See thetrouble anddisgrace main page, as well as theFAQ and thePoliticalGraveyard privacy policy, for important explanations anddisclaimers. in chronological order | |  David Brydie Mitchell (1760-1837) — of Savannah,ChathamCounty, Ga.; Milledgeville,BaldwinCounty, Ga.Born in Muthill, Perthshire,Scotland,October22, 1760.Georgiastate attorney general, 1795; member ofGeorgiastate house of representatives, 1796;mayorof Savannah, Ga., 1801-02;U.S.Attorney for Georgia, 1802-04;Governor ofGeorgia, 1809-13, 1815-17; U.S. Indian Agent to the Creek Nation,1817-21;resignedfrom this position followingchargesthat he wassmugglingAfricanslaves into the country.Scottishancestry.Died in Milledgeville,BaldwinCounty, Ga.,April22, 1837 (age76 years, 182days).Interment atMemoryHill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Ga. | | Peter R. Morrissey (1859-1895) — ofSt.Louis, Mo.Born inSt. LouisCounty, Mo.,August14, 1859.Democrat.Saloonkeeper;arrestedin December 1886 on federalchargesofvotefraud;foundguilty in April 1887, but released because the indictment did notspecify that the ballots were for a federal office;indictedagain soon after, but the charges were dropped in November;indictedfornaturalization fraud in 1889, but not convicted; member ofMissouristate senate 31st District, 1893-95; died in office 1895.Catholic.Irishancestry.While in bed, he wasshottwice with his own pistol, andkilled,by hismistress,Maud Lewis, in her "house ofillrepute", inSt.Louis, Mo.,May 13,1895 (age35 years, 272days). After a dramatic and highly publicized trial, Maud Lewiswas convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to fifteen yearsin prison; she was pardoned by Gov.LonVest Stephens in January 1901.Interment atCalvaryCemetery, St. Louis, Mo. | | 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; theyillegally entered 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. | | David C. Kerr — U.S. Vice Consul inBirmingham, as of 1917;arrestedin Washington, D.C. in May 1924, andchargedwithacceptingbribes while vice consul at Vancouver, toissue visas toChinese, so they couldenter the U.S. illegally.Burial location unknown. | | Earl Russel Browder (1891-1973) — also known asEarl Browder — of Yonkers,WestchesterCounty, N.Y.Born in Wichita,SedgwickCounty, Kan.,May 20,1891.Communist. As a result of his opposition to U.S. participation inWorld War I, he wasconvictedin 1917 ofconspiracyagainstthe draft laws andsentencedto sixteen months inprison;imprisonedagain in 1919;pardonedin 1933; candidate forU.S.Representative from New York, 1930 (6th District), 1932 (20thDistrict), 1940 (14th District); General Secretary of the CommunistParty of the U.S., 1934-44; candidate forPresidentof the United States, 1936, 1940;arrestedin 1939 for apassport violation,convicted,andsentencedto four years inprison(sentence commuted after fourteen months); expelled from theCommunist Party, 1946.Died in Princeton,MercerCounty, N.J.,June 27,1973 (age82 years, 38days).Burial location unknown.  | Edgar J. Lauer (1871-1948) — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,November10, 1871.Republican.Lawyer;Judge, New York City Municipal Court, 1906-33;Justice ofNew York Supreme Court 1st District, 1934-39; resigned 1939.In 1938, his wife pleaded guilty in Federal Court to charges that shesmuggled expensive clothing and diamonds from Europe to the U.S.; shewas fined and sentenced to three months in prison and fined. In 1939,the state legislature moved toinvestigatewhether Judge Lauer had knowledge of his wife'ssmugglingactivities; he denied this, but immediatelyresignedhis seat.Died, in Mount SinaiHospital,Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,November9, 1948 (age76 years, 365days).Burial location unknown.| |  Relatives: Sonof William Emanuel Lauer and Cecilia (Hornthal) Lauer; married toElma M. Kramer. | | | | Image source: Empire State Notables(1914) |
 | 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 tosell weapons to Iran and provide the profits tothethen-unrecognizedNicaraguan "contras", who were fighting a civil 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. | | 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 across (as a form ofhate speechor intimidation) andsentencedtoprison;in 1992, he wasarrestedin Canada for violatingimmigration laws.Member,JohnBirch Society;Ku Klux Klan.Still living as of 2012.
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