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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Politicians Killed While Hunting or Fishing</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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W. Barnett — of Texas. Born in South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1793/12-12.html">December 12, 1793</a>. Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn4.html">delegate to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention</a> from District of Washington, 1836; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rdofi.html">signer, Texas Declaration of Independence</a>, 1836; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/trsn.html">Texas Republic Senate</a> from District of Washington, 1837-43. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/indians.html">Killed by Lipan-Apache Indians</a> while hunting deer near Gonzales, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GZ-died.html">Gonzales County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1848/10-08.html">October 8, 1848</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">54 years, 301 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GZ-buried.html#cms04380">Old Cemetery</a>, Gonzales, Tex. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</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> Richardson A. Scurry (1811-1862) — of Texas. Born in Gallatin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SM-born.html">Sumner County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/11-11.html">November 11, 1811</a>. Democrat. Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; judge of Texas Republic, 1840-41; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rhse.html">Texas Republic House of Representatives</a>, 1842-44; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 1st District, 1851-53; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gun-accidents.html">Accidentally</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shot</a> himself in the foot while hunting, in August 1854; the wound never healed and became <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/infection.html">infected</a>; though his leg was later amputated, he died as a result in Hempstead, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WL-died.html">Waller County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/04-09.html">April 9, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 149 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WL-buried.html#cms00150">Hempstead Cemetery</a>, Hempstead, 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000207">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409712">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> Claiborne Hooper Phillips (1847-1886) — of Nashville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DA-lived.html">Davidson County</a>, Tenn. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/index.html">1847</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/nashville.html">Mayor of Nashville, Tenn.</a>, 1883-86. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gun-accidents.html">Accidentally</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shot</a> and killed while on a hunting trip, near Britton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/MA-died.html">Marshall County</a>, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/09-10.html">September 10, 1886</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/39.html">about 39 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> Thomas Taylor Minor (1844-1889) — also known as Thomas T. Minor — of Port Townsend, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Wash.; Seattle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-lived.html">King County</a>, Wash. Born, of American parents, in Manepy, Ceylon (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/LK-born.html">Sri Lanka</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/02-20.html">February 20, 1844</a>. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">physician</a>; one of the founders of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from Washington Territory, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1880/WA.html">1880</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ofc/porttownsend.html">mayor of Port Townsend, Wash.</a>, 1880-83; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ofc/seattle.html">mayor of Seattle, Wash.</a>, 1887-88. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Last seen traveling by canoe to Whidbey Island, with others, on a duck huting trip, and was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/disappeared.html">never heard from again</a>; presumed <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/drowning.html">drowned</a> in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">watercraft accident</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/PU-died.html">Puget Sound</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/12-02.html">December 2, 1889</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/45.html">45 years, 285 days</a>). His canoe was recovered, but his remains were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/never-found.html">not found</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">Relatives: Son of Eastman Strong Minor and Judith (Manchester) Minor; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/08-20.html">August 20, 1872</a>, to Sarah Montgomery; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pelfrey-pendery.html#534.68.48">Thomas Minor Pelly</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/12979.html">Moriarty-Minor family</a> of Seattle, Washington.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The T.T. Minor <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">School</a> (built 1890, demolished 1940, rebuilt 1941, closed 2010, renovated and reopened 2016), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-names.html">Seattle, Washington</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Minor <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Avenue</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-names.html">Seattle, Washington</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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas T. Minor">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8159123">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 Ray Hamilton (1851-1890) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1851/03-18.html">March 18, 1851</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 11th District, 1881, 1886-89; in July 1889, while staying in Atlantic City, he was caught in a national <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a>, after his wife, Eva, stabbed a nurse; she was arrested and tried; it came out that Eva was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">still married</a> to another man, that she had bought a baby for $10 and told Hamilton he was the father, to induce him to marry her; when this was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">publicized</a>, Hamilton sued for divorce; as the case dragged on, he moved to Wyoming to help a friend establish a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hotel-biz.html">hotel</a>. While on a hunting trip, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/drowning.html">drowned</a> while attempting to ford the Snake River, in Uinta County (part now in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/TE-died.html">Teton County</a>), Wyo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/08-23.html">August 23, 1890</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/39.html">39 years, 158 days</a>). Original interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/TE-buried.html# ">somewhere</a> in Teton County, Wyo.; reinterment in 1892 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 Schuyler Hamilton and Cornelia (Ray) Hamilton; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#279.13.10">James Alexander Hamilton</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#111.82.60">Alexander Hamilton</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#631.01.66">Philip Jeremiah Schuyler</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#244.80.26">Philip John Schuyler</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#577.91.97">Stephen John Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#985.46.99">Jeremiah Van Rensselaer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#986.83.99">Robert Van Rensselaer</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#993.49.53">Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746)</a>; fourth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#979.11.25">Stephanus Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#537.76.51">Robert Livingston the Younger</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#649.30.19">Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747)</a>; fourth great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#789.71.60">Jacobus Van Cortlandt</a>; fifth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#893.32.40">Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724)</a>; fifth great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#467.87.25">Robert Livingston the Elder</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#291.10.40">Philip Schuyler</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#029.55.69">Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#474.51.31">Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#867.40.08">Stephanus Bayard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dousman-dovey.html#344.96.00">Volkert Petrus Douw</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#833.17.87">Pierre Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#846.85.53">Hendrick Kiliaen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#363.29.89">James Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#159.84.16">Killian Killian Van Rensselaer</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#199.37.38">John Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#876.54.52">Robert Livingston (1688-1775)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#449.58.55">Gilbert Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#364.47.63">Philip P. Schuyler</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#751.52.30">David Davidse Schuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#889.34.79">Myndert Davidtse Schuyler</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#700.80.53">Henry Walter Livingston</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#611.60.54">Nicholas Bayard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#374.55.91">Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#806.45.69">Philip Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html#749.66.51">Leonard Gansevoort</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html#582.86.02">Leonard Gansevoort Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#718.86.91">Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#709.51.14">Edward Livingston (1764-1836)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#753.05.32">Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#477.65.60">Maturin Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker5.html#103.37.19">James Parker</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#595.88.73">Robert Livingston (1708-1790)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#875.08.45">Peter Van Brugh Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#825.93.31">Robert Gilbert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#879.66.25">Philip Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#283.29.67">Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#553.65.72">William Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#498.42.59">James Jay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#250.80.11">John Jay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#882.43.77">Frederick Jay</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#916.88.18">Peter Samuel Schuyler</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#933.33.90">Matthew Clarkson</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#724.66.91">Edward Livingston (1796-1840)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#619.37.87">Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#198.16.03">John Eliot Thayer Jr.</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#860.08.93">Stephen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#801.86.15">Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html#701.93.68">Peter Gansevoort</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#764.34.99">Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#784.46.42">Gerrit Smith</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanton.html#969.35.25">Elizabeth Cady Stanton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker5.html#234.21.08">John Cortlandt Parker</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#110.29.78">Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#336.45.81">Walter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#760.25.09">Philip Peter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#055.73.86">Henry Brockholst Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#158.71.62">Peter Augustus Jay</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#014.71.43">William Jay</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#098.18.45">Henry Bell Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eichelroth-elcan.html#402.77.44">James Adams Ekin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#637.48.52">John Jacob Astor III</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker7.html#328.97.55">Richard Wayne Parker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker2.html#397.04.53">Charles Wolcott Parker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#853.91.54">Charles Ludlow Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#827.26.10">Bronson Murray Cutting</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/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1232.html">VanRensselaer family</a> of Albany, 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/Robert Ray Hamilton">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/150120347">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> Alson Bailey Abbott (1844-1894) — also known as Alson B. Abbott — of Queensbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WR-lived.html">Warren County</a>, N.Y.; Glens Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WR-lived.html">Warren County</a>, N.Y. Born in Andover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/11-03.html">November 3, 1844</a>. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <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 Warren County, 1878; president, Canton Bridge Company. While cleaning a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shotgun</a> for hunting, it <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gun-accidents.html">accidentally discharged</a>, killing him, in Glens Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WR-died.html">Warren County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/08-27.html">August 27, 1894</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 297 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WR-buried.html#cms05673">Pineview Cemetery</a>, Queensbury, 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 F. Abbott and Sarah Job (Abbott) Abbott; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/">1873</a> to Sarah Morgan.</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/132767431">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/10506850116/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/179/75.88.jpg" width=70 height=123 border=0 alt="William E. Russell"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Eustis Russell (1857-1896) — also known as William E. Russell — of Cambridge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-lived.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass. Born in Cambridge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/01-06.html">January 6, 1857</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Massachusetts</a>, 1891-94; defeated, 1888, 1889. Died suddenly, in a fishing camp near Grand-Pabos (now Chandler), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/QB-died.html">Quebec</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/07-14.html">July 14, 1896</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/39.html">39 years, 190 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-buried.html#cms00204">Mt. Auburn Cemetery</a>, Cambridge, 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: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/06-03.html">June 3, 1885</a>, to Margaret Swan; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/russell7.html#693.67.38">Richard Manning Russell</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/warren.html#458.67.47">Charles Warren</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/william-eustis-russell/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/29040362">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: The Parties and The Men (1896)</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> Alfred Eliab Buck (1832-1902) — also known as Alfred E. Buck; A. E. Buck — of Alabama; Atlanta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-lived.html">Fulton County</a>, Ga. Born in Foxcroft (now part of Dover-Foxcroft), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/PI-born.html">Piscataquis County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/02-07.html">February 7, 1832</a>. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidate for Presidential Elector for Alabama; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Alabama</a> 1st District, 1869-71; delegate to Republican National Convention from Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1880/GA.html">1880</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1888/GA.html">1888</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1892/GA.html">1892</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/GA.html">1896</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/GA.html">Georgia Republican state chair</a>, 1896; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/JP-diplomats.html ">Japan</a>, 1897. Died suddenly, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">paralysis of the heart</a>, while on an imperial duck shoot, near Tokyo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/JP-died.html">Japan</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/12-04.html">December 4, 1902</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 300 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 Elmira (Todd) Buck and Benjamin Thomas Buck; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/">1864</a> to Ellen B. Boker.</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=B001011">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401961">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/buck-alfred-eliab ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Athelston Gaston (1838-1907) — of Meadville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CR-lived.html">Crawford County</a>, Pa. Born in Castile, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WY-born.html">Wyoming County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/04-24.html">April 24, 1838</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/meadville.html">Mayor of Meadville, Pa.</a>, 1891; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 26th District, 1899-1901. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gun-accidents.html">Accidentally hit</a> by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot</a> while on a hunting trip at Lake Edward, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/QB-died.html">Quebec</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/09-23.html">September 23, 1907</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 152 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CR-buried.html#cms00484">Greendale Cemetery</a>, Meadville, Pa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Thankful C. Hammond.</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=G000095">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404467">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7445238">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Henry Gaus (1840-1909) — also known as Charles H. Gaus — of Albany, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-lived.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y. Born in Zanesville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MU-born.html">Muskingum County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/09-01.html">September 1, 1840</a>. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/drugs.html">druggist</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/albany.html">mayor of Albany, N.Y.</a>, 1902-08; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/comp.html">New York state comptroller</a>, 1909; died in office 1909. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in a hunting lodge on Long Lake, in the Laurentian Mountains, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/QB-died.html">Quebec</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/10-31.html">October 31, 1909</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 60 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-buried.html#cms00001">Albany Rural Cemetery</a>, Menands, 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/Charles H. Gaus">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4WgfAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT209"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/493/51.42.jpg" width=70 height=109 border=0 alt="William W. McIntire"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Watson McIntire (1850-1912) — also known as William W. McIntire — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-lived.html">Baltimore</a>, Md. Born in Chambersburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/FR-born.html">Franklin County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/06-30.html">June 30, 1850</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/machinist.html">Machinist</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">insurance agent</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maryland</a> 4th District, 1897-99. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scotch-irish.html">Scotch-Irish</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/on-ships.html">on a boat</a> while fishing in the Middle River (or Gunpowder River), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/BL-died.html">Baltimore County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/03-30.html">March 30, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 274 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-buried.html#cms00523">Loudon Park Cemetery</a>, Baltimore, 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: Married to Hortense Hay Hardesty.</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=M000480">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407477">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7530513">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> William Bruce MacMaster Jr. (1875-1912) — also known as William B. MacMaster, Jr. — of New York. Born, of American parents, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CO-born.html">Colombia</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/06-28.html">June 28, 1875</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Rancher</a>; U.S. Vice Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CO-consuls.html ">Cartagena</a>, 1904-08; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CO-consuls.html ">Cartagena</a>, 1908-12, died in office 1912; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">stabbed</a> by two Colombians in the summer of 1909; pressed charges against his attackers, one of whom was an influential newspaper editor; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> by Colombian authorities in June 1910 on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> that, years earlier, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">shot</a> a Colombian citizen, in what he said was self-defense; initially acquitted, then <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">found guilty</a>, then exonerated by a higher court. While hunting alone, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shot</a> multiple times and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">killed</a> by an unknown assassin, near Cartagena, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CO-died.html">Colombia</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/08-11.html">August 11, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/37.html">37 years, 44 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CO-buried.html#cms07648">Church and Convent of Santo Domingo</a>, Cartagena, Colombia. <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/maclafferty-madar.html#729.08.91">William Bruce MacMaster</a>.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/6559349927/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/512/80.54.jpg" width=70 height=95 border=0 alt="Paul O. Husting"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Paul Oscar Adolph Husting (1866-1917) — also known as Paul O. Husting — of Mayville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DO-lived.html">Dodge County</a>, Wis. 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/1866/04-25.html">April 25, 1866</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DO-officials.html">Dodge County District Attorney</a>, 1903-06; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/stsen.html">Wisconsin state senate</a> 13th District, 1907-14; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Wisconsin</a>, 1915-17; died in office 1917; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Wisconsin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/WI.html">1916</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/committees.html">Platform and Resolutions Committee</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/low-countries.html">Luxemburgian</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/amerind.html">Menominee Indian</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gun-accidents.html">Accidentally</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shot</a> in the back by his brother Gustave, when he stood up <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/on-ships.html">in his boat</a> while duck hunting on Rush Lake, and died soon after in a nearby farmhouse, near Pickett, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/WI-died.html">Winnebago County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/10-21.html">October 21, 1917</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">51 years, 179 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DO-buried.html#cms01532">Graceland Cemetery</a>, Mayville, Wis. <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 P. Husting and Mary M. (Juneau) Husting; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/judge-jyles.html#650.21.97">Solomon Juneau</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=H001006">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405846">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul O. Husting">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: Library of Congress</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=nJVdCsi0HsEC&pg=PA181"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/050/04.47.jpg" width=70 height=100 border=0 alt="Theodore A. Bell"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Theodore Arlington Bell (1872-1922) — also known as Theodore A. Bell — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif. Born in Vallejo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SL-born.html">Solano County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/07-25.html">July 25, 1872</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from California</a> 2nd District, 1903-05; defeated, 1904; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of California</a>, 1906 (Democratic), 1910 (Democratic), 1918 (Independent); delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1908/CA.html">1908</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1908/officers.html">Temporary Chair</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1908/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/CA.html">1912</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/speakers.html">speaker</a>). While returning from a hunting trip, was killed in an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/automobile.html">automobile accident</a> near San Rafael, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/MR-died.html">Marin County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/09-04.html">September 4, 1922</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 41 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/NA-buried.html#cms02250">Odd Fellows Cemetery</a>, St. Helena, 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 Charles Edward Bell and Catherine Jane (Mills) Bell; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/04-23.html">April 23, 1899</a>, to Annie M. Muller.</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=B000347">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401339">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: American Monthly Review of Reviews, August 1908</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> Elon Rouse Brown (1857-1922) — also known as Elon R. Brown — of Watertown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, N.Y. Born in Stone Mills, Orleans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/10-07.html">October 7, 1857</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; counsel to the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn6.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a> 22nd District, 1894; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 35th District, 1898-1904, 1913-18; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1900/NY.html">1900</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/NY.html">1904</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/NY.html">1916</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/NY.html">1920</a>. Opposed woman suffrage and alcohol prohibition. While duck hunting from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/on-ships.html">small boat</a>, he suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a> and died, at Fox Island, Cape Vincent, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/JF-died.html">Jefferson County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/09-24.html">September 24, 1922</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 352 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/JF-buried.html#cms00025">Brookside Cemetery</a>, Watertown, 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 Elon Galusha Brown and Lucretia (Rouse) Brown; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/11-25.html">November 25, 1882</a>, to Ettella B. Greene.</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/Elon R. Brown">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/61676355">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> Edward Coke Mann (1880-1931) — of South Carolina. Born in Lowndesville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/AB-born.html">Abbeville County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/11-21.html">November 21, 1880</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 8th District, 1919-21. While returning from a hunting trip, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gun-accidents.html">accidentally</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shot</a> and killed, near Rowesville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/OR-died.html">Orangeburg County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/11-11.html">November 11, 1931</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 355 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/OR-buried.html#cms01589">Sunnyside Cemetery</a>, Orangeburg, 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000101">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407125">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3A00agd9079m/viewer#page/18/mode/1up"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/072/41.52.jpg" width=70 height=115 border=0 alt="M. Clyde Kelly *"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Melville Clyde Kelly (1883-1935) — also known as M. Clyde Kelly; "Father of Air Mail" — of Edgewood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-lived.html">Allegheny County</a>, Pa. Born in Bloomfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MU-born.html">Muskingum County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/08-04.html">August 4, 1883</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor and publisher</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1911-12; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a>, 1913-15, 1917-35 (30th District 1913-15, 1917-23, 33rd District 1923-33, 31st District 1933-35). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the American Revolution</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/royal-arcanum.html">Royal Arcanum</a>. On returning from a frog hunting trip, was injured when a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">rifle</a> he was cleaning <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gun-accidents.html">accidentally fired</a>; he died one week later, in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">hospital</a> at Punxsutawney, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/JF-died.html">Jefferson County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/04-29.html">April 29, 1935</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">51 years, 268 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/IN-buried.html#cms01481">Mahoning Union Cemetery</a>, Marchand, 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 William B. Kelly and Mary C. (Clark) Kelly; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/">1917</a> to Vida Ruth Clementson.</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=K000076">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406246">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: The Book of Prominent Pennsylvanians (1913)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/896/63.55.jpg" width=70 height=112 border=0 alt="George W. Borowitz"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George W. Borowitz (1870-1938) — of Wausau, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MA-lived.html">Marathon County</a>, Wis. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/12-07.html">December 7, 1870</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">Tailor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/wausau.html">mayor of Wausau, Wis.</a>, 1935-38. <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/foresters.html">Catholic Order of Foresters</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/eagles.html">Eagles</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. While on a hunting and fishing trip, he and three other men from Wausau (N. P. Beck, Herman Belter, and J. William Delaney) <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/drowning.html">drowned</a> when their <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">boat capsized</a>, in Island Lake, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/VI-died.html">Vilas County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/11-12.html">November 12, 1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 340 days</a>). The overturned boat was found two days later; the bodies were recovered from the lake the following April. Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MA-buried.html# ">St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery</a>, Wausau, Wis. <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 Borowitz and Hulda (Lambs) Borowitz; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/01-20.html">January 20, 1899</a>, to Josephine Kroupa.</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/86322060">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: Appleton (Wis.) Post-Crescent, November 14, 1938</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/531/31.20.jpg" width=70 height=102 border=0 alt="David W. Steele"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> David Wilmer Steele (1899-1940) — also known as David W. Steele — of Ocean View, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-lived.html">Sussex County</a>, Del. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-born.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/index.html">1899</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Poultry raiser</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a> from Sussex County 4th District, 1937-40; died in office 1940. <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/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/tall-cedars.html">Tall Cedars of Lebanon</a>. While fishing off the coast of Ocean City, Maryland, he and his wife were killed in an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/fire.html">explosion and fire</a> aboard their <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/on-ships.html">cruiser</a>, the Lure, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1940/10-07.html">October 7, 1940</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/41.html">about 41 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-buried.html# ">Mariners Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery</a>, Ocean View, Del. <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/26935062">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: Wilmington (Del.) Morning News, October 8, 1940</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 Calhoun Phillips (1870-1943) — also known as John C. Phillips — of Phoenix, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/MA-lived.html">Maricopa County</a>, Ariz. Born in Vermont, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/FU-born.html">Fulton County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/11-13.html">November 13, 1870</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Arizona</a>, 1929-31. Suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, while fishing on Lake Mary, and died soon after, in Flagstaff <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Flagstaff, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/CC-died.html">Coconino County</a>, Ariz., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/06-25.html">June 25, 1943</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 224 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/YA-buried.html#cms07341">somewhere</a> in Prescott, Ariz. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/calhoun.html#210.17.82">John C. Calhoun</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 William Henry Phillips and Elizabeth (Wood) Phillips; married to Minnie Rexroat.</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-c-phillips/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Calhoun Phillips">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=59943">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> Earl Wilcox Snell (1895-1947) — also known as Earl Snell — of Arlington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/GI-lived.html">Gilliam County</a>, Ore. Born near Olex, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/GI-born.html">Gilliam County</a>, Ore., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/07-11.html">July 11, 1895</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/ofc/sos.html">Secretary of state of Oregon</a>, 1935-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Oregon</a>, 1943-47; died in office 1947. While flying to southern Oregon on a hunting trip, along with Secretary of State <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/farrell.html#970.19.81">Robert S. Farrell, Jr.</a> and State Senate President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornellus-corry.html#953.53.26">Marshall E. Cornett</a>, was killed when the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/aircraft.html">small plane crashed</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/weather.html">stormy weather</a> near Dog Lake, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/LK-died.html">Lake County</a>, Ore., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/10-28.html">October 28, 1947</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 109 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MA-buried.html#cms05224">Belcrest Memorial Park</a>, Salem, 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://www.nga.org/governor/earl-wilcox-snell/">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> Robert S. Farrell Jr. (c.1906-1947) — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-lived.html">Multnomah County</a>, Ore. Born about 1906. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Oregon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/OR.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1944/OR.html">1944</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Oregon</a>, 1943-47; died in office 1947. While flying to southern Oregon on a hunting trip, along with Gov. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/snell.html#207.09.67">Earl Snell</a> and State Senate President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornellus-corry.html#953.53.26">Marshall E. Cornett</a>, was killed when the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/aircraft.html">small plane crashed</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/weather.html">stormy weather</a>, near Dog Lake, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/LK-died.html">Lake County</a>, Ore., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/10-28.html">October 28, 1947</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/41.html">about 41 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-buried.html#cms00797">River View Cemetery</a>, Portland, Ore. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Marshall E. Cornett (c.1899-1947) — of Klamath Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/KL-lived.html">Klamath County</a>, Ore. Born about 1899. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Oregon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1944/OR.html">1944</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/ofc/stsen.html">Oregon state senate</a>, 1947; died in office 1947. While flying to southern Oregon on a hunting trip, along with Gov. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/snell.html#207.09.67">Earl Snell</a> and Secretary of State <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/farrell.html#970.19.81">Robert S. Farrell, Jr.</a> was killed with the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/aircraft.html">small plane crashed</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/weather.html">stormy weather</a>, near Dog Lake, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/LK-died.html">Lake County</a>, Ore., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/10-28.html">October 28, 1947</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/48.html">about 48 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> Clarence A. Dahle (1894-1949) — also known as "Whiff" — of Duluth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/SL-lived.html">St. Louis County</a>, Minn. Born in Spokane, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/SP-born.html">Spokane County</a>, Wash., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/01-22.html">January 22, 1894</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/sthse.html">Minnesota state house of representatives</a> District 57, 1933-36; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/stsen.html">Minnesota state senate</a> 57th District, 1937-49; died in office 1949. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-tau-delta.html">Delta Tau Delta</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. During a fishing trip, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/drowning.html">drowned</a> while <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/sports.html">swimming</a> off an island in Lake Kabetogama, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/SL-died.html">St. Louis County</a>, Minn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1949/07-26.html">July 26, 1949</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 185 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/1922/">1922</a> to Helen C. Jenswold.</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.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/fulldetail?ID=12433">Minnesota Legislator record</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 Denis Cash (1897-1952) — also known as Albert D. Cash — of Cincinnati, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HA-lived.html">Hamilton County</a>, Ohio. Born in Cincinnati, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HA-born.html">Hamilton County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/08-21.html">August 21, 1897</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/OH.html">1940</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/cincinnati.html">mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio</a>, 1948-51. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Was fishing when a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/weather.html">freak storm</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">overturned his boat</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/drowning.html">drowned</a> him, on a lake in Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1952/08-02.html">August 2, 1952</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">54 years, 347 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> Clellan S. Forsythe (1895-1953) — of Syracuse, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ON-lived.html">Onondaga County</a>, N.Y. Born in Houtzdale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CL-born.html">Clearfield County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/03-06.html">March 6, 1895</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/autodealer.html">automobile dealer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Onondaga County 2nd District, 1945-48. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</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/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. On a hunting trip, he suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a> while sitting <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/in-cars.html">in his Jeep</a>, holding a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shotgun</a>, which <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gun-accidents.html">accidentally discharged</a>, hitting him in the chest and killing him, on Fox Island, Cape Vincent, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/JF-died.html">Jefferson County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/09-18.html">September 18, 1953</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 196 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> Kenneth Frank Cramer (1894-1954) — also known as Kenneth F. Cramer — of Wethersfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/HA-lived.html">Hartford County</a>, Conn. Born in Gloversville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/FU-born.html">Fulton County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/10-03.html">October 3, 1894</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/coal-ice-fuel.html">coal business</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Wethersfield, 1929-32; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a>, 1933-37; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1936/CT.html">1936</a>; general in the U.S. Army during World War II. Member, <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/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the American Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-war-1812.html">Society of the War of 1812</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-union-vets.html">Sons of Union Veterans</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</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/rotary.html">Rotary</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, while hunting, in Baden-Wurttemberg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-died.html">Germany</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/02-20.html">February 20, 1954</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">59 years, 140 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 Frank Henry Cramer and Stella Sophia (Brown) Cramer; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/01-03.html">January 3, 1920</a>, to Ruth Rose Fuller.</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/16584161">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> Raleigh W. Falbe (1890-1957) — of Milwaukee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MI-lived.html">Milwaukee County</a>, Wis. Born in Milwaukee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MI-born.html">Milwaukee County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/03-21.html">March 21, 1890</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawenforcement.html">Police officer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/restaurant.html">restaurant</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/tavern-biz.html">tavern</a> operator; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">real estate broker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">insurance agent</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/asmbly.html">Wisconsin state assembly</a> from Milwaukee County 15th District, 1949-54. Suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, while duck hunting on Rush Lake, and died five days later in Ripon Municipal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Ripon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/FD-died.html">Fond du Lac County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1957/10-06.html">October 6, 1957</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 199 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/WK-buried.html#cms05380">Wisconsin Memorial Park</a>, Brookfield, Wis. <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/101822489">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/048/28.65.jpg" width=70 height=116 border=0 alt="Warren P. Knowles"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Warren Perley Knowles (1908-1993) — also known as Warren P. Knowles — of New Richmond, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/SC-lived.html">St. Croix County</a>, Wis.; Milwaukee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MI-lived.html">Milwaukee County</a>, Wis. Born in River Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/PI-born.html">Pierce County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/08-19.html">August 19, 1908</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/stsen.html">Wisconsin state senate</a> 10th District, 1941-54; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1948/WI.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/WI.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1960/WI.html">1960</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1964/WI.html">1964</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/WI.html">1972</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin</a>, 1955-59, 1961-63; candidate for Presidential Elector for Wisconsin; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Wisconsin</a>, 1957; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Wisconsin</a>, 1965-71. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/protestant.html">Protestant</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/eagles.html">Eagles</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>. Suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a> at the end of a day of fishing, during the annual "Governor's Open" fishing tournament, and died soon after at Black River Memorial <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Black River Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/JA-died.html">Jackson County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1993/05-01.html">May 1, 1993</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 255 days</a>). His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/donated.html">body was donated</a> to the Medical College of Wisconsin. <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/knowles-knowlton.html#371.24.25">Robert P. Knowles</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/">1943</a> to Dorothy C. Guidry.</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/warren-p-knowles/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/580/000122214">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: Wisconsin Blue Book 1954</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Stanley Jarolin (c.1933-2000) — Born about 1933. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/plumbing-heating.html">Plumbing and heating contractor</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1983-98; defeated in primary, 1998. While fishing with a friend, their <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">boat capsized</a>; he made it to shore but died soon after from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LU-died.html">Luzerne County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2000/05-13.html">May 13, 2000</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">about 67 years</a>). 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