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The Political Graveyard: Politicians in Trouble or Disgrace: Assault
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Politicians in Trouble or Disgrace: Assault</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 in The Waxhaws, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/LN-born.html">Lancaster County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1786/09-26.html">September 26, 1786</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Planter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawenforcement.html">sheriff</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a>, 1821-22, 1829-34 (9th District 1821-22, 8th District 1829-34); resigned 1822; died in office 1834; in 1832, he <b>assaulted</b> newspaper editor Duff Green, breaking some bones, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $350. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scotch-irish.html">Scotch-Irish</a> ancestry. Died from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">self-inflicted</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1834/04-01.html">April 1, 1834</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/47.html">47 years, 187 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00416">Congressional Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000526">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412135">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James Blair (South Carolina politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7374147">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Ambrose Latting Jordan (1789-1865)</b> — also known as <b>Ambrose L. Jordan</b> — of Cooperstown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OG-lived.html">Otsego County</a>, N.Y.; Hudson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CO-lived.html">Columbia County</a>, N.Y. Born in Hillsdale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CO-born.html">Columbia County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1789/05-05.html">May 5, 1789</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OG-officials.html">Otsego County Surrogate</a>, 1815-18; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OG-officials.html">Otsego County District Attorney</a>, 1818-20; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Columbia County, 1825; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 3rd District, 1826-29; resigned 1829; in September 1845, during a trial, he and the opposing counsel (New York Attorney General <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/valerius-vancamp.html#769.82.45">John Van Buren</a>) <b>came to blows</b> in the courtroom; both were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 24 hours in jail; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn4.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a>, 1846; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/attygn.html">New York state attorney general</a>, 1848-49. Died in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/07-16.html">July 16, 1865</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 72 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CO-buried.html#cms01738">Hudson City Cemetery</a>, Hudson, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose L. Jordan">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/95632354">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/brh2003003396/PP/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/769/82.45.jpg" width=70 height=96 border=0 alt="John Van_Buren"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John Van Buren (1810-1866)</b> — also known as <b>"Prince John"</b> — of Albany, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-lived.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y. Born in Hudson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CO-born.html">Columbia County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/02-10.html">February 10, 1810</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/attygn.html">New York state attorney general</a>, 1845-47; appointed 1845; defeated, 1847, 1865; in September 1845, during a trial, he and opposing counsel <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jordan.html#709.02.33">Ambrose L. Jordan</a> <b>came to blows</b> in the courtroom; both were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 24 hours solitary confinement in jail; his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resignation</a> as Attorney General was refused by the governor. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/weather.html">exposure</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/on-ships.html">on board the ship</a> <i>Scotia</i>, en route from Liverpool to New York, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/10-13.html">October 13, 1866</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 245 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/valerius-vancamp.html#109.58.92">Martin Van Buren</a> and Hannah (Hoes) Van Buren; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/06-22.html">June 22, 1841</a>, to Elizabeth Vanderpoel; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/valerius-vancamp.html#570.40.66">James Isaac Van Alen</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/valerius-vancamp.html#958.37.42">Barent Van Buren</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/templeton-terrill.html#059.95.71">Dirck Ten Broeck</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#132.10.62">Cornelis Cuyler</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/valerius-vancamp.html#505.10.96">Thomas Brodhead Van Buren</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/valerius-vancamp.html#522.20.50">Harold Sheffield Van Buren</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#363.29.89">James Livingston</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Van Buren">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> Library of Congress</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/298/11.03.jpg" width=70 height=98 border=0 alt="Thomas Hart Benton"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858)</b> — also known as <b>"Old Bullion"</b> — of Franklin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/WI-lived.html">Williamson County</a>, Tenn.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-lived.html">St. Louis</a>, Mo. Born near Hillsborough, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1782/03-14.html">March 14, 1782</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/stsen.html">Tennessee state senate</a>, 1809; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Missouri</a>, 1821-51; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Missouri</a> 1st District, 1853-55; Benton Democrat candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Missouri</a>, 1856. Fought a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/duel-participants.html">duel</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson1.html#174.79.95">Andrew Jackson</a>, who later became a political ally. In April, 1850, he caused a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> with his attempt to <b>assault</b> Sen. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/foote.html#353.73.85">Henry Stuart Foote</a>, of Mississippi, during debate on the Senate floor; he was restrained by other senators. Foote had a cocked pistol in his hand and undoubtedly would have shot him. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/04-10.html">April 10, 1858</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 27 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-buried.html#cms00391">Bellefontaine Cemetery</a>, St. Louis, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Jesse Benton and Ann (Gooch) Benton; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/">1821</a> to Elizabeth McDowell (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcdowell.html#709.27.32">James McDowell</a>); father of Jessie Benton (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fremont.html#303.52.14">John Charles Frémont</a>); uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/benton.html#633.78.80">Thomas Hart Benton Jr.</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/benton.html#388.47.45">Maecenas Eason Benton</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0255.html">Benton family</a> of Missouri and Tennessee (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">Benton counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/BE.html">Ark.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/BE.html">Ind.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/BE.html">Iowa</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/BN.html">Minn.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/BE.html">Ore.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/BE.html">Wash.</a> are named for him.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Coins and currency</i>: His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html">portrait appeared</a> on the U.S. $100 gold certificate in the 1880s to 1920s.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000398">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401389">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas Hart Benton (politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/041/000049891">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/3101">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=76726">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books about Thomas Hart Benton:</i> John F. Kennedy, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060955449/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060955449&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Profiles in Courage</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> The South in the Building of the Nation (1909)</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Joseph Barker (c.1806-1862)</b> — of Pittsburgh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-lived.html">Allegheny County</a>, Pa. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-born.html">Allegheny County</a>, Pa., about 1806. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/pittsburgh.html">Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pa.</a>, 1850-51; defeated, 1851, 1852. In 1849, after an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/hatred.html">anti-Catholic speech</a>, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with using <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obscenity.html">obscene language</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/traffic.html">obstructing the streets</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">causing a riot</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, 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>; elected mayor in 1850 while still incarcerated. While mayor, he was twice <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of <b>assault and battery</b>. In 1851, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">riot</a>. Struck and killed by a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/railroad.html">railroad train</a>, in Ross Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-died.html">Allegheny County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/08-02.html">August 2, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">about 56 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-buried.html#cms00535">Allegheny Cemetery</a>, Pittsburgh, Pa. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Alexander J. Bergen</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, N.Y. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Suffolk County 2nd District, 1861. Outraged by a criticism published in the newspaper, he <b>assaulted</b> the editor of the <i>Suffolk County Democrat</i>, in 1861, and was later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prosecuted</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $25. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/6268133678/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/167/92.03.jpg" width=70 height=97 border=0 alt="Robert G. Ingersoll"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899)</b> — also known as <b>Robert G. Ingersoll</b>; <b>"The Great Agnostic"</b>; <b>"American Infidel"</b>; <b>"Impious Pope Bob"</b> — of Peoria, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/PE-lived.html">Peoria County</a>, Ill.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Born in Dresden, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/YA-born.html">Yates County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/08-11.html">August 11, 1833</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; Democratic candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/sthse.html">Illinois state house of representatives</a> 5th District, 1860; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> about 1864 with <b>assault and battery</b> against the Peoria County Sheriff; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>; the jury was deadlocked and could not reach a verdict; the case was dismissed before a new trial could be held; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/attygn.html">Illinois state attorney general</a>, 1867-69; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1876/IL.html">1876</a>; made the nominating speech which dubbed <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blackwood-blaine.html#759.22.50">James G. Blaine</a> as "The Plumed Knight". <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/atheist-agnostic.html">Agnostic</a>. Died in Dobbs Ferry, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-died.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/07-21.html">July 21, 1899</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 344 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes interred at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-buried.html#cms00004">Arlington National Cemetery</a>, Arlington, Va.; statue erected 1911 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/PE-buried.html#cms07251">Glen Oak Park</a>, Peoria, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Rev. John Ingersoll and Mary (Livingston) Ingersoll; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#030.10.55">Ebon Clarke Ingersoll</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/02-13.html">February 13, 1862</a>, to Eve Amelia Parker; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#551.04.51">John Carter Ingersoll</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#877.33.50">Jonathan Ingersoll</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#918.45.60">Jared Ingersoll</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#524.16.25">Charles Jared Ingersoll</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#083.89.11">Joseph Reed Ingersoll</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#970.95.77">Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#199.05.27">Charles Anthony Ingersoll</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#761.44.25">Laman Ingersoll</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#236.98.89">Colin Macrae Ingersoll</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#767.56.05">Charles Roberts Ingersoll</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/765/000026687">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books about Robert G. Ingersoll:</i> Orvin Larson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1877733334/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1877733334&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">American Infidel: Robert G. Ingersoll</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> William C. Roberts, Leading Orators (1884)</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Lovell Harrison Rousseau (1818-1869)</b> — also known as <b>Lovell H. Rousseau</b> — of Bloomfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/GE-lived.html">Greene County</a>, Ind.; Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky. Born near Stanford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/LI-born.html">Lincoln County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/08-04.html">August 4, 1818</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/ofc/sthse.html">Indiana state house of representatives</a>, 1844-45; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/ofc/stsen.html">Indiana state senate</a>, 1847-49; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/stsen.html">Kentucky state senate</a>, 1860-61; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Kentucky</a> 5th District, 1865-66, 1866-67; resigned 1866; on June 14, 1866, he <b>assaulted</b> Iowa Rep. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grimke-grissom.html#820.02.54">Josiah B. Grinnell</a> with the iron handle of his cane; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">reprimanded</a> by the House of Representatives, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a>, but was elected to fill his own vacancy. Slaveowner. Died in New Orleans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-died.html">Orleans Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/01-07.html">January 7, 1869</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 156 days</a>). Original interment and cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-buried.html#cms00479">Cave Hill Cemetery</a>, Louisville, Ky.; reinterment in 1892 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-buried.html#cms00004">Arlington National Cemetery</a>, Arlington, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of David Rousseau; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/">1843</a> to Marie Antoinette Dozier.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000468">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409429">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovell Rousseau">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/18413">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Almar F. Dickson (1846-1915)</b> — of Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/DU-lived.html">Dukes County</a>, Mass.; East Haddam, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/MI-lived.html">Middlesex County</a>, Conn. Born in East Haddam, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/01-20.html">January 20, 1846</a>. Democrat. On August 1, 1874, in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, in response to the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">suspected seduction</a> of his wife and her two sisters, he and his brother-in-law Caleb Smith were among a group of five men who, at midnight during a storm, attempted to <b>kidnap at gunpoint</b> Samuel K. Elliot, one of the supposed perpetrators, so they could <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">tar and feather</a> him; Elliot successfully defended himself from the group, and during the affray, Caleb Smith was shot dead; Elliot was ruled to have acted in self-defense, and denied any improper relations with the women; the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> was widely publicized in the press; Dickson and his wife were divorced soon after; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/QB-consuls.html ">Gaspé Basin</a>, 1887-1908; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from East Haddam, 1910, 1912. Died in Hartford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/HA-died.html">Hartford County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/04-17.html">April 17, 1915</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 87 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/MI-buried.html# ">Moodus Cemetery</a>, Moodus, East Haddam, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Samuel S. Dickson and Hannah 'Betsy' (Hill) Dickson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/08-14.html">August 14, 1870</a>, to Elizabeth Chase 'Lizzie' Smith; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/05-17.html">May 17, 1883</a>, to Callie (Brainard) Wetherell; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kelm-kemmer.html#990.04.60">Charles Russell Kelsey</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kelm-kemmer.html#903.99.92">David Kelsey</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kelm-kemmer.html#982.90.03">Elisha Kelsey</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chambliss-chancie.html#538.00.23">Henry Champion</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chambliss-chancie.html#588.97.74">Epaphroditus Champion</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cohn-cokayne.html#034.25.81">Joshua Coit</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#013.13.98">Ashbel Griswold</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kelm-kemmer.html#385.91.48">David Parmalee Kelsey</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/douglass.html#013.40.96">Samuel Townsend Douglass</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/douglas.html#626.06.48">Silas Hamilton Douglas</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/22666279">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/279/64.90.jpg" width=70 height=119 border=0 alt="Benjamin R. Tillman"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1918)</b> — also known as <b>Benjamin R. Tillman</b>; <b>"Pitchfork Ben"</b>; <b>"The One-Eyed Plowboy"</b> — of Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ED-lived.html">Edgefield County</a>, S.C. Born in Edgefield District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ED-born.html">Edgefield County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/08-11.html">August 11, 1847</a>. Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">lost his left eye</a> in 1864; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">farmer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1890-94; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/cncn6.html">delegate to South Carolina state constitutional convention</a> from Edgefield County, 1895; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from South Carolina</a>, 1895-1918; died in office 1918; in Februry, 1902, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">accused</a> fellow South Carolina senator <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mclaughlin-mclay.html#002.76.35">John McLaurin</a>, of accepting a bribe (in the form of federal patronage) to support a treaty; McLaurin called Tillman a liar, and the two <b>came to blows</b> on the Senate floor; both were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">censured</a> by the Senate; delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/SC.html">1904</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/committees.html">Platform and Resolutions Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/SC.html">1912</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/committees.html">Platform and Resolutions Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/SC.html">1916</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/SC.html">Democratic National Committee from South Carolina</a>, 1912-16. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/07-03.html">July 3, 1918</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 326 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ED-buried.html#cms00812">Ebenezer Cemetery</a>, Trenton, S.C.; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/RI-buried.html#cms05431">State House Grounds</a>, Columbia, S.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Benjamin Ryan Tillman, Sr. and Sophia (Hancock) Tillman; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tillman.html#999.02.31">George Dionysius Tillman</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/">1868</a> to Sallie Starke.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Cross-reference:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baker3.html#339.65.70">Frazier B. Baker</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/TI.html">Tillman County, Okla.</a> is named for him.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Politician named for him:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leonardo-lessler.html#657.52.10">Ben T. Leppard</a> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000274">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410847">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/benjamin-ryan-tillman/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin Tillman">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books about Ben Tillman:</i> Stephen Kantrowitz, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807848395/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807848395&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Ben Tillman & the Reconstruction of White Supremacy</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> New York Public Library</span></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> <b>John Lowndes McLaurin (1860-1934)</b> — also known as <b>John L. McLaurin</b> — 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">bribe</a> (in the form of federal patronage) to support a treaty; he called Tillman a liar, and the two <b>came to blows</b> 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Cross-reference:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baker3.html#339.65.70">Frazier B. Baker</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=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></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> American Monthly Review of Reviews, July, 1897</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Frederic Duncan MacMaster</b> — also known as <b>Frederic MacMaster</b> — Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#741.57.28">Theodore Roosevelt</a>'s "Rough Rider" regiment; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/TZ-consuls.html ">Zanzibar</a>, 1905-06; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">dismissed</a> from his consular position in 1906 over multiple instances of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/misfeasance.html">misconduct</a>, including the <b>assault</b> of police officers in a bar-room; en route to the U.S., he stopped in Nice, France, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bank-fraud.html">obtained a bank loan</a> by pretending to be U.S. Consul <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/valerius-vancamp.html#522.20.50">Harold S. Van Buren</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> <b>Wythe Leigh Kinsolving (1878-1964)</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-lived.html">St. Louis</a>, Mo.; Winchester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/FR-lived.html">Franklin County</a>, Tenn.; Chattanooga, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/HA-lived.html">Hamilton County</a>, Tenn.; Jackson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/JA-lived.html">Jackson County</a>, Mich.; Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Oakland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/GA-lived.html">Garrett County</a>, Md.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/cv-lived.html">Charlottesville</a>, Va.; Stanardsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/GE-lived.html">Greene County</a>, Va. Born in Halifax, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/HX-born.html">Halifax County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/11-14.html">November 14, 1878</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Episcopal priest</a>; rector of Epiphany Episcopal Church, Barton Heights, Va., until 1908, when he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> following a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">widely reported</a> <b>fist fight</b> with his father-in-law, Rev. Dr. E. H. Pitt; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/artist.html">composer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">poet</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">translator</a>; prolific writer of opinion pieces for newspapers, expressing moderate pacifist views, along with strong support for the League of Nations; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924 /speakers.html">offered prayer</a>, Democratic National Convention, 1924 ; in 1928, he toured the country giving speeches in support of Democratic presidential nominee <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith1.html#495.23.56">Al Smith</a>; initially supported President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#876.28.99">Franklin Roosevelt</a> and the New Deal, but in the late 1930s turned toward isolationism and anti-Communism. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">cerebral vascular accident</a>, while suffering from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/dementia.html">chronic brain syndrome</a> due to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">cerebral arteriosclerosis</a>, in DeJarnette State Sanatorium, a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/asylum.html">mental hospital</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AG-died.html">Augusta County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1964/12-21.html">December 21, 1964</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 37 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/rm-buried.html#cms00943">Hollywood Cemetery</a>, Richmond, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Ovid Americus Kinsolving and Roberta Elizabeth (Cary) Kinsolving; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/12-27.html">December 27, 1906</a>, to Annie Laurie Pitt; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kinnison-kipp.html#771.68.01">Charles McIlvaine Kinsolving Jr.</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mathews.html#440.33.53">John Mathews</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mathews.html#609.68.89">James William Mathews</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oswald-othneil.html#445.87.42">Peter Johnston Otey</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kinnison-kipp.html#476.73.25">Neal Arlon Kinsolving</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/26000.html">Kinsolving-Mathews family</a> of Virginia.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wythe Leigh Kinsolving">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/93307458">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Harry M. Schriver</b> — of Rock Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/RI-lived.html">Rock Island County</a>, Ill. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/rockisland.html">Mayor of Rock Island, Ill.</a>, 1911-15, 1919-23; on March 22, 1912, angry over personal attacks published by newspaper publisher and crime syndicate boss <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/looney-lorch.html#064.30.11">John Looney</a>, he had Looney brought to the Rock Island police station and gave him a <b>severe beating</b>; during a riot on March 27, a sniper <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">shot at</a> the mayor in his office; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in 1923 on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/vice.html">vice protection</a> conspiracy <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</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> <b>David Dows (1885-1966)</b> — also known as <b>"Big Dave"</b> — of Locust Valley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y.; Bradley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/GE-lived.html">Greenwood County</a>, S.C. Born in Irvington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-born.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/08-12.html">August 12, 1885</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; worked in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/metal.html">iron and steel mills</a>; supervised <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/construction.html">construction</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/metal.html">steel mills</a> overseas; studied foreign industries as representative of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">steamship line</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/horsedrawn.html">horse breeder</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">bank director</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-officials.html">Nassau County Sheriff</a>, 1932-34; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1944/NY.html">1944</a>; member, New York State Racing Commission, 1944-49; delegate to Republican National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/SC.html">1956</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/SC.html">South Carolina Republican state chair</a>, 1956-58; candidate for Presidential Elector for South Carolina. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> of <b>assault</b> in 1913, over his treatment of a New York Times reporter who was attempting to interview him. Died in Hot Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/BA-died.html">Bath County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1966/08-13.html">August 13, 1966</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 1 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-buried.html#cms01193">Sleepy Hollow Cemetery</a>, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of David Dows (1857-1899) and Jane (Strahan) Dows; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/12-12.html">December 12, 1911</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/downs-doxey.html#713.20.49">Mary Gwendolyn Townsend Burden</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/05-19.html">May 19, 1937</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/downs-doxey.html#225.98.10">Emily Schweizer</a>; father of Evelyn Byrd Dows (daughter-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blight-block.html#518.53.24">Cornelius Newton Bliss Jr.</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <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/10001-1398.html">Dows-Burden family</a> of New York City, New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/57490152">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>David H. Trembley (b. 1858)</b> — of Rahway, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/UN-lived.html">Union County</a>, N.J. Born in New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/index.html">1858</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/automfg.html">Carriage painter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/rahway.html">mayor of Rahway, N.J.</a>, 1918-22; on May 31, 1919, he prevented a Socialist orator, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harvie-hasenfratz.html#558.78.01">Frederick Harwood</a>, from speaking, by spraying him and his audience with a fire hose; subsequently <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <b>assault</b> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/protest.html">inciting to riot</a>; retaliated by arresting Justice of the Peace Gustav Theimer, who had indicted him, and arraigned him on a charge of improper procedure. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French Huguenot</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> <b>James B. Furber (c.1868-1930)</b> — of Rahway, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/UN-lived.html">Union County</a>, N.J.; Linden, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/UN-lived.html">Union County</a>, N.J. Born in Allegan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/AL-born.html">Allegan County</a>, Mich., about 1868. Traveling salesman for National Cash Register Company; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper publisher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">real estate developer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/rahway.html">mayor of Rahway, N.J.</a>, 1906, 1922-24; resigned 1906; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <b>assault</b> in connection with his participation in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/protest.html">Socialist rally</a> in Rahway, N.J., May 31, 1919, which was ended by spraying the speaker and audience with a fire hose; Socialist candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> 5th District, 1920; candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey; elected (Democratic) <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/linden.html">mayor of Linden, N.J.</a> 1930, but died before taking office. Suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">paralytic stroke</a>, while <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/meetings.html">addressing a meeting</a> of the Parent Democratic Club, and died soon after in St. Elizabeth <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Elizabeth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/UN-died.html">Union County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/11-12.html">November 12, 1930</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">about 62 years</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Father of Helen Josephine Furber (niece by marriage of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcgeehan-mcgoodwin.html#104.60.59">George McGillivray</a>).</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>James E. Kewin</b> — of Melvindale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/melvindale.html">Mayor of Melvindale, Mich.</a>, 1933-40; defeated, 1940; in June, 1936, after an exchange of insults with Sever Green, who Kewin had tried to oust from a Melvindale city position, he climbed into Green's car and <b>scratched his face</b>; later convicted of <b>assault and battery</b> over this incident and was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $25. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Eugene C. Keyes (1900-1963)</b> — of Dearborn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/08-23.html">August 23, 1900</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/dentist.html">dentist</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Michigan</a>, 1943-44, 1947-48; defeated, 1940, 1944, 1948; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Michigan</a>, 1950, 1954; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Michigan</a>, 1952. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a>, in Dearborn municipal court in August 1944, of <b>assaulting</b> a woman who came to his office to protest his slapping of her son during an argument over campaign work; the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentence</a> was a $25 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fine</a> or 15 days in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jail</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1963/index.html">1963</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> <b>Anthony Franciosa (1928-2006)</b> — also known as <b>Tony Franciosa</b>; <b>Anthony George Papaleo</b> — of Brentwood, Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. 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/1928/10-25.html">October 25, 1928</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">Actor</a>; <b>hit and kicked</b> a press photographer at the Los Angeles Civic Center on April 19, 1957; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> for <b>assault</b>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a>, served to ten days in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jail</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $250; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960 /speakers.html">honored guest</a>, Democratic National Convention, 1960. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> ancestry. Suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">stroke</a>, and died a few days later, in UCLA <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Medical Center</a>, Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-died.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2006/01-19.html">January 19, 2006</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 86 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1957/05-04.html">May 4, 1957</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#677.96.29">Shelley Winters</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1952/">1952</a> to Beatrice Bakalyar; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1961/12-31.html">December 31, 1961</a>, to Judith (Balaban) Kanter; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1970/11-29.html">November 29, 1970</a>, to Rita Theil.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/441/000032345">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0290047">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/13072451">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Norman Kingsley Mailer (1923-2007)</b> — also known as <b>Norman Mailer</b> — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y. Born in Long Branch, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MO-born.html">Monmouth County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/01-31.html">January 31, 1923</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">novelist</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">essayist</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">magazine editor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">Hollywood</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">screenwriter</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">director</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">actor</a>; among the founders of the <i>Village Voice</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper</a> in New York City; in November, 1960, while <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/intoxication.html">drunk</a> at a party, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">stabbed and wounded</a> his wife, Adele; he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> and held for psychiatric evaluation, and eventually <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to <b>third-degree assault</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jailed</a> in 1967 in connection with an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/protest.html">antiwar protest</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1969. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a> ancestry. Won the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pulitzer-prize.html">Pulitzer Prize</a> for nonfiction in 1969 and for fiction in 1980. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">acute renal failure</a>, in Mount Sinai <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/2007/11-10.html">November 10, 2007</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 283 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BA-buried.html# ">Provincetown Cemetery</a>, Provincetown, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Isaac Barnett 'Barney' Mailer and Fanny (Schneider) Mailer; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/">1944</a> to Beatrice 'Bea' Silverman; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/">1954</a> to Adele Morales; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/">1962</a> to Jeanne Campbell; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1963/">1963</a> to Beverly Bentley; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1980/">1980</a> to Carol Stevens; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1981/">1981</a> to Norris Church; father of Michael Mailer.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/936/000022870">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0537551">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/22800811">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=42102">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books by Norman Mailer:</i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375700811/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375700811&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Executioner's Song</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375700382/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375700382&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Fight</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Fiction by Norman Mailer:</i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375700404/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375700404&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Deer Park</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805060189/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805060189&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Naked and the Dead</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375700706/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375700706&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">An American Dream</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345421329/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0345421329&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Gospel According to the Son</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books about Norman Mailer:</i> Mary V. Dearborn, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0395736552/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0395736552&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Mailer : A Biography</a> — Barry H. Leeds, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1929355114/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1929355114&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Enduring Vision of Norman Mailer</a> — Carl Rollyson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1583489967/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1583489967&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Lives of Norman Mailer : A Biography</a> — Jennifer Bailey, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0064902846/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0064902846&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Norman Mailer: Quick Change Artist</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Critical books about Norman Mailer:</i> Bernard Goldberg, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060761288/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060761288&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken Is #37)</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Bernard Hugo Goetz (b. 1947)</b> — also known as <b>Bernard H. Goetz</b>; <b>Bernhard Goetz</b>; <b>"Subway Vigilante"</b> — of New York City (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ZZ-lived.html">unknown county</a>), N.Y. Born in Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-born.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/11-07.html">November 7, 1947</a>. Fusion candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 2001. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a> ancestry. On December 22, 1984, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">shot</a> and wounded four young men who were about to rob him, and subsequently <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/flight-escape.html">fled</a> to New England, until he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">turned himself in</a> at Concord, N.H.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arraigned</a> on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">attempted murder</a>, <b>assault</b>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/weapons.html">weapons</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> only for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/weapons.html">carrying an unlicensed gun</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to one year in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jail</a>; served eight months. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard Goetz">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/120/000109790">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1249570">Internet Movie Database profile</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Henry Barbosa Gonzalez (1916-2000)</b> — also known as <b>Henry B. Gonzalez</b> — of San Antonio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BX-lived.html">Bexar County</a>, Tex. Born in San Antonio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BX-born.html">Bexar County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/05-03.html">May 3, 1916</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/stsen.html">Texas state senate</a>, 1956-61; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Texas</a>, 1958; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Texas</a>, 1961; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 20th District, 1961-99; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/TX.html">1964</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/TX.html">1996</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/hispanic.html">Hispanic</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ams-dem-action.html">Americans for Democratic Action</a>. Was in the motorcade in Dallas, Tex., when President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John F. Kennedy</a> was shot. In a San Antonio restaurant in 1986, he punched a man who called him a communist; he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <b>assault</b>, but acquitted. Died, in Downtown Baptist <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, San Antonio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BX-died.html">Bexar County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2000/11-28.html">November 28, 2000</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 209 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BX-buried.html#cms06449">San Fernando Cemetery #2</a>, San Antonio, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Leonides Gonzalez and Genevieve (Barbosa) Gonzalez; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1940/">1940</a> to Bertha Cuellar; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gonas-gooch.html#766.83.25">Charles A. Gonzalez</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000272">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404634">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/853/000115508">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7012631">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John T. Broderick Jr. (b. 1947)</b> — of Manchester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/HI-lived.html">Hillsborough County</a>, N.H. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/index.html">1947</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ofc/spju.html">Justice of New Hampshire state supreme court</a>, 1995-. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Investigated</a> in 2000 by the Judiciary Committee of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in connection with the charges against Chief Justice <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brock.html#415.18.75">David A. Brock</a> and Justice <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#816.17.02">W. Stephen Thayer III</a>, but articles of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">impeachment</a> against him were rejected by the House. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a> in October 2000 for <b>assault</b> against his 30-year-old son. but charges were dropped. Still living as of 2001. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Arthur E. Teele (1946-2005)</b> — also known as <b>Art Teele</b> — of Florida. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/PG-born.html">Prince George's County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1946/05-14.html">May 14, 1946</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; director, U.S. Urban Mass Transportation Administration, 1981-83; candidate for Presidential Elector for Florida; as Miami city commissioner in 1997-2004, he chaired the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA); an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a> of corruption in the agency, started in 2003, led to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> that he had accepted $135,000 in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/kickbacks.html">kickbacks</a> from two construction companies; as a result, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">removed from office</a> in 2004 by Gov. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#670.03.91">Jeb Bush</a>; in August, 2004, when he and his wife were under surveillance, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/traffic.html">drove his car</a> at a police detective in an attempt to <b>run him over</b>, and also <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">threatened to kill</a> police officers who had been following his wife during the investigation; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in March 2005 on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> related to this incident; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> on July 14, 2005, on federal conspiracy and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/money-laundering.html">money laundering</a> charges, over a scheme to fraudulently obtain contracts for electrical work at the Miami International Airport through a "minority-owned" shell company; published police reports revealed that he had put his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">mistress</a> on the CRA payroll, that he regularly bought and used <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/illegal-drugs.html">cocaine</a>, and that he frequently made use of a male <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">prostitute</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/pentecostal.html">Church of God in Christ</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kappa-alpha-psi.html">Kappa Alpha Psi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Came to the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/offices.html">offices</a> of the <i>Miami Herald</i> newspaper, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shot</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">himself</a> in the head with a semiautomatic pistol; he died two hours later in the trauma unit of Jackson Memorial <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Miami, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/DA-died.html">Miami-Dade County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2005/07-27.html">July 27, 2005</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">59 years, 74 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-buried.html# ">Culley's MeadowWood Memorial Park</a>, Tallahassee, Fla. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Stephanie Kerr.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur Teele">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=21965">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Andrew L. Cetraro (born c.1976)</b> — of Bozeman, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/GA-lived.html">Gallatin County</a>, Mont. Born in Bozeman, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/GA-born.html">Gallatin County</a>, Mont., about 1976. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/restaurant.html">Restaurant owner</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/ofc/bozeman.html">mayor of Bozeman, Mont.</a>, 2004-05. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a> at his home in November 2005; accused of <b>assaulting</b> his pregnant wife while <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/intoxication.html">intoxicated</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arraigned</a> on misdemeanor <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>; pleaded not guilty. Still living as of 2005. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Christopher Lee Bollyn (born c.1957)</b> — also known as <b>Christopher Bollyn</b> — of Hoffman Estates, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born about 1957. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Journalist</a>; promoter of theory that Israeli agents were responsible for the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center; candidate in primary for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/hoffmanestates.html">village president of Hoffman Estates, Illinois</a>, 2001; in August 2006, he called 911 to report a suspicious vehicle in his neighborhood; got into an altercation and scuffle with police; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> and charged with <b>aggravated assault</b> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">resisting arrest</a>; tried and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in 2007; did not appear for sentencing. Still living as of 2006. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2010/06/32-christopher-bollyn.html">Encyclopedia of American Loons</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Anthony Dryden Marshall (1924-2014)</b> — also known as <b>Anthony D. Marshall</b>; <b>Tony Marshall</b>; <b>Anthony Dryden Kuser</b> — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I.; 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/1924/05-30.html">May 30, 1924</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/TK-consuls.html ">Istanbul</a>, as of 1958-59; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/MD-diplomats.html ">Malagasy Republic</a>, 1969-71; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/TT-diplomats.html ">Trinidad and Tobago</a>, 1972-73; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/KY-diplomats.html ">Kenya</a>, 1973-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SH-diplomats.html ">Seychelles</a>, 1976-77; in 1971, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">accused</a> in press reports of involvement in a supposed plot to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">overthrow</a> the President, Philibert Tsiranana; the Malagasy government declared him <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/diplomatic-offenses.html">persona non grata</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">expelled</a> him fron the country; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">theatrical producer</a>; guardian of his ailing mother, Brooke Astor; alleged to have <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">diverted</a> millions of dollars to his own theatrical productions, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/theft.html">removed</a> works of art from her apartment; his son Philip <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sued</a>, alleging <b>abuse</b> and demanding his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">removal</a> as guardian; an independent investigation found no evidence for abuse, but revealed financial misconduct; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in 2007, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> on 16 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> in 2009; the trial lasted six months; ultimately <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to one to three years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; served eight weeks and was released on medical parole. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>. Died, at New York Presbyterian <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/2014/11-30.html">November 30, 2014</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 184 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Step-son of Charles H. Marshall and Vincent Astor; son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kurvink-kyros.html#179.98.06">John Dryden Kuser</a> and Brooke (Russell) Marshall; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/07-26.html">July 26, 1947</a>, to Elizabeth Cynthia Cryan; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/12-29.html">December 29, 1962</a>, to Thelma Hoegnell; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1992/">1992</a> to Charlene (Tyler) Gilbert; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/driver-dryzga.html#795.00.09">John Fairfield Dryden</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/13343.html">Dryden-Marshall family</a> of New York City, New York.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/marshall-anthony-dryden ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1481790">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/139475960">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books about Anthony D. Marshall:</i> Meryl Gordon, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618893733/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0618893733&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Mrs. Astor Regrets: The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Kwame Malik Kilpatrick (b. 1970)</b> — also known as <b>Kwame M. Kilpatrick</b> — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-born.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1970/06-08.html">June 8, 1970</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> 9th District, 1997-2001; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/MI.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/MI.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/MI.html">2008</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/detroit.html">mayor of Detroit, Mich.</a>, 2002-08; resigned 2008; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/MI.html">Democratic National Committee from Michigan</a>, 2004-08; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> in 2008 with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">obstruction of justice</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">perjury</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/misfeasance.html">misconduct in office</a>, in connection with his denial under oath of an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">affair</a> with his chief of staff, Christine Beatty, and misleading the city council over a payment of $8.4 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit filed by two police officers, which included a secret deal to prevent evidence of the affair from being disclosed; later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <b>assaulting</b> two police officers who were serving a subpoena; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to two felony counts of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">obstruction of justice</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">no contest</a> to one <b>assault</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charge</a>; he also agreed to four months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jail</a>, payment of $1 million in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">restitution</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resign</a> as mayor, and to give up his law license and pension. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</a>. Still living as of 2020. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Bernard Kilpatrick and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kilguss-kim.html#920.71.24">Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame Kilpatrick">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/157/000162668">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Eric Tradd Schneiderman (b. 1954)</b> — also known as <b>Eric T. Schneiderman</b> — 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/1954/12-31.html">December 31, 1954</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> 31st District; elected 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/attygn.html">New York state attorney general</a>, 2011-18; resigned 2018; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">published reports</a> alleged that he had <b>physically abused</b> four women; at first, he claimed that this had been <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">sexual</a> role playing, but within hours, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> his position; following an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a>, no criminal charges were brought. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a> ancestry. 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