See thetrouble anddisgrace main page, as well as theFAQ and thePoliticalGraveyard privacy policy, for important explanations anddisclaimers. in chronological order | |  James M. Turner (1928-1981) — of Woodbury,GloucesterCounty, N.J.BornNovember8, 1928.Republican. Member ofNewJersey state house of assembly District 3-B; elected 1969;member ofNewJersey state senate District 3-A, 1972-73; removed 1973;defeated, 1973 (3rd District);convictedin 1973 of accepting a $10,000bribeto "fix" a stolen property case, and conspiring toframeAssemblymanKennethA. Gewertz, by plantingnarcotics in his home and his car.DiedJuly 20,1981 (age52 years, 254days).Burial location unknown. | | Otis O'Neal Horsley Jr. (1944-2015) — also known asNeal Horsley — of Carrollton,CarrollCounty, Ga.Born in Bremen,HaralsonCounty, Ga.,April15, 1944.Convictedin 1973 ofdrug possession with intent to distribute, overthree gallons of hashish oil, and served a sentence in federalprison;creator of a "Nuremburg Files", an anti-abortion website which listedhome addresses and other details about many abortion providers;information from the site helped militant anti-abortionist JamesCharles Kopp track down andkillDr. Barnett Slepian in 1998; Horsley's web site was later ruled to beathreat,and not protected by the First Amendment; candidate forGovernor ofGeorgia, 2010.Died in Carrollton,CarrollCounty, Ga.,April13, 2015 (age70 years, 363days).Cremated. | | Carl Martin Swinney (1947-2022) — also known asCarl M. Swinney;MartySwinney —of Pico Rivera,LosAngeles County, Calif.; Carrizozo,LincolnCounty, N.M.Born in Artesia,Los AngelesCounty, Calif.,August11, 1947.Libertarian.X-raytechnician;arrestedin 1979 andchargedwithselling hashish to an undercover agent;pleadedguilty and served four months injail;candidate forCaliforniastate assembly, 1980 (59th District), 1982 (59th District), 2006(51st District), 2008 (51st District); candidate forU.S.Representative from California 34th District, 1988, 1992, 1994;candidate forCaliforniastate senate 24th District, 2001, 2002; Libertarian candidate forPresidential Elector for New Mexico,2016(on behalf ofGaryE. Johnson andWilliamF. Weld); candidate forNewMexico state house of representatives 59th District, 2018.Died in Carrizozo,LincolnCounty, N.M.,May 4,2022 (age74 years, 266days).Cremated;ashes interred atRoseHills Memorial Park, Whittier, Calif. | | Frederick William Richmond (b. 1923) — also known asFrederick W. Richmond;FredRichmond —of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.; Brooklyn,KingsCounty, N.Y.Born in Massachusetts,November15, 1923.Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,1964;U.S.Representative from New York 14th District, 1975-82.Jewish.Arrestedin Washington, D.C., in 1978 forsolicitingsex from a minor and from an undercover police officer;pleadedguilty to a misdemeanor. In 1982,chargedwithtaxevasion,marijuana possession, andimproperpayments to a federal employee, hepleadedguilty and wassentencedto a year and a day inprison;served nine months.Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. | | Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (b. 1954) — also known asRobert F. Kennedy, Jr. — Born, in Georgetown UniversityHospital,Washington,D.C.,January17, 1954.Lawyer;in September 1983, he waschargedwithheroin possession in Rapid City, S.D.;pleadedguilty, andsentencedto two yearsprobation;in May, 2001, whileprotestingat Camp Garcia Vieques, a U.S. Navy facility in Puerto Rico, he andothers werearrestedfortrespassing;he wasconvictedandsentencedto 30 days inprison;Independent candidate forPresidentof the United States, 2024.Still living as of 2024.| |  Relatives: SonofRobertFrancis Kennedy and Ethel (Skakel) Kennedy; brother ofKathleenKennedy Townsend andJosephPatrick Kennedy II; married1982 to EmilyBlack; married,April15, 1994, to Mary Kathleen Richardson; married2014 to CherylHines; nephew ofJosephPatrick Kennedy Jr.,JohnFitzgerald Kennedy, Eunice Mary Kennedy (who marriedRobertSargent Shriver Jr.),PatriciaKennedy Lawford,JeanKennedy Smith andEdwardMoore Kennedy; grandson ofJosephPatrick Kennedy, Sr.; great-grandson ofPatrickJoseph Kennedy (1858-1929) andJohnFrancis Fitzgerald; first cousin ofJohnFitzgerald Kennedy Jr.,MarkKennedy Shriver andPatrickJoseph Kennedy (born 1967). | | | | Political family:Kennedyfamily of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | See alsoWikipediaarticle |
 | Basil W. Brown (1927-1997) — of Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.; Highland Park,WayneCounty, Mich.Born in Vandalia,CassCounty, Mich.,March20, 1927.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;lawyer;member ofMichiganstate senate, 1957-88 (3rd District 1957-64, 6th District1965-74, 3rd District 1975-82, 2nd District 1983-88); resigned 1988;in 1985, a prostitute working for the police went to visit himseveral times, andexchangedsex formarijuana andcocaine;arrestedNovember 8, 1985;pleadedguilty in 1987 andresignedfrom the Senate;sentencedto six months in jail, fines, and probation; his law license was alsosuspended; the state supreme court threw out the conviction in 1991.Episcopalian.Africanancestry. Member,KappaAlpha Psi;Elks;Veterans ofForeign Wars;Amvets;NAACP.Injured in afire at hishome, while also sufferingcancer,and died two weeks later, in HarperHospital,Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.,October28, 1997 (age70 years, 222days).Burial location unknown. | | | James E. Roark (b. 1945) — also known asMike Roark;"MadDog" —of Charleston,KanawhaCounty, W.Va.Born in Nitro,KanawhaCounty, W.Va.,1945.Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War;lawyer;mayorof Charleston, W.Va., 1983-87; resigned 1987.Indictedin August, 1987, on felony charges of possessing and distributingcocaine, and conspiring toobstructtheinvestigationby inducing a witness to commitperjury;pleadedguilty to misdemeanors in November, andresignedas mayor.Still living as of 1987. | | Clarence M. Mitchell III (b. 1939) — ofBaltimore,Md.Born in St. Paul,RamseyCounty, Minn.,December14, 1939.Democrat. Member ofMarylandstate house of delegates, 1963-66; member ofMarylandstate senate District 10, 1967-86;Indictedin 1987, along with his brother, by a federal grand jury inconnection with the abriberyinvestigation of Wedtech Corporation;convictedofaccepting$50,000 tostopthe Congressional investigation of Wedtech;sentencedto two and a half years inprison;convictedin 1988 ofobstructingan investigation of Baltimoredrug dealer Melvin D. 'LittleMelvin' Williams, andsentencedto two years inprison;chargedin 1988 with failure to fileincometax returns;triedand acquitted.Africanancestry. Member,NAACP;UrbanLeague;KappaAlpha Psi;Freemasons;Jaycees.Still living as of 1988. | | Róger Calero (b. 1969) — of Newark,EssexCounty, N.J.; Bronx,BronxCounty, N.Y.Born inNicaragua,1969.Socialist. Not U.S. citizen;meat packer;journalist;convictedofsale of marijuana, 1988;arrestedin 2002, at the Houston airport, while returning from Cuba, andjailed,whiledeportationproceedings were started, but released in 2003; Socialist Workerscandidate forPresidentof the United States, 2004, 2008; Socialist Workers candidate forU.S.Senator from New York, 2006; Socialist Workers candidate forU.S.Representative from New York 15th District, 2010.Nicaraguanancestry.Still living as of 2010. | | Marion S. Barry Jr. (1936-2014) — also known asMarion Barry — ofWashington,D.C.Born in Itta Bena,LefloreCounty, Miss.,March 6,1936.Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from District ofColumbia,1972(alternate),1980,1988(speaker),1996;mayorof Washington, D.C., 1979-91, 1995-99;convictedin 1990 of misdemeanorcocaine possession after being caughton videotapesmoking crack cocaine;sentencedto six months inprison.Africanancestry. Member,AlphaPhi Alpha.Died inWashington,D.C.,November23, 2014 (age78 years, 262days).Interment atCongressionalCemetery, Washington, D.C. | | Charles Richard Imbrecht (1949-2000) — also known asCharles R. Imbrecht — of Ventura,VenturaCounty, Calif.; Sacramento,SacramentoCounty, Calif.Born in Ventura,VenturaCounty, Calif.,February4, 1949.Republican.Lawyer;member ofCaliforniastate assembly 36th District, 1976-82; candidate forCaliforniastate senate 18th District, 1982.Lutheran.Pleadedguilty in 1997 tochargesofdrunkdrivingandmarijuana possession and served one month injail.Died, apparently from aheartattack, in Pasadena,Los AngelesCounty, Calif.,January18, 2000 (age50 years, 348days).Interment atIvyLawn Memorial Park, Ventura, Calif.| | Relatives: Sonof Earl Richard Imbrecht and Hazel Victoria (Berg) Imbrecht; married,September23, 1979, to Alida Margit Bergseid. |
| | Arthur E. Teele (1946-2005) — also known asArt Teele — of Florida. Born inPrinceGeorge's County, Md.,May 14,1946.Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war;lawyer;director, U.S. Urban Mass Transportation Administration, 1981-83;Republican Presidential Elector for Florida,1992;as Miami city commissioner in 1997-2004, he chaired the CommunityRedevelopment Agency (CRA); aninvestigationof corruption in the agency, started in 2003, led tochargesthat he had accepted $135,000 inkickbacksfrom two construction companies; as a result, he wasremoved fromoffice in 2004 by Gov.JebBush; in August, 2004, when he and his wife were undersurveillance, hedrove hiscar at a police detective in an attempt torun himover, and alsothreatenedto kill police officers who had been following his wife duringthe investigation;convictedin March 2005 onchargesrelated to this incident;indictedon July 14, 2005, on federal conspiracy andmoneylaundering charges, over a scheme to fraudulently obtaincontracts for electrical work at the Miami International Airportthrough a "minority-owned" shell company; published police reportsrevealed that he had put hismistresson the CRA payroll, that he regularly bought and usedcocaine,and that he frequently made use of a maleprostitute.Churchof God in Christ.Africanancestry. Member,KappaAlpha Psi;NAACP;Freemasons.Came to theofficesof theMiami Herald newspaper, andshothimselfin the head with a semiautomatic pistol; he died two hours later inthe trauma unit of Jackson MemorialHospital,Miami,Miami-DadeCounty, Fla.,July 27,2005 (age59 years, 74days).Interment atCulley's MeadowWood Memorial Park, Tallahassee, Fla. | | John M. Fabrizi (born c.1957) — of Bridgeport,FairfieldCounty, Conn.Born about 1957. Democrat.Schoolteacher; alternate delegate to Democratic National Conventionfrom Connecticut,2000;mayorof Bridgeport, Conn., 2003-07;admittedin June 2006 that he hadused cocaine, anddid not seekre-election.Still living as of 2007. | | Nick Severson (born c.1983) — of Vermillion,ClayCounty, S.Dak.Born about 1983.Pleadedguilty in May 2010 to amisdemeanorcharge ofingesting marijuana, and fined $500; candidateformayorof Vermillion, S.Dak., 2010.Still living as of 2010.
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