#189.54.44">Lesil McGuire</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/Tom Anderson (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> Theodore Fulton Stevens (1923-2010) — also known as Ted Stevens — of Fairbanks, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/FN-lived.html">Fairbanks North Star Borough</a>, Alaska; Girdwood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/an-lived.html">Anchorage</a>, Alaska. Born in Indianapolis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/MA-born.html">Marion County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/11-18.html">November 18, 1923</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the 4th District of Alaska Territory</a>, 1954-56; delegate to Republican National Convention from Alaska, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1964/AK.html">1964</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/AK.html">1972</a> (delegation chair); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/ofc/sthse.html">Alaska state house of representatives</a>, 1965-68; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Alaska</a>, 1968-2009; defeated, 1962; appointed 1968. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in July 2008 on federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/disclosure.html">failing to report</a> gifts from VECO Corporation and its CEO; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in October 2008; his conviction was later vacated due to prosecutorial misconduct. Killed in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/aircraft.html">plane crash</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/BB-died.html">Bristol Bay Borough</a>, Alaska, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2010/08-09.html">August 9, 2010</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 264 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-buried.html#cms00004">Arlington National Cemetery</a>, Arlington, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1952/">1952</a> to Ann Mary Cherrington; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stevens1.html#381.13.01">Ben Stevens</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/mcguire.html#189.54.44">Lesil McGuire</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"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Mount</a> Stevens, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/MS-names.html">Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The Ted Stevens Anchorage International <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-airports.html">Airport</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/an-names.html">Anchorage, Alaska</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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=S000888">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=300094">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted Stevens">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/301/000032205">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1725794">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> John Cowdery (b. 1930) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/an-lived.html">Anchorage</a>, Alaska. Born in Adrian, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/BE-born.html">Bates County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/02-11.html">February 11, 1930</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/construction.html">Contractor</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/ofc/sthse.html">Alaska state house of representatives</a>, 1983-84, 1997-2000; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/ofc/stsen.html">Alaska state senate</a>, 2000-09 (District I 2000-03, District O 2003-09); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in July 2008 and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with accepting bribes from VECO Corporation; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in March 2009; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to six months <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">house arrest</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $25,000. Still living as of 2009. <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/John Cowdery">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> Rod R. Blagojevich (b. 1956) — also known as Rod Blagojevich; "Blago" — of Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-born.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1956/12-10.html">December 10, 1956</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/sthse.html">Illinois state house of representatives</a>, 1993-96; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Illinois</a> 5th District, 1997-2003; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/IL.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/IL.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/IL.html">2008</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Illinois</a>, 2003-09; solicited bribes from potential candidates for appointment to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oakman-obrian.html#539.70.25">Barack Obama</a>'s vacant U.S. Senate seat; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> by federal agents in December 2008, and set for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">trial</a> on federal corruption charges; in January 2009, based on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> that he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/abuse-authority.html">abused his authority</a> and attempted to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/govt-for-sale.html">sell</a> authorizations, vetoes, and appointments, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">impeached</a> by the Illinois House, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> by a unanimous vote of the Illinois Senate, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prohibited</a> from holding public office in the state; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in federal court in 2010-11, and after a mistrial, was ultimately <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">found guilty</a> on eighteen counts, including bribery and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">extortion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 14 years in federal prison; an appeal later overturned five of the eighteen convictions, but did not change his prison sentence. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/balkan.html">Serbian</a> ancestry. Still living as of 2019. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Patricia 'Patti' Mell (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meekins-mellen.html#149.97.64">Richard F. Mell</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meekins-mellen.html#453.25.90">Deborah Mell</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/18432.html">Mell-Blagojevich family</a> of Chicago, Illinois.</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/linnan-littell.html#274.11.55">Daniel Lipinski</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=B000518">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400518">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/rod-r-blagojevich/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/366/000044234">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=3">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books by Rod Blagojevich: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1597776467/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1597776467&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Governor</a> (2009)</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 Rod Blagojevich: Elizabeth Brackett, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1566638348/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1566638348&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Pay to Play: How Rod Blagojevich Turned Political Corruption Into a National Sideshow</a> — Jeff Coen & John Chase, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1569763399/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1569763399&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Golden: How Rod Blagojevich Talked Himself out of the Governor's Office and into Prison</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> Beverly Masek (b. 1963) — of Willow, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/MS-lived.html">Matanuska-Susitna Borough</a>, Alaska. Born in Anvik, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/YK-born.html">Yukon-Koyukuk census area</a>, Alaska, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1963/09-30.html">September 30, 1963</a>. Republican. Four time Iditarod Race finisher, 1990-93; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/ofc/sthse.html">Alaska state house of representatives</a>, 1995-2005 (28th District 1995-2003, 15th District 2003-05); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> in March 2009 to soliciting and accepting at least $4,000 in bribes from VECO Corporation; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to six months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jail</a> and three years <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">probation</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/amerind.html">Alaska Native</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/nra.html">National Rifle Association</a>. Still living as of 2009. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Sheila Ann Dixon (b. 1953) — also known as Sheila Dixon; Sheila Dixon-Smith — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-lived.html">Baltimore</a>, Md. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-born.html">Baltimore</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/12-27.html">December 27, 1953</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/MD.html">1988</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/MD.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/MD.html">2008</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/baltimore.html">mayor of Baltimore, Md.</a>, 2007-10; resigned 2010. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">African Methodist Episcopal</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in January 2009, on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">perjury</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/theft.html">theft</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/misfeasance.html">misconduct</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>, over secretly accepting more than $20,000 worth of gifts from developers doing business with the city, and for using gift cards intended for needy families to buy <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/attire.html">furs</a> and other expensive items for herself; the charges were dismissed in May, but she was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">reindicted</a> in July; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in fall 2009; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> on one count of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">embezzlement</a>, and acquitted on other charges; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">perjury</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> as mayor, as part of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">plea agreement</a>. Still living as of 2010. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of Philip Dixon, Sr. and Winona Dixon.</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/Sheila Dixon">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> Aaron F. Broussard (b. 1949) — of Kenner, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/JF-lived.html">Jefferson Parish</a>, La. Born in Marksville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/AV-born.html">Avoyelles Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1949/01-06.html">January 6, 1949</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/kenner.html">Mayor of Kenner, La.</a>, 1982-96; president of Jefferson Parish, La., 2003-10; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> in September 2012 to federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> that, as president of Jefferson Parish, he received bribes of more than $60,000, and that he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">embezzled</a> hundreds of thousands of dollars by creating a no-work job in the parish government for his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/nepotism.html">ex-wife</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 46 months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>, and ordered to pay <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">restitution</a>. Still living as of 2012. <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/Aaron Broussard">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=102195">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://wvstate.images.worldnow.com/images/17332896_BG1.jpg"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/766/38.75.jpg" width=70 height=117 border=0 alt="Emmett Pugh"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Emmett S. Pugh III — of Beckley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/RA-lived.html">Raleigh County</a>, W.Va. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/beckley.html">Mayor of Beckley, W.Va.</a>, 1988-2013. In April 2012, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">accused</a>, in two <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">complaints</a> filed with the West Virginia Ethics Commission, of accepting improper gifts, including shares of development firms, in return for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/govt-for-sale.html">free use of city resources</a>; without admitting guilt, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">agreed to retire</a> as mayor, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">repay</a> the cost of the investigation. 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">Image source: The State Journal, April 4, 2012</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 accepting a bribe, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/fraud.html">fraud</a>, 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> C. Ray Nagin — of New Orleans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-lived.html">Orleans Parish</a>, La. Born in New Orleans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-born.html">Orleans Parish</a>, La. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/neworleans.html">Mayor of New Orleans, La.</a>, 2002-10; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/LA.html">2008</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in January 2013 for accepting bribes and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/kickbacks.html">kickbacks</a> in connection with city contracts. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Still living as of 2014. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Francis McDonnell (b. 1954) — also known as Bob McDonnell — of Glen Allen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/HC-lived.html">Henrico County</a>, Va. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/06-15.html">June 15, 1954</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a> 84th District, 1992-2005; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/attygn.html">Virginia state attorney general</a>, 2006-09; resigned 2009; delegate to Republican National Convention from Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/2008/VA.html">2008</a> (delegation chair); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Virginia</a>, 2010-14; he and his wife were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in January 2014 for receiving improper gifts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in September 2014; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to two years in prison; in June 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturned his conviction. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">Alsatian</a> ancestry. Still living as of 2018. <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 Francis McDonnell and Emma (Meiller) McDonnell.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Campaign slogan (2009): "Bob's for Jobs."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/robert-mcdonnell/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob McDonnell">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Bob McDonnell">Ballotpedia article</a> — <a href="https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2018/02/1963-bob-mcdonnell.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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