See thetrouble anddisgrace main page, as well as theFAQ and thePoliticalGraveyard privacy policy, for important explanations anddisclaimers. in chronological order | |  John Winthrop Chanler (1826-1877) — also known asJohn W. Chanler — of New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,September14, 1826.Democrat.Lawyer;member ofNew Yorkstate assembly from New York County 10th District, 1858-59;U.S.Representative from New York 7th District, 1863-69.On May 14, 1866, he offered a resolution defending PresidentAndrewJohnson's veto ofReconstructionenactments, which he called "the wicked and revolutionary acts of afew malignant and mischievous men." On motion of Rep.RobertC. Schenck, he wascensuredforinsulting the House of Representatives.Died in Barrytown,DutchessCounty, N.Y.,October19, 1877 (age51 years, 35days).Interment atTrinityCemetery, Manhattan, N.Y. | | David Smith Terry (1823-1889) — also known asDavid S. Terry — of Galveston,GalvestonCounty, Tex.;SanFrancisco, Calif.; Stockton,SanJoaquin County, Calif.Born in Christian County (part now inToddCounty), Ky.,March 8,1823.Lawyer;wentto California for the 1849 Gold Rush; advocated the extension ofslavery to California;justice ofCalifornia state supreme court, 1855-59;chiefjustice of California state supreme court, 1857-59; killed U.S.SenatorDavidC. Broderick in aduelnear San Francisco in 1859;triedformurder,but acquitted; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;delegateto California state constitutional convention, 1878-79; candidatefor Presidential Elector for California,1880;his wife Sarah Althea Hill claimed to be the widow and heir ofwealthy U.S. SenatorWilliamSharon; in September, 1888, when her claim was finally rejectedby U.S. Supreme Court JusticeStephenJ. Field (acting as a Court of Appeals judge for California), sheand Terry caused an altercation in the courtroom and werejailedsix months forcontempt of court.Five months after his release from jail, he encountered Justice Fieldand slapped him in the face; he was thenshotthrough the heart andkilled byU.S. Deputy Marshal David Neagle, the justice's bodyguard, in thetrainstationdiningroom at Lathrop,San JoaquinCounty, Calif.,August14, 1889 (age66 years, 159days). Neagle was arrested by local authorities, but laterreleased on the demand of the U.S. government.Interment atStocktonRural Cemetery, Stockton, Calif.  | Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926) — also known asEugene V. Debs — of Terre Haute,VigoCounty, Ind.Born in Terre Haute,VigoCounty, Ind.,November5, 1855.Socialist.Locomotivefireman on the Terre Haute and IndianapolisRailroad;secretary-treasurerof the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in 1880-93; member ofIndianastate house of representatives, 1885;founder in1893 andpresident(1893-97) of the American Railway Union;arrestedduring astrikein 1894 andchargedwithconspiracyto commit murder; the charges were dropped, but he wasjailedfor six months forcontempt of court; became a Socialist whileincarcerated; candidate forPresidentof the United States, 1900 (Social Democratic), 1904 (Socialist),1908 (Socialist), 1912 (Socialist), 1920 (Socialist); in 1905, was afounderof the Industrial Workers of the World ("Wobblies"), which hoped toorganize all workers in "One Big Union";convictedunder theSeditionand Espionage Act for ananti-warspeech he made in 1918, andsentencedto ten years in federalprison;released in 1921.Member,Knightsof Pythias;American CivilLiberties Union.Died in LindlahrSanitarium,Elmhurst,DuPageCounty, Ill.,October20, 1926 (age70 years, 349days).Interment atHighlandLawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind. | | Robert Philo Anibal (1845-1908) — also known asRobert P. Anibal — of Northville,FultonCounty, N.Y.; Johnstown,FultonCounty, N.Y.Born in Benson,HamiltonCounty, N.Y.,February22, 1845.Democrat.Schoolteacher;lawyer;HamiltonCounty Judge and Surrogate, 1872-77; delegate to DemocraticNational Convention from New York,1896;candidate forJustice ofNew York Supreme Court 4th District, 1901.In May 1901, the Herkimer County District Attorneyaccusedhim ofoffering abribe to awitness in a criminal trial; Anibal denied this.Died in Northville,FultonCounty, N.Y.,December14, 1908 (age63 years, 296days).Burial location unknown.| |  Relatives: Sonof Philo Anibal and Mary (Orcutt) Anibal; married,April24, 1872, to Frances E. Van Arnam. |
| | William Warren Rose (1864-1931) — also known asWilliam W. Rose — of Kansas City,WyandotteCounty, Kan.Born in Oyster Bay,NassauCounty, Long Island, N.Y.,March12, 1864.Architect;mayorof Kansas City, Kan., 1905-06, 1906; defeated, 1897 (Fusion),1907 (Democratic); delegate to Democratic National Convention fromKansas,1908,1920.Member,Freemasons.Anousterlawsuit was filed against him in 1905 over hisrefusal toenforce the state'sliquorprohibition law;fined$1,000 forcontempt by the Kansas Supreme Court in 1907 fortrying to hold office as mayor.DiedMay 4,1931 (age67 years, 53days).Interment atWoodlawnCemetery, Kansas City, Kan.  | Frank St. John Sidway (1869-1938) — also known asFrank S. Sidway — of Buffalo,ErieCounty, N.Y.BornDecember15, 1869.Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;lawyer;chairof Erie County Republican Party, 1910; in 1912, he wasfoundguilty ofcivil contempt in connection with his brother'sdivorce case, andfined$900; later, an appellate court reversed this decision; candidate forLieutenantGovernor of New York, 1914.Died, from aheartattack, in Buffalo,ErieCounty, N.Y.,January17, 1938 (age68 years, 33days).Burial location unknown.| | Relatives: Sonof Franklin Sidway and Charlotte (Spalding) Sidway; married to AmeliaRoberts. | | | | See alsoWikipediaarticle | | | | Image source: Library ofCongress |
 | John Edward Charles O'Sullivan Addicks(1841-1919) —also known asJ. Edward Addicks;"GasAddicks";"Napoleon of Gas";"Frenzied Financier" —of Claymont,New CastleCounty, Del.Born in Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.,November21, 1841.Republican.Flourmerchant; built and controlled theilluminatinggas industry in Boston and other cities; tried for years withoutsuccess to win a seat in the U.S. Senate; member ofRepublicanNational Committee from Delaware, 1904; delegate to RepublicanNational Convention from Delaware,1904;arrestedin New York, 1913, over his refusal to acknowledgemoneyjudgements against him by creditors, and released on bond;jailedin 1915 forcontempt of court.Died in Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,August7, 1919 (age77 years, 259days).Interment atLaurelHill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa. | | Hudson Snowden Marshall (1870-1931) — also known asH. Snowden Marshall — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born inBaltimore,Md.,January15, 1870.Lawyer;law partner ofBartowS. Weeks,GeorgeGordon Battle, andJamesA. O'Gorman;U.S.Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1913-17; in1915-16, U.S. Rep.FrankBuchanan (who was at the time being indicted by a federal grandjury) introducedimpeachmentresolutions against Marshall; the charges, includingmalfeasancein the handling of past cases, wereinvestigatedby a House Judiciary subcommittee, which held hearings in New York,and inquired into the proceedings of the grand jury which hadindicted Rep. Buchanan; Marshall wrote a critical letter to thesubcommittee, impugning its motives; based on this letter, the fullHouse voted to find him incontempt of Congress, andordered hisarrest; on appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that theauthority of the House to punish for contempt extended only toactions which directly interfered with its proceedings.Member,American BarAssociation.Died in Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,May 29,1931 (age61 years, 134days).Interment atKensicoCemetery, Valhalla, N.Y. | | Charles Edward Sebastian (1873-1929) — also known asCharles E. Sebastian — of Los Angeles,LosAngeles County, Calif.Born in Farmington,St.Francois County, Mo.,March30, 1873.Democrat.Policeofficer; Los Angeles Chief of Police, 1911-15; in 1915, he wasaccused ofmolestingseveral teenage girls in a rooming house next to the police station;indictedby the county grand jury for contributing to the delinquency of aminor; alsoindictedfor criminalcontempt of court for attempting to influencegrand jurors; won election for mayor while these cases were pending;triedand acquitted on the molestation charge, butfoundguilty of contempt for interference with the grand jury;mayorof Los Angeles, Calif., 1915-16; resigned 1916; defeated, 1917.DiedApril17, 1929 (age56 years, 18days).Interment atGlenHaven Memorial Park, Sylmar, Calif. | | Bernard Ades (1903-1986) — ofBaltimore,Md.Born in Maryland,July 3,1903.Communist.Lawyer;accountant;defense attorney for Euel Lee (alias "Orphan Jones") in his 1932-33trial for the murder of the Davis family; during the trial, Ades wasattackedand injured by a mob in Snow Hill, Maryland; later, he wasdisbarredforcasting aspersions on the judicial system; candidate forGovernorof Maryland, 1934; fought in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in theSpanish Civil War, 1937.Jewish.Died in New York,May 27,1986 (age82 years, 328days).Interment atCemeteryof Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, Baltimore, Md.  | Corliss Lamont (1902-1995) — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Englewood,BergenCounty, N.J.,March28, 1902.Socialist.Author;lecturer;arrestedon June 27, 1934, whilepicketingin support of alaborunion at a furniture plant in Jersey City, N.J.; chairman,National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 1943-47; thisorganization and its leaders wereinvestigatedforsubversionby the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities;chargedin 1946 withcontempt of Congress for his refusal to providerecords demanded by the committee; in 1951, the U.S. State Departmentdenied apassport to him, based on his membership in what were deemed "Communist-frontorganizations"; on August 17, 1954, the U.S. Senatecitedhim withcontempt of Congress for refusing to testify beforeSen.JosephR. McCarthy's subcommittee; subsequentlyindicted;pleaded not guilty; the indictment was dismissed in 1955; the Courtof Appeals upheld the dismissal in 1956; candidate forU.S.Senator from New York, 1952 (American Labor), 1958 (IndependentSocialist).Member,American CivilLiberties Union;NAACP;PhiBeta Kappa;AmericanAcademy of Political and Social Science.Died, ofheartfailure, in Ossining,WestchesterCounty, N.Y.,April26, 1995 (age93 years, 29days).Interment atBrooksideCemetery, Englewood, N.J. | | | Richard Morford (c.1903-1986) — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Onaway,PresqueIsle County, Mich., about 1903.Presbyterianminister; vice-chair of New York American Labor Party, 1945-49;director, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 1946-80;this organization and its leaders wereinvestigatedforsubversionby the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities;chargedin 1946 withcontempt of Congress for his refusal to providerecords demanded by the committee;tried infederal court in Washington;convictedin March 1948; his conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court;convictedagain on re-trial;sentencedto three months in prison andfined$250.Presbyterian.Died, frompneumonia,in Madison,DaneCounty, Wis.,September7, 1986 (ageabout 83years).Burial location unknown.| | Relatives:Married to Aileen Hutson. |
| | James Lustig (b. 1902) — of Bronx,BronxCounty, N.Y.; Newark,EssexCounty, N.J.Born in Budapest,Hungary,1902.Communist. Naturalized U.S. citizen;agent,United Electrical Workers; candidate forNew Yorkstate senate 22nd District, 1932; member, Joint Anti-FascistRefugee Committee; the group was investigated forsubversionby the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities;indictedin 1947, along with other members, forcontempt of Congressover their refusal to provide records demanded by the Housecommittee;convictedin 1947;sentencedto three months in jail, andfined$500.Hungarianancestry.Burial location unknown. | | George William Crockett Jr. (1909-1997) — also known asGeorge W. Crockett, Jr. — of Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.Born in Jacksonville,DuvalCounty, Fla.,August10, 1909.Democrat. Recorder's court judge in Michigan, 1966-78;U.S.Representative from Michigan 13th District, 1980-91; delegate toDemocratic National Convention from Michigan,1984,1988;arrestedduring ananti-apartheidprotest outside the South AfricanEmbassyin Washington, 1984.Baptist.Africanancestry. Member,KappaAlpha Psi;NationalLawyers Guild.Served four months in federalprisonforcontempt of court in 1950, following his defense of aCommunist leader on trial in New York for advocating the overthrow ofthe government. Among the founders of the nation'sfirstinterracial law firm.Ill withbonecancer in 1997, he suffered astrokeand died five days later, in Washington Home andHospice,Washington,D.C.,September7, 1997 (age88 years, 28days).Cremated. | | Howard Melvin Fast (1914-2003) — also known asHoward Fast;"E. V.Cunningham";"Walter Ericson" —of Teaneck,BergenCounty, N.J.Born in New York City (unknowncounty), N.Y.,November11, 1914.Communist.Novelist;in 1950, suspected ofsedition,he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee,where he refused to name fellow members of the Communist Party;convictedofcontempt of Congress and sentenced to three months inprison;awarded theStalinPeace Prize in 1953; American Labor candidate forU.S.Representative from New York 23rd District, 1952.Jewish.Died in Old Greenwich, Greenwich,FairfieldCounty, Conn.,March12, 2003 (age88 years, 121days).Burial location unknown.  | Vincent William Hallinan (1896-1992) — also known asVincent Hallinan — ofSanFrancisco, Calif.Born inSanFrancisco, Calif.,December16, 1896.Progressive. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I;lawyer;innovator in courtroom tactics; defense attorney for longshoremanunion leader Harry Bridges, who had been accused of being aCommunist;jailedsix months forcontempt of court in 1952; candidate forPresidentof the United States, 1952;indictedin 1953 onincometax evasioncharges;convictedandsentencedto 18 months inprison.Irishancestry.Died inSanFrancisco, Calif.,October2, 1992 (age95 years, 291days).Interment atMt.Tamalpais Cemetery, San Rafael, Calif. | | | Arthur Asher Miller (1915-2005) — also known asArthur Miller — of Roxbury,LitchfieldCounty, Conn.Born in Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,October17, 1915.Democrat.Playwright;author of such plays as "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible";received thePulitzerPrize for Drama in 1949; because he wassuspectedof ties toCommunistorganizations, hispassport wasdenied in 1954; compelled to testify before the House Un-AmericanActivities Committee in 1956; he refused to name his politicalcolleagues, and wasfoundguilty ofcontempt of Congress in 1957; the conviction wasoverturned on appeal; delegate to Democratic National Convention fromConnecticut,1968.Agnostic.Jewishancestry.Died in Roxbury,LitchfieldCounty, Conn.,February10, 2005 (age89 years, 116days).Interment atGreat Oak Cemetery, Roxbury, Conn. | | 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";convictedofcontempt of 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.Pardonedin 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. | | James Patton Sutton (1915-2005) — also known asPat Sutton — of Lawrenceburg,LawrenceCounty, Tenn.Born near Wartrace,BedfordCounty, Tenn.,October31, 1915.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;U.S.Representative from Tennessee, 1949-55 (7th District 1949-53, 6thDistrict 1953-55); candidate forU.S.Senator from Tennessee, 1954;LawrenceCounty Sheriff;pleaded nocontest in 1964 tochargesrelated to his involvement in acounterfeitingring;imprisonedfor 10 months for violating a federalprobation order.Died, in the Lakeland SpecialtyHospital,Berrien Center,BerrienCounty, Mich.,February3, 2005 (age89 years, 95days).Cremated;ashes interred atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va.  | Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908-1972) — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in New Haven,New HavenCounty, Conn.,November29, 1908.Democrat.Baptistminister;U.S.Representative from New York, 1945-71 (22nd District 1945-53,16th District 1953-63, 18th District 1963-71); delegate to DemocraticNational Convention from New York,1952,1960,1964;citedforcontempt of court in 1966 for refusing to pay damages in alawsuit against him; on February 28, 1967, he wasexpelledfrom the House of Representatives onchargesofunbecomingconduct andmisusingpublic funds; the Supreme Court overturned the expulsion in 1969.Baptist.Africanancestry. Member,AlphaPhi Alpha;Elks.Died, ofprostatecancer, in Jackson MemorialHospital,Miami, Dade County (nowMiami-DadeCounty), Fla.,April 4,1972 (age63 years, 127days).Cremated;ashes scattered inaprivate or family graveyard, Bahamas.| | Relatives: Sonof Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. and Mattie (Fletcher) Powell; married,March 8,1933, to Isabel Washington; married,August1, 1945, to Hazel Scott; married,December15, 1960, to Yvette Marjorie Diago (Flores) Powell; father ofAdamClayton Powell IV. | | | | Adam Clayton Powell Jr.Boulevard(formerly part of Seventh Avenue), inManhattan,New York, isnamed forhim. — The Adam Clayton PowellStateOffice Building (opened 1974 as the Harlem State Office Building;renamed 1983), inManhattan,New York, isnamed forhim. | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —NNDBdossier | | | | Books by Powell,Adam Clayton,Jr.:Adamby Adam: The Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell,Jr. | | | | Books about Powell,Adam Clayton,Jr.:Tisha Hamilton,AdamClayton Powell, Jr.: The Political Biography of an AmericanDilemma — Wil Haygood,Kingof the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell,Jr. | | | | Image source: Library ofCongress |
| | Mortimer Thomas Furay (1910-1972) — also known asMort Furay — of Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.Born in Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.,July 23,1910.Democrat.President,Local 705, Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union;vice-president,AFL-CIO Union Label Trade Department; candidate forMichiganstate house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,1944; candidate in primary formayorof Detroit, Mich., 1949; in 1967, at an intersection in HighlandPark, Mich., he witnessed a woman being beaten by her husband, andsummoned police; when the police officers decided not to arrest theman, heprotested,and wasarrestedforinterfering with police; he pleaded not guilty, and atrial date was set, but apparently the case was dropped.Died, probably from aheartattack, in Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.,March12, 1972 (age61 years, 233days);body wasdonated to Wayne State University Medical School.| | Relatives: Sonof Mortimer John Furay and Florence Bell (Kratz) Furay; married1932 toCorinne Kelly. | | | | See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial |
| | Bobby Seale (b. 1936) — also known asRobert George Seale — of Oakland,AlamedaCounty, Calif.Born in Dallas,DallasCounty, Tex.,October22, 1936.Joined U.S. Air Force in 1955;chargedwithinsubordinationand beingAWOL,anddishonorablydischarged;sheet metalworker; co-founder, with Huey Newton, of the Black Panther Party,1966; one of eight defendantschargedin 1969 with crossing state lines toincite ariot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago; thejudge ordered himbound andgagged during the trial, andsentencedhim to four years inprisonforcontempt of court; Peace and Freedom candidate forCaliforniastate assembly 17th District, 1968; in 1970, he waschargedin New Haven, Conn., withorderingthe murder of Alex Rackley, a Black Panther who had confessed tobeing a police informant; the jury was unable to reach a verdict, andthe charges were eventually dropped; candidate formayorof Oakland, Calif., 1973.Africanancestry.Still living as of 2014.  | 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, andcontempt of Congress; soon after, a taperecording emerged which directlyimplicatedhim in theWatergatebreak-in; with impeachment certain, heresigned;pardonedin 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 |
| | John Linebaugh Knuppel (1923-1986) — also known asJohn L. Knuppel — of Petersburg,MenardCounty, Ill.Born in Easton,MasonCounty, Ill.,August15, 1923.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II;delegateto Illinois state constitutional convention, 1969-70; member ofIllinoisstate senate, 1971-81 (42nd District 1971-73, 48th District1973-81); candidate forU.S.Representative from Illinois 18th District, 1980.Lutheran.Germanancestry. Member,Veterans ofForeign Wars;AmericanLegion.Jailedforcontempt of court forrefusing towear a tie.Died, ofheartdisease, in ahospitalat Springfield,SangamonCounty, Ill.,November15, 1986 (age63 years, 92days).Intermentsomewherein Havana, Ill. | | S. Samuel DiFalco (1906-1978) — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born inItaly,July26, 1906.Democrat.Lawyer;candidate forNew Yorkstate assembly, 1935;Justice ofNew York Supreme Court 1st District, 1949-56;NewYork County Surrogate, 1957-76.Italianancestry. Member,TammanyHall.Indictedin May 1976, along with JusticeIrvingSaypol, onofficialmisconductcharges,in connection with an alleged scheme to obtain appraisal and auctioncommissions for Saypol's son; the charges were later dismissed.Indictedin February 1978 forcriminal contempt, in connection with hisstatements to a grand jury, but died before trial.Died, from aheartattack, whilediningwith friends at the Columbus Club, Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,June 28,1978 (age71 years, 337days).Interment atGateof Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y.  | Owen Windle Crumpacker (1912-1998) — also known asOwen W. Crumpacker — of Whiting,LakeCounty, Ind.Born in Hammond,LakeCounty, Ind.,January28, 1912.Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II;lawyer;disbarredin 1978 by the Indiana Supreme Court, over hisunprofessionalconduct; repeatedlyjailedforcontempt of court for continuing to practice law afterdisbarment; candidate forU.S.Representative from Indiana 1st District, 1988.Died in Portage,KalamazooCounty, Mich.,February10, 1998 (age86 years, 13days).Burial location unknown. | | J. William Petro (c.1940-2002) — of Ohio. Born about 1940.U.S.Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, 1982-84.Firedas U.S. attorney amidchargesthat heleakedconfidential information;foundguilty ofcriminal contempt of court in 1985.Died, of acerebralhemorrhage,May 23,2002 (ageabout 62years).Burial location unknown. | | Lawrence Francis Bretta (1928-2006) — also known asLawrence F. Bretta — of Somerville,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.; Medford,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.BornJanuary12, 1928.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II; memberofMassachusettsstate house of representatives, 1950;mayorof Somerville, Mass., 1961-67; delegate to Democratic NationalConvention from Massachusetts,1964;regional director of the General Services Administration, 1979-84;resignedwhile underinvestigation;in August 1984, he waschargedwithextortingabribe;pleadedguilty andsentencedto four years in prison; in July 1985, he refused to testify to agrand jury, and was cited forcontempt, and time added to hissentence.Catholic.Italianancestry.DiedSeptember2, 2006 (age78 years, 233days).Interment atOakGrove Cemetery, Medford, Mass. | | Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. (b. 1940) — also known asGlenn Miller;"Frazier GlennCross";"Rounder" —of North Carolina; Aurora,LawrenceCounty, Mo.Born in Springfield,GreeneCounty, Mo.,1940.Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; candidate inDemocratic primary forGovernor ofNorth Carolina, 1984; candidate in Republican primary forNorthCarolina state senate, 1986;convictedon federalcontempt of court charges in 1986;sentencedto one year in prison, butdisappearedwhile out on bond; latercapturedin Missouri, along with four other Klansmen and a cache of weapons;indictedin 1987 for plottingrobberiesand anassassination;in a deal with prosecutors, hepleadedguilty to aweaponscharge and to makingthreatsthrough the mail; served three years inprison; candidate forU.S.Representative from Missouri 7th District, 2006; candidate forU.S.Senator from Missouri, 2010; on April 13, 2014, in an apparenthatecrime heshotand killed three people at a Jewish community center andretirement complex in Overland Park, Kansas.Member,KuKlux Klan.Still living as of 2014. | | Matthew Eduardo Gonzalez (b. 1965) — also known asMatt Gonzalez — ofSanFrancisco, Calif.Born in McAllen,HidalgoCounty, Tex.,June 4,1965.Lawyer;as trial attorney for San Francisco Office of Public Defender, wastwicejailedforcontempt of court; the contempt findings were overturnedon appeal; candidate formayorof San Francisco, Calif., 2003; Independent candidate forVicePresident of the United States, 2008.Mexicanancestry.Still living as of 2014. | | Carl Christopher Perkins (b. 1954) — also known asCarl C. Perkins;ChrisPerkins —of Leburn,KnottCounty, Ky.Born inWashington,D.C.,August6, 1954.Democrat. Member ofKentuckystate house of representatives, 1981-84;U.S.Representative from Kentucky 7th District, 1985-93;pleadedguilty in 1994 tobankfraud in connection with the House bankingscandal;he wrote overdrafts totaling about $300,000 (covered by the Housebank) and made false statements toobtainloans from commercial banks; alsopleadedguilty to charges of filing false statements with theFederalElection Commission and falsefinancialdisclosure reports;sentencedto 21 months inprison;in March 2000,pleadedguilty tocriminal contempt of court for lying to afederal probation officer about his income;minister.Baptist;laterPresbyterian.Still living as of 2014. | | Abraham Jacob Hirschfeld (1919-2005) — also known asAbraham J. Hirschfeld;Abe Hirschfeld;"Honest Abe" —of Great Neck,NassauCounty, Long Island, N.Y.; Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.; Miami Beach, Dade County (nowMiami-DadeCounty), Fla.Born in Tarnow,Poland,December20, 1919.Realestate developer;hotelowner; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention fromNew York,1968;candidate forU.S.Senator from New York, 1974 (Democratic primary), 1976(Democratic primary), 2004 (Builders); candidate forU.S.Representative from New York 14th District, 1992 (IndependentFusion), 1994 (Democratic primary); Republican candidate forboroughpresident of Manhattan, New York, 1997; Independence candidateforNewYork state comptroller, 1998.In 1998, offered Paula Jones $1 million to drop her sexual harassmentlawsuit against PresidentBillClinton; later sued by Jones when he tried to back out of theoffer.Indictedin 2000 for trying tohirea hit man tokillhis former business partner Stanley Stahl; alsochargedwithtaxevasion; brieflyjailedforviolating a court order against discussing the trial withthe media; ultimatelyconvicted,and served two years inprison.Died, from complications ofcancer,in St. BarnabasHospital,Bronx,BronxCounty, N.Y.,August9, 2005 (age85 years, 232days).Interment atCedarPark Cemetery, Paramus, N.J. | | Addison Graves Wilson (b. 1947) — also known asJoe Wilson — of West Columbia,LexingtonCounty, S.C.; Springdale,LexingtonCounty, S.C.Born in Charleston,CharlestonCounty, S.C.,July 31,1947.Republican. Staff for U.S. Sen.StromThurmond, and for U.S. Rep.FloydSpence;lawyer;delegate to Republican National Convention from South Carolina,1972,2008;member ofSouthCarolina state senate, 1984-2001;U.S.Representative from South Carolina 2nd District, 2001-;rebukedby the House of Representatives in September, 2009, for abreachof decorum; he hadshouted"You Lie!" during an address by PresidentBarackObama.Presbyterian.Still living as of 2018. | | Phill Kline (b. 1959) — of Overland Park,JohnsonCounty, Kan.Born in Kansas City,WyandotteCounty, Kan.,December31, 1959.Republican.Lawyer;radio showhost; candidate forU.S.Representative from Kansas, 1986 (2nd District), 2000 (3rdDistrict); member ofKansasstate house of representatives 18th District, 1993-2000;Kansasstate attorney general, 2003-07; defeated, 2006;JohnsonCounty District Attorney, 2007-08.Nazarene.In October, 2011, the Kansas Supreme Courtindefinitelysuspended his license to practice law, citingmisconductwhile investigating abortion clinics, includingperjuryand deliberately deceivingjudges, state officials, agrandjury, and the investigating panel of the Board for Discipline ofAttorneys.Still living as of 2014. | | 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 federalcontempt charges, over his violationof court orders regarding racial profiling;pardonedin August 2017 by PresidentDonaldTrump.Italianancestry.Still living as of 2018.
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