See thetrouble anddisgrace main page, as well as theFAQ and thePoliticalGraveyard privacy policy, for important explanations anddisclaimers. in chronological order | |  Richard Valentine Morris (1768-1815) — also known asRichard V. Morris — ofWestchesterCounty, N.Y.Born in Morrisania, Westchester County (now part of Bronx,BronxCounty), N.Y.,March 8,1768.U.S. Navy Captain, starting in 1798;criticizedby his superiors for hisinaction as commander during anattempted blockade of Tripoli in 1803; he faced a Naval Court ofInquiryin 1804 and wasdismissedfrom the Navy; member ofNew Yorkstate assembly from Westchester County, 1813-14.Died in New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,May 13,1815 (age47 years, 66days).Interment atSt.Anne's Episcopal Churchyard, Bronx, N.Y. | | William Hull (1753-1825) — Born in Derby,New HavenCounty, Conn.,June 24,1753.Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; memberofMassachusettsstate senate, 1798-1805;Governorof Michigan Territory, 1805-12; general in the U.S. Army duringthe War of 1812.Following his surrender of Detroit to the British in 1812, wasfoundguilty by acourt-martial ofcowardice,neglectof duty, andunofficerlike conduct, andsentencedto death; President Madison accepted this decision but remitted thesentence.Died in Newton,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.,November29, 1825 (age72 years, 158days).Interment atNewtonCemetery, Newton, Mass.  | John Charles Frémont (1813-1890) — also known asJohn C. Frémont;"ThePathfinder";"The Champion ofFreedom" —ofSanFrancisco, Calif.Born in Savannah,ChathamCounty, Ga.,January21, 1813.Republican.Explorer;MilitaryGovernor of California, 1847;arrestedformutiny, 1847;court-martialed;foundguilty ofmutiny,disobedience, andconductprejudicial to order; penalty remitted by Pres.JamesK. Polk;U.S.Senator from California, 1850-51; candidate forPresidentof the United States, 1856; general in the Union Army during theCivil War;Governorof Arizona Territory, 1878-81;speaker, Republican National Convention, 1888.Episcopalian.Frenchancestry.Died, ofperitonitis,in ahotelroom at New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,July 13,1890 (age77 years, 173days).Original interment atTrinityCemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1891 atRocklandCemetery, Nyack, N.Y.| |  Relatives: Sonof Jean Charles Frémont and Ann Whiting (Pryor)Frémont; married,October19, 1841, to Jessie Benton (daughter ofThomasHart Benton). | | | | Political family:Breckinridge-Preston-Harrison-Richardsonfamily of Virginia (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | Cross-reference:SelahHill | | | | Fremont County,Colo.,Fremont County,Idaho,Fremont County,Iowa andFremont County,Wyo. are named for him. | | | | FremontPeak,inMontereyCounty andSan BenitoCounty, California, isnamed forhim. — FremontPeak,inCoconinoCounty, Arizona, isnamed forhim. — ThecityofFremont,California, isnamed forhim. — ThecityofFremont,Ohio, isnamed forhim. — ThecityofFremont,Nebraska, isnamed forhim. — The World War IILibertyshipSS John C. Fremont (built 1941 atTerminalIsland, California; mined and wrecked inManilaBay, Philippines, 1945) wasnamed forhim. | | | | Other politicians named for him:JohnF. Hill—JohnC. F. Slayton—JohnFremont Cox | | | | Campaign slogan (1856): "Free Soil,Free Men, Fremont." | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial | | | | Books by John C. Fremont:Memoirsof My Life and Times | | | | Books about John C. Fremont: TomChaffin,Pathfinder:John Charles Fremont and the Course of AmericanEmpire — David Roberts,ANewer World : Kit Carson, John C. Fremont and the Claiming of theAmerican West — Andrew Rolle,JohnCharles Fremont: Character As Destiny — Mike Resnick,ed.,AlternatePresidents [anthology] | | | | Image source: Life and Work of James G.Blaine (1893) |
| | Charles Edward Travis (1829-1860) — also known asCharles E. Travis — Born in Alabama,August8, 1829.Member ofTexasstate house of representatives, 1853-54.Court-martialedanddischargedfrom the U.S. Cavalry, on charges ofconduct unbecoming anofficer and a gentleman, based on incidents of allegedslander,unauthorized absence, andcheatingat cards.Died, ofconsumption(tuberculosis)inWashingtonCounty, Tex.,1860(ageabout30 years).Interment atMasonicCemetery, Chappell Hill, Tex. | | Robert Murphy Mayo (1836-1896) — also known asRobert M. Mayo — of Virginia. Born in Hague,WestmorelandCounty, Va.,April28, 1836.Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;courtmartialed in theConfederateArmy, 1863, fordrunkenness,andreduced inrank;lawyer;member ofVirginiastate house of delegates, 1881-82, 1885-88;U.S.Representative from Virginia 1st District, 1883-84.Member,American BarAssociation.Slaveowner. Died in Hague,WestmorelandCounty, Va.,March29, 1896 (age59 years, 336days).Interment atYeocomicoCemetery, Kinsale, Va. | | Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877) — also known as"Wizard of the Saddle" — of Memphis,ShelbyCounty, Tenn.Born near Chapel Hill, Bedford County (nowMarshallCounty), Tenn.,July 13,1821.Democrat.Cottonplanter;slavetrader; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; inApril 1864, after the Battle of Fort Pillow, Tennessee, Confederatetroops under his commandmassacredAfrican-American Union soldiers, not accepting them as prisoners,since the Confederacyrefused torecognize ex-slaves as legitimate combatants; this event, seen asawar crime, sparkedoutrageacross the North, and a congressionalinquiry;in 1867, he became involved in theKu KluxKlan and was elected Grand Wizard; the organization used violenttactics tointimidateBlack voters andsuppresstheir votes; delegate to Democratic National Convention fromTennessee,1868;in 1869, he had a change of heart, and issued a letter ordering thatthe Klan be dissolved and its costumes destroyed; he went on todenounce the group and its crimes; in 1875, he gave a "friendlyspeech" to a meeting of an African-American organization in Memphis,calling for peace, harmony, and economic advancement of formerslaves; for this speech, he was vehemently denounced in the Southernpress as a race traitor.Englishancestry. Member,Ku Klux Klan.After his death, he became a folk hero among white racists,particularly during the imposition of Jim Crow segregation laws inthe early 20th century, and later, in reaction to the Civil Rightsmovement in the 1950s and 1960s.Slaveowner. Died, from complications ofdiabetes,in Memphis,ShelbyCounty, Tenn.,October29, 1877 (age56 years, 108days).Original interment atElmwoodCemetery, Memphis, Tenn.; subsequent interment in 1904 atHealth Sciences Park, Memphis, Tenn.; reinterment in 2021 atNational Confederate Museum at Elm Springs, Columbia, Tenn. | | Edmund C. Weeks (1829-1907) — of Tallahassee,LeonCounty, Fla.Born in Massachusetts,March10, 1829.Republican. Major in the Union Army during the Civil War;court-martialedin 1864,chargedwithkillinga sentry,conduct unbecoming an officer, andconductprejudicial to order and discipline; the trial lasted 53 days;witnesses against him were reported to be "rebelrefugees and deserters"; the military court found him not guiltyon all charges;LieutenantGovernor of Florida, 1870;LeonCounty Sheriff, 1873-74; member ofFloridastate house of representatives, 1877, 1885; postmaster atTallahassee,Fla., 1890; U.S. Marshall for Northern District of Florida; U.S.Surveyor-General for Florida, 1902-05.Died in Tallahassee,LeonCounty, Fla.,April12, 1907 (age78 years, 33days).Interment atOldCity Cemetery, Tallahassee, Fla. | | 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;pardonedby 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. | | Benjamin Franklin Tilley (1848-1907) — also known asB. F. Tilley — Born in Bristol,BristolCounty, R.I.,March29, 1848.U.S. Navy commander;Governor ofAmerican Samoa;courtmartialed in 1901 oncharges ofimmoralityanddrunkenness;triedand found not guilty.Died, ofpneumonia,in Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.,March18, 1907 (age58 years, 354days).Interment atNavalAcademy Cemetery, Annapolis, Md. | | James Harrison Oliver (1857-1928) — also known asJ. H. Oliver — of Shirley,CharlesCity County, Va.Born inHoustonCounty, Ga.,January15, 1857.As a naval commander, he wasarrestedandcourt-martialedoverhis role in a 1904 collision in Delaware Bay; acquittedand reinstated;Governor ofU.S. Virgin Islands.Died, ofheartdisease, inCharlesCity County, Va.,April 6,1928 (age71 years, 82days).Interment atShirley Plantation Cemetery, Shirley, Va. | | Shirley M. Crawford (1872-1917) — of Louisville,JeffersonCounty, Ky.; Los Angeles,LosAngeles County, Calif.;SanFrancisco, Calif.Born in Louisville,JeffersonCounty, Ky.,August5, 1872.Republican.Actor;newspaperwriter; served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;lawyer;law partner ofAugustusE. Willson;HonoraryConsul for Guatemala inLouisville,Ky., 1901-07; in February 1905, amidst a controversy over theappointment of a new Colonel, a military court of inquiry wasconvened toinvestigatethe officers of the First Kentucky regiment, including a Major andsix Captains, forwillful disobedience; all were releived ofduty, but Capt. Crawford was singled out as "an agitator and fomenterof strife, disloyal and insubordinate to his superior officers," andorderedcourt-martialed;secretary-treasurer and director, Kentucky-ArizonaCopperCompany (engaged inmining andsmelting).Hit bya car while crossing a street, suffered a fractured leg andpneumonia,and died two weeks later, in GermanHospital,SanFrancisco, Calif.,September6, 1917 (age45 years, 32days).Cremated;ashes interred atSanFrancisco National Cemetery, San Francisco, Calif. | | William F. Kruse (1894-1952) — also known asBill Kruse — of Illinois. Born in Hoboken,HudsonCounty, N.J.,1894.Bookkeeper;indictedin Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep.VictorL. Berger, and three others, for makingspeechesthat encourageddisloyaltyand obstructedmilitary recruitment;triedandconvicted;sentencedto twenty years inprison;the conviction was later overturned; Socialist candidate forU.S.Representative from Illinois 6th District, 1918, 1920; delegateto Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920; Socialistcandidate forsecretaryof state of Illinois, 1921; Workers candidate forGovernor ofIllinois, 1928.GermanandDanishancestry.Died in1952(ageabout58 years).Burial location unknown. | | John Louis Engdahl (1884-1932) — also known asJ. Louis Engdahl — of Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.; Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Minneapolis,HennepinCounty, Minn.,November11, 1884.Telegraphoperator;newspaperreporter; later,writer andeditorfor Socialist and Communist publications;indictedin Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep.VictorL. Berger, and three others, for makingspeechesthat encourageddisloyaltyand obstructedmilitary recruitment;triedandconvicted;sentencedto twenty years inprison;the conviction was later overturned; Socialist candidate forU.S.Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1918; delegate toSocialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920; candidate forU.S.Senator from Illinois, 1924 (Workers), 1926 (Workers Communist);Communist candidate forLieutenantGovernor of New York, 1930; Communist candidate forU.S.Representative from New York 7th District, 1931.Swedishancestry.Died, ofpneumonia,in Moscow,Russia,November21, 1932 (age48 years, 10days).Cremated. | | Irwin St. John Tucker — of Illinois. Socialist.Lecturer;indictedin Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep.VictorL. Berger, and three others, for makingspeechesthat encourageddisloyaltyand obstructedmilitary recruitment;triedandconvicted;sentencedto twenty years inprison;the conviction was later overturned; candidate forU.S.Representative from Illinois 10th District, 1918; delegate toSocialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920.Burial location unknown. | | Adolph Germer (1881-1966) — of Belleville,St. ClairCounty, Ill.; Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Wehlau, East Prussia (now Znamensk,KaliningradOblast),January15, 1881.Socialist.Miner;unionofficial in various capacities for the United Mine Workers ofAmerica, 1906-16; member of Socialist National Committee fromIllinois, 1911; candidate forIllinoisstate house of representatives, 1912; candidate forU.S.Senator from Illinois, 1914; National Executive Secretary,Socialist Party of America, 1916-19;indictedin Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep.VictorL. Berger, and three others, for makingspeechesthat encourageddisloyaltyand obstructedmilitary recruitment;triedandconvicted;sentencedto twenty years inprison;the conviction was later overturned; candidate forNew Yorkstate assembly from New York County 16th District, 1921.Member,UnitedMine Workers.Died in Rockford,WinnebagoCounty, Ill., May,1966(age85years, 0 days).Burial location unknown. | | 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 anunauthorized attempt to seize former German leader KaiserWilhelm; 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; 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. | | Clark Daniel Stearns (b. 1870) — of Miami, Dade County (nowMiami-DadeCounty), Fla.Born in1870.U.S. Navy officer;Governor ofAmerican Samoa; in 1921, he wasrelieved ofduty as commander of the U.S. Navy shipMichigan, forallowing the men under his command toorganizecommittees; in 1923, he was chief of emergency relief workfollowing an earthquake in Japan, and received a medal from theJapanese Red Cross; after the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941, he sentthe medal back to Japan.Burial location unknown. | | Smedley Darlington Butler (1881-1940) — also known asSmedley Butler;"The FightingQuaker";"Old Gimlet Eye" —of Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.Born in West Chester,ChesterCounty, Pa.,July 30,1881.Republican. Major general in U.S. Marine Corps; received aMedalof Honor for the capture of Veracruz, Mexico, 1914; receivedanother for the capture of Fort Riviere, Haiti, 1915; Philadelphiapolicecommissioner, 1924-25;arrestedandcourt-martialedin 1931 over hisunauthorizeddisclosureof an incident unflattering to Italian dictator Italian BenitoMussolini; retired from the service rather than apologize toMussolini; candidate forU.S.Senator from Pennsylvania, 1932.Quaker.Died in Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.,June 21,1940 (age58 years, 327days).Interment atOaklandsCemetery, West Chester, Pa. | | Felix L. Sparks — of Colorado. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; one of the heroes ofthe Anzio beachhead in 1944; on April 29, 1945, he captured theDachau concentration camp, and under orders to permit no one in orout,refused entry to a brigadier general from another unit;court-martialcharges were drawn up, and Sparks wasarrested;the charges were dismissed by General Patton;justice ofColorado state supreme court, 1956.Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. | | Elliott Roosevelt (1910-1990) — of Fort Worth,TarrantCounty, Tex.; Buford,Rio BlancoCounty, Colo.; Minneapolis,HennepinCounty, Minn.; Miami Beach, Dade County (nowMiami-DadeCounty), Fla.; Seattle,KingCounty, Wash.; Palm Springs,RiversideCounty, Calif.; Scottsdale,MaricopaCounty, Ariz.Born in Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,September23, 1910.Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas,1940;served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II;investigatedand called to testify by a U.S. Senate subcommittee in 1947 overlavishentertainment in Hollywood and Manhattan, manypaidescorts, andpaid hotelbills provided to Roosevelt and others, in a successful effort topersuade them to recommend Hughes reconnaissance aircraft forpurchase by the U.S.military; owned aradiostation in Texas; delegate to Democratic National Convention fromColorado,1960;mayorof Miami Beach, Fla., 1965-69; member ofDemocraticNational Committee from Florida, 1968; delegate to DemocraticNational Convention from Florida,1968.Died, ofcongestiveheart failure, in Scottsdale,MaricopaCounty, Ariz.,October27, 1990 (age80 years, 34days).Burial location unknown.| | Relatives: SonofFranklinDelano Roosevelt andEleanorRoosevelt; brother ofJamesRoosevelt andFranklinDelano Roosevelt Jr.; married,January16, 1932, to Elizabeth Browning Donner; married,July 22,1933, to Ruth Josephine Googins; married,December3, 1944, to Faye Margaret Emerson; married,March15, 1951, to Minnewa (Bell) Gray Burnside Ross; married,November3, 1960, to Patricia (Peabody) Whithead; grandnephew ofTheodoreRoosevelt andCorinneRoosevelt Robinson; great-grandnephew ofRobertBarnwell Roosevelt; second great-grandnephew ofJamesI. Roosevelt; third great-grandson ofEdwardHutchinson Robbins; third great-grandnephew ofWilliamBellinger Bulloch; fourth great-grandson ofArchibaldBulloch; fourth great-grandnephew ofJabezHuntington; first cousin ofHelenRoosevelt Robinson; first cousin once removed ofTheodoreDouglas Robinson,AliceRoosevelt Longworth,WarrenDelano Robbins,CorinneAlsop Cole,TheodoreRoosevelt Jr. andWilliamSheffield Cowles; first cousin thrice removed ofElizabethMonroe; first cousin five times removed ofJedediahHuntington andEbenezerHuntington; first cousin seven times removed ofBenjaminHuntington; second cousin ofCorinneAlsop Chubb andJohndeKoven Alsop; second cousin once removed ofSusanRoosevelt Weld; second cousin twice removed ofSamuelLaurence Gouverneur; second cousin four times removed ofNicholasRoosevelt Jr.,PhilipDePeyster andJabezWilliams Huntington; third cousin ofFrancisHolden Aspinwall. | | | | Political families:FourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | See alsoWikipediaarticle |
| | 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;chargedwithinsubordination and 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 inprisonforcontemptof 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. | | Cleve Andrew Pulley (b. 1951) — also known asAndrew Pulley;Cleve AndrewPulley —of Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.; Michigan; Des Moines,PolkCounty, Iowa.Born in Sidon,LefloreCounty, Miss.,May 5,1951.Socialist.Railroadswitchman; private in U.S. Army, 1968-69; one of eight GIs atFort Jackson (South Carolina) who organized opposition to the VietnamWar;courtmartialed forincitingto riot anddisobedience; charges later dropped;dishonorablydischarged;steelworker;Socialist Workers candidate forVicePresident of the United States, 1972; Socialist Workers candidateforU.S.Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1976; SocialistWorkers candidate formayorof Chicago, Ill., 1979; Socialist Workers candidate forPresidentof the United States, 1980; Socialist Workers candidate forU.S.Representative from Michigan, 1984 (1st District), 1986 (1stDistrict), 1990 (13th District); Socialist Workers candidate forU.S.Senator from Iowa, 1992; Socialist Workers candidate forPresidential Elector for Iowa,2004(on behalf ofJamesHarris andMargaretTrowe).Africanancestry. Member,UnitedSteelworkers of America.Still living as of 2004. | | Maurice Larry Lawrence (1926-1996) — also known asM. Larry Lawrence — of San Diego,San DiegoCounty, Calif.; Coronado,San DiegoCounty, Calif.Born in Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.,August16, 1926.Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,1964,1972;Democratic candidate for Presidential Elector for California,1972;U.S. Ambassador toSwitzerland, 1994-96, died in office 1996.Jewish. Member,ZetaBeta Tau.Falselyclaimed to have served and been injured in theMerchantMarine duringWorld War II; this wasdiscovereda year after his death.Died, ofleukemiaandblooddyscrasia, in Berne,Switzerland,January9, 1996 (age69 years, 146days).Original interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va.; reinterment in 1997 atElCamino Cemetery, San Diego, Calif. | | Gordon James Klingenschmitt (b. 1968) — also known asGordon Klingenschmitt — of Colorado Springs,El PasoCounty, Colo.Born in Buffalo,ErieCounty, N.Y.,June 5,1968.Chaplain;wore his Navy uniform at a 2006politicalprotest, withRoyMoore, in front of the White House; subsequentlycourt-martialedfordisobeying a lawful order; he had been prohibited fromappearing at political events in uniform; ultimatelydischargedfrom the Navy; America's Party candidate for Presidential Elector forColorado,2012(on behalf ofTomHoefling andJonathanD. Ellis); member ofColoradostate house of representatives, 2015-16; candidate in Republicanprimary forColoradostate senate, 2016.EvangelicalChristian.Still living as of 2016. | | Robert W. Levy (b. 1947) — also known asBob Levy — of Atlantic City,AtlanticCounty, N.J.Born in Atlantic City,AtlanticCounty, N.J.,May 16,1947.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war;mayorof Atlantic City, N.J., 2005-07; resigned 2007.Falselyclaimed to have served in the U.S. ArmyU.S. Army SpecialForces (Green Berets);admittedthat he used false information in his service record toobtainbenefits;disappearedon September 26, 2007; his lawyer announced on October 10 that he hadresigned;pleadedguilty in November todefraudingthe Department of Veterans Affairs,sentencedto three yearsprobation,fined,and ordered to payrestitution.Still living as of 2008.
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