See thetrouble anddisgrace main page, as well as theFAQ and thePoliticalGraveyard privacy policy, for important explanations anddisclaimers. in chronological order  |  Oliver Wolcott Jr. (1760-1833) — of Litchfield,LitchfieldCounty, Conn.; New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Litchfield,LitchfieldCounty, Conn.,January11, 1760.Connecticutstate comptroller, 1788-90;U.S.Secretary of the Treasury, 1795-1800;banker;Governor ofConnecticut, 1817-27;delegateto Connecticut state constitutional convention, 1818.Congregationalist.Accused,by political adversaries in 1800, ofsetting fire to the StateDepartment, andresignedfrom the Cabinet in protest against theinvestigation.Died in New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,June 1,1833 (age73 years, 141days).Interment atEastCemetery, Litchfield, Conn.| |  Relatives: SonofOliverWolcott Sr. and Laura (Collins) Wolcott; brother of Mary AnnWolcott (who marriedChaunceyGoodrich) andFrederickWolcott; nephew ofErastusWolcott and Ursula Wolcott (who marriedMatthewGriswold (1714-1799)); grandson ofRogerWolcott (1679-1767); granduncle ofRogerWolcott (1847-1900); third great-grandson ofWilliamLeete; first cousin ofRogerGriswold; first cousin twice removed ofJohnWilliam Allen,JamesSamuel Wadsworth,HenryTitus Backus,ChristopherParsons Wolcott andMatthewGriswold (1833-1919); first cousin thrice removed ofCharlesFrederick Wadsworth,JamesWolcott Wadsworth,EdwardOliver Wolcott andAlfredWolcott; first cousin four times removed ofJamesWolcott Wadsworth Jr. andSeldenChapin; first cousin five times removed ofJamesJermiah Wadsworth andFredericLincoln Chapin; first cousin six times removed ofJamesWadsworth Symington; second cousin once removed ofWilliamPitkin,GaylordGriswold,SamuelClesson Allen,WilliamWolcott Ellsworth andHenryLeavitt Ellsworth; second cousin twice removed ofJosephLyman Huntington,ElishaHunt Allen andGeorgeWashington Wolcott; second cousin thrice removed ofEdmundHolcomb,AlbertAsahel Bliss,PhilemonBliss,CollinsDwight Huntington,WilliamFessenden Allen,GeorgeMilo Huntington andFrederickHobbes Allen; second cousin four times removed ofJudsonH. Warner,NelsonPlatt Wheeler,WilliamEgbert Wheeler andHenryAugustus Wolcott; second cousin five times removed ofAlexanderRoyal Wheeler; third cousin ofDanielPitkin; third cousin once removed ofThomasChittenden,EnochWoodbridge,JamesHillhouse,JosephSilliman (1756-1829) andTimothyPitkin; third cousin twice removed ofPhineasLyman Tracy,AlbertHaller Tracy,HenryWard Beecher,LeveretBrainard,EdwinCarpenter Pinney,RogerCalvin Leete andJohnRobert Graham Pitkin; third cousin thrice removed ofJosephPomeroy Root,GeorgeGriswold Sill,FrederickWalker Pitkin,GeorgeBuckingham Beecher,LutherS. Pitkin andClaudeCarpenter Pinney; fourth cousin ofBenjaminTallmadge,ElizurGoodrich,MartinChittenden,WilliamWoodbridge andJosephSilliman (c.1786-1850); fourth cousin once removed ofChittendenLyon,FrederickAugustus Tallmadge,JosiahC. Chittenden,ClarkS. Chittenden,AbelMadison Scranton,FrederickEnoch Woodbridge andJosephFitch Silliman. | | | | Political families:FourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | ThetownofWolcott,Vermont, isnamed forhim. | | | | See alsoNationalGovernors Association biography —Wikipediaarticle —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial | | | | Image source: One Hundredth Anniversary(1919) |
| | Henry Clay Cole (1838-1881) — also known asHenry C. Cole — of Kokomo,HowardCounty, Ind.Born inRipleyCounty, Ind.,1838.Physician;mayorof Kokomo, Ind., 1881; died in office 1881.Shotandkilled byasheriff'sposse, allegedly while he was attempting torob andburn a grist mill, in Kokomo,HowardCounty, Ind.,September19, 1881 (ageabout 43years). The shooters were personal enemies of his, so somesuspected a conspiracy. Four members of the posse were indicted formanslaughter by a grand jury, but the charges were later dismissed.Interment atCrownPoint Cemetery, Kokomo, Ind. | | 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;pardonedand 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 |
| | Alfred Moore Waddell (1834-1912) — also known asAlfred M. Waddell — of Wilmington,NewHanover County, N.C.Born in Hillsborough,OrangeCounty, N.C.,September16, 1834.Democrat.Lawyer;newspapereditor and publisher; colonel in the Confederate Army during theCivil War;U.S.Representative from North Carolina 3rd District, 1871-79;delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina,1880(member,ResolutionsCommittee),1896;notoriousleader of the overthrow of Wilmington's elected city government bywhitesupremacists on November 10, 1898; forced the incumbent mayor toresign at gunpoint, and took his place; the offices of the WilmingtonDaily Record newspaper wereburned, and as many as 300 Blackcitizens of Wilmington weremurdered;mayorof Wilmington, N.C., 1898-1906.Died in Wilmington,New HanoverCounty, N.C.,March17, 1912 (age77 years, 183days).Interment atOakdaleCemetery, Wilmington, N.C. | | 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 theexplosives in 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;pardonedin 1924 by PresidentCalvinCoolidge; in 1925, he was againindictedfor complicity in thebombing, and pleaded not guilty; aftersome others were acquitted, the charges were dropped; in December1937, 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. |
| | Vincent Tuero (1881-1953) — also known asVicente Sifuentes Tuero — of Buffalo,ErieCounty, N.Y.; North Tonawanda,NiagaraCounty, N.Y.; Southfield,OaklandCounty, Mich.; San Antonio,BexarCounty, Tex.Born inDurango,January26, 1881.Socialist. Naturalized U.S. citizen;streetcarconductor;financialsecretary andTreasurer,Street Carmen's Union; candidate forNew Yorkstate assembly from Erie County 2nd District, 1918; during arailway strike in 1922, the Niagara Falls High Speed Line train linewasdynamited, wrecking a train and injuring its passengers;in 1923, Tuero and others wereindictedin federal court for conspiring to steal, transport, and place thedynamite; atrialwas held in January 1926, but the charges against Tuero weredismissed by the judge at the end of the prosecution's case.Mexicanancestry.Died, from acerebralhemorrhage, in LaurelwoodRestHome, San Antonio,BexarCounty, Tex.,July 9,1953 (age72 years, 164days).Intermentsomewherein San Antonio, Tex.| | Relatives: Sonof Mariano Tuero and Dolores (Sifuentes) Tuero. |
| | Tom Metzger — of California; Warsaw,KosciuskoCounty, Ind.Democratic candidate forU.S.Representative from California 43rd District, 1980; candidate inDemocratic primary forU.S.Senator from California, 1982;convictedin 1991 ofburning a cross (as a form ofhate speechor intimidation) andsentencedtoprison;in 1992, he wasarrestedin Canada for violatingimmigrationlaws.Member,JohnBirch Society;Ku Klux Klan.Still living as of 2012. | | Scott Winfield Davis — also known asScott W. Davis — of Palo Alto,SantaClara County, Calif.Arrestedin 1996, in Atlanta, Georgia, andchargedwithkillingDavid Coffin andsetting fire to his home; the charges werelater dropped for lack of evidence; Independent candidate forGovernor ofCalifornia, 2003.Still living as of 2003.
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