See thetrouble anddisgrace main page, as well as theFAQ and thePoliticalGraveyard privacy policy, for important explanations anddisclaimers. in chronological order | |  John Louis O'Sullivan (1813-1895) — also known asJohn L. O'Sullivan — of New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born, of American parents, in theNorthAtlantic Ocean off the coast of Gibraltar,November15, 1813.Democrat. Member ofNew Yorkstate assembly from New York County, 1841-42; delegate toDemocratic National Convention from New York,1844;U.S. Charge d'Affaires toPortugal, 1854; U.S. Minister toPortugal, 1854-58.Episcopalian;laterCatholic.Cofounder and editor ofThe United StatesMagazineand Democratic Review, a journal that published the works ofEmerson, Hawthorne and Whitman, as well as political essays onJacksonian Democracy, 1837-46. Early advocate in 1840s for abolitionof the death penalty. Invented the term "manifest destiny" to explainand justify the westward expansion of the United States. Took part inthe failed expedition of Narcisco Lopez to take Cuba from Spanishrule; as a result, waschargedin federal court in New York withviolation of the NeutralityAct;triedand acquitted in March 1852.Died, ofinfluenzaand the effects of an earlierstroke,in a residentialhotel inNew York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,March24, 1895 (age81 years, 129days).Interment atMoravianCemetery, New Dorp, Staten Island, N.Y. | | Albert Hiram Lennox (1842-1907) — also known asAlbert H. Lennox;Albert HiramLenox —of Camden,CamdenCounty, N.J.Born in Trenton,MercerCounty, N.J.,December22, 1842.Shipbroker;commissionmerchant;Vice-Consulfor Haiti inPhiladelphia,Pa., 1877-83;Consulfor Greece inPhiladelphia,Pa., 1881-91;Consulfor Haiti inPhiladelphia,Pa., 1883-91; in 1891, he and other officers of some mutualbenefit associations werechargedin Philadelphia with obtaining moneyunder falsepretenses; in 1894, he resistedevictionfornon-paymentof rent; he was no longer consul, butfalselyclaimddiplomatic immunity; the government of Haiticontradicted his claim, and ascandalresulted.Died in Camden,CamdenCounty, N.J.,July 4,1907 (age64 years, 194days).Interment atColestownCemetery, Cherry Hill Township, Camden County, N.J.| |  Relatives: Sonof Elizabeth Jane Lenox and Hiram Lenox; married to EmmaStoy. | | | | See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial |
 | 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 ofcorresponding with (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;ultimatelypardonedin February 1896 by French president Félix Faure, and freedafter ten months in prison, in exchange for U.S. acquiesance toFrench rule over Madagascar; served in the U.S. Army during theSpanish-American War;newspapereditor.Died, frompneumonia,in Yonkers,WestchesterCounty, N.Y.,October13, 1907 (age57 years, 274days).Interment atOaklandCemetery, Yonkers, N.Y. | | | John J. Girimondi — of Hazleton,LuzerneCounty, Pa.; Shakopee,ScottCounty, Minn.;SanFrancisco, Calif.Catholicpriest; naturalized U.S. citizen; concealed his clericalbackground from Congressmen who recommended him for a consularappointment; U.S. Consul inSantos, 1900-01;removedas consul forneglectof duty and possibleembezzlement;went to Italy andmisrepresented himself as U.S. Consul toPersia;arrestedby Italian authorities onchargesofbetrayinga young woman, andimprisonedthere.Catholic.Italianancestry.Burial location unknown. | | Charles Miot — U.S. Consular Agent inSt. Marc, 1897-1908;Dismissedfrom his consular position in 1908 by the U.S. State Department forallegedlyaiding Haitian rebels.Burial location unknown. | | Washington G. Lithgow (1840-1925) — also known asWashington Lithgow — of Charlestown, Middlesex County (now part of Boston,SuffolkCounty), Mass.; Plainfield,UnionCounty, N.J.; Puerto Plata,DominicanRepublic.Born, of American parents, in Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo (nowDominicanRepublic),July 4,1840.Republican. U.S. Vice Consul inPuerto Plata, 1875-99; alternate delegate to RepublicanNational Convention from New Jersey,1880;Consul-Generalfor Dominican Republic inSanJuan, P.R., 1899; in 1912, due to his allegedsupport forrebels, he was orderedexpelledfrom the Dominican Republic; the U.S. State Department interceded inhis behalf, and the order was revoked.Died in Puerto Plata,DominicanRepublic,December8, 1925 (age85 years, 157days).Intermentsomewhere in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.| | Relatives:Married,July 17,1863, to Ellen Prentiss Peirce; grandfather of Arthur WashingtonLithgow; great-grandfather of John Arthur Lithgow. |
| | James Mark Sullivan (1873-1933) — also known asJames M. Sullivan — of New York. Born inIreland,1873.U.S. Minister toDominican Republic, 1913-15.Participatedin the 1916 Easter Uprising in Ireland;arrestedby the British authorities, but not executed due to his Americandiplomatic passport.Died in1933(ageabout60 years).Interment atGlasnevinCemetery, Dublin, Ireland. | | Olney Arnold (1861-1916) — of Providence,ProvidenceCounty, R.I.Born in Cumberland,ProvidenceCounty, R.I.,September8, 1861.Democrat. Treasurer and manager Rogers Screw Company; president,AngellLandCompany; delegate to Democratic National Convention from RhodeIsland,1888;member ofRhodeIsland state house of representatives, 1908; candidate forGovernor ofRhode Island, 1908, 1909; U.S. Diplomatic Agent toEgypt, 1913-16, died in office 1916; U.S. Consul General inCairo, 1914-16, died in office 1916;underinvestigation in 1916 onchargesof makingunneutral utterances.Unitarian.Died in Lisbon,Portugal,March5, 1916 (age54 years, 179days).Interment atSwanPoint Cemetery, Providence, R.I. | | Victor Hugo Duras — also known asVictor H. Duras — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Nebraska. Republican. Candidate forU.S.Representative from New York, 1908 (12th District), 1910 (14thDistrict); alternate delegate to Republican National Convention fromNew York,1912;U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul inLiège, 1913-14; U.S. Vice Consul inPetrograd, 1914-15;arrestedin August, 1916, in Russia, onsuspicionof being a Germanspy; freed in 1917.Burial location unknown. | | Roger Culver Tredwell (1885-1961) — also known asRoger C. Tredwell — of Bloomington,MonroeCounty, Ind.;Washington,D.C.; Ridgefield,FairfieldCounty, Conn.Born in Brooklyn,KingsCounty, N.Y.,January12, 1885.U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General inYokohama, 1910-11; U.S. Deputy Consul General inLondon, 1911; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul inBurslem, 1911-12;Dresden, 1912; U.S. Consul inBristol, 1913-14;Amsterdam, 1914;Naples, 1914;Leghorn, 1914-15;Turin, 1915-16;Rome, 1916-17; while working asAmerican consul, he wasarrestedandimprisonedby the Russian Bolshevik authorities in Tashkent, 1918-19; U.S.Consul General inHong Kong, 1925-29;Stockholm, as of 1932.Died in Ridgefield,FairfieldCounty, Conn.,July 12,1961 (age76 years, 181days).Burial location unknown.| | Relatives: Sonof Alanson Tredwell and Frances Vail (Culver) Tredwell; married toWinifred van Shaick Reed. | | | | See alsoWikipediaarticle |
| | 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 wasneutral territory)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; ultimatelypardonedin 1937.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. | | George Frost Kennan (1904-2005) — also known asGeorge F. Kennan — of Pennsylvania. Born in Milwaukee,MilwaukeeCounty, Wis.,February16, 1904.Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul inTallinn, as of 1929; U.S. Consul inBerlin, as of 1932; U.S. Ambassador toSoviet Union, 1952;Yugoslavia, 1961; the government of the Soviet Uniondeclaredhimpersona non grata on October 3, 1952; received the 1956PulitzerPrize in History for his bookRussia Leaves the War;received the 1968PulitzerPrize in Biography for hisMemoirs; received thePresidentialMedal of Freedom in 1989.Member,Council onForeign Relations.Died in Princeton,MercerCounty, N.J.,March17, 2005 (age101 years,29 days).Interment atPrincetonCemetery, Princeton, N.J. | | Charles Wheeler Thayer (1910-1969) — also known asCharles W. Thayer — of Villanova,DelawareCounty, Pa.; Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.Born in Villanova,DelawareCounty, Pa.,February9, 1910.U.S. Vice Consul inMoscow, 1937, 1940;Berlin, 1937-38;Hamburg, 1939-40;Kabul, as of 1943; colonel in the U.S. Army during World WarII; head of the State Department's international broadcastingdivision, including the "Voice of America", 1947-49; U.S. ConsulGeneral inMunich, 1952-53; in March 1953, when attacks on hisloyaltyby U.S. Sen.JosephR. McCarthy inspired a State Departmentinvestigationinto hisdiplomatic career, heresignedfrom the Foreign Service;writer.Died, duringheartsurgery, in Salzburg,Austria,August27, 1969 (age59 years, 199days).Interment atChurchof the Redeemer Cemetery, Bryn Mawr, Pa. | | Anthony Dryden Marshall (1924-2014) — also known asAnthony D. Marshall;Tony Marshall;Anthony Dryden Kuser —of Providence,ProvidenceCounty, R.I.; Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,May 30,1924.Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; U.S.Consul inIstanbul, as of 1958-59; U.S. Ambassador toMalagasy Republic, 1969-71;Trinidad and Tobago, 1972-73;Kenya, 1973-77;Seychelles, 1976-77; in 1971, he wasaccusedin press reports of involvement in a supposed plot tooverthrowthe President, Philibert Tsiranana; the Malagasy government declaredhimpersona non grata, andexpelledhim fron the country;theatricalproducer; guardian of his ailing mother, Brooke Astor; alleged tohavedivertedmillions of dollars to his own theatrical productions, andremovedworks of art from her apartment; his son Philipsued,allegingabuseand demanding hisremovalas guardian; an independent investigation found no evidence forabuse, but revealed financial misconduct;indictedin 2007, andtried on16chargesin 2009; the trial lasted six months; ultimatelyconvictedandsentencedto one to three years inprison;served eight weeks and was released on medical parole.Member,Rotary.Died, at New York PresbyterianHospital,Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,November30, 2014 (age90 years, 184days).Burial location unknown. | | Deane Roesch Hinton (1923-2017) — also known asDeane R. Hinton — of Illinois. Born in Fort Missoula,MissoulaCounty, Mont.,March12, 1923.Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign Service officer;U.S. Ambassador toZaire, 1974-75;El Salvador, 1981-83;Pakistan, 1983-86;Costa Rica, 1987-90;Panama, 1990-94;declaredpersona non grata by the government of Zaire, June 18, 1975.Died in San Jose,CostaRica,March28, 2017 (age94 years, 16days).Cremated;ashes interred atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va. | | Charles Arthur Hayes (1918-1997) — also known asCharles A. Hayes — of Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.Born in Cairo,AlexanderCounty, Ill.,February17, 1918.Democrat.U.S.Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1983-93; defeated inprimary, 1992;arrestedduring ananti-apartheidprotest outside the South AfricanEmbassy in Washington,1984.Africanancestry. Member,UnitedFood and Commercial Workers.Died, from complications oflungcancer, at South SuburbanHospital,Hazel Crest,CookCounty, Ill.,April 8,1997 (age79 years, 50days).Burial location unknown. | | William Donlon Edwards (1915-2015) — also known asDon Edwards — of San Jose,SantaClara County, Calif.Born in San Jose,Santa ClaraCounty, Calif.,January6, 1915.Democrat.Lawyer;served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;U.S.Representative from California, 1963-95 (9th District 1963-75,10th District 1975-93, 16th District 1993-95); delegate to DemocraticNational Convention from California,1964,1968,1988;arrestedduring ananti-apartheidprotest outside the South AfricanEmbassy in Washington,1984.Unitarian.Member,Americansfor Democratic Action.Died in San Jose,Santa ClaraCounty, Calif.,October1, 2015 (age100 years,268 days).Burial location unknown. | | Ronald Vernie Dellums (1935-2018) — also known asRonald V. Dellums — of Berkeley,AlamedaCounty, Calif.; Oakland,AlamedaCounty, Calif.Born in Oakland,AlamedaCounty, Calif.,November24, 1935.Democrat.Socialworker;U.S.Representative from California, 1971-98 (7th District 1971-75,8th District 1975-93, 9th District 1993-98);arrestedduring ananti-apartheidprotest outside the South AfricanEmbassy in Washington,1984; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,1988,1996,2008;mayorof Oakland, Calif., 2007-11.Protestant.Africanancestry. Member,AlphaPhi Alpha.Died inWashington,D.C.,July 30,2018 (age82 years, 248days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va. | | Walter Edward Fauntroy (b. 1933) — also known asWalter E. Fauntroy — ofWashington,D.C.Born inWashington,D.C.,February6, 1933.Democrat.Baptistminister;Delegateto U.S. Congress from the District of Columbia, 1971-91;candidate for Democratic nomination for President,1972;delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia,1972,1980,1988(speaker);arrestedduring ananti-apartheidsit-in at the South AfricanEmbassy in Washington, 1984;candidate formayorof Washington, D.C., 1990.Baptist.Africanancestry. Member,KappaAlpha Psi.Chargedin federal court on March 22, 1995 with making false statements onfinancialdisclosure forms, including a claimed donation of almost $24,000to the New Bethel Baptist Church where he served as pastor, to makeit appear that he had complied with House rules limiting outsideincome, and that he hadfailedto disclose a June 1988 loan of $24,200.Pleadedguilty to one felony count, andsentencedtoprobation.Still living as of 2014. | | 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 AfricanEmbassy in Washington,1984.Baptist.Africanancestry. Member,KappaAlpha Psi;NationalLawyers Guild.Served four months in federalprisonforcontemptof court in 1950, following his defense of a Communist leader ontrial in New York for advocating the overthrow of the 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. | | Joseph Echols Lowery (b. 1921) — also known asJoseph E. Lowery — of Atlanta,FultonCounty, Ga.Born in Huntsville,MadisonCounty, Ala.,October6, 1921.Democrat.Pastor;leader in the civil rights movement; co-founder of the SouthernChristian Leadership Conference; escaped death in 1963 when his hotelroom in Birmingham, Ala., wasbombed,and in 1979 when Klansmen in Decatur, Ala.,openedfire on Lowery and other protesters;arrestedwhiledemonstratingin support of a garbage workers' strike in Atlanta, 1968;arrestedduringprotestsin Cullman, Ala., 1978;arrestedwhileprotestingapartheid at the South AfricanEmbassy in Washington,D.C., 1984;offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,1988 ; delivered eulogies at the funerals of Rosa Parks andCorettaScott King; delegate to Democratic National Convention fromGeorgia,2008.Methodist.Africanancestry.Still living as of 2014. | | William H. Simons — also known asBill Simons — ofWashington,D.C.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II;schoolteacher; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Districtof Columbia,1968,1980,1996,2000;president,Washington Teachers Union;vice-president,American Federation of Teachers;arrestedduring ananti-apartheidprotest outside the South AfricanEmbassy in Washington,1984; Democratic Presidential Elector for District of Columbia,2000(voted forAlGore andJosephI. Lieberman).Africanancestry.Still living as of 2000. | | Mary Frances Berry (b. 1938) — Born in Nashville,DavidsonCounty, Tenn.,February17, 1938.Lawyer;writer;universityprofessor; member, U.S. Civil Rights Commission, 1978-2004;chair, U.S. Civil Rights Commission, 1993-99;arrestedduring ananti-apartheidsit-in at the South AfricanEmbassy in Washington, 1984.Female.Africanancestry.Still living as of 2014.  | Oliver Laurence North (b. 1943) — also known asOliver L. North;Ollie North — of Virginia. Born in San Antonio,BexarCounty, Tex.,October7, 1943.Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War;central figure in the Iran-Contrascandalof 1986; he was in charge of a secret (and illegal) governmentoperation tosellweapons to Iran and provide the profits to thethen-unrecognized Nicaraguan "contras", who were fighting acivil war against the "Sandinista" government there;convictedin 1989 on federal charges ofobstructingCongress, destroying documents, and accepting anillegalgratuity; an appeals court later overturned the guilty verdict;candidate forU.S.Senator from Virginia, 1994; host of aradio talkshow in 1995-2003, and is atelevisioncommentator.Member,National RifleAssociation.Still living as of 2014. | | William A. Wilson (b. 1914) — of California. Born in1914.U.S. Ambassador toVatican, 1984-86;reprimandedby the State Department for hisunauthorized diplomaticmission to Libya.Burial location unknown. | | Thomas Peter Lantos (1928-2008) — also known asTom Lantos;Tamas PeterLantos —of Millbrae,San MateoCounty, Calif.; Hillsborough,San MateoCounty, Calif.; San Mateo,San MateoCounty, Calif.Born in Budapest,Hungary,February1, 1928.Democrat.Universityprofessor;televisionnews commentator; delegate to Democratic National Convention fromCalifornia,1976,1988,1996,2000,2004;U.S.Representative from California, 1981-2008 (11th District 1981-93,12th District 1993-2008); died in office 2008.Jewish. Member,PhiBeta Kappa;SigmaAlpha Mu.Arrestedfor disorderly conduct in April 2006, while taking partcivildisobedience action toprotestgenocide in Darfur, in front of the Sudaneseembassy inWashington, D.C.Died, ofcancerof the esophagus, inBethesdaNaval Medical Center, Bethesda,MontgomeryCounty, Md.,February11, 2008 (age80 years, 10days).Interment atCongressionalCemetery, Washington, D.C.
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