in approximate chronological order | |  Albert Lange (1801-1869) — of Terre Haute,VigoCounty, Ind.Born in Charlottenburg, Prussia (now part of Berlin,Germany),December16, 1801.Republican. He belonged to a secret society whichadvocateda constitutional government for the German Empire; in 1824, theconspiracy was uncovered; he wasconvictedoftreasonandsentencedto fifteen years in inprison;pardoned in 1829, and left Germany for the United States; U.S.Consul inAmsterdam, 1849-50;Indianastate auditor, 1861-63;mayorof Terre Haute, Ind., 1863-67.Died in Terre Haute,VigoCounty, Ind.,July 25,1869 (age67 years, 221days).Interment atWoodlawnCemetery, Terre Haute, Ind. | | William Lowndes Yancey (1814-1863) — also known asWilliam L. Yancey;"The Orator ofSecession" —of Greenville, Greenville District (nowGreenvilleCounty), S.C.; Wetumpka,ElmoreCounty, Ala.; Montgomery,MontgomeryCounty, Ala.Born inWarrenCounty, Ga.,August10, 1814.Democrat.Newspapereditor;planter; inSeptember 1838, hekilledDr. Robinson Earle in a street brawl;convictedofmanslaughter,andsentencedto a year in jail, butpardoned a few months later; member ofAlabamastate house of representatives, 1841; member ofAlabamastate senate, 1843;U.S.Representative from Alabama 3rd District, 1844-46; resigned 1846;delegate to Democratic National Convention from Alabama,1860;delegateto Alabama secession convention, 1861;Senatorfrom Alabama in the Confederate Congress, 1862-63; died in office1863.Slaveowner. Died in Montgomery,MontgomeryCounty, Ala.,July 23,1863 (age48 years, 347days).Interment atOakwoodCemetery, Montgomery, Ala. | | Charles Franklin Mitchell (1806-1865) — of Lockport,NiagaraCounty, N.Y.Born inBucksCounty, Pa.,February18, 1806.U.S.Representative from New York 33rd District, 1837-41.Convictedofforgeryin 1841 andsentencedto Sing Singprisonin New York;pardoned due to ill health; moved to Ohio.Died in Cincinnati,HamiltonCounty, Ohio,September27, 1865 (age59 years, 221days).Interment atSpringGrove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio. | | John Singleton Mosby (1833-1916) — also known asJohn S. Mosby;"The GrayGhost" —ofBristol,Va.; Warrenton,FauquierCounty, Va.Born inPowhatanCounty, Va.,December6, 1833.In 1852, heshotand wounded George R. Turpin, with whom he had quarreled;arrestedandtried,ultimatelyconvictedonly of the misdemeanor charge ofunlawfulshooting andsentencedto one year injail;pardoned by Gov.JosephJohnson in 1853; colonel in the Confederate Army during the CivilWar; U.S. Consul inHong Kong, 1878-85.ScottishandWelshancestry.Died inWashington,D.C.,May 30,1916 (age82 years, 176days).Interment atWarrentonCemetery, Warrenton, Va. | | John Breckinridge Castleman (1841-1918) — also known asJohn B. Castleman — of Louisville,JeffersonCounty, Ky.Born in Lexington,FayetteCounty, Ky.,June 30,1841.Democrat. Major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; ledConfederateguerillaforces in operations aimed at Chicago and St. Louis;capturedin Indiana, 1864, convicted ofspying,andsentenced todeath, but his execution was stayed by PresidentAbrahamLincoln;deportedto France in 1865;pardoned in 1866 by PresidentAndrewJohnson, and returned to Kentucky;insurancebusiness;AdjutantGeneral of Kentucky, 1883, 1900; delegate to Democratic NationalConvention from Kentucky,1888(member,Committeeon Permanent Organization),1892(member,Committeeon Permanent Organization); colonel in the U.S. Army during theSpanish-American War.Died in Louisville,JeffersonCounty, Ky.,May 23,1918 (age76 years, 327days).Interment atCaveHill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.; statue (now gone) atCherokee Triangle, Louisville, Ky.| |  Relatives: Sonof David B. Castleman and Virginia (Harrison) Castleman; married toAlice Osmond Barbee; great-grandnephew ofBenjaminHarrison (1726-1791) andWilliamCabell; second great-grandnephew ofRichardRandolph; first cousin ofCarterHenry Harrison; first cousin once removed ofJosephCabell Breckinridge (1788-1823),BenjaminWilliam Sheridan Cabell,RobertJefferson Breckinridge andCarterHenry Harrison II; first cousin twice removed ofThomasJefferson,CarterBassett Harrison,WilliamCabell Jr.,WilliamHenry Cabell andWilliamHenry Harrison (1773-1841); first cousin thrice removed ofRichardBland,PeytonRandolph (1721-1775),RobertCarter Nicholas (1729-1780) andWilliamFitzhugh; second cousin ofJohnCabell Breckinridge,PeterAugustus Porter (1827-1864),WilliamLewis Cabell,RobertJefferson Breckinridge Jr.,GeorgeCraighead Cabell andWilliamCampbell Preston Breckinridge; second cousin once removed ofMarthaJefferson Randolph,DabneyCarr,FrederickMortimer Cabell,JohnScott Harrison (1804-1878),EdwardCarrington Cabell,JosephCabell Breckinridge (1844-1906),CliftonRodes Breckinridge,PeterAugustus Porter (1853-1925),BenjaminEarl Cabell,LevinIrving Handy,DeshaBreckinridge andHenrySkillman Breckinridge; second cousin twice removed ofTheodorickBland,EdmundJenings Randolph,GeorgeNicholas,BeverleyRandolph,WilsonCary Nicholas,JohnNicholas,JohnRandolph of Roanoke andEarleCabell; third cousin ofFrancisWayles Eppes,DabneySmith Carr,BenjaminFranklin Randolph,MeriwetherLewis Randolph,GeorgeWythe Randolph,JohnWilliam Leftwich,BenjaminHarrison (1833-1901) andJohnScott Harrison (1844-1926); third cousin once removed ofJohnMarshall,HenryLee,CharlesLee,RichardBland Lee,JamesMarkham Marshall,ThomasMann Randolph Jr.,AlexanderKeith Marshall,EdmundJennings Lee,PeytonRandolph (1779-1828),HenrySt. George Tucker,RobertCarter Nicholas (1787-1857),ThomasJefferson Coolidge,RussellBenjamin Harrison andFrederickMadison Roberts; third cousin twice removed ofBurwellBassett,JohnGardner Coolidge,EdithWilson andWilliamHenry Harrison (1896-1990); fourth cousin ofThomasMarshall,JamesKeith Marshall,PeterMyndert Dox,NathanielBeverly Tucker,EdmundRandolph andWilliamHenry Fitzhugh Lee; fourth cousin once removed ofJohnWayles Eppes,FitzhughLee,EdmundRandolph Cocke,ConnallyFindlay Trigg,JohnAugustine Marshall,RichardEvelyn Byrd,HarryBartow Hawes andWilliamWelby Beverley. | | | | Political family:Livingston-Schuylerfamily of New York (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | See alsoWikipedia article —Find-A-Gravememorial |
| | George Davis (1820-1896) — of Wilmington,NewHanover County, N.C.Born in Porter's Neck,PenderCounty, N.C.,March 1,1820.Lawyer;Delegatefrom North Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress,1861-62;Senatorfrom North Carolina in the Confederate Congress, 1862-64;ConfederateAttorney General, 1864-65.Episcopalian.At the end of the Civil War, with otherConfederateofficials,attemptedto flee overseas, butturnedhimself in at Key West, Fla.; spent several months inprisonat Fort Hamilton;pardoned in 1866.Died in Wilmington,New HanoverCounty, N.C.,February23, 1896 (age75 years, 359days).Interment atOakdaleCemetery, Wilmington, N.C.; statue erected 1911 atThirdand Market Streets, Wilmington, N.C.| | Relatives: Sonof Thomas Frederick Davis and Sarah Isabella (Eagles) Davis;half-brother and fourth cousin ofHoratioDavis; married,November17, 1842, to Mary Adelaide Polk (first cousin once removed ofFrankLyon Polk; second cousin once removed ofJamesKnox Polk andWilliamHawkins Polk; third cousin ofMarshallTate Polk); married,May 9,1866, to Monimia Fairfax; great-grandnephew ofSamuelAshe; cousin four different ways ofJohnBaptista Ashe (1748-1802),JohnBaptista Ashe (1810-1857),ThomasSamuel Ashe andWilliamShepperd Ashe; cousin three different ways ofAlfredMoore Waddell; second cousin twice removed ofWilliamHenry Hill. | | | | Political families:Polkfamily of New York City, New York;Polkfamily of Tennessee;Ashefamily of North Carolina (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | The World War IILibertyshipSS George Davis (built 1942 atWilmington,North Carolina; scrapped 1960) wasnamed forhim. | | | | See alsoWikipedia article —Find-A-Gravememorial |
| | George Wythe Randolph (1818-1867) — also known asGeorge W. Randolph — ofRichmond,Va.Born near Charlottesville,AlbemarleCounty, Va.,March10, 1818.Lawyer;delegateto Virginia secession convention from Richmond city, 1861;general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;ConfederateSecretary of War, 1862; after the collapse of theConfederacy,fledto Europe toavoidcapture;pardoned in 1866.Episcopalian.Died ofpulmonarypneumonia, near Charlottesville,AlbemarleCounty, Va.,April 3,1867 (age49 years, 24days).Interment atMonticelloGraveyard, Near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va.| | Relatives: SonofThomasMann Randolph Jr. andMarthaJefferson Randolph; brother ofBenjaminFranklin Randolph,MeriwetherLewis Randolph and Virginia Jefferson Randolph (who marriedNicholasPhilip Trist); uncle ofThomasJefferson Coolidge; grandson ofThomasJefferson; granduncle ofJohnGardner Coolidge; great-grandson ofArchibaldCary; second great-grandson ofRichardRandolph; first cousin ofFrancisWayles Eppes; first cousin once removed ofDabneyCarr,JohnWayles Eppes andFrederickMadison Roberts; first cousin twice removed ofJohnRandolph of Roanoke; first cousin thrice removed ofRichardBland andPeytonRandolph (1721-1775); second cousin ofDabneySmith Carr; second cousin once removed ofJohnMarshall,JamesMarkham Marshall andAlexanderKeith Marshall; second cousin twice removed ofTheodorickBland,EdmundJenings Randolph,BeverleyRandolph andEdithWilson; third cousin ofThomasMarshall,JohnJordan Crittenden,ThomasTurpin Crittenden,RobertCrittenden,JamesKeith Marshall,CarterHenry Harrison andJohnBreckinridge Castleman; third cousin once removed ofHenryLee,CharlesLee,RichardBland Lee,EdmundJennings Lee,PeytonRandolph (1779-1828),HenrySt. George Tucker,JohnRobertson,BenjaminWilliam Sheridan Cabell,AlexanderParker Crittenden,ThomasLeonidas Crittenden,ThomasTheodore Crittenden,ArchelausMarius Woodson,JohnAugustine Marshall andCarterHenry Harrison II; third cousin twice removed ofThomasTheodore Crittenden Jr.,WilliamMarshall Bullitt andAlexanderScott Bullitt; fourth cousin ofEdmundRandolph,NathanielBeverly Tucker,WilliamLewis Cabell andGeorgeCraighead Cabell; fourth cousin once removed ofThomasJones Hardeman,BaileyHardeman,FitzhughLee,WilliamHenry Fitzhugh Lee,JoelWalker Flood,EdmundRandolph Cocke,BenjaminEarl Cabell andWilliamHenry Robertson. | | | | Political families:Cabell-Breckinridgefamily of Virginia;Breckinridge-Preston-Harrison-Richardsonfamily of Virginia (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | Coins and currency: Hisportraitappeared on Confederate States $100 notes in 1862-64. |
| | Christopher Gustavus Memminger (1803-1888) — also known asChristopher G. Memminger — of Charleston, Charleston District (nowCharlestonCounty), S.C.Born in Wurttemberg,Germany,January9, 1803.Lawyer;member ofSouthCarolina state house of representatives, 1836-52, 1854-60,1876-78;delegateto South Carolina secession convention from St. Philips' & St.Michael's, 1860-62; chairman of the committee that drew up theConstitution of the Confederate States of America;Delegatefrom South Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress,1861-62;ConfederateSecretary of the Treasury, 1861-64;pardoned by PresidentAndrewJohnson, 1867.Episcopalian.Slaveowner. Died in Flat Rock,HendersonCounty, N.C.,March 7,1888 (age85 years, 58days).Interment atSt.John in the Wilderness Cemetery, Flat Rock, N.C. | | Thomas Overton Moore (1804-1876) — of Louisiana. Born inSampsonCounty, N.C.,April10, 1804.Democrat.Planter;member ofLouisianastate house of representatives, 1848; member ofLouisianastate senate, 1856;Governor ofLouisiana, 1860-64;delegateto Louisiana secession convention, 1861.Presbyterian.At the end of the Civil War, the military governor of Louisianaordered hisarrestas aConfederateleader; hefledto Mexico and settled in Havana, Cuba.Pardoned by PresidentAndrewJohnson.Died near Alexandria,RapidesParish, La.,June 25,1876 (age72 years, 76days).Interment atMt.Olivet Episcopal Cemetery, Pineville, La. | | Jubal Anderson Early (1816-1894) — also known asJubal A. Early;"The Terrapin fromFranklin";"Old Jube";"OldJubilee" —ofFranklinCounty, Va.;Lynchburg,Va.Born inFranklinCounty, Va.,November3, 1816.Lawyer;member ofVirginiastate house of delegates, 1841-42; major in the U.S. Army duringthe Mexican War;delegateto Virginia secession convention from Franklin County, 1861;general in the Union Army during the Civil War; after theConfederatesurrender, fearingimprisonment,hefledthe country to Cuba, then Canada;pardoned in 1869 byPresidentAndrewJohnson.Felldown stairs at the LynchburgPostOffice, and died two weeks later, inLynchburg,Va.,March 2,1894 (age77 years, 119days).Interment atSpringHill Cemetery, Lynchburg, Va.; cenotaph atMetairieCemetery, New Orleans, La.; memorial monument atFort Early, Lynchburg, Va. | | Dublin J. Walker (born c.1837) — ofChesterCounty, S.C.Born in South Carolina, about 1837. Republican.ChesterCounty School Commissioner, 1870-74; member ofSouthCarolina state senate from Chester County, 1874-77;indictedin 1875 for issuingfraudulentteacher pay certificates;convictedin September 1875;sentencedto 12 months in prison; Gov.DanielH. Chamberlain commuted his sentence, then granted him afullpardon;arrestedin April 1877 on the same charge, andresignedfrom the Senate.Africanancestry.Burial location unknown. | | David King Udall (1851-1938) — of St. Johns,ApacheCounty, Ariz.Born inSt.Louis, Mo.,September7, 1851.Member ofArizonaterritorial legislature, 1899.Mormon.Indictedin 1884 on charges ofpolygamyand unlawfulcohabitation;not convicted because his second wife Ida could not be found totestify against him.Convictedin 1885 ofperjuryin connection with a land claim, andsentencedto three years inprison. On December 12, 1885, he received a "full and unconditionalpardon" from PresidentGroverCleveland, and was released from prison.Died, as a result of anaccidentalfall andmyocardialinsufficiency, in St. Johns,ApacheCounty, Ariz.,February18, 1938 (age86 years, 164days).Interment atSt.Johns Cemetery, St. Johns, Ariz.| | Relatives: Sonof Eliza (King) Udall and David Udall; brother of Mary Ann Udall (whomarriedWilliamThomas Stewart (1853-1935)); married,February1, 1875, to Eliza Luella Stewart (sister ofWilliamThomas Stewart (1853-1935)); married,May 25,1882, to Ida Frances Hunt (granddaughter ofJeffersonHunt); married,April 9,1903, to Mary Ann (Linton) Morgan (widow ofJohnHamilton Morgan); father ofJohnHunt Udall,LeviStewart Udall,JesseAddison Udall andDonTaylor Udall; grandfather ofJohnNicholas Udall,StewartLee Udall,MorrisKing Udall andLeeKenyon Udall; great-grandfather ofMilanDale Smith Jr.,ThomasStewart Udall,MarkE. Udall andGordonHarold Smith. | | | | Political family:Udallfamily of Arizona. | | | | See alsoWikipediaarticle —Find-A-Gravememorial |
| | Stevenson Archer (1827-1898) — of Bel Air,HarfordCounty, Md.Born near Churchville,HarfordCounty, Md.,February28, 1827.Lawyer;member ofMarylandstate house of delegates, 1854;U.S.Representative from Maryland 2nd District, 1867-75; delegate toDemocratic National Convention from Maryland,1868,1876;Marylandstate treasurer, 1886-90;MarylandDemocratic state chair, 1887-89.In April, 1890, following aninvestigationwhich revealed ashortageof $132,000, he wasarrested,removedfrom office as State Treasurer, andchargedwithembezzlement.Hepleadedguilty and wrote to the court: "No part of the State's money orsecurities was ever used by me in gambling, stock speculation, or forpolitical purposes; nor have I at this time one dollar of it left."Sentencedto five years inprison.Due to his failing health, waspardoned by Gov.FrankBrown in May 1894.Slaveowner. Died, in Baltimore CityHospital,Baltimore,Md.,August2, 1898 (age71 years, 155days).Interment atPresbyterianCemetery, Churchville, Md.  | John Lewis Waller (1850-1907) — also known asJohn L. Waller — of Topeka,ShawneeCounty, Kan.; Wyandotte (now part of Kansas City),WyandotteCounty, Kan.; Yonkers,WestchesterCounty, N.Y.Born inslaveryinNewMadrid County, Mo.,January12, 1850.Republican.Barber;lawyer;Republican Presidential Elector for Kansas,1889;U.S. Consul inTamatave, 1891-93; in March 1895, during France's militarytakeover of Madagascar from the Hova monarchy, he wasarrestedby French forces andtried ina French military court, purportedly for the offense ofcorrespondingwith (orspyingfor) the Hovas, but more likely because the Queen of the Hovas hadgranted him 2.5 square miles, rich with rubber and mahogany trees;sentencedto twenty years in a French prison; his case became an internationalcause celebre, and the U.S. government protested his imprisonment;ultimatelypardoned in February 1896 by French presidentFélix Faure, and freed after ten months in prison, in exchangefor U.S. acquiesance to French rule over Madagascar; served in theU.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;newspapereditor.Died, frompneumonia,in Yonkers,WestchesterCounty, N.Y.,October13, 1907 (age57 years, 274days).Interment atOaklandCemetery, Yonkers, N.Y. | | | Edward Richard Folsom (1874-1923) — also known asEdward R. Folsom — of Irvington,EssexCounty, N.J.Born in North Urbana,SteubenCounty, N.Y.,September18, 1874.Charged,in 1894, offorgingchecks,bankrobbery, andarson;pleadedguilty to two charges;sentencedto ten years inprison;pardoned and released in September 1897;coaldealer;mayorof Irvington, N.J., 1923; died in office 1923.Blackmailers threatening to expose his criminal past extorted moneyfrom him until he was nearly penniless;killedhimself by anoverdose ofsedative, in Irvington,EssexCounty, N.J.,September26, 1923 (age49 years, 8days).Interment atClintonCemetery, Irvington, N.J.| | Relatives: Sonof Frederick Lewis Folsom and Martha (Layton) Folsom; married to SaraElizabeth Keeler. | | | | See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial |
| | Robert William Wilcox (1855-1903) — also known asRobert W. Wilcox — of Honolulu, Island of Oahu,HonoluluCounty, Hawaii.Born in Kahalu, Honuaula, Island of Maui,MauiCounty, Hawaii,February15, 1855.Delegateto U.S. Congress from Hawaii Territory, 1900-03.Leader of the Hawaiian revolution of 1889;triedfortreason,but acquitted by a jury. Was involved in therebellionof 1895 and subsequentlycourt-martialed,foundguilty, andsentenced todeath; the sentence was later commuted to 35 years;pardoned by the Hawaiian president in 1898.Died in Honolulu, Island of Oahu,HonoluluCounty, Hawaii,October23, 1903 (age48 years, 250days).Interment atCatholicCemetery, Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Hawaii. | | Caleb Powers (1869-1932) — of Barbourville,KnoxCounty, Ky.Born inWhitleyCounty, Ky.,February1, 1869.Republican.Lawyer;secretaryof state of Kentucky, 1900;U.S.Representative from Kentucky 11th District, 1911-19; delegate toRepublican National Convention from Kentucky,1916.Prosecutedand thriceconvictedfor themurderof Gov.WilliamJ. Goebel and spent eight years inprison;pardoned in 1908 by Gov.AugustusE. Willson.DiedJuly 25,1932 (age63 years, 175days).Interment atBarbourvilleCemetery, Barbourville, Ky. | | Charles Finley (1865-1941) — of Williamsburg,WhitleyCounty, Ky.Born in Williamsburg,WhitleyCounty, Ky.,March26, 1865.Republican. Member ofKentuckystate house of representatives, 1894;secretaryof state of Kentucky, 1896-1900;U.S.Representative from Kentucky 11th District, 1930-33.Member,JuniorOrder;Rotary;Freemasons;Shriners.Among thosechargedin 1900 with themurderof Gov.WilliamJ. Goebel;pardoned in 1909.Died in Williamsburg,WhitleyCounty, Ky.,March18, 1941 (age75 years, 357days).Interment atHighlandCemetery, Williamsburg, Ky.  | Joseph Andrew Iasigi (1848-1917) — also known asJoseph A. Iasigi — of Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.Born in Massachusetts,January15, 1848.ConsularAgent for France inBoston,Mass., 1873-77;Consul-Generalfor Turkey inBoston,Mass., 1889-97; he failed to account for a trust fund, refused toanswer questions, andfledto New York City;arrestedthere in February 1897 andextraditedto Boston;chargedwithembezzlementof about $220,000; pleaded not guilty; tried andconvictedin November 1897; sentenced to 14-18 years in prison;pardonedin 1909.ArmenianandFrenchancestry.Died in Brookline,NorfolkCounty, Mass.,January24, 1917 (age69 years, 9days).Interment atMt.Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. |  | William Sylvester Taylor (1853-1928) — also known asWilliam S. Taylor;W. S. Taylor;"Hogjaw" —of Morgantown,ButlerCounty, Ky.Born in alogcabin inButlerCounty, Ky.,October10, 1853.Republican.Lawyer;state court judge in Kentucky, 1886; delegate to Republican NationalConvention from Kentucky,1888,1900;Kentuckystate attorney general, 1896-99;Governor ofKentucky, 1899-1900;indictedin 1900 as a conspirator in theassassinationofWilliamJ. Goebel;fledto Indiana; never extradited;pardoned in 1909 by Gov.AugustusE. Willson.Died in Indianapolis,MarionCounty, Ind.,August2, 1928 (age74 years, 297days).Interment atCrownHill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind. | | John Hicklin Hall (1854-1937) — also known asJohn H. Hall — of Portland,MultnomahCounty, Ore.Born inMultnomahCounty, Ore.,July 17,1854.Member ofOregonstate house of representatives, 1891-92;U.S.Attorney for Oregon, 1897-1904;removed fromoffice as district attorney;indictedin 1905 over his part in the OregonLandFrauds;convictedin 1908; laterpardoned by President Taft.Died in Portland,MultnomahCounty, Ore.,July 27,1937 (age83 years, 10days).Interment atRiverView Cemetery, Portland, Ore. | | Charles M. Slaughter — of Athens,AthensCounty, Ohio.Mayorof Athens, Ohio, 1910-14.Chargedwithmisconductas justice of the peace;convictedon a lesser charge of misappropriating public funds; served about ayear inprison;pardoned; made restitution.Burial location unknown. | | Frank Porter Glazier (1862-1922) — also known asFrank P. Glazier — of Chelsea,WashtenawCounty, Mich.Born in Jackson,JacksonCounty, Mich.,March 8,1862.Republican.Pharmacist;President of Glazier Stove Company (manufacturerof stoves for cooking and heating); president of Chelsea SavingsBank;member ofMichiganstate senate 10th District, 1903-04;Michiganstate treasurer, 1905-08; resigned 1908.Forced toresign as state treasurer in 1908;convictedofembezzlement;served two years inprison;pardoned in 1920.Died near Chelsea,WashtenawCounty, Mich.,January1, 1922 (age59 years, 299days).Interment atOakGrove Cemetery, Chelsea, Mich. | | Robert Charles Lacey (b. 1886) — also known asRobert C. Lacey — of Buffalo,ErieCounty, N.Y.Born in Buffalo,ErieCounty, N.Y.,October10, 1886.Democrat.Coal andice dealer;president,Buffalo Central Labor Council, 1920; member ofNew Yorkstate senate 49th District, 1923-24; defeated, 1924; during arailway strike in 1922, the Niagara Falls High Speed Line train linewasdynamited,wrecking a train and injuring its passengers; in 1923, Lacey waschargedin federal court with transporting theexplosivesin his car; hefalselytestified to his non-involvement; later confessed to his part inthe incident;pleadedguilty toperjuryover his earlier testimony;sentencedto one day in jail andfined$500;pardoned in 1924 by PresidentCalvinCoolidge; in 1925, he was againindictedfor complicity in thebombing,and pleaded not guilty; after some others were acquitted, the chargeswere dropped; in December 1937, during aninvestigationinto corruption involving the Buffalo city council, he waschargedwithperjury.Member,Eagles;Elks.Burial location unknown.| | Relatives: Sonof James Lacey and Sarah (Cooper) Lacey; married,September30, 1908, to Harriet 'Hattie' Noack. |
| | Charlotte Anita Whitney (c.1868-1955) — also known asAnita Whitney — of California. Born about 1868. Communist.Socialworker; in 1919, she gave aradicalspeech in Oakland, California; as a result, she wasarrested,tried,andfoundguilty of violating the state'ssyndicalismlaw;pardoned by GovernorC. C.Young.; candidate forU.S.Senator from California, 1928, 1940 (Communist).Female.Died inSanFrancisco, Calif.,February4, 1955 (ageabout 87years).Burial location unknown. | | Earl Russel Browder (1891-1973) — also known asEarl Browder — of Yonkers,WestchesterCounty, N.Y.Born in Wichita,SedgwickCounty, Kan.,May 20,1891.Communist. As a result of his opposition to U.S. participation inWorld War I, he wasconvictedin 1917 ofconspiracyagainstthe draft laws andsentencedto sixteen months inprison;imprisonedagain in 1919;pardoned in 1933; candidate forU.S.Representative from New York, 1930 (6th District), 1932 (20thDistrict), 1940 (14th District); General Secretary of the CommunistParty of the U.S., 1934-44; candidate forPresidentof the United States, 1936, 1940;arrestedin 1939 for apassportviolation,convicted,andsentencedto four years inprison(sentence commuted after fourteen months); expelled from theCommunist Party, 1946.Died in Princeton,MercerCounty, N.J.,June 27,1973 (age82 years, 38days).Burial location unknown. | | Maurice Sugar (1891-1974) — of Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.Born in Brimley,ChippewaCounty, Mich.,August8, 1891.Lawyer;Socialist candidate forcircuitjudge in Michigan 3rd Circuit, 1917, 1919; Socialist candidateforjustice ofMichigan state supreme court, 1917; candidate forU.S.Representative from Michigan 13th District, 1918 (Socialist),1936 (Farmer-Labor);convictedin 1918 forresistingthe draft, sentenced to a year inprison,anddisbarred;readmitted to the Bar in 1923;pardoned in 1933; generalcounsel to the United Automobile Workers, 1937-46; Progressivecandidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan,1948.JewishandLithuanianancestry. Member,NationalLawyers Guild.Died inCheboyganCounty, Mich.,February15, 1974 (age82 years, 191days).Burial location unknown. | | Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz (1890-1963) — also known asRudolph G. Tenerowicz — of Hamtramck,WayneCounty, Mich.Born in Budapest,Hungary,of Polish parents,June 14,1890.Physician;served in the U.S. Army during World War I;mayorof Hamtramck, Mich., 1928-32, 1936-39; defeated, 1932; resigned1932; defeated, 1934;U.S.Representative from Michigan 1st District, 1939-43; defeated,1942 (Democratic primary), 1946 (Republican primary), 1948(Republican), 1950 (Republican), 1952 (Republican), 1954 (Republican).Polishancestry.Triedandconvictedonviceconspiracychargesin 1932; freed from prison whenpardoned by Gov.WilliamA. Comstock.Died in Hamtramck,WayneCounty, Mich.,August31, 1963 (age73 years, 78days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va. | | Luke Lea (1879-1945) — of Nashville,DavidsonCounty, Tenn.Born in Nashville,DavidsonCounty, Tenn.,April12, 1879.Democrat.Lawyer;newspapereditor and publisher; founder of the Nashville Tennesseean;U.S.Senator from Tennessee, 1911-17; delegate to Democratic NationalConvention from Tennessee,1912(speaker);colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; in January 1919, afterthe war was over, he led a group of U.S. Army officers in anunauthorizedattempt to seize former German leader Kaiser Wilhelm; theyillegallyentered the Netherlands (which wasneutralterritory) usingforgedpassports; he and the others werereprimandedby the Army; following the collapse of the Asheville Central Bank andTrust, he and others wereindictedin 1931 forbankfraud;convictedon three counts; sentenced toprison,served two years before being paroled; ultimatelypardoned in1937.Episcopalian.Member,Freemasons;AlphaTau Omega;PhiDelta Phi;Elks;Knightsof Pythias;Redmen.Died, in Vanderbilt UniversityHospital,Nashville,DavidsonCounty, Tenn.,November18, 1945 (age66 years, 220days).Interment atMt.Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn. | | Andrew Jackson May (1875-1959) — also known asAndrew J. May — of Prestonsburg,FloydCounty, Ky.Born near Langley,FloydCounty, Ky.,June 24,1875.Democrat.Lawyer;FloydCounty Attorney, 1901-09;U.S.Representative from Kentucky, 1931-47 (10th District 1931-33,at-large 1933-35, 7th District 1935-47); defeated, 1928 (10thDistrict), 1946 (7th District).Baptist.Member,Freemasons.In 1943, he was briefed about the flaws in the Japaneseanti-submarine munitions; herevealedthis information to the press, and hence to the Japanese, whoquickly improved their depth charges. After the war, thisindiscretionwas estimated to have cost the U.S. ten submarines and 800 men.Convicted,on July 3, 1947, onchargesofacceptingbribes for hisinfluencein the award of munitions contracts during World War II; served ninemonths inprison;received a fullpardon from PresidentHarryS. Truman in 1952.Died in Prestonsburg,FloydCounty, Ky.,September6, 1959 (age84 years, 74days).Interment atMayoCemetery, Prestonsburg, Ky.  | Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994) — also known asRichard M. Nixon;"TrickyDick";"Searchlight" —of Whittier,LosAngeles County, Calif.Born in Yorba Linda,OrangeCounty, Calif.,January9, 1913.Republican.Lawyer;served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;U.S.Representative from California 12th District, 1947-50;U.S.Senator from California, 1950-53; appointed 1950; resigned 1953;delegate to Republican National Convention from California,1952(member,ResolutionsCommittee),1956;VicePresident of the United States, 1953-61;Presidentof the United States, 1969-74; defeated, 1960; candidate forGovernor ofCalifornia, 1962; candidate for Republican nomination forPresident,1964.Quaker. Member,AmericanLegion;Order ofthe Coif.Discredited by the Watergatescandal,as many of his subordinates were charged with crimes; in July 1974,the U.S. House Judiciary Committee voted threearticles ofimpeachment against him, overobstructionof justice,abuseof power, andcontemptof Congress; soon after, a tape recording emerged which directlyimplicatedhim in theWatergatebreak-in; with impeachment certain, heresigned;pardoned in 1974 by PresidentGeraldR. Ford.Died, from astroke,atNew YorkHospital/Cornell Medical Center, Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,April22, 1994 (age81 years, 103days).Interment atRichardNixon Library and Birthplace, Yorba Linda, Calif.| | Relatives: Sonof Francis Anthony 'Frank' Nixon and Hannah (Milhous) Nixon; married,June21, 1940, toThelmaCatherine Ryan; father of Julie Nixon (daughter-in-law ofJohnSheldon Doud Eisenhower; granddaughter-in-law ofDwightDavid Eisenhower); second cousin ofJohnDuffy Alderson. | | | | Political families:FourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | Cross-reference:MauriceH. Stans —JohnH. Holdridge —ClarkMacGregor —HarryL. Sears —HarryS. Dent —ChristianA. Herter, Jr. —JohnN. Mitchell —G.Bradford Cook —RaymondMoley —PatrickJ. Buchanan —NilsA. Boe —MurrayM. Chotiner —RichardBlumenthal —G.Gordon Liddy —RobertD. Sack —EdwardG. Latch —WilliamO. Mills —MeyerKestnbaum —ArchibaldCox —CharlesK. McWhorter | | | | Campaign slogan (1968): "Nixon's theOne!" | | | | Epitaph: "The greatest honor historycan bestow is the title of peacemaker." | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —NNDBdossier —Internet Movie Databaseprofile —Find-A-Gravememorial —OurCampaignscandidate detail | | | | Books by Richard M. Nixon:RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (1978) —BeyondPeace (1994) —1999:Victory Without War (1988) —Leaders(1982) —Memoirs —SixCrises (1962) —TheChallenges We Face (1960) —Inthe Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat and Renewal(1990) —NoMore Vietnams (1985) —ThePoetry of Richard Milhous Nixon (1974) —RealPeace (1984) —TheReal War (1980) —SeizeThe Moment: America's Challenge in a One-Superpower World(1992) | | | | Books about Richard M. Nixon: MelvinSmall,ThePresidency of Richard Nixon — Joan Hoff,NixonReconsidered — Jonathan Aitken,Nixon: A Life — Garry Wills,NixonAgonistes : The Crisis of the Self-Made Man — ThomasMonsell,Nixonon Stage and Screen : The Thirty-Seventh President As Depicted inFilms, Television, Plays and Opera — Stephen E.Ambrose,Nixon: Education of a Politician, 1913-1962 — RichardReeves,PresidentNixon: Alone in the White House — Roger Morris,RichardMilhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician —Robert Mason,RichardNixon and the Quest for a New Majority — JulesWitcover,VeryStrange Bedfellows : The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Richard Nixon& Spiro Agnew — Mike Resnick, ed.,AlternatePresidents [anthology] | | | | Critical books about Richard M. Nixon:Nathan Miller,Star-SpangledMen : America's Ten Worst Presidents — Lance Morrow,TheBest Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948:Learning the Secrets of Power — Don Fulsom,Nixon'sDarkest Secrets: The Inside Story of America's Most TroubledPresident | | | | Image source: United States Mintengraving |
| | Jack Paul Faustin Gremillion (1914-2001) — also known asJack P. F. Gremillion — of Baton Rouge,East BatonRouge Parish, La.Born in Donaldsonville,AscensionParish, La.,June 15,1914.Democrat.Lawyer;served in the U.S. Army during World War II;Louisianastate attorney general, 1956-72; delegate to Democratic NationalConvention from Louisiana,1960.Catholic.Member,AmericanLegion;DisabledAmerican Veterans;Knightsof Columbus;Orderof Alhambra;Elks;Lions;American BarAssociation.While opposing New Orleans school desegregation in federal court in1960, walked out of the courtroom, calling the court a "den ofiniquity";convictedofcontemptof court;sentencewas suspended.Indictedin 1969 forfraudand conspiracy over his dealings with the bankrupt Louisiana Loan andThrift Corp.;tried in1971 and acquitted.Convictedlater that year on federalperjurycharges in a related case;sentencedto three years inprison;served 15 months.Pardoned in 1976 by Gov.EdwinEdwards.Died in Our Lady of the Lake RegionalMedicalCenter, Baton Rouge,East BatonRouge Parish, La.,March 2,2001 (age86 years, 260days).Interment atGreenoaksMemorial Park, Baton Rouge, La. | | Caspar Willard Weinberger (1917-2006) — also known asCaspar W. Weinberger;Cap Weinberger;"Cap the Knife" —ofSanFrancisco, Calif.; Hillsborough,San MateoCounty, Calif.Born inSanFrancisco, Calif.,August18, 1917.Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member ofCaliforniastate assembly, 1953-56; delegate to Republican NationalConvention from California,1956(alternate),1960(member,Committeeon Rules and Order of Business);CaliforniaRepublican state chair, 1964; member, Federal Trade Commission,1969-70; chair, Federal Trade Commission, 1970; chair, Federal TradeCommission; director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget;U.S.Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1973-75;U.S.Secretary of Defense, 1981-87.Episcopalian.Jewishancestry. Member,PhiBeta Kappa.Received thePresidentialMedal of Freedom in 1987. To forestall anyprosecutionfor alleged misdeeds in connection with the Iran-Contra affair, hewaspardoned by PresidentGeorgeBush in 1992.Died, ofkidneyailments andpneumonia,in Eastern MaineMedicalCenter, Bangor,PenobscotCounty, Maine,March28, 2006 (age88 years, 222days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va. | | Walter S. Orlinsky (1938-2002) — also known asWally Orlinsky;"WallyAppleseed" —ofBaltimore,Md.Born inBaltimore,Md.,May 19,1938.Democrat.Lawyer;member ofMarylandstate house of delegates from Baltimore city 2nd District,1967-72; Democratic candidate for Presidential Elector for Maryland,1972;candidate forGovernor ofMaryland, 1978;pleadedguilty to Federalchargesof accepting abribefrom an FBI informant posing as a sludge hauler; served 4.5 months inprison;pardoned by PresidentBillClinton in 2000.Member,NationalTrust for Historic Preservation;American CivilLiberties Union;PhiAlpha Delta.DiedFebruary9, 2002 (age63 years, 266days).Burial location unknown. | | Henry Gabriel Cisneros (b. 1947) — also known asHenry G. Cisneros — of San Antonio,BexarCounty, Tex.Born in San Antonio,BexarCounty, Tex.,June 11,1947.Democrat.Mayorof San Antonio, Tex., 1981-89; candidate for Democraticnomination for Vice President,1984;U.S.Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1993-97.Hispanicancestry.In 1995, an independent counsel was appointed toinvestigateallegations that he had madefalsestatements to the FBI about payments he made to hismistress;indictedin 1997 on 18 counts of conspiracy, makingfalsestatements, andobstructionof justice;pleadedguilty to a misdemeanor count oflying tothe FBI, and wasfined$10,000;pardoned in 2001 by PresidentBillClinton.Still living as of 2014. | | John Fife Symington III (b. 1945) — also known asFife Symington III — of Arizona. Born in New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,August12, 1945.Republican. Served in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War;Governor ofArizona, 1991-97; resigned 1997.Episcopalian.Convictedon seven counts ofbankfraud in federal court, September 3, 1997;forced toresign as governor;sentencedtoprisonandfined inFebruary 1998; his conviction was overturned on appeal in June 1999;pardoned by President Bill Clinton in 2001.Still living as of 2017. | | Joseph Michael Joe Arpaio (b. 1932) — also known asJoe Arpaio;"America's ToughestSheriff" —of Fountain Hills,MaricopaCounty, Ariz.Born in Springfield,HampdenCounty, Mass.,June 14,1932.Republican.Policeofficer;MaricopaCounty Sheriff, 1993-2016; Republican Presidential Elector forArizona,2000(voted forGeorgeW. Bush andRichardB. Cheney);convictedin July 2017 on federalcontemptcharges, over his violation of court orders regarding racialprofiling;pardoned in August 2017 by PresidentDonaldTrump.Italianancestry.Still living as of 2018. | | Duncan Duane Hunter (b. 1976) — also known asDuncan D. Hunter — of Lakeside,San DiegoCounty, Calif.; Alpine,San DiegoCounty, Calif.Born in San Diego,San DiegoCounty, Calif.,December7, 1976.Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the wars inAfghanistan and Iraq;real estatedeveloper;U.S.Representative from California, 2009-20 (52nd District 2009-13,50th District 2013-20); resigned 2020; in 2016, he wasinvestigatedover his misuse of some $250,000 incampaignfunds for personal expenses, including family travel, overseashotel stays, andluxuryclothing items; he also spent campaign funds onextramaritalaffairs with five women, including lobbyists and congressionalstaffers; in August 2018, he and his wife wereindictedin federal court; both eventuallypleadedguilty; he wassentencedto 11 months inprison;in December 2020, before he was scheduled to report forincarceration, he waspardoned by PresidentDonaldTrump.Still living as of 2020.
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