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The Political Graveyard: Politicians in Trouble or Disgrace: Sex

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Politicians in Trouble or Disgrace: Sex</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 Newtown Limavady (now Limavady), County Londonderry, Ireland (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UL-born.html">Northern Ireland</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1751/08-21.html">August 21, 1751</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Georgia</a>, 1786; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/spju.html">justice of Georgia state supreme court</a>, 1787-89; superior court judge in Georgia, 1789-91. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Removed from offices</a> he held in Pennsylvania in June 1783 following the supreme executive council's determination that he was a <b>bigamist</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> by the Georgia senate in December 1791 of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/vote-fraud.html">election fraud</a>. Died in St. Simons Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/GL-died.html">Glynn County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1800/11-09.html">November 9, 1800</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 80 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=O000111">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408367">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/602/16.01.jpg" width=70 height=106 border=0 alt="John H. Eaton"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John Henry Eaton (1790-1856)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>John H. Eaton</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Nashville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DA-lived.html">Davidson County</a>, Tenn. Born near Scotland Neck, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HL-born.html">Halifax County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1790/06-18.html">June 18, 1790</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/sthse.html">Tennessee state house of representatives</a>, 1815-16; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Tennessee</a>, 1818-21, 1821-29; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of War</a>, 1829-31; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/trgv.html">Governor of Florida Territory</a>, 1834-36; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SP-diplomats.html ">Spain</a>, 1836-40. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Resigned</a> from Cabinet in 1831 during the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> (called the "Petticoat Affair") over past <b>infedelities</b> of his second wife, Peggy Eaton. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/11-17.html">November 17, 1856</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 152 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00803">Oak Hill Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/MI/EA.html">Eaton County, Mich.</a> is named for him.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> <i>SS John H. Eaton</i> (built 1942-43 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-names.html">Houston, Texas</a>; sold 1947, scrapped 1968) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=E000024">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403720">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Eaton">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/eaton-john-henry ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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> Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis (1886)</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Isaac Smith Kalloch (1832-1887)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Isaac S. Kalloch</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif. Born in Rockland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/KX-born.html">Knox County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/07-10.html">July 10, 1832</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Pastor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/sanfrancisco.html">mayor of San Francisco, Calif.</a>, 1879-81. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> for <b>adultery</b>, in East Cambridge, Mass., 1857; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, but the jury was unable to agree on a verdict. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">Shot and wounded</a>, on August 23, 1879, by newspaper editor Charles DeYoung. A few months later, before DeYoung was to be tried for the shooting, Kalloch's son, I. M. Kalloch, shot and killed DeYoung in his office. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/diabetes.html">diabetes</a>, in Whatcom (now part of Bellingham), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/WH-died.html">Whatcom County</a>, Wash., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/12-09.html">December 9, 1887</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 152 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/WH-buried.html#cms06481">Bayview Cemetery</a>, Bellingham, Wash. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/dey-dichman.html#760.84.83">M. H. de Young</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/Isaac Smith Kalloch">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/15212520">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Philip Barton Key (1818-1859)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Born in Georgetown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-born.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/04-05.html">April 5, 1818</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia</a>, 1853-59; died in office 1859. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">killed</a> by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/siaca-siewert.html#042.60.91">Daniel E. Sickles</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">retaliation</a> for Key's <b>affair with his wife</b> Teresa, at Lafayette Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/02-27.html">February 27, 1859</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/40.html">40 years, 328 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00803">Oak Hill Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C.; cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-buried.html#cms01613">Westminster Burying Ground</a>, Baltimore, Md. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/kerrey-keydel.html#891.61.81">Francis Scott Key</a> and Mary Tayloe (Lloyd) Key; brother of Mary Alicia 'Alice' Key (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#031.41.28">George Hunt Pendleton</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/11-18.html">November 18, 1845</a>, to Ellen Swan; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lloyd.html#127.30.15">Edward Lloyd (1779-1834)</a> and Anne Phoebe Charlton Key (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#039.48.99">Roger Brooke Taney</a>); uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#897.05.79">Francis Key Pendleton</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lloyd.html#357.70.69">Edward Lloyd (1744-1796)</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kerrey-keydel.html#163.73.20">Philip Barton Key (1757-1815)</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lloyd.html#382.47.73">Henry Lloyd</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kerrey-keydel.html#145.56.63">Philip Key</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tilghman.html#934.19.64">Matthew Tilghman</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#445.18.18">Charles Carroll, Barrister</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tilghman.html#589.45.38">James Joseph Tilghman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tilghman.html#596.82.44">William Tilghman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beucher-biddis.html#278.25.27">William Welby Beverley</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tilghman.html#733.37.87">Frisby Tilghman</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tilghman.html#665.06.14">Tench Tilghman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/paca-paganelli.html#402.58.29">Edward Tilghman Paca</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitla-whitlow.html#799.67.11">Vinson Martlow Whitley</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0055.html">Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family</a> of Kentucky (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/Philip Barton Key II">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9458197">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Charles W. Bryant (born c.1830)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-lived.html">Harris County</a>, Tex. Born about 1830. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn7.html">Delegate to Texas state constitutional convention</a>, 1868-69. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Expelled</a> from the Texas Constitutional Convention after being accused of <b>raping</b> an 11-year-old girl; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jailed</a> briefly, but then the charges were dropped. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Indianapolis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/MA-lived.html">Marion County</a>, Ind.; Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y. Born in Litchfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/LI-born.html">Litchfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/06-24.html">June 24, 1813</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Minister</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">orator</a>; abolitionist; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn5.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a> 2nd District, 1867; in 1872, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">accused</a> of an <b>adulterous affair</b> with Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton, the wife of a friend of his; Beecher's church conducted an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a> and declared him innocent; in 1874, Elizabeth Tilton's husband Theodore sued Beecher; a highly-publicized months-long <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">trial</a> took place in 1875; the jury was unable to reach a verdit. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>; later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Died in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-died.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/03-08.html">March 8, 1887</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 257 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms00142">Green-Wood Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html# ">Cadman Plaza Park</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Lyman Beecher and Roxana Ward (Foote) Beecher; brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/08-03.html">August 3, 1837</a>, to Eunice White Bullard; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beechem-beesley.html#687.65.88">George Buckingham Beecher</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellwein-elmer.html#698.25.10">Jonathan Elmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellwein-elmer.html#454.15.83">Ebenezer Elmer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellwein-elmer.html#932.85.97">Eli Elmer</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#075.86.53">Erastus Wolcott</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#701.74.56">Oliver Wolcott Sr.</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bragaw-brancato.html#880.58.18">Leveret Brainard</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bragaw-brancato.html#282.32.11">Amaziah Brainard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellwein-elmer.html#986.53.99">Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#426.84.67">Oliver Wolcott Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#247.44.62">Roger Griswold</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen5.html#175.15.85">John Allen</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#251.24.21">Frederick Wolcott</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#304.54.75">Walter Keene Linscott</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#639.49.15">Sidney Smythe Linscott</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bola-bonbright.html#425.37.47">Frances Payne Bolton</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#868.32.79">Aaron Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#222.26.90">Daniel Chapin</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bola-bonbright.html#659.80.35">Oliver Payne Bolton</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttle.html#282.14.92">Ambrose Tuttle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellwein-elmer.html#853.72.96">Joseph H. Elmer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stone.html#907.26.47">George Frederick Stone</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#039.79.42">Gaylord Griswold</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baczkowski-baile.html#924.72.11">Luther Walter Badger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#316.08.43">Daniel Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hotchkiss-hougen.html#330.21.97">Gideon Hotchkiss</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hotchkiss-hougen.html#126.06.30">Asahel Augustus Hotchkiss</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen5.html#161.25.92">John William Allen</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hotchkiss-hougen.html#769.70.05">Julius Hotchkiss</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hotchkiss-hougen.html#372.80.00">Giles Waldo Hotchkiss</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chertov-childers.html#163.86.53">Charles Francis Chidsey</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodcock-woodley.html#843.00.87">Ernest Harvey Woodford</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chertov-childers.html#673.80.64">Samuel Russell Chidsey</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/10001-0073.html">Eastman family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/beechem-beesley.html#871.92.96">Henry W. Beecher</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> <i>SS Henry Ward Beecher</i> (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Terminal Island, California</a>; scrapped 1969) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/Henry Ward Beecher">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/71">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Corliss P. Stone (1838-1906)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Seattle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-lived.html">King County</a>, Wash. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/FR-born.html">Franklin County</a>, Vt., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/03-20.html">March 20, 1838</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ofc/seattle.html">Mayor of Seattle, Wash.</a>, 1872-73. Caused a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> in 1873, when he suddenly <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">vacated</a> his mayoralty; he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/flight-escape.html">fled</a> to San Francisco with <b>a married woman</b> and $15,000 he had <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">embezzled</a> from his firm. Later returned to Seattle. Died in Seattle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-died.html">King County</a>, Wash., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/09-14.html">September 14, 1906</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 178 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-buried.html#cms00171">Lake View Cemetery</a>, Seattle, Wash. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/11196585">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Almar F. Dickson (1846-1915)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; 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 <b>suspected seduction</b> 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/assault.html">kidnap at gunpoint</a> 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 ">Gasp&eacute; 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>&nbsp;</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>&nbsp;</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>&nbsp;</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">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>George Quayle Cannon (1827-1901)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>George Q. Cannon</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Salt Lake City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/SL-lived.html">Salt Lake County</a>, Utah. Born in Liverpool, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/01-11.html">January 11, 1827</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/forty-niners.html">Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/ofc/trcn.html">member Utah territorial council</a>, 1865-66, 1869-72; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/ofc/cgdel.html">Delegate to U.S. Congress from Utah Territory</a>, 1873-81; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Utah Territory, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/UT.html">1880</a> (not seated). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/mormon.html">Mormon</a>. Had five wives and 32 children; spent six months in federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">penitentiary</a> for <b>cohabitation</b>. Died in Monterey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/MY-died.html">Monterey County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/04-12.html">April 12, 1901</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 91 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/SL-buried.html#cms02369">Salt Lake City Cemetery</a>, Salt Lake City, Utah. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 George Cannon and Ann (Quayle) Cannon; brother of Angus Munn Cannon (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cannon.html#392.87.22">Martha Maria Hughes</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cannon.html#465.37.37">Frank Jenne Cannon</a>; third great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nelson.html#704.07.31">David Nelson</a>; relative *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cannon.html#448.42.93">Donald James Cannon</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/10235.html">Cannon family</a> of Salt Lake City, Utah.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=C000119">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402270">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6283727">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>David King Udall (1851-1938)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of St. Johns, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/AP-lived.html">Apache County</a>, Ariz. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-born.html">St. Louis</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1851/09-07.html">September 7, 1851</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/ofc/trlg.html">Arizona territorial legislature</a>, 1899. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/mormon.html">Mormon</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in 1884 on charges of <b>polygamy</b> and unlawful <b>cohabitation</b>; not convicted because his second wife Ida could not be found to testify against him. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in 1885 of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">perjury</a> in connection with a land claim, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to three years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. On December 12, 1885, he received a "full and unconditional <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pardon.html">pardon</a>" from President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#531.34.01">Grover Cleveland</a>, and was released from prison. Died, as a result of an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/falls.html">accidental fall</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">myocardial insufficiency</a>, in St. Johns, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/AP-died.html">Apache County</a>, Ariz., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/02-18.html">February 18, 1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 164 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/AP-buried.html#cms07237">St. Johns Cemetery</a>, St. Johns, Ariz. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Eliza (King) Udall and David Udall; brother of Mary Ann Udall (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stewart9.html#102.15.70">William Thomas Stewart (1853-1935)</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/02-01.html">February 1, 1875</a>, to Eliza Luella Stewart (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stewart9.html#102.15.70">William Thomas Stewart (1853-1935)</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/05-25.html">May 25, 1882</a>, to Ida Frances Hunt (granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hunt.html#415.29.03">Jefferson Hunt</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/04-09.html">April 9, 1903</a>, to Mary Ann (Linton) Morgan (widow of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan.html#927.90.41">John Hamilton Morgan</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/uczciwek-underhill.html#537.11.32">John Hunt Udall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/uczciwek-underhill.html#850.26.59">Levi Stewart Udall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/uczciwek-underhill.html#343.43.81">Jesse Addison Udall</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/uczciwek-underhill.html#120.38.34">Don Taylor Udall</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/uczciwek-underhill.html#033.62.16">John Nicholas Udall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/uczciwek-underhill.html#495.02.58">Stewart Lee Udall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/uczciwek-underhill.html#781.91.14">Morris King Udall</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/uczciwek-underhill.html#397.76.79">Lee Kenyon Udall</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith6.html#888.25.06">Milan Dale Smith Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/uczciwek-underhill.html#216.75.66">Thomas Stewart Udall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/uczciwek-underhill.html#719.25.01">Mark E. Udall</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#954.52.16">Gordon Harold Smith</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/11104.html">Udall family</a> of Arizona.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/David King Udall">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21853527">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Robert Ray Hamilton (1851-1890)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1851/03-18.html">March 18, 1851</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 11th District, 1881, 1886-89; in July 1889, while staying in Atlantic City, he was caught in a national <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a>, after his wife, Eva, stabbed a nurse; she was arrested and tried; it came out that Eva was <b>still married</b> to another man, that she had bought a baby for $10 and told Hamilton he was the father, to induce him to marry her; when this was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">publicized</a>, Hamilton sued for divorce; as the case dragged on, he moved to Wyoming to help a friend establish a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hotel-biz.html">hotel</a>. While on a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hunting.html">hunting trip</a>, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/drowning.html">drowned</a> while attempting to ford the Snake River, in Uinta County (part now in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/TE-died.html">Teton County</a>), Wyo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/08-23.html">August 23, 1890</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/39.html">39 years, 158 days</a>). Original interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/TE-buried.html# ">somewhere</a> in Teton County, Wyo.; reinterment in 1892 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms00142">Green-Wood Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Schuyler Hamilton and Cornelia (Ray) Hamilton; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#279.13.10">James Alexander Hamilton</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#111.82.60">Alexander Hamilton</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#631.01.66">Philip Jeremiah Schuyler</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#244.80.26">Philip John Schuyler</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#577.91.97">Stephen John Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#985.46.99">Jeremiah Van Rensselaer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#986.83.99">Robert Van Rensselaer</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#993.49.53">Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746)</a>; fourth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#979.11.25">Stephanus Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#537.76.51">Robert Livingston the Younger</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#649.30.19">Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747)</a>; fourth great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#789.71.60">Jacobus Van Cortlandt</a>; fifth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#893.32.40">Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724)</a>; fifth great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#467.87.25">Robert Livingston the Elder</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#291.10.40">Philip Schuyler</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#029.55.69">Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#474.51.31">Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#867.40.08">Stephanus Bayard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dousman-dovey.html#344.96.00">Volkert Petrus Douw</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#833.17.87">Pierre Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#846.85.53">Hendrick Kiliaen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#363.29.89">James Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#159.84.16">Killian Killian Van Rensselaer</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#199.37.38">John Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#876.54.52">Robert Livingston (1688-1775)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#449.58.55">Gilbert Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#364.47.63">Philip P. Schuyler</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#751.52.30">David Davidse Schuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#889.34.79">Myndert Davidtse Schuyler</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#700.80.53">Henry Walter Livingston</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#611.60.54">Nicholas Bayard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#374.55.91">Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#806.45.69">Philip Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html#749.66.51">Leonard Gansevoort</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html#582.86.02">Leonard Gansevoort Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#718.86.91">Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#709.51.14">Edward Livingston (1764-1836)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#753.05.32">Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#477.65.60">Maturin Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker5.html#103.37.19">James Parker</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#595.88.73">Robert Livingston (1708-1790)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#875.08.45">Peter Van Brugh Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#825.93.31">Robert Gilbert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#879.66.25">Philip Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#283.29.67">Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#553.65.72">William Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#498.42.59">James Jay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#250.80.11">John Jay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#882.43.77">Frederick Jay</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#916.88.18">Peter Samuel Schuyler</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#933.33.90">Matthew Clarkson</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#724.66.91">Edward Livingston (1796-1840)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#619.37.87">Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#198.16.03">John Eliot Thayer Jr.</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#860.08.93">Stephen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#801.86.15">Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html#701.93.68">Peter Gansevoort</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#764.34.99">Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#784.46.42">Gerrit Smith</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanton.html#969.35.25">Elizabeth Cady Stanton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker5.html#234.21.08">John Cortlandt Parker</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#110.29.78">Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#336.45.81">Walter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#760.25.09">Philip Peter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#055.73.86">Henry Brockholst Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#158.71.62">Peter Augustus Jay</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#014.71.43">William Jay</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#098.18.45">Henry Bell Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eichelroth-elcan.html#402.77.44">James Adams Ekin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#637.48.52">John Jacob Astor III</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker7.html#328.97.55">Richard Wayne Parker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker2.html#397.04.53">Charles Wolcott Parker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#853.91.54">Charles Ludlow Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#827.26.10">Bronson Murray Cutting</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1232.html">VanRensselaer family</a> of Albany, New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/Robert Ray Hamilton">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/150120347">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Frank R. Aikens (b. 1855)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Canton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/LI-lived.html">Lincoln County</a>, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.); Sioux Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/MI-lived.html">Minnehaha County</a>, S.Dak. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/12-14.html">December 14, 1855</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DK/ofc/trlg.html">Dakota territorial legislature</a>, 1887-89; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DK/ofc/tsju.html">justice of Dakota territorial supreme court</a>, 1889; district judge in South Dakota, 1889-94. In 1891, when affluent Easterners came to South Dakota to live in a hotel for 90 days, so as to be eligible for the state's easy divorce law, he ruled that hotel guests were not bona fide South Dakota residents, disrupting the divorce plans of a number of celebrities. Later that year, a committee of Sioux Falls ministers <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">accused</a> the judge of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/intoxication.html">drunkenness</a> and <b>licentiousness</b>. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (1837-1904)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>William C. P. Breckinridge</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-lived.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-born.html">Baltimore</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/08-28.html">August 28, 1837</a>. Democrat. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1876/KY.html">1876</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/KY.html">1880</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Kentucky</a> 7th District, 1885-95; defeated (Gold Democratic), 1896. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>. In 1894, he was successfully sued for breach of promise by a <b>former mistress</b>; he acknowledged the affair, affair, but the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> ended his political career. Slaveowner. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">apoplexy</a>, in Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-died.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/11-18.html">November 18, 1904</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 82 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-buried.html#cms00359">Lexington Cemetery</a>, Lexington, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/breckinridge.html#913.15.69">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge</a> and Ann Sophonisba (Preston) Breckinridge; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#891.83.83">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr.</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/03-17.html">March 17, 1859</a>, to Lucretia Hart Clay (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#052.20.67">Thomas Hart Clay</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/09-19.html">September 19, 1861</a>, to Issa Desha (granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#891.12.97">Joseph Desha</a>); married to Louisa Rucks (Scott) Wing; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#923.46.15">Desha Breckinridge</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#446.25.19">Joseph Cabell Breckinridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#453.47.09">William Campbell Preston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#081.09.35">John Smith Preston</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/handerson-hanlan.html#535.23.07">Levin Irving Handy</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#447.87.63">Henry Skillman Breckinridge</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#809.50.86">John Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#983.64.79">Francis Smith Preston</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#086.13.03">James Patton Preston</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#594.71.07">John Bayne Breckinridge</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#916.93.84">William Preston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/campbell9.html#257.81.17">William Campbell</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#775.20.26">William Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#071.73.66">Patrick Henry</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#923.82.77">John Cabell Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#715.43.49">Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864)</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#019.25.10">James Douglas Breckinridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#794.87.46">Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcdowell.html#709.27.32">James McDowell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#530.19.72">John Buchanan Floyd</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#944.84.18">George Rogers Clark Floyd</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#179.74.78">Clifton Rodes Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#905.50.52">Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#973.19.38">William Cabell Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#439.27.42">William Henry Cabell</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#656.69.21">Carter Henry Harrison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#372.07.63">William Lewis Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#448.18.40">George Craighead Cabell</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/southall-spain.html#229.37.23">Valentine Wood Southall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#038.07.47">Frederick Mortimer Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/garland.html#243.84.03">Samuel Meredith Garland (1802-1880)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#045.17.96">Edward Carrington Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#823.76.27">Benjamin Earl Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#988.40.79">Carter Henry Harrison II</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#230.79.50">Earle Cabell</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#966.21.11">John William Leftwich</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/southall-spain.html#906.59.34">Stephen Valentine Southall</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/garland.html#630.56.44">Samuel Meredith Garland (1861-1945)</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0031.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family</a> of Virginia; <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/10001-0736.html">Walker-Randolph family</a> of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=B000790">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401747">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7397789">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Peter R. Morrissey (1859-1895)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-lived.html">St. Louis</a>, Mo. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/SS-born.html">St. Louis County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/08-14.html">August 14, 1859</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/tavern-biz.html">Saloon keeper</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in December 1886 on federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/vote-fraud.html">vote fraud</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">found guilty</a> in April 1887, but released because the indictment did not specify that the ballots were for a federal office; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> again soon after, but the charges were dropped in November; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/smuggling.html">naturalization fraud</a> in 1889, but not convicted; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/stsen.html">Missouri state senate</a> 31st District, 1893-95; died in office 1895. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. While in bed, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shot twice</a> with his own pistol, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">killed</a>, by his <b>mistress</b>, Maud Lewis, in her "house of <b>ill repute</b>", in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-died.html">St. Louis</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/05-13.html">May 13, 1895</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/35.html">35 years, 272 days</a>). After a dramatic and highly publicized trial, Maud Lewis was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to fifteen years in prison; she was pardoned by Gov. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stephens.html#914.27.54">Lon Vest Stephens</a> in January 1901. Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-buried.html#cms00518">Calvary Cemetery</a>, St. Louis, Mo. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/9587340">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Brigham Henry Roberts (1857-1933)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Brigham H. Roberts</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Utah. Born in Warrington, Lancashire, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/03-13.html">March 13, 1857</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/ofc/cncn.html">Delegate to Utah state constitutional convention</a>, 1894; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Utah</a> at-large, 1899-1900. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/mormon.html">Mormon</a>. His seat in Congress was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">declared vacant</a> in January 1900, because he was a <b>polygamist</b>. Died in Salt Lake City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/SL-died.html">Salt Lake County</a>, Utah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/09-27.html">September 27, 1933</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 198 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/DA-buried.html#cms01947">Centerville Ward Cemetery</a>, Centerville, Utah. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=R000305">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409277">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Benjamin Franklin Tilley (1848-1907)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>B. F. Tilley</b>&nbsp;&mdash; Born in Bristol, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/BR-born.html">Bristol County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1848/03-29.html">March 29, 1848</a>. U.S. Navy commander; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AS/ofc/gov.html">Governor of American Samoa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">court martialed</a> in 1901 on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/military.html">charges</a> of <b>immorality</b> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/intoxication.html">drunkenness</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and found not guilty. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/03-18.html">March 18, 1907</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 354 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/AA-buried.html#cms06054">Naval Academy Cemetery</a>, Annapolis, Md. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Presumably named for:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/franklin.html#370.29.47">Benjamin Franklin</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Tilley and Sarah W. (Esterbrooks) Tilley; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/06-06.html">June 6, 1878</a>, to Emily Edelin Williamson.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/Benjamin Franklin Tilley">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John J. Girimondi</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Hazleton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LU-lived.html">Luzerne County</a>, Pa.; Shakopee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/SC-lived.html">Scott County</a>, Minn.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Catholic priest</a>; naturalized U.S. citizen; concealed his clerical background from Congressmen who recommended him for a consular appointment; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BZ-consuls.html ">Santos</a>, 1900-01; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">removed</a> as consul for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/misfeasance.html">neglect of duty</a> and possible <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">embezzlement</a>; went to Italy and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/diplomatic-offenses.html">misrepresented</a> himself as U.S. Consul to Persia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> by Italian authorities on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of <b>betraying</b> a young woman, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">imprisoned</a> there. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> ancestry. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Arthur Brown (1843-1906)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Kalamazoo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/KZ-lived.html">Kalamazoo County</a>, Mich.; Salt Lake City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/SL-lived.html">Salt Lake County</a>, Utah. Born in Schoolcraft, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/KZ-born.html">Kalamazoo County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/03-08.html">March 8, 1843</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Utah</a>, 1896-97; delegate to Republican National Convention from Utah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/UT.html">1896</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/committees.html">Committee on Permanent Organization</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/speakers.html">speaker</a>); his relationship with Mrs. Anna Bradley gave rise to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a>; in 1902, the two were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <b>adultery</b>; she pleaded guilty, but he pleaded not guilty, was tried, and acquitted by a jury; he fathered two children with her, but refused to marry her. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">killed</a>, in his room at the Raleigh <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">Hotel</a>, by his <b>former mistress</b> Anna Bradley, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/12-12.html">December 12, 1906</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 279 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/SL-buried.html#cms00211">Mt. Olivet Cemetery</a>, Salt Lake City, Utah. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Asa Briggs Brown and Lephia Olympia (Brown) Brown; married to Isabel Cameron; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown3.html#345.62.17">Ebenezer Lakin Brown</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown1.html#583.19.14">Addison Makepeace Brown</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coolidge.html#826.74.23">Calvin Coolidge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown4.html#689.11.31">Garry Eldridge Brown</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lanigan-larkey.html#628.51.57">Bradford R. Lansing</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/10001-0024.html">Lansing 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>&nbsp;</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=B000902">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401859">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8217983">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/10506924825/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/975/87.34.jpg" width=70 height=113 border=0 alt="Thomas C. Platt"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Thomas Collier Platt (1833-1910)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Thomas C. Platt</b>; <b>Tom Platt</b>; <b>&quot;The Easy Boss&quot;</b>; <b>&quot;The Machiavelli of Tioga County&quot;</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Owego, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/TI-lived.html">Tioga County</a>, N.Y. Born in Owego, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/TI-born.html">Tioga County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/07-15.html">July 15, 1833</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/drugs.html">Druggist</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">lumber business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/TI-officials.html">Tioga County Clerk</a>, 1859-61; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; director and president, Southern Central <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1873-77 (27th District 1873-75, 28th District 1875-77); delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1876/NY.html">1876</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1880/NY.html">1880</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1884/NY.html">1884</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1888/NY.html">1888</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1892/NY.html">1892</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/NY.html">1896</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1900/NY.html">1900</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/NY.html">1904</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/NY.html">1908</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New York</a>, 1881, 1897-1909; resigned 1881. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. In 1903, when he was about to marry his second wife, government clerk Mae C. Wood, armed with a collection of love letters from Platt, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">threatened a lawsuit</a> for <b>breach of promise to marry</b>; she was induced to drop the lawsuit, reportedly for $5,000. In 1905, she sued a number of Republican officials who, she claimed, had taken Platt's letters from her to stop her from publishing them. She later went on to charge the Senator with <b>bigamy</b>, claiming that he had <b>secretly married her</b> in 1901. This case was thrown out in 1908, and Miss Wood was arrested and charged with perjury. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">Bright's disease</a>, in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/03-06.html">March 6, 1910</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 234 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/TI-buried.html#cms01430">Evergreen Cemetery</a>, Owego, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 William Platt and Lesbia (Hinchman) Platt; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/12-12.html">December 12, 1852</a>, to Ellen Lucy Barstow; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/10-11.html">October 11, 1903</a>, to Lillian (Thompson) Janeway.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=P000383">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408777">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/862/000161379">NNDB dossier</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7088780">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Parties and The Men (1896)</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Carlton Prouty (1864-1931)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Winnetka, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-born.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/11-20.html">November 20, 1864</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">insurance business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">real estate dealer</a>; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/IL.html">1908</a>. In May, 1913, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $500, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to three months in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">county jail</a>, for having violated the Illinois law which prohibits the <b>remarriage</b> of divorced persons within one year; he had married his former stenographer four days after being divorced from his first wife. Died in Evanston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-died.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/12-10.html">December 10, 1931</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 20 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-buried.html#cms00293">Rosehill Cemetery</a>, Chicago, Ill. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Merrick Franklin Prouty and Anne Elizabeth (Jenks) Prouty; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/">1913</a> to Mary Busscher; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/procum-pryde.html#140.00.28">John Azro Prouty</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/procum-pryde.html#800.39.64">Charles Azro Prouty</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/procum-pryde.html#528.49.85">George Herbert Prouty</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/17443.html">Prouty family</a> of Newport, Vermont.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Charles Edward Sebastian (1873-1929)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Charles E. Sebastian</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in Farmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/SF-born.html">St. Francois County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/03-30.html">March 30, 1873</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawenforcement.html">Police officer</a>; Los Angeles Chief of Police, 1911-15; in 1915, he was accused of <b>molesting</b> several teenage girls in a rooming house next to the police station; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> by the county grand jury for contributing to the delinquency of a minor; also <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> for criminal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/contempt.html">contempt of court</a> for attempting to influence grand jurors; won election for mayor while these cases were pending; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and acquitted on the molestation charge, but <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">found guilty</a> of contempt for interference with the grand jury; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/losangeles.html">mayor of Los Angeles, Calif.</a>, 1915-16; resigned 1916; defeated, 1917. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/04-17.html">April 17, 1929</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 18 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-buried.html#cms06118">Glen Haven Memorial Park</a>, Sylmar, Calif. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/Charles E. Sebastian">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5299">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/087/59.48.jpg" width=70 height=120 border=0 alt="Jake L. Hamon"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Jake Louis Hamon (1873-1920)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Jake L. Hamon</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Ardmore, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/CT-lived.html">Carter County</a>, Okla. Born in Grenola, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/EK-born.html">Elk County</a>, Kan., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/06-05.html">June 5, 1873</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/oilgas.html">oil business</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/ND.html">Republican National Committee from North Dakota</a>, 1920. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">killed</a> by Clara Smith Hamon, his secretary, <b>mistress</b>, and the wife of his nephew, in Ardmore, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/CT-died.html">Carter County</a>, Okla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/11-26.html">November 26, 1920</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/47.html">47 years, 174 days</a>). The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> received national publicity. She was tried and found not guilty of murder, on grounds of self-defense. Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/CT-buried.html#cms02994">Rose Hill Cemetery</a>, Ardmore, Okla. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Nancy (Tuggle) Hamon and Franklin Hamon; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/">1898</a> to Georgia Worth Perkins.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/29137119">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.), November 29, 1920</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Lena Marietta Thankful Clarke (1886-1967)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Lena M. T. Clarke</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of West Palm Beach, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/PB-lived.html">Palm Beach County</a>, Fla. Born in Sheldon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/FR-born.html">Franklin County</a>, Vt., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/03-01.html">March 1, 1886</a>. Democrat. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/westpalmbeach.html#2">West Palm Beach, Fla.</a>, 1915-16, 1920-21 (acting, 1915-16, 1920); under <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">suspicion</a> for a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">shortage</a> of $32,000 at the post office, she <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/flight-escape.html">fled</a> to Orlando, where she found Fred Miltimore, her <b>married ex-lover</b>, and apparently tried to get him to sign a statement confessing to the theft; when he refused, she <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">shot and killed</a> him; she was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">murder</a>, and found not guilty by reason of insanity. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died in West Palm Beach, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/PB-died.html">Palm Beach County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1967/08-05.html">August 5, 1967</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 157 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/PB-buried.html# ">Woodlawn Cemetery</a>, West Palm Beach, Fla. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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> Daughter of Rev. Almon Taylor Clarke and Marietta Thankful (Whitney) Clarke; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarke.html#026.83.37">John Paul Clarke</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/23950611">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/6674218571/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/248/62.80.jpg" width=70 height=105 border=0 alt="Harold Knutson"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Harold Knutson (1880-1953)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of St. Cloud, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ST-lived.html">Stearns County</a>, Minn. Born in Skein, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NO-born.html">Norway</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/10-20.html">October 20, 1880</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor and publisher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Minnesota</a>, 1917-49 (6th District 1917-33, at-large 1933-35, 6th District 1935-49); delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/MN.html">1940</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/officers.html">Honorary Vice-President</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lutheran.html">Lutheran</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scandinavian.html">Norwegian</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. On March 9, 1924, he and Leroy M. Hull, a 29-year-old clerk for the Labor Department, sitting in his parked car alongside a rural road near Arlington National Cemetery, were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> by officers of the Arlington County vice squad; he vainly offered a $100 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">bribe</a>, but was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a>, apparently with <b>sodomy</b> (press reports avoided mentioning the specific crime, only that it was a "grave moral offense"), and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jailed</a> overnight; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> before a jury, and found not guilty. Died, following a series of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attacks</a>, in Wesley Memorial <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Wadena, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/WD-died.html">Wadena County</a>, Minn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/08-21.html">August 21, 1953</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 305 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ST-buried.html#cms02671">North Star Cemetery</a>, St. Cloud, Minn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=K000301">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406457">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold Knutson">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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> Minnesota Legislative Manual 1917</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Lee Maurice Russell (1875-1943)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Lee M. Russell</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Oxford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/LY-lived.html">Lafayette County</a>, Miss. Born in Dallas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/LY-born.html">Lafayette County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/11-16.html">November 16, 1875</a>. Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Mississippi, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/MS.html">1912</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Mississippi</a>, 1920-24. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Charged</a> by a former stenographer with breach of promise and <b>seduction</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in federal court, where a jury found in his favor. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/05-16.html">May 16, 1943</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 181 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/HI-buried.html#cms01243">Lakewood Memorial Park</a>, Jackson, Miss. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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.nga.org/governor/lee-maurice-russell/">National Governors Association biography</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Albert Edward Bogdon (1891-1927)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Albert E. Bogdon</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/de-lived.html">Denver</a>, Colo. Born in Mahanoy City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/SC-born.html">Schuylkill County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/index.html">1891</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/ofc/stsen.html">Colorado state senate</a> 1st District, 1925-27; died in office 1927. While visiting his <b>mistress</b>, (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandalous</a> behavior at the time), he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">killed</a> by her estranged husband, Joseph S. Minter, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/de-died.html">Denver</a>, Colo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/06-10.html">June 10, 1927</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/35.html">about 35 years</a>). Entombed in mausoleum at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/JF-buried.html#cms03912">Crown Hill Cemetery</a>, Wheat Ridge, Colo. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/29612455">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Roy T. Yates (1895-1960)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/PA-lived.html">Passaic County</a>, N.J.; Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Paterson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/PA-born.html">Passaic County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/08-08.html">August 8, 1895</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/NJ.html">New Jersey Republican State Committee</a>, 1925-27; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/stsen.html">New Jersey state senate</a> from Passaic County, 1928-31; resigned 1931. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jr-ord-un-am-mechanics.html">Junior Order</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/pat-ord-sons-am.html">Patriotic Order Sons of America</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">Shot</a> in the abdomen, on August 14, 1931, by Miss Ruth Cranmer, in her apartment in Manhattan, New York; this incident led to the discovery that Miss Cranmer, apparently his <b>mistress</b>, had also received checks from the State of New Jersey; the New Jersey State Senate Judiciary committee began an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a> into whether Sen. Yates should be <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">impeached</a>; but then he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a>. Died, of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart ailment</a>, in Doctors <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/1960/03-08.html">March 8, 1960</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 213 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-buried.html#cms07687">somewhere</a> in Easton, Conn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Elsie Southrope.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Elliott Roosevelt (1910-1990)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Fort Worth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TT-lived.html">Tarrant County</a>, Tex.; Buford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/RB-lived.html">Rio Blanco County</a>, Colo.; Minneapolis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/HE-lived.html">Hennepin County</a>, Minn.; Miami Beach, Dade County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/DA-lived.html">Miami-Dade County</a>), Fla.; Seattle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-lived.html">King County</a>, Wash.; Palm Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/RI-lived.html">Riverside County</a>, Calif.; Scottsdale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/MA-lived.html">Maricopa County</a>, Ariz. Born in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/09-23.html">September 23, 1910</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/TX.html">1940</a>; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigated</a> and called to testify by a U.S. Senate subcommittee in 1947 over <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">lavish entertainment</a> in Hollywood and Manhattan, many <b>paid escorts</b>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">paid hotel bills</a> provided to Roosevelt and others, in a successful effort to persuade them to recommend Hughes reconnaissance aircraft for purchase by the U.S. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/military.html">military</a>; owned a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">radio station</a> in Texas; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Colorado, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/CO.html">1960</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/miamibeach.html">mayor of Miami Beach, Fla.</a>, 1965-69; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/FL.html">Democratic National Committee from Florida</a>, 1968; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/FL.html">1968</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">congestive heart failure</a>, in Scottsdale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/MA-died.html">Maricopa County</a>, Ariz., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1990/10-27.html">October 27, 1990</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 34 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/roosevelt.html#876.28.99">Franklin Delano Roosevelt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#632.73.38">Eleanor Roosevelt</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#241.11.81">James Roosevelt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#128.53.81">Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/01-16.html">January 16, 1932</a>, to Elizabeth Browning Donner; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/07-22.html">July 22, 1933</a>, to Ruth Josephine Googins; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/12-03.html">December 3, 1944</a>, to Faye Margaret Emerson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1951/03-15.html">March 15, 1951</a>, to Minnewa (Bell) Gray Burnside Ross; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1960/11-03.html">November 3, 1960</a>, to Patricia (Peabody) Whithead; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#741.57.28">Theodore Roosevelt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson2.html#825.26.57">Corinne Roosevelt Robinson</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#795.95.53">Robert Barnwell Roosevelt</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#589.17.33">James I. Roosevelt</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robbins.html#643.57.11">Edward Hutchinson Robbins</a>; third great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#216.33.92">William Bellinger Bulloch</a>; fourth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#822.48.83">Archibald Bulloch</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson8.html#581.70.12">Theodore Douglas Robinson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/longan-looker.html#866.63.42">Alice Roosevelt Longworth</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robbins.html#539.37.12">Warren Delano Robbins</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#148.74.70">Corinne Robinson Alsop</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#639.27.54">Theodore Roosevelt Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#717.74.29">William Sheffield Cowles</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/monroe.html#092.05.28">Elizabeth Monroe</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#075.06.66">Ebenezer Huntington</a>; first cousin seven times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#433.10.72">Benjamin Huntington</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/christinson-chumbler.html#821.65.50">Corinne A. Chubb</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#338.31.34">John deKoven Alsop</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/welcome-wellborn.html#525.16.64">Susan Roosevelt Weld</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goulden-gradison.html#724.26.22">Samuel Laurence Gouverneur</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#279.56.72">Nicholas Roosevelt Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#832.00.97">Philip DePeyster</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#260.28.70">Jabez Williams Huntington</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/Elliott Roosevelt">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Theophilus Eugene Connor (1897-1973)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Bull Connor</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Birmingham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ala. Born in Selma, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/DS-born.html">Dallas County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/07-11.html">July 11, 1897</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pro-sports.html">Sports</a> reporter on Birmingham <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">radio</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/sthse.html">Alabama state house of representatives</a>, 1935-37; Birmingham Commissioner of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawenforcement.html">Public Safety</a>, 1936-52, 1956-63; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Alabama</a>, 1940, 1954; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Alabama, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/AL.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/AL.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/AL.html">1960</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/AL.html">1964</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/AL.html">1968</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> on December 26, 1951, on being found having a <b>tryst</b> in a hotel room with his secretary, Christina Brown; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> of <b>adultery</b>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jail</a>, but the conviction was overturned in 1952; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/AL.html">Democratic National Committee from Alabama</a>, 1960-63; an ardent <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/hatred.html">white supremacist</a>; his use of police dogs and fire hoses against civil rights demonstrators in 1962-63 provoked national <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">outrage</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/birmingham.html">mayor of Birmingham, Ala.</a>, 1963. Died in Birmingham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/JF-died.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1973/03-10.html">March 10, 1973</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 242 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/JF-buried.html#cms00087">Elmwood Cemetery</a>, Birmingham, Ala. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Hugh King Connor Connor and Molly (Godwin) Connor; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/">1920</a> to Beara Levens.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/Bull Connor">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/973/000163484">NNDB dossier</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8525289">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Silvio Joseph Failla (1910-1972)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Silvio J. Failla</b>; <b>Si Failla</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Hoboken, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HU-lived.html">Hudson County</a>, N.J. Born in New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/05-23.html">May 23, 1910</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/funeral.html">Undertaker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/hoboken.html">mayor of Hoboken, N.J.</a>, 1965; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> District 12-C, 1972; died in office 1972. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> ancestry. According to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">published reports</a>, he left a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/taverns.html">bar</a> with a <b>prostitute</b>, Deborah Dell; just outside, he was robbed, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shot</a> multiple times, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">killed</a>, in Neptune Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MO-died.html">Monmouth County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1972/09-16.html">September 16, 1972</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 116 days</a>). Dell and an associate were later convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. Entombed in mausoleum at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MO-buried.html#cms03843">St. Catharine Cemetery</a>, Sea Girt, N.J. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Luigi Failla and Vittoria 'Victoria' (Candio) Failla; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/">1937</a> to Louise E. Picone.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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://billiongraves.com/pages/record/burial/2610959">BillionGraves burial record</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Gerald Norman Springer (b. 1944)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Jerry Springer</b>; <b>&quot;Sultan of Salaciousness&quot;</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Cincinnati, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HA-lived.html">Hamilton County</a>, Ohio. Born in London, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/02-13.html">February 13, 1944</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Resigned</a> from Cincinnati city council in 1974 after admitting he <b>paid a prostitute</b> with a personal check, which was found in a police raid on a massage parlor; won back his council seat in 1975 and went on to become mayor; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/cincinnati.html">mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio</a>, 1977-78; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Ohio</a>, 1982; local <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">television news anchor</a>; host of a raucus national <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">television talk show</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/OH.html">2004</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/tau-epsilon-phi.html">Tau Epsilon Phi</a>. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/1973/">1973</a> to Micki Velton.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/Jerry Springer">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/697/000023628">NNDB dossier</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001761">Internet Movie Database profile</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Jerry Springer:</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">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Wilbur Daigh Mills (1909-1992)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Wilbur D. Mills</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Kensett, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/WH-lived.html">White County</a>, Ark. Born in Kensett, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/WH-born.html">White County</a>, Ark., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/05-24.html">May 24, 1909</a>. Democrat. State court judge in Arkansas, 1934-38; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Arkansas</a> 2nd District, 1939-77; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Arkansas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/AR.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/AR.html">1956</a>; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1972/index.html">1972</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. In October 1974, he was driving late at night in Washington, D.C. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/traffic.html">without lights on</a>; when stopped by police, he was seen to be <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/intoxication.html">intoxicated</a> and his face was bloody from a scuffle; an Argentine <b>striptease artist</b> named Fanne Fox leaped from his car and jumped into the nearby Tidal Basin; after this incident highlighted his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/intoxication.html">alcoholism</a>, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">forced to resign</a> his powerful chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee and seek treatment. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1992/index.html">1992</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">about 83 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/WH-buried.html#cms04378">Kensett Cemetery</a>, Kensett, Ark. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=M000778">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407756">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Joe David Waggonner Jr. (1918-2007)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Joe Waggonner, Jr.</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Plain Dealing, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/BO-lived.html">Bossier Parish</a>, La. Born near Plain Dealing, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/BO-born.html">Bossier Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/09-07.html">September 7, 1918</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict; wholesale <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/oilgas.html">petroleum</a> products distribution business; member, Louisiana state board of education, 1960-61; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Louisiana</a> 4th District, 1961-79. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/40-8.html">Forty and Eight</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kappa-sigma.html">Kappa Sigma</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a> in Washington, D.C., 1976, for <b>soliciting</b> a policewoman posing as a <b>prostitute</b>. Died in Shreveport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/CA-died.html">Caddo Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2007/10-07.html">October 7, 2007</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 30 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/BO-buried.html#cms07723">Plain Dealing Cemetery</a>, Plain Dealing, La. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Joe David Waggonner and Elizzibeth (Johnston) Waggonner; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/12-14.html">December 14, 1942</a>, to Mary Ruth Carter.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=W000018">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411197">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Wayne Levere Hays (1911-1989)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Wayne L. Hays</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Flushing, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/BE-lived.html">Belmont County</a>, Ohio. Born in Bannock, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/BE-born.html">Belmont County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/05-13.html">May 13, 1911</a>. Democrat. Mayor of Flushing, Ohio, 1939-45; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/stsen.html">Ohio state senate</a>, 1941-42; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/BE-officials.html">Belmont County Commissioner</a>, 1945-48; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Ohio</a> 18th District, 1949-76; resigned 1976; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/OH.html">1960</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/OH.html">1964</a>; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1976/index.html">1976</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/sthse.html">Ohio state house of representatives</a>, 1979. In May 1976, he was caught up in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> when a clerk in his congressional office, Elizabeth Ray, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> that she was on the public payroll solely to provide <b>sexual favors</b> to the Congressman; Hays <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">admitted</a> most of the allegations; he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> as committee chair in June, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> from Congress in September. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1989/02-13.html">February 13, 1989</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 276 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/BE-buried.html#cms01094">Union Cemetery</a>, St. Clairsville, Ohio. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=H000408">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405275">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne Hays">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/173/000164678">NNDB dossier</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6789133">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Allan Turner Howe (1927-2000)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Utah. Born in South Cottonwood (now part of Murray), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/SL-born.html">Salt Lake County</a>, Utah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/09-06.html">September 6, 1927</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; administrative assistant and field representative for U.S. Sen. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/moss.html#977.22.06">Frank Moss</a>, 1959-64; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Utah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/UT.html">1960</a>; administrative assistant to Gov. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ramacitti-rampton.html#450.14.20">Calvin L. Rampton</a>, 1966-68; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Utah</a> 2nd District, 1975-77; defeated, 1976. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a> in Salt Lake City, Utah, 1976, for <b>soliciting sex</b> from a policewoman posing as a prostitute. Died in Arlington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-died.html">Arlington County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2000/12-14.html">December 14, 2000</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 99 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=H000851">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405698">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>J. Herbert Burke (1913-1993)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Hollywood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/BR-lived.html">Broward County</a>, Fla.; Fort Lauderdale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/BR-lived.html">Broward County</a>, Fla. Born in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-born.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/01-14.html">January 14, 1913</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Florida</a>, 1967-79 (10th District 1967-73, 12th District 1973-79); defeated, 1955 (6th District), 1978 (12th District); delegate to Republican National Convention from Florida, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/FL.html">1972</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/eagles.html">Eagles</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/40-8.html">Forty and Eight</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/disabled-am-vets.html">Disabled American Veterans</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a> in 1978 for being <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/intoxication.html">drunk and disruptive</a> in the parking lot of a <b>strip club</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/intoxication.html">public drunkenness</a>, disorderly conduct and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">witness tampering</a>. Died in Fern Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/SE-died.html">Seminole County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1993/06-16.html">June 16, 1993</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 153 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-buried.html#cms00004">Arlington National Cemetery</a>, Arlington, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=B001091">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402037">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/31541750">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Frederick William Richmond (b. 1923)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Frederick W. Richmond</b>; <b>Fred Richmond</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y. Born in Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/11-15.html">November 15, 1923</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/NY.html">1964</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 14th District, 1975-82. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a> in Washington, D.C., in 1978 for <b>soliciting sex</b> from a minor and from an undercover police officer; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to a misdemeanor. In 1982, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/tax-evasion.html">tax evasion</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/illegal-drugs.html">marijuana possession</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">improper payments</a> to a federal employee, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> and was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to a year and a day in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; served nine months. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=R000232">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409208">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>William Brown Stansbury (1923-1985)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>William B. Stansbury</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky. Born in Corydon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/HR-born.html">Harrison County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/03-18.html">March 18, 1923</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-parties.html">chair of Jefferson County Democratic Party</a>, 1968-76; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/louisville.html">mayor of Louisville, Ky.</a>, 1977-81; in 1978, during a firemen's strike, he left the city, saying that he was going to a conference in Atlanta; instead, he went to New Orleans for a <b>tryst</b> with his administrative assistant; the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> led to an effort to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">impeach</a> him; soon after, a city official pleaded guilty to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">extorting</a> $16,000 from local businessmen; when questioned by a federal grand jury as to whether this money came to his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/campaign-finance.html">campaign</a> or to him personally, Stansbury refused to answer, claiming the Fifth Amendment right against <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">self-incrimination</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-upsilon.html">Delta Upsilon</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. While crossing Bardstown Road to enter St. Francis of Assisi <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/churches.html">Church</a>, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/automobile.html">hit by a car</a>, and died soon after, in Humana <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>-University, Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-died.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1985/04-04.html">April 4, 1985</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 17 days</a>); His mother was killed in the same accident, and his wife was injured. Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-buried.html#cms05162">Calvary Cemetery</a>, Louisville, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 James Bernard Stansbury and Alliene (Brown) Stansbury; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1983/">1983</a> to Mary Ellen Farmer.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">William B. Stansbury <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Park</a> (established 1900, received current name 1985), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-names.html">Louisville, Kentucky</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/William B. Stansbury">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Robert Edmund Bauman (b. 1937)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Robert E. Bauman</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Easton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/TA-lived.html">Talbot County</a>, Md. Born in Bryn Mawr, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/MO-born.html">Montgomery County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/04-04.html">April 4, 1937</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1964/MD.html">1964</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/MD.html">1972</a> (alternate); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/stsen.html">Maryland state senate</a>, 1971-73; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maryland</a> 1st District, 1973-81; defeated, 1971, 1980. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/young-ams-freedom.html">Young Americans for Freedom</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/humane-soc.html">Humane Society</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jaycees.html">Jaycees</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/izaak-walton-league.html">Izaak Walton League</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lgbt.html">Gay</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Pleaded guilty</a> in 1980 to a <b>sex-solicitation</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charge</a>. Still living as of 1998. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 John Carl Bauman and Florence (House) Bauman; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1960/11-19.html">November 19, 1960</a>, to Carol Gene Dawson.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=B000244">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401238">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert Bauman">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Jon Clifton Hinson (1942-1995)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Jon Hinson</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Mississippi. Born in Tylertown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/WL-born.html">Walthall County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/03-16.html">March 16, 1942</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Mississippi</a> 4th District, 1979-81; resigned 1981. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lgbt.html">Gay</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Resigned</a> from Congress in 1981 after being <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in a men's restroom and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <b>oral sodomy</b>. After leaving politics, became a gay rights activist. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/aids.html">acquired immune deficiency syndrome</a>, Silver Spring, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1995/07-21.html">July 21, 1995</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 127 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=H000641">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405496">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Alben W. Barkley II (born c.1945)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Marion, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CI-lived.html">Crittenden County</a>, Ky. Born about 1945. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/cmagr.html">Kentucky commissioner of agriculture</a>, 1980-83; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in 1981 by the Kentucky Personnel Board of <b>sexual harassing</b> his secretary, but the board had no authority to punish him; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky</a>, 1983. Still living as of 1983. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Murrell Barkley and Dorothy (Graves) Barkley; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barkett-barlett.html#230.97.09">Alben William Barkley</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/10001-0412.html">Barkley-MacArthur family</a> (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=151750">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/773/54.04.jpg" width=70 height=103 border=0 alt="Gerry E. Studds"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Gerry Eastman Studds (1937-2006)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Gerry E. Studds</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Cohasset, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO-lived.html">Norfolk County</a>, Mass. Born in Mineola, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-born.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/05-12.html">May 12, 1937</a>. Democrat. Foreign Service officer; member of White House staff during the administration of President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John F. Kennedy</a>, 1962-63; legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams4.html#107.42.62">Harrison A. Williams</a>, 1964; state coordinator for U.S. Sen. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mccarthy.html#882.26.86">Eugene J. McCarthy</a>'s presidential primary campaign, 1968; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/MA.html">1968</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/MA.html">1996</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a>, 1973-97 (12th District 1973-83, 10th District 1983-97). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lgbt.html">Gay</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">First</a> openly gay member of Congress. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Censured</a> by the House of Representatives on July 20, 1983, for having <b>sexual relations</b> with a teenage House page ten years earlier. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/lung.html">respiratory failure</a>, in Boston <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Medical Center</a>, Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-died.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2006/10-14.html">October 14, 2006</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 155 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=S001040">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410496">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/285/000101979">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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> Public Officers of Massachusetts, 1979-80</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Daniel Bever Crane (b. 1936)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Dan Crane</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Illinois. Born in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-born.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/01-10.html">January 10, 1936</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Illinois</a>, 1979-85 (22nd District 1979-83, 19th District 1983-85). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Censured</a> by the House of Representatives in 1983 for having <b>sexual relations</b> with a teenage House page in 1980. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=C000871">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402985">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/160/000119800">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Daniel Grove (1923-1999)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Colorado. Born in Millport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/LM-born.html">Lamar County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/12-14.html">December 14, 1923</a>. Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/ofc/sthse.html">Colorado state house of representatives</a>, 1960. Sponsored legislation to create Colorado's prison work release program. Served ten years on Colorado's State Adult Parole Board before being <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fired</a> in 1984 over allegations of <b>sexual harassment</b>; later reinstated; the sexual harassment allegations were never substantiated. Died of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">bone cancer</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/de-died.html">Denver</a>, Colo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1999/09-13.html">September 13, 1999</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 273 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/de-buried.html#cms02933">Fort Logan National Cemetery</a>, Denver, Colo. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Mary M. (Young) Grove and Elbert Vernon Grove.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/728772">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Vincent Albert Cianci (1941-2016)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Buddy Cianci</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/04-30.html">April 30, 1941</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/providence.html">mayor of Providence, R.I.</a>, 1975-84, 1991-2002; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1976 /speakers.html">speaker</a>, Republican National Convention, 1976 ; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1980; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">talk show host</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Pleaded no contest</a> in 1984 to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> that he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">beat</a> his <b>estranged wife's lover</b> with a fireplace log. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Charged</a> with twelve federal counts of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">bribery</a>, conspiracy and racketeering; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in June, 2002 on two counts. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2016/01-28.html">January 28, 2016</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 273 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-buried.html#cms04394">St. Ann's Cemetery</a>, Cranston, R.I. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Campaign slogan (1991):</i> "He never stopped caring about Providence."<span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/Buddy Cianci">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/157534586">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Vincent Cianci:</i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312592809/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312592809&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Politics and Pasta: How I Prosecuted Mobsters, Rebuilt a Dying City, Dined with Sinatra, Spent Five Years in a Federally Funded Gated Community, and Lived to Tell the Tale</a> (2011)</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Buddy Cianci:</i> Mike Stanton, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375507809/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375507809&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Prince of Providence : The True Story of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayor, Some Wiseguys, and the Feds</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/446/38.21.jpg" width=70 height=113 border=0 alt="Basil W. Brown"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Basil W. Brown (1927-1997)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich.; Highland Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Vandalia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/CS-born.html">Cass County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/03-20.html">March 20, 1927</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a>, 1957-88 (3rd District 1957-64, 6th District 1965-74, 3rd District 1975-82, 2nd District 1983-88); resigned 1988; in 1985, a prostitute working for the police went to visit him several times, and <b>exchanged sex</b> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/illegal-drugs.html">marijuana</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/illegal-drugs.html">cocaine</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> November 8, 1985; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> in 1987 and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> from the Senate; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to six months in jail, fines, and probation; his law license was also suspended; the state supreme court threw out the conviction in 1991. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</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/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/amvets.html">Amvets</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</a>. Injured in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/fire.html">fire</a> at his home, while also suffering <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">cancer</a>, and died two weeks later, in Harper <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-died.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1997/10-28.html">October 28, 1997</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 222 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/1950/06-08.html">June 8, 1950</a>, to Ermajeanne Seeger.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/Basil W. Brown">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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> Michigan Manual 1957-58</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Jello Biafra (b. 1958)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Eric Reed Boucher</b>; <b>&quot;Occupant&quot;</b>; <b>&quot;Count Ringworm&quot;</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif. Born in Boulder, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/BO-born.html">Boulder County</a>, Colo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1958/06-17.html">June 17, 1958</a>. Co-founder, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/music.html">lead singer</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/music.html">songwriter</a> for the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/music.html">punk rock band</a> Dead Kennedys (1978-86); founder of the Alternative Tentacles <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">record label</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/sanfrancisco.html">mayor of San Francisco, Calif.</a>, 1979; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a>, in Los Angeles in 1986, with distributing <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obscenity.html">obscene</a> "harmful matter" in the form of a <b>sexually explicit</b> print distributed with a Dead Kennedys record album; following a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">trial</a>, the jury deadlocked, a mistrial was declared, and charges were dismissed; Biafra went on to become a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">spoken word performer</a>; on May 7, 1994, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">assaulted and injured</a> at a music club in Berkeley, Calif., by five or six attackers who called him a "sellout". <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/atheist-agnostic.html">Atheist</a>. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Stanley Boucher and Virginia Boucher; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1981/10-31.html">October 31, 1981</a>, to Therese Soder.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Campaign slogan:</i> "There's always room for Jello."</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Personal motto:</i> "Don't hate the media, become the media."</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/Jello Biafra">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/279/000026201">NNDB dossier</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0080470">Internet Movie Database profile</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=18031">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Gary Warren Hart (b. 1936)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Gary Hart</b>; <b>Gary Warren Hartpence</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/de-lived.html">Denver</a>, Colo. Born in Ottawa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/FR-born.html">Franklin County</a>, Kan., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/11-28.html">November 28, 1936</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Colorado</a>, 1975-87; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1984/index.html">1984</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/index.html">1988</a>; his presidential campaign was derailed in 1987 by the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> over disclosure of an <b>extramarital affair</b> with model Donna Rice. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Carl Riley Hartpence and Nina (Pritchard) Hartpence; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1958/">1958</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hart.html#414.69.65">Lee Hart</a> and Oletha 'Lee' Ludwig.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/kaufman.html#386.99.32">Tod J. Kaufman</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=H000287">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405161">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary Hart">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/417/000022351">NNDB dossier</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1635822">Internet Movie Database profile</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Gary Hart:</i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812903722/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0812903722&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Right from the Start; A Chronicle of the McGovern Campaign</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195176839/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0195176839&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Fourth Power: A Grand Strategy for the United States in the Twenty-First Century</a> (2004)&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195155866/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0195155866&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Restoration of the Republic: The Jeffersonian Ideal in 21st-Century America</a> (2002)&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684863766/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684863766&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Patriot</a> (1998)</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Bess Myerson (1924-2014)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; Born in Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-born.html">Bronx County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/07-16.html">July 16, 1924</a>. Democrat. Miss America, 1945; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> and only Jewish woman to win the pageant; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/music.html">musician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">television personality</a>; New York City commissioner of consumer affairs, 1969-73, and commissioner of cultural affairs, 1983-87; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New York</a>, 1980; accused in 1987 of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">bribing</a> Justice <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gabaldon-gafney.html#520.97.11">Hortense Gabel</a> by giving her <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/nepotism.html">daughter</a> a city job; meanwhile, the judge reduced child support payments for Carl Andrew Capasso, Myerson's <b>married lover</b>; the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> was called the "Bess Mess"; she was forced to resign as city consumer affairs commissioner; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> on federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">bribery</a> charges in 1988, along with Capasso and Gabel; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and found not guilty. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Died in Santa Monica, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-died.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2014/12-14.html">December 14, 2014</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 151 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-buried.html#cms04397">Woodlawn Cemetery</a>, Santa Monica, Calif. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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> Daughter of Louis Myerson and Bella (Podell) Myerson; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1946/">1946</a> to Allan Wayne; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/">1962</a> to Arnold Grant.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Epitaph:</i> "You Will Always Be Our Queen."</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/Bess Myerson">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/981/000022915">NNDB dossier</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0616898">Internet Movie Database profile</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/140941886">Find-A-Grave memorial</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=20019">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Harold Joseph Scott (b. 1938)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Harold J. Scott</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Flint, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/GE-lived.html">Genesee County</a>, Mich. Born in Flint, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/GE-born.html">Genesee County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/10-05.html">October 5, 1938</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> 80th District, 1973-77; resigned 1977; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 29th District, 1977-82. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/eagles.html">Eagles</a>. Convicted on <b>rape</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> in 1988. Still living as of 1988. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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> Brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scott8.html#892.28.58">Thomas E. Scott</a>.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Donald Edgar Lukens (1931-2010)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Donald E. Lukens</b>; <b>Buz Lukens</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Middletown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/BU-lived.html">Butler County</a>, Ohio. Born in Harveysburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/WR-born.html">Warren County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/02-11.html">February 11, 1931</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Ohio</a>, 1967-71, 1987-90 (24th District 1967-71, 8th District 1987-90); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/stsen.html">Ohio state senate</a>, 1975. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sertoma.html">Sertoma</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/farm-bureau.html">Farm Bureau</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-chi.html">Delta Chi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ord-ahepa.html">Order of Ahepa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/toastmasters.html">Toastmasters</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in 1989 on a misdemeanor <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charge</a> of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, by having <b>sex with a 16 year old girl</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 30 days in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jail</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in February 1995 on five counts of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">bribery</a> and conspiracy; a jury in October 1995 found him not guilty on three counts but was unable to reach a verdict on the other two; a mistrial was declared. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Reindicted</a> in March 1996; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2010/05-22.html">May 22, 2010</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 100 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 William Arthur Lukens and Edith (Greene) Lukens.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=L000509">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406995">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/256/000129866">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Barney Frank (b. 1940)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Newton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-lived.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass. Born in Bayonne, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HU-born.html">Hudson County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1940/03-31.html">March 31, 1940</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html">Massachusetts state house of representatives</a>, 1973-80; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a> 4th District, 1981-; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/MA.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/MA.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/MA.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/MA.html">2008</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lgbt.html">Gay</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Admitted</a> in 1990 to having paid Stephen L. Gobie, a <b>male prostitute</b>, for sex, subsequently hiring Gobie as his personal assistant, and getting 33 parking tickets dismissed for him; Gobie also used the congressman's apartment for prostitution. A move to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">expel</a> Frank from the House of Representatives failed on a 38 to 390 vote; a motion to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">censure</a> him failed 141-287; finally, the House voted to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">reprimand</a> him by a vote of 408 to 18. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=F000339">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400140">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney Frank">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/140/000024068">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Barney Frank:</i> Stuart Weisberg, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1558497218/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1558497218&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Barney Frank: The Story of America's Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman</a>&nbsp;&mdash; Peter Bollen, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0595381170/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0595381170&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Frank Talk: The Wit and Wisdom of Barney Frank</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Arlan Ingehart Stangeland (1930-2013)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Arlan Stangeland</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Barnesville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/CL-lived.html">Clay County</a>, Minn. Born in Fargo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ND/CA-born.html">Cass County</a>, N.Dak., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/02-08.html">February 8, 1930</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/sthse.html">Minnesota state house of representatives</a>, 1966-74 (District 56-B 1966-72, District 9-B 1973-74); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Minnesota</a> 7th District, 1977-91; defeated (Independent Republican), 1990; news media reported in January 1990 that he had made hundreds of phone calls on his House phone credit card, to or from the home of a female <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/lobbyists.html">lobbyist</a>; he denied having an <b>extramarital affair</b>, but the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> contributed to his defeat in November 1990. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lutheran.html">Lutheran</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-sigma-phi.html">Delta Sigma Phi</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/OT-died.html">Otter Tail County</a>, Minn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2013/07-02.html">July 2, 2013</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 144 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Ingehart Stangeland and Pearle (Olson) Stangeland; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1950/06-24.html">June 24, 1950</a>, to Virginia Grace Trowbridge.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=S000795">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410261">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/570/000137159">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Brockman Adams (1927-2004)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Brock Adams</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Seattle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-lived.html">King County</a>, Wash.; Stevensville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/QA-lived.html">Queen Anne's County</a>, Md. Born in Atlanta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-born.html">Fulton County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/01-13.html">January 13, 1927</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington</a>, 1961-64; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Washington</a> 7th District, 1965-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of Transportation</a>, 1977-79; resigned 1979; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Washington</a>, 1987-93; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988 /speakers.html">speaker</a>, Democratic National Convention, 1988 ; in 1992, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">accused</a> by eight women of <b>sexual misconduct</b> including <b>sexual harassment</b> and <b>rape</b>; he denied the allegations, and no charges were ever brought, but the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> ended his political career. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/fed-bar-assoc.html">Federal Bar Association</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/parkinsons.html">Parkinson's disease</a>, in Stevensville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/QA-died.html">Queen Anne's County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2004/09-10.html">September 10, 2004</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 241 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/QA-buried.html#cms08171">Broad Creek Cemetery</a>, Stevensville, Md. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Charles Leslie Adams and Vera Eleanor (Beemer) Adams; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1952/08-16.html">August 16, 1952</a>, to Mary Elizabeth Scott.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=A000031">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400692">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brock Adams">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/417/000041294">NNDB dossier</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9452402">Find-A-Grave memorial</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4780">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Sol Wachtler</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Manhasset, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/coajd.html">Judge of New York Court of Appeals</a>, 1972; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/coacj.html">chief judge of New York Court of Appeals</a>, 1985-93. In 1993, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 15 months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">extortion</a> in connection with his <b>harassment of an ex-lover</b>. Still living as of 1993. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Sol Wachtler:</i> John M. Caher, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1573921971/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1573921971&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">King of the Mountain : The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Chief Judge Sol Wachtler</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Melvin Jay Reynolds (b. 1952)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Mel Reynolds</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Illinois. Born in Mound Bayou, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/BO-born.html">Bolivar County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1952/01-08.html">January 8, 1952</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">University professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Illinois</a> 2nd District, 1993-95; defeated in primary, 1988, 1990; resigned 1995. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in 1995 on <b>sexual misconduct</b> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">obstruction of justice</a> charges and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to five years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in federal court in 1997 of 15 counts of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bank-fraud.html">bank fraud</a>, wire fraud, and lying to the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/campaign-finance.html">Federal Election Commission</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 78 more months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=R000178">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409154">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/857/000088593">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Robert William Packwood (b. 1932)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Bob Packwood</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-lived.html">Multnomah County</a>, Ore.; Lake Oswego, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/CL-lived.html">Clackamas County</a>, Ore. Born in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-born.html">Multnomah County</a>, Ore., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/09-11.html">September 11, 1932</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-parties.html">chair of Multnomah County Republican Party</a>, 1960-62; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/ofc/sthse.html">Oregon state house of representatives</a>, 1963-68; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Oregon</a>, 1969-95; resigned 1995; delegate to Republican National Convention from Oregon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/OR.html">1972</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/unitarian.html">Unitarian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jaycees.html">Jaycees</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/beta-theta-pi.html">Beta Theta Pi</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Resigned</a> from the U.S. Senate in 1995, after the Select Committee on Ethics <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">recommended his expulson</a> for <b>sexual misconduct</b>, attempting to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">obstruct</a> the committee's investigation, and using his position to solicit employment for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/nepotism.html">his wife</a>. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Frederick William Packwood and Gladys (Taft) Packwood; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1964/11-25.html">November 25, 1964</a>, to Georgie Ann Oberteuffer; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/paca-paganelli.html#590.23.46">William Henderson Packwood</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/branchfield-brandofino.html#675.27.28">Augustus Brandegee</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/paca-paganelli.html#858.61.68">Otis Larry Packwood</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/10001-0421.html">Wolcott-Griswold-Packwood-Brandegee family</a> of Connecticut (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=P000009">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408420">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/643/000023574">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Henry Gabriel Cisneros (b. 1947)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Henry G. Cisneros</b>&nbsp;&mdash; 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/1947/06-11.html">June 11, 1947</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sanantonio.html">Mayor of San Antonio, Tex.</a>, 1981-89; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development</a>, 1993-97. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/hispanic.html">Hispanic</a> ancestry. In 1995, an independent counsel was appointed to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigate</a> allegations that he had made <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">false statements</a> to the FBI about payments he made to his <b>mistress</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in 1997 on 18 counts of conspiracy, making <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">false statements</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">obstruction of justice</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to a misdemeanor count of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">lying to the FBI</a>, and was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $10,000; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pardon.html">pardoned</a> in 2001 by President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#673.06.95">Bill Clinton</a>. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 George Cisneros and Elvira Cisneros; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1969/">1969</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cisco-clague.html#872.85.99">Mary Alice Perez</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/Henry Cisneros">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/005/000025927">NNDB dossier</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1188933">Internet Movie Database profile</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Henry Cisneros:</i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1890346012/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1890346012&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Mayor : An Inside View of San Antonio Politics, 1981-1995</a> (1997)</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Henry Cisneros:</i> Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1562943685/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1562943685&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Henry Cisneros : Mexican-American Leader</a> (for young readers)</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Edward Brooke Lee Jr. (1917-2004)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>E. Brooke Lee, Jr.</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Silver Spring, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C.; Chevy Chase, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md. Born in Silver Spring, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-born.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/10-25.html">October 25, 1917</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">Real estate developer</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/MD.html">1944</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/MD.html">1952</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>); marketing and accounting executive with Scott <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/papermaking.html">Paper</a> Company; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/ofc/washington.html">mayor of Washington, D.C.</a>, 1982; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> in July 1995 to misdemeanor child abuse after being <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <b>fondling</b> a babysitter; reportedly <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> and given a suspended sentence; later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">settled a civil suit</a> against him by the babysitter's parents. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">congestive heart failure</a>, in Chevy Chase, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2004/08-20.html">August 20, 2004</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 300 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00376">Rock Creek Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Elizabeth Somerville (Wilson) Lee and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#297.22.60">Edward Brooke Lee</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#982.73.82">Blair Lee III</a>; married to Brenda Joyce Baker; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#363.09.77">Francis Preston Blair Lee</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blair.html#828.36.15">Montgomery Blair</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blair.html#827.40.18">Francis Preston Blair Jr.</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blair.html#061.23.89">Francis Preston Blair</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/soapy-solwin.html#142.78.00">Augustus Rhodes Sollers</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clippert-clynick.html#990.78.65">Daniel Robeadeau Clymer</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clippert-clynick.html#598.67.74">Hiester Clymer</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee7.html#262.89.36">Richard Henry Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blair.html#118.85.96">James Blair</a>; third great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#010.52.17">Francis Lightfoot Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#361.64.36">Arthur Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hickson-higginbottom.html#014.72.36">William Hiester</a>; fourth great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hickson-higginbottom.html#693.21.15">John Hiester</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hickson-higginbottom.html#629.45.13">Daniel Hiester (1747-1804)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blair.html#463.67.53">James Lawrence Blair</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blair.html#942.93.74">Gist Blair</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hickson-higginbottom.html#171.86.63">Isaac Ellmaker Hiester</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hickson-higginbottom.html#689.39.70">Daniel Hiester (1774-1834)</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hickson-higginbottom.html#048.38.50">Joseph Hiester</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee8.html#346.86.17">Thomas Sim Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee4.html#665.18.18">Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee2.html#558.92.01">Charles Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#856.08.16">Edmund Jennings Lee</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howard.html#624.56.05">John Eager Howard</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee5.html#908.74.21">John Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aikens-albree.html#092.04.74">William Julian Albert</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fogleson-folse.html#328.23.16">Joseph Wingate Folk</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0104.html">Muhlenberg-Hiester family</a> of Pennsylvania (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Elmer Peter Black Cloud (1953-2014)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Elmer Black Cloud</b>; <b>Woody Black Cloud</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Wakpala, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/CR-lived.html">Corson County</a>, S.Dak. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/03-24.html">March 24, 1953</a>. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from South Dakota, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1992/SD.html">1992</a>; when his 14-year-old niece became pregnant, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <b>sexual abuse</b> of a minor and <b>incest</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>; in December 1996, the conviction was affirmed on appeal. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/amerind.html">Sioux Indian</a> ancestry. Died, in the Mobridge Regional <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Mobridge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/WA-died.html">Walworth County</a>, S.Dak., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2014/03-10.html">March 10, 2014</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 351 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/CR-buried.html# ">Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery</a>, Little Eagle, S.Dak. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blackdon-blackstone.html#195.58.29">Vivian Black Cloud</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/142063372">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Hollis Earl Roberts (1943-2011)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Hollis E. Roberts</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Hugo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/CC-lived.html">Choctaw County</a>, Okla. Born in Hochatown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/MC-born.html">McCurtain County</a>, Okla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/05-09.html">May 9, 1943</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/ofc/sthse.html">Oklahoma state house of representatives</a>, 1970; chief of the Choctaw Nation, 1978-97. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/amerind.html">Choctaw Indian</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in 1997 of <b>aggravated sexual abuse</b> and <b>abusive sexual contact</b>, involving two female employees. Died in Hugo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/CC-died.html">Choctaw County</a>, Okla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2011/10-19.html">October 19, 2011</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 163 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Darrell E. Roberts and Laura (Beam) Roberts; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1963/05-17.html">May 17, 1963</a>, to Helen R. Rodriguez.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/Hollis E. Roberts">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.lrl.state.tx.us/scanned/members/photos/large/N/Nixon_Drew_76.jpg"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/293/24.59.jpg" width=70 height=117 border=0 alt="Drew Nixon"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Drew Nixon (b. 1959)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Carthage, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/PN-lived.html">Panola County</a>, Tex. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1959/11-21.html">November 21, 1959</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">Real estate sales</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/accounting.html">accountant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">insurance business</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/stsen.html">Texas state senate</a> 3rd District, 1995-2000; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in February 1997, after he <b>offered money</b> to a police officer posing as a prostitute; a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/weapons.html">loaded revolver</a> was found under the seat of his car, though he had no concealed hangun permit; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> and sentenced to six months in jail. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Still living as of 2000. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=85425">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href=" http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/legeLeaders/members/memberDisplay.cfm?memberID=28">Texas Legislators Past & Present</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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> Texas Legislative Reference Library</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>William Jefferson Clinton (b. 1946)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Bill Clinton</b>; <b>William Jefferson Blythe IV</b>; <b>&quot;Slick Willie&quot;</b>; <b>&quot;Bubba&quot;</b>; <b>&quot;Elvis&quot;</b>; <b>&quot;Eagle&quot;</b>; <b>&quot;The Big Dog&quot;</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Arkansas; Chappaqua, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y. Born in Hope, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/HE-born.html">Hempstead County</a>, Ark., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1946/08-19.html">August 19, 1946</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/rhodes-scholars.html">Rhodes scholar</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Arkansas</a> 3rd District, 1974; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/attygn.html">Arkansas state attorney general</a>, 1977-79; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Arkansas</a>, 1979-81, 1983-92; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Arkansas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/AR.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/AR.html">2000</a>; speaker, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1984/speakers.html">1984</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/speakers.html">1988</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1993-2001; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/NY.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/NY.html">2008</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/trilateral-commission.html">Trilateral Commission</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/cfr.html">Council on Foreign Relations</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/pi-sigma-alpha.html">Pi Sigma Alpha</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-alpha-delta.html">Phi Alpha Delta</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. On October 29, 1994, Francisco Duran fired 27 shots from the sidewalk at the White House in an apparent <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">assassination attempt</a> against President Clinton. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Impeached</a> by the House of Representatives in December 1998 over allegations of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/perjury.html">perjury</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">obstruction of justice</a> in connection with his <b>sexual contact</b> with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, but acquitted by the Senate. Still living as of 2020. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Roger Clinton; son of William Jefferson Blythe II and Virginia (Cassidy) Clinton; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1975/10-11.html">October 11, 1975</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#754.43.91">Hillary Diane Rodham</a> (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rodgers-rodriguez.html#569.11.84">Hugh Edwin Rodham</a>); father of Chelsea Clinton (daughter-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meyering-michalski.html#383.21.19">Edward Maurice Mezvinsky</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mara-margolis.html#859.96.47">Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky</a>); third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/locker-lockport.html#261.79.43">James Alexander Lockhart</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/10001-0948.html">Clinton family</a> of Wadesboro, North Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0256.html">Ashe-Polk family</a> of North Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/hipke-hisson.html#240.53.29">Abraham J. Hirschfeld</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/starr.html#203.18.03">Kenneth W. Starr</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/elystus-emerich.html#602.91.13">Rahm Emanuel</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cisco-clague.html#079.28.34">Henry G. Cisneros</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eberhart-eddleman.html#751.59.87">Maria Echaveste</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#618.71.93">Thurgood Marshall, Jr.</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/onen-orner.html#623.31.44">Walter S. Orlinsky</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ruble-ruggero.html#203.34.90">Charles F. C. Ruff</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maloney.html#619.24.48">Sean Patrick Maloney</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis6.html#899.39.58">Lanny J. Davis</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">The William Jefferson Clinton <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Federal Building</a> (built 1934; renamed 2012) in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-names.html">Washington, D.C.</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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.nga.org/governor/william-jefferson-clinton/">National Governors Association biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill Clinton">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/427/000026349">NNDB dossier</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001051">Internet Movie Database profile</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4019">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Bill Clinton:</i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679459316/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0679459316&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Between Hope and History : Meeting America's Challenges for the 21st Century</a> (1996)&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375414576/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375414576&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">My Life</a> (2004)</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Bill Clinton:</i> David Maraniss, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684818906/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684818906&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">First in His Class : The Biography of Bill Clinton</a>&nbsp;&mdash; Joe Conason, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312273193/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312273193&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Hunting of the President : The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton</a>&nbsp;&mdash; Gene Lyons, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1879957523/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1879957523&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Fools for Scandal : How the Media Invented Whitewater</a>&nbsp;&mdash; Sidney Blumenthal, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374125023/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0374125023&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Clinton Wars</a>&nbsp;&mdash; Dewayne Wickham, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345450329/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0345450329&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Bill Clinton and Black America</a>&nbsp;&mdash; Joe Klein, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767914120/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0767914120&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Natural : The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton</a>&nbsp;&mdash; Nigel Hamilton, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375506101/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375506101&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Bill Clinton: An American Journey</a>&nbsp;&mdash; Bob Woodward, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671666843/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0671666843&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House</a>&nbsp;&mdash; George Stephanopolous, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316930164/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0316930164&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">All Too Human</a>&nbsp;&mdash; John F. Harris, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375508473/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375508473&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Survivor : Bill Clinton in the White House</a>&nbsp;&mdash; Mark Katz, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786869496/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0786869496&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Clinton & Me: A Real Life Political Comedy</a>&nbsp;&mdash; Michael Takiff, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/030012130X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=030012130X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">A Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Him</a>&nbsp;&mdash; Tim O'Shei, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0766051498/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0766051498&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Bill Clinton</a> (for young readers)</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Bill Clinton:</i> Barbara Olson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895261677/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0895261677&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Final Days : The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House</a>&nbsp;&mdash; Meredith L. Oakley, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895267195/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0895267195&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">On the Make : The Rise of Bill Clinton</a>&nbsp;&mdash; Robert Patterson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895261405/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0895261405&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Endangered America's Long-Term National Security</a>&nbsp;&mdash; Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895264080/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0895264080&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories</a>&nbsp;&mdash; Ann Coulter, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895261138/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0895261138&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton</a>&nbsp;&mdash; Dick Morris & Eileen McGann, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060784156/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060784156&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Because He Could</a>&nbsp;&mdash; Jack Cashill, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0785262377/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0785262377&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Ron Brown's Body : How One Man's Death Saved the Clinton Presidency and Hillary's Future</a>&nbsp;&mdash; Christopher Hitchens, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1859842844/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1859842844&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">No One Left To Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family</a>&nbsp;&mdash; Rich Lowry, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895261294/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0895261294&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years</a>&nbsp;&mdash; Richard Miniter, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260743/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0895260743&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Losing Bin Laden : How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Gerald Steven Ackerman (b. 1956)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Gerald Ackerman</b>; <b>Ajax Ackerman</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Port Huron, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SC-lived.html">St. Clair County</a>, Mich. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1956/08-05.html">August 5, 1956</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/porthuron.html">Mayor of Port Huron, Mich.</a>, 1997-99; resigned 1999. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arraigned</a> in April 1999 on 14 counts of <b>criminal sexual conduct</b> involving children; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in October 1999 and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> only of the <b>indecent exposure</b> charges, with the jury unable to agree on the others; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to one year <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">imprisonment</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">retried</a> in May 2000 and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> on 10 felony counts of <b>criminal sexual conduct</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 18 to 38 years <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">imprisonment</a>. Still living as of 2007. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>William Hackel (born c.1942)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; Born about 1942. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/MA-officials.html">Macomb County Sheriff</a>, 1977-2000; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> in November 1999 of <b>raping</b> a 26-year-old woman at a sheriffs' convention; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in April 2000, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to three to fifteen years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Still living as of 2000. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>David E. Giles (born c.1950)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Washington. Born about 1950. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Washington</a> 8th District, 1986, 1990. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in June 2000 of <b>child rape</b>. Still living as of 2000. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Philip A. Giordano (born c.1963)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Phil Giordano</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Waterbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-lived.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn. Born about 1963. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/waterbury.html">Mayor of Waterbury, Conn.</a>, 1995-2001; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Connecticut</a>, 2000. In 2001, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <b>sexual assault</b> on two preteen girls; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in federal court, in March 2003, of violating their civil rights, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a>, in June 2003, to 37 years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Still living as of 2001. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Parker J. Bena (born c.1963)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/vb-lived.html">Virginia Beach</a>, Va. Born about 1963. Republican. Candidate for Presidential Elector for Virginia. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Pleaded guilty</a> in 2001 to possession of <b>child pornography</b> on his home computer; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 30 months in federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $18,000. Still living as of 2001. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Sidney Leo Maestas (b. 1954)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Sidney L. Maestas</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Bloomfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NM/SJ-lived.html">San Juan County</a>, N.M. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/10-07.html">October 7, 1954</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NM/ofc/bloomfield.html">Mayor of Bloomfield, N.M.</a>, 1998-2001; resigned 2001. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/hispanic.html">Hispanic</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a> in January 2001, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> in October, to <b>criminal sexual conduct</b> with two underaged girls. Still living as of 2001. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Martin G. Barnes (born c.1949)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Marty Barnes</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Paterson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/PA-lived.html">Passaic County</a>, N.J. Born about 1949. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/paterson.html">Mayor of Paterson, N.J.</a>, 1997-2002; defeated, 2002. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Indicted</a> in federal court in 2002 on 40 counts of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">bribery</a> and other offenses, over his solicitation and acceptance of more than $200,000 in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">gratuities</a> from city contractors, including home improvements, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/attire.html">designer suits</a>, and <b>paid female companions</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to two counts, including <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/tax-evasion.html">tax evasion</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> in 2003 to 37 months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. Still living as of 2003. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Steven Effman (b. 1950)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Steve Effman</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Sunrise, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/BR-lived.html">Broward County</a>, Fla. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1950/10-13.html">October 13, 1950</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/sunrise.html">mayor of Sunrise, Fla.</a>, 1993-96; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/sthse.html">Florida state house of representatives</a> 98th District, 1997-; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/FL.html">2000</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/bnai-brith.html">B'nai B'rith</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Admitted</a> in 2003 to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/misfeasance.html">inappropriate</a> <b>relationships</b> with three divorce clients; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">suspended</a> from the practice of law for 91 days. Still living as of 2003. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwardson-efthemios.html#412.44.93">Barbara S. Effman</a>.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Robert Ellsworth Wise Jr. (b. 1948)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Bob Wise</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va.; Clendenin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-born.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/01-06.html">January 6, 1948</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/stsen.html">West Virginia state senate</a> 17th District, 1981-82; resigned 1982; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a>, 1983-2001 (3rd District 1983-93, 2nd District 1993-2001); delegate to Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/WV.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/WV.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/WV.html">2004</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/gov.html">Governor of West Virginia</a>, 2001-05. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. In 2003, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">accused</a> of having an <b>extramarital affair</b> with a married female state employee; he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">admitted</a> the affair, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">dropped</a> his campaign for re-election. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/1984/07-28.html">July 28, 1984</a>, to Sandra Casber.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=W000654">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400614">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/bob-wise/">National Governors Association biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob Wise">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/445/000044313">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Marshall Clement Sanford Jr. (b. 1960)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Mark Sanford</b>; <b>&quot;The Love Gov&quot;</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of South Carolina. Born in Fort Lauderdale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/BR-born.html">Broward County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1960/03-28.html">March 28, 1960</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 1st District, 1995-2001; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Carolina</a>, 2003-11. In June 2009, he disappeared from the state capital and was unavailable for several days; his office said he was "hiking the Appalachian Trail." In truth, he had gone to Argentina for an <b>extramarital affair</b>; the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> ended his chances as a presidential candidate. Still living as of 2011. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=S000051">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400607">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/mark-sanford/">National Governors Association biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark Sanford">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua (1923-2012)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Anthony Bevilacqua</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa.; Wynnewood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/MO-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Pa. Born in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-born.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/06-17.html">June 17, 1923</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Catholic priest</a>; bishop of Pittsburgh, 1983-88; archbishop of Philadelphia, 1988-2003; cardinal from 1991; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/2000 /speakers.html">offered prayer</a>, Republican National Convention, 2000 ; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">accused</a> in 2003-04 of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/vice.html">protecting</a> priests who were suspected of <b>sexually abusing children</b>; later, it was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">found</a> that he had ordered a subordinate to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">destroy a list</a> of 35 abusive priests, and that he had <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/abuse-authority.html">punished a priest</a> who had raised concerns about possible abuse. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> ancestry. Died in Wynnewood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/MO-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2012/01-31.html">January 31, 2012</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 228 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-buried.html#cms08011">Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul</a>, Philadelphia, Pa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Luigi Bevilacqua and Maria (Codella) Bevilacqua.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/Anthony Bevilacqua">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/192992617">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Johnnie M. Smith (born c.1934)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Greenville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/GR-lived.html">Greenville County</a>, S.C.; Simpsonville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/GR-lived.html">Greenville County</a>, S.C. Born about 1934. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Bishop</a>; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1988/SC.html">1988</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a> in 2004 and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <b>sexually assaulting</b> a 12-year-old girl in 1973. Still living as of 2004. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>James Edward McGreevey (b. 1957)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Jim McGreevey</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Woodbridge Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MI-lived.html">Middlesex County</a>, N.J.; Plainfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/UN-lived.html">Union County</a>, N.J. Born in Jersey City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HU-born.html">Hudson County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1957/08-06.html">August 6, 1957</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> 19th District, 1990-91; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/stsen.html">New Jersey state senate</a> 19th District, 1994-97; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New Jersey</a>, 2002-04; defeated, 1997; resigned 2004; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/woodbridge-twp.html">mayor of Woodbridge Township, N.J.</a>; elected 1999; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/NJ.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/NJ.html">2004</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>; later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lgbt.html">Gay</a>. Announced his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resignation</a> as governor in 2004 after acknowledging a <b>homosexual affair</b> with his homeland security advisor. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/mcgrail-mcgreal.html#486.73.16">John P. McGreevey</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1991/">1991</a> to Karen Joan 'Kari' Schutz; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2000/10-07.html">October 7, 2000</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcgrail-mcgreal.html#383.09.11">Dina Matos</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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.nga.org/governor/james-e-mcgreevey/">National Governors Association biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim McGreevey">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/403/000044271">NNDB dossier</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=531">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 James E. McGreevey:</i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060898623/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060898623&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Confession</a> (2006)</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 James E. McGreevey:</i> Dina Matos McGreevey, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401303641/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1401303641&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Silent Partner : A Memoir of My Marriage</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>James Elton West (1951-2006)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>James E. West</b>; <b>Jim West</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Spokane, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/SP-lived.html">Spokane County</a>, Wash. Born in Salem, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MA-born.html">Marion County</a>, Ore., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1951/03-28.html">March 28, 1951</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawenforcement.html">Deputy sheriff</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ofc/sthse.html">Washington state house of representatives</a>, 1982-86; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ofc/stsen.html">Washington state senate</a> 6th District, 1986-2003; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ofc/spokane.html">mayor of Spokane, Wash.</a>, 2004-05. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lgbt.html">Gay</a>. Following a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> involving <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/abuse-authority.html">use of his position</a> to <b>obtain sex with young men</b>, and an FBI <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a>, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">recalled</a> from office as mayor in 2005. Died, from complications of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/colon-cancer.html">colon cancer</a>, in the University of Washington <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Medical Center</a>, Seattle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-died.html">King County</a>, Wash., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2006/07-22.html">July 22, 2006</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 116 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Jack West; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1990/">1990</a> to Ginger Marshall.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/James E. West %28politician%29">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/064/000107740">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Mary Carey (b. 1981)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Mary Ellen Cook</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of California. Born in Cleveland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CU-born.html">Cuyahoga County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1981/06-15.html">June 15, 1981</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">Actress</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pornography.html">pornographic</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">movies</a>; Independent candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of California</a>, 2003; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in April 2005 during a raid on a <b>strip club</b> in Lakewood, Wash.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obscenity.html">touching herself</a> while <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/music.html">dancing</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> and received a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">suspended sentence</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Still living as of 2013. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/Mary Carey (entertainer)">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1298556">Internet Movie Database profile</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Arthur E. Teele (1946-2005)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Art Teele</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Florida. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/PG-born.html">Prince George's County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1946/05-14.html">May 14, 1946</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; director, U.S. Urban Mass Transportation Administration, 1981-83; candidate for Presidential Elector for Florida; as Miami city commissioner in 1997-2004, he chaired the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA); an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a> of corruption in the agency, started in 2003, led to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> that he had accepted $135,000 in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/kickbacks.html">kickbacks</a> from two construction companies; as a result, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">removed from office</a> in 2004 by Gov. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#670.03.91">Jeb Bush</a>; in August, 2004, when he and his wife were under surveillance, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/traffic.html">drove his car</a> at a police detective in an attempt to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/assault.html">run him over</a>, and also <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">threatened to kill</a> police officers who had been following his wife during the investigation; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in March 2005 on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> related to this incident; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> on July 14, 2005, on federal conspiracy and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/money-laundering.html">money laundering</a> charges, over a scheme to fraudulently obtain contracts for electrical work at the Miami International Airport through a "minority-owned" shell company; published police reports revealed that he had put his <b>mistress</b> 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 <b>prostitute</b>. <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>&nbsp;</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>&nbsp;</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>&nbsp;&mdash; <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">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Mark Adam Foley (b. 1954)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Mark A. Foley</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of West Palm Beach, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/PB-lived.html">Palm Beach County</a>, Fla. Born in Newton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/09-08.html">September 8, 1954</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">Real estate agent</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/sthse.html">Florida state house of representatives</a>, 1990-92; defeated, 1986; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/stsen.html">Florida state senate</a>, 1993-94; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Florida</a> 16th District, 1995-2006; resigned 2006. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lgbt.html">Gay</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Forced to resign</a> in September, 2006, over <b>sexually explicit</b> messages he had sent to teenage Congressional pages; no criminal charges were filed. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=F000238">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400136">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark Foley">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/545/000037434">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Larry Edwin Craig (b. 1945)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Larry Craig</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Midvale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/WA-lived.html">Washington County</a>, Idaho; Payette, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/PA-lived.html">Payette County</a>, Idaho. Born in Council, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/AM-born.html">Adams County</a>, Idaho, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1945/07-20.html">July 20, 1945</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/ofc/stsen.html">Idaho state senate</a>, 1975-81; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Idaho</a> 1st District, 1981-91; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Idaho</a>, 1991-2009. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/nra.html">National Rifle Association</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a> for <b>soliciting sex</b> in a men's bathroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, June 11, 2007; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with disorderly conduct; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a>, and was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a>. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=C000858">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=300029">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry Craig">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/214/000032118">NNDB dossier</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2762544">Internet Movie Database profile</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.paulmorrisonlaw.com/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/650/26.01.jpg" width=70 height=114 border=0 alt="Paul J. Morrison"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Paul J. Morrison (b. 1954)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Lenexa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/JO-lived.html">Johnson County</a>, Kan. Born in Dodge City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/FO-born.html">Ford County</a>, Kan., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/06-01.html">June 1, 1954</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/JO-officials.html">Johnson County District Attorney</a>, 1990-2006; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/ofc/attygn.html">Kansas state attorney general</a>, 2007-08; resigned 2008. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-theta.html">Phi Delta Theta</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Resigned</a> as Attorney General following disclosure of an <b>extramarital affair</b> with a subordinate, who filed a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">sexual harrassment</a> claim with the federal EEOC. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/Paul J. Morrison">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=110397">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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> Paul Morrison Law</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Eliot Laurence Spitzer (b. 1959)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Eliot Spitzer</b>; <b>&quot;Steamroller&quot;</b>; <b>&quot;Client No. 9&quot;</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-born.html">Bronx County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1959/06-10.html">June 10, 1959</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/attygn.html">New York state attorney general</a>, 1999-2006; defeated, 1994; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/NY.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/NY.html">2004</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 2007-08; resigned 2008. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Resigned</a> as governor following disclosure that he had <b>paid a prostitution ring for sex</b>. Still living as of 2016. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Spitzer and Anne (Goldhaber) Spitzer; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1987/10-17.html">October 17, 1987</a>, to Silda Wall.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/maloney.html#619.24.48">Sean Patrick Maloney</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-misc.html">racehorses</a> "The Luv Guv" and "The Ninth Client" were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a> by Marylou Whitney and John Hendrickson.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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.nga.org/governor/eliot-spitzer/">National Governors Association biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot Spitzer">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/445/000025370">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Eliot Spitzer:</i> Peter Elkind, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591843073/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1591843073&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer</a>&nbsp;&mdash; Lloyd Constantine, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1607146150/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1607146150&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Journal of the Plague Year: An Insider's Chronicle of Eliot Spitzer's Short and Tragic Reign</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John Reid Edwards (b. 1953)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>John Edwards</b>; <b>Johnny Reid Edwards</b>; <b>&quot;Silk Pony&quot;</b>; <b>&quot;The Breck Girl&quot;</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of North Carolina. Born in Seneca, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/OC-born.html">Oconee County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/06-10.html">June 10, 1953</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from North Carolina</a>, 1999-2005; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/NC.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/NC.html">2004</a>; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/index.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/index.html">2008</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 2004; in August 2008, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">acknowledged</a> an <b>extramarital affair</b> with filmmaker Rielle Hunter, though at first he denied having fathered her baby; this revelation <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">discredited</a> him and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">ended his political career</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. In June, 2011, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in federal court on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/campaign-finance.html">campaign finance</a> charges, based on the argument that the donations he received in 2007-08 to cover up his affair were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/campaign-finance.html">illegal contributions</a> to his presidential campaign. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/1977/07-30.html">July 30, 1977</a>, to Mary Elizabeth Anania.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=E000286">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=300039">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Edwards">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/306/000024234">NNDB dossier</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1685647">Internet Movie Database profile</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=294">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 John Edwards:</i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743244974/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0743244974&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Four Trials</a> (2003)&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1586483145/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1586483145&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Our Plan for America: Stronger at Home, Respected in the World</a>, with John Kerry (2004)</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 John Edwards:</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>&nbsp;&mdash; Andrew Young, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/031264065X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=031264065X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Politician: An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Kwame Malik Kilpatrick (b. 1970)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Kwame M. Kilpatrick</b>&nbsp;&mdash; 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 <b>affair</b> 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/assault.html">assaulting</a> 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/assault.html">assault</a> <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>&nbsp;</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>&nbsp;</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>&nbsp;&mdash; <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">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Vito John Fossella (b. 1965)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Vito Fossella</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Staten Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RI-lived.html">Richmond County</a>, N.Y. Born in Staten Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RI-born.html">Richmond County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1965/03-09.html">March 9, 1965</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member, New York City Council, 1994-97; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 13th District, 1997-2009. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. In May, 2008, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in Alexandria, Virginia, for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/traffic.html">driving</a> while <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/intoxication.html">intoxicated</a>; a week later, he admitted to an <b>extramarital affair</b> with Air Force Lt. Col Laura Fay, and that he was the father of her 3-year-old child; the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> led him to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">retire from Congress</a>. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/1990/">1990</a> to Mary Patricia Rowan; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/olden-oliven.html#008.43.64">James Aloysius O'Leary</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=F000440">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400139">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito Fossella">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/565/000037454">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Mark E. Musselwhite (b. 1966)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Gainesville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/HA-lived.html">Hall County</a>, Ga. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1966/03-13.html">March 13, 1966</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/gainesville.html">Mayor of Gainesville, Ga.</a>, 2006; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obscenity.html">public indecency</a> in June 2009, when he was found <b>nude</b> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/intoxication.html">intoxicated</a> at a public camp site in Rabun County, Ga. Still living as of 2009. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John Eric Ensign (b. 1958)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>John E. Ensign</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Las Vegas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NV/CL-lived.html">Clark County</a>, Nev. Born in Roseville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/PL-born.html">Placer County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1958/03-25.html">March 25, 1958</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/veterinarian.html">Veterinarian</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hotel-biz.html">hotel</a> and casino manager; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Nevada</a> 1st District, 1995-99; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NV/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Nevada</a>, 2001-; defeated, 1998; delegate to Republican National Convention from Nevada, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/2008/NV.html">2008</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/pentecostal.html">Pentecostal</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/asian-pacific.html">Filipino</a> ancestry. In June 2009, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">admitted</a> to an <b>extramarital affair</b> with Cindy Hampton, a member of his campaign staff and the wife of his Senate aide Doug Hampton. In an unsuccessful attempt to keep the Hamptons quiet about the affair, he gave them $96,000 (an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/disclosure.html">illegally undisclosed</a> severance payment) through his parents. He also used his influence to set up Jeff Hampton as a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/lobbyists.html">lobbyist</a>, in violation of laws restricting lobbying by former congressional aides. A grand jury <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a> is in progress. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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> Adoptive son of Michael S. Ensign; son of Sharon Lee Cipriani.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=E000194">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=300040">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Ensign">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/240/000032144">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Eric James Joseph Massa (b. 1959)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Eric J. J. Massa</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Corning, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ST-lived.html">Steuben County</a>, N.Y. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1959/09-16.html">September 16, 1959</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 2009-10; defeated, 2006; resigned 2010; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> from Congress during a pending <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">ethics investigation</a> into acusations of <b>sexual misconduct</b> toward subordinates in his congressional office. Still living as of 2012. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=M001173">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric Massa">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (b. 1947)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Arnold Schwarzenegger</b>; <b>&quot;Arnie&quot;</b>; <b>&quot;Conan the Republican&quot;</b>; <b>&quot;The Governator&quot;</b>; <b>&quot;The Austrian Oak&quot;</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Brentwood, Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in Thal, Styria, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AS-born.html">Austria</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/07-30.html">July 30, 1947</a>. Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">actor</a> in numerous <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">movies</a>, including <i>Pumping Iron</i>, the Terminator series, <i>Conan the Barbarian</i>, <i>Predator</i>, <i>Total Recall</i>, and others; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of California</a>, 2003-; he and his wife <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">separated</a> in 2011 after revealing that his <b>sexual contact</b> with a member of his household staff resulted in a child ten years earlier. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/austro-hungarian.html">Austrian</a> ancestry. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Gustav Schwarzenegger and Aurelia (Jadrny) Schwarzenegger; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1986/04-26.html">April 26, 1986</a>, to Maria Owings Shriver (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#007.78.78">Robert Sargent Shriver Jr.</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#926.51.86">Mark Kennedy Shriver</a>; niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/10422.html">Kennedy family</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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.nga.org/governor/arnold-schwarzenegger/">National Governors Association biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold Schwarzenegger">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/685/000022619">NNDB dossier</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000216">Internet Movie Database profile</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=6394">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Arnold Schwarzenegger:</i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671797484/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0671797484&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Arnold : The Education of a Bodybuilder</a> (1977)&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451662432/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1451662432&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story</a> (2012)</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Arnold Schwarzenegger:</i> Nigel Andrews, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1582344655/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1582344655&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">True Myths : The Life and Times of Arnold Schwarzenegger, from Pumping Iron to Governor of California</a>&nbsp;&mdash; Susan Zannos, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1883845955/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1883845955&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a>&nbsp;&mdash; Laurence Leamer, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312333382/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312333382&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Fantastic : The Life of Arnold Schwarzenegger</a>&nbsp;&mdash; Michael Blitz & Louise Krasniewicz, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465037526/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0465037526&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Why Arnold Matters: The Rise of a Cultural Icon</a>&nbsp;&mdash; Ian Halperin, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061990043/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0061990043&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Governator: From Muscle Beach to His Quest for the White House, the Improbable Rise of Arnold Schwarzenegger</a>&nbsp;&mdash; Colleen A. Sexton, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0822522233/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0822522233&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> (for young readers)</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Anthony David Weiner (b. 1964)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Anthony D. Weiner</b>; <b>&quot;Carlos Danger&quot;</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y.; Forest Hills, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-lived.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y.; Kew Gardens, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-lived.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y. Born in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-born.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1964/09-04.html">September 4, 1964</a>. Democrat. Staff for U.S. Rep. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schultze-schuveldt.html#853.87.52">Charles E. Schumer</a>, 1985-91; member, New York city council, 1992-98 (at age 27, the youngest member ever elected); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 9th District, 1999-2011; resigned 2011; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/NY.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/NY.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/NY.html">2008</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 2005, 2013; in 2011, a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> developed over his Internet communications with much younger women, including <b>sexually suggestive</b> and <b>sexually explicit</b> photos and texts; after initially denying responsibility, he admitted that the photos were of him, and that he had sent them; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> from Congress in June 2011; in July 2013, more pictures and <b>sexting</b>, sent under the name "Carlos Danger", were revealed, which <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">discredited</a> his mayoral candidacy; in September 2017, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to a federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charge</a> of transferring <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obscenity.html">obscene material</a> to a minor; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 21 months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Still living as of 2018. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=W000792">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400426">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony Weiner">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/873/000040753">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>David Wu (b. 1955)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-lived.html">Multnomah County</a>, Ore. Born in Hsinchu, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/TW-born.html">Taiwan</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1955/04-08.html">April 8, 1955</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oregon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/OR.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/OR.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/OR.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/OR.html">2008</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Oregon</a> 1st District, 1999-2011; resigned 2011; in July 2011, news media reported that he had been <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">accused</a> of an <b>unwanted sexual encounter</b> by the 18-year-old daughter of a friend of his; episodes of erratic and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/intoxication.html">intoxicated</a> behavior alienated his campaign aides, his congressional staff, and his colleagues in Congress; he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> in August 2011. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/asian-pacific.html">Chinese</a> ancestry. Still living as of 2017. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=W000793">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400437">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David Wu">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/916/000040796">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Randolph Blake Farenthold (b. 1961)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>R. Blake Farenthold</b>&nbsp;&mdash; Born in Corpus Christi, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/NU-born.html">Nueces County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1961/12-12.html">December 12, 1961</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">radio commentator</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 27th District, 2011-18; resigned 2018; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sued</a> in 2014 by a former staffer, alleging <b>sexual harassment</b>, a hostile work environment, and that she was fired in retaliation for complaints; the case was settled out of court with $84,000 in public funds; in December 2017, another former staffer made further detailed <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">allegations</a> of his behavior; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> in April 2018. Still living as of 2018. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 George Randolph 'Randy' Farenthold and Mary Sue (Ogg) Farenthold.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=F000460">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake Farenthold">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Duncan Duane Hunter (b. 1976)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Duncan D. Hunter</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Lakeside, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SD-lived.html">San Diego County</a>, Calif.; Alpine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SD-lived.html">San Diego County</a>, Calif. Born in San Diego, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SD-born.html">San Diego County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1976/12-07.html">December 7, 1976</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">real estate developer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from California</a>, 2009-20 (52nd District 2009-13, 50th District 2013-20); resigned 2020; in 2016, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigated</a> over his misuse of some $250,000 in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/campaign-finance.html">campaign funds</a> for personal expenses, including family travel, overseas hotel stays, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/attire.html">luxury clothing items</a>; he also spent campaign funds on <b>extramarital affairs</b> with five women, including lobbyists and congressional staffers; in August 2018, he and his wife were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in federal court; both eventually <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a>; he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 11 months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; in December 2020, before he was scheduled to report for incarceration, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pardon.html">pardoned</a> by President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/trump-tuck.html#306.67.48">Donald Trump</a>. Still living as of 2020. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/hunter.html#120.14.54">Duncan Lee Hunter</a> and Lynne (Layh) Hunter; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1998/">1998</a> to Margaret Jankowski; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hunter.html#835.82.41">Robert Olin Hunter</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/17593.html">Hunter family</a> of San Diego and Alpine, California.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=H001048">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412283">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan D. Hunter">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/616/000180076">NNDB dossier</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=140936">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John James Conyers Jr. (1929-2019)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>John Conyers, Jr.</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Highland Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-born.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/05-16.html">May 16, 1929</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Michigan</a>, 1965-2017 (1st District 1965-93, 14th District 1993-2013, 13th District 2013-17); resigned 2017; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/MI.html">1968</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1972/MI.html">1972</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1976/MI.html">1976</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1984/MI.html">1984</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/MI.html">1988</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/MI.html">1996</a>, <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/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> during an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/protest.html">anti-apartheid protest</a> outside the South African Embassy in Washington, 1984; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/detroit.html">mayor of Detroit, Mich.</a>, 1989; in 2017, it was reported that a former member of Conyers' staff had <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">alleged</a> that he had <b>sexually harassed</b> her, and had been paid a settlement of $27,000; subsequently, the House Ethics Committee started an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a> into multiple such allegations; he subsequently <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> from Congress. <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>. Recipient of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/spingarn-medal.html">Spingarn Medal</a>, 2007. Died in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-died.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2019/10-27.html">October 27, 2019</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 164 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/MA-buried.html#cms05206">Detroit Memorial Park East</a>, Warren, Mich. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 John James Conyers and Lucille Jane (Simpson) Conyers; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conrey-coogan.html#779.08.11">Nathan G. Conyers</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1990/">1990</a> to Monica Esters.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=C000714">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400080">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Conyers">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/236/000036128">NNDB dossier</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/204206974">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Alan Stuart Franken (b. 1951)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Al Franken</b>; <b>&quot;Stuart Smalley&quot;</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Minneapolis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/HE-lived.html">Hennepin County</a>, Minn. 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/1951/05-21.html">May 21, 1951</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">Comedian</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">author</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Minnesota</a>, 2009-18; resigned 2018; in November 2017, Leeann Tweeden alleged that Franken had <b>forcibly kissed</b> her on a 2006 USO tour; Franken was also photographed appearing to place his hands <b>on or near her breasts</b>; other women made similar allegations; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> from the Senate in January. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Still living as of 2018. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Joseph P. Franken and Phoebe (Kunst) Franken; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1975/10-02.html">October 2, 1975</a>, to Franni Bryson.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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=F000457">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al Franken">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/476/000022410">NNDB dossier</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0291253">Internet Movie Database profile</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Robert Julian Bentley (b. 1943)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Robert J. Bentley</b>; <b>&quot;The Love Gov&quot;</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Tuscaloosa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/TU-lived.html">Tuscaloosa County</a>, Ala. Born in Columbiana, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/SH-born.html">Shelby County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/02-03.html">February 3, 1943</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/other-health.html">dermatologist</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/sthse.html">Alabama state house of representatives</a>, 2003-10; delegate to Republican National Convention from Alabama, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/2008/AL.html">2008</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Alabama</a>, 2011-17; resigned 2017; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">accused</a> in 2016 of having an <b>extramarital affair</b> with Rebekah Caldwell Mason, a politcal advisor on his campaign staff; an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">impeachment</a> resolution was brought; as part of an agreement with prosecutors, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to two <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/campaign-finance.html">campaign finance</a> violations, including <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/disclosure.html">failing to disclose</a> a $50,000 personal loan to his campaign account; his sentence was suspended, but he was placed on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">probation</a>, ordered to do <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">community service</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $7,000. Still living as of 2017. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Harford Bentley and Mattie Boyd (Vick) Bentley.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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.nga.org/governor/robert-bentley/">National Governors Association biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert J. Bentley">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/562/000266761">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Eric Tradd Schneiderman (b. 1954)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Eric T. Schneiderman</b>&nbsp;&mdash; 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/assault.html">physically abused</a> four women; at first, he claimed that this had been <b>sexual</b> 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. Still living as of 2019. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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 Irwin Schneiderman and Abigail (Heyward) Schneiderman; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1990/">1990</a> to Jennifer Cunningham.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</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/Eric Schneiderman">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Eric Schneiderman">Ballotpedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=6060">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>James Daniel Jordan (b. 1964)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Jim Jordan</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Urbana, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CH-lived.html">Champaign County</a>, Ohio. Born in Troy, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MI-born.html">Miami County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1964/02-17.html">February 17, 1964</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/coach.html">Athletic coach</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/sthse.html">Ohio state house of representatives</a> 85th District, 1995-2000; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/stsen.html">Ohio state senate</a> 12th District, 2001-06; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Ohio</a> 4th District, 2007-; in 2018, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">accused</a> by former Ohio State University wrestlers of ignoring <b>sexual abuse</b> by the team physician; he denied this, but refused to cooperate with an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a>; in a lawsuit, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">witness tampering</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">intimidation</a>; received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-freedom.html">Medal of Freedom</a> on January 11, 2021; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/2020 /speakers.html">speaker</a>, Republican National Convention, 2020. 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