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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Politicians Killed By Animals</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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/FR-born.html">Franklin County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/11-08.html">November 8, 1830</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/sthse.html">Minnesota state house of representatives</a>, 1859-60, 1859-60, 1870 (District 16 1859-60, 1859-60, District 6 1870); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/stsen.html">South Dakota state senate</a> 33rd District, 1891-92. Died, from being <b>kicked by a horse</b>, in Eugene, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/LA-died.html">Lane County</a>, Ore., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/12-04.html">December 4, 1906</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 26 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/LA-buried.html# ">Eugene Pioneer Cemetery</a>, Eugene, Ore. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Joseph Jackson Abbott and Mary Polly (Osborn) Abbott; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/04-04.html">April 4, 1854</a>, to Angeline Ruggles.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5944780">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/fulldetail?ID=10834">Minnesota Legislator record</a> — <a href="https://www.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/fulldetail?ID=10833">Minnesota Legislator record</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John William Messer Appleton (1832-1913)</b> — also known as <b>John W. M. Appleton</b> — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va.; Union, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MO-lived.html">Monroe County</a>, W.Va. Born in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/04-01.html">April 1, 1832</a>. Republican. Major in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/adgen.html">Adjutant General of West Virginia</a>, 1897-1901. Killed by a <b>mad bull</b>, in Union, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MO-died.html">Monroe County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/10-26.html">October 26, 1913</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 208 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Elizabeth Marshall (Messer) Appleton and John Appleton (1809-1869); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/09-21.html">September 21, 1858</a>, to Mary Rice Marsh; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#781.96.90">John Appleton (1758-1829)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#879.72.33">Thomas Appleton</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#872.13.46">John James Appleton</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/white6.html#351.36.54">Leonard White</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Jeremiah Haralson (1846-c.1916)</b> — of Selma, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/DS-lived.html">Dallas County</a>, Ala. Born near Columbus, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/MU-born.html">Muscogee County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/04-01.html">April 1, 1846</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/sthse.html">Alabama state house of representatives</a>, 1870; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/stsen.html">Alabama state senate</a>, 1872; delegate to Republican National Convention from Alabama, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1872/AL.html">1872</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1876/AL.html">1876</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Alabama</a> 1st District, 1875-77. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Killed by <b>wild animals</b> near Denver (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/ZZ-died.html">unknown county</a>), Colo., about 1916 (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">about 70 years</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000179">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405060">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah Haralson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8742544">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John Paul Clarke (1880-1920)</b> — also known as <b>J. Paul Clarke</b> — of West Palm Beach, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/PB-lived.html">Palm Beach County</a>, Fla. Born in Crown Point, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/10-07.html">October 7, 1880</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/misc-occ.html">Snake handler</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/artist.html">taxidermist</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/westpalmbeach.html#2">West Palm Beach, Fla.</a>, 1910-13; a prankster, he often left snakes in post office boxes and mailbags, to scare people. Bitten by a <b>harlequin or coral snake</b>, and died nineteen hours later, 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/1920/12-25.html">December 25, 1920</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/40.html">40 years, 79 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> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Rev. Almon Taylor Clarke and Marietta Thankful (Whitney) Clarke; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarke.html#025.51.94">Lena Marietta Thankful Clarke</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/23950607">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Elmer Severson (1922-1999)</b> — of Montana. Born in Anoka, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/AK-born.html">Anoka County</a>, Minn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/05-03.html">May 3, 1922</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/ofc/sthse.html">Montana state house of representatives</a>, 1977-79; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/ofc/stsen.html">Montana state senate</a>, 1979-90. Suffered spinal cord injuries when he "lost a tussle with a <b>cow</b>," and died as a result, in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">hospital</a> at Missoula, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/MI-died.html">Missoula County</a>, Mont., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1999/07-19.html">July 19, 1999</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 77 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>. </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;"> <span style="font-family:garamond,serif"> <i>"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."</i></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:8pt;">Henry L. 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