See thetrouble anddisgrace main page, as well as theFAQ and thePoliticalGraveyard privacy policy, for important explanations anddisclaimers. in chronological order | |  John Harrison Surratt Jr. (1844-1916) — also known asJohn H. Surratt, Jr. — of Surrattsville (now Clinton),PrinceGeorge's County, Md.Born inWashington,D.C.,April13, 1844.Postmaster atSurrattsville,Md., 1862-63;dismissedas postmaster in 1863 for allegeddisloyaltyto the Union; became a Confederate courier andspy; he andothers attempted tokidnapPresidentAbrahamLincoln; later, the plot to kill the President and othergovernment officials was formulated at his mother's boarding house inWashington; he denied involvement in the assassination, butfledoverseas; he wasarrestedin Alexandria, Egypt, and sent back to the U.S.; tried in a Marylandcourt in 1867 for his alleged involvement in themurderplot, but the jury couldn't reach a verdict, and a mistrial wasdeclared; treasurer of asteamshipcompany.Died, frompneumonia,inBaltimore,Md.,April21, 1916 (age72 years, 8days).Interment atNewCathedral Cemetery, Baltimore, Md. | | John Breckinridge Castleman (1841-1918) — also known asJohn B. Castleman — of Louisville,JeffersonCounty, Ky.Born in Lexington,FayetteCounty, Ky.,June 30,1841.Democrat. Major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; ledConfederateguerillaforces in operations aimed at Chicago and St. Louis;capturedin Indiana, 1864, convicted ofspying, andsentenced todeath, but his execution was stayed by PresidentAbrahamLincoln;deportedto France in 1865;pardonedin 1866 by PresidentAndrewJohnson, and returned to Kentucky;insurancebusiness;AdjutantGeneral of Kentucky, 1883, 1900; delegate to Democratic NationalConvention from Kentucky,1888(member,Committeeon Permanent Organization),1892(member,Committeeon Permanent Organization); colonel in the U.S. Army during theSpanish-American War.Died in Louisville,JeffersonCounty, Ky.,May 23,1918 (age76 years, 327days).Interment atCaveHill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.; statue (now gone) atCherokee Triangle, Louisville, Ky.| |  Relatives: Sonof David B. Castleman and Virginia (Harrison) Castleman; married toAlice Osmond Barbee; great-grandnephew ofBenjaminHarrison (1726-1791) andWilliamCabell; second great-grandnephew ofRichardRandolph; first cousin ofCarterHenry Harrison; first cousin once removed ofJosephCabell Breckinridge (1788-1823),BenjaminWilliam Sheridan Cabell,RobertJefferson Breckinridge andCarterHenry Harrison II; first cousin twice removed ofThomasJefferson,CarterBassett Harrison,WilliamCabell Jr.,WilliamHenry Cabell andWilliamHenry Harrison (1773-1841); first cousin thrice removed ofRichardBland,PeytonRandolph (1721-1775),RobertCarter Nicholas (1729-1780) andWilliamFitzhugh; second cousin ofJohnCabell Breckinridge,PeterAugustus Porter (1827-1864),WilliamLewis Cabell,RobertJefferson Breckinridge Jr.,GeorgeCraighead Cabell andWilliamCampbell Preston Breckinridge; second cousin once removed ofMarthaJefferson Randolph,DabneyCarr,FrederickMortimer Cabell,JohnScott Harrison (1804-1878),EdwardCarrington Cabell,JosephCabell Breckinridge (1844-1906),CliftonRodes Breckinridge,PeterAugustus Porter (1853-1925),BenjaminEarl Cabell,LevinIrving Handy,DeshaBreckinridge andHenrySkillman Breckinridge; second cousin twice removed ofTheodorickBland,EdmundJenings Randolph,GeorgeNicholas,BeverleyRandolph,WilsonCary Nicholas,JohnNicholas,JohnRandolph of Roanoke andEarleCabell; third cousin ofFrancisWayles Eppes,DabneySmith Carr,BenjaminFranklin Randolph,MeriwetherLewis Randolph,GeorgeWythe Randolph,JohnWilliam Leftwich,BenjaminHarrison (1833-1901) andJohnScott Harrison (1844-1926); third cousin once removed ofJohnMarshall,HenryLee,CharlesLee,RichardBland Lee,JamesMarkham Marshall,ThomasMann Randolph Jr.,AlexanderKeith Marshall,EdmundJennings Lee,PeytonRandolph (1779-1828),HenrySt. George Tucker,RobertCarter Nicholas (1787-1857),ThomasJefferson Coolidge,RussellBenjamin Harrison andFrederickMadison Roberts; third cousin twice removed ofBurwellBassett,JohnGardner Coolidge,EdithWilson andWilliamHenry Harrison (1896-1990); fourth cousin ofThomasMarshall,JamesKeith Marshall,PeterMyndert Dox,NathanielBeverly Tucker,EdmundRandolph andWilliamHenry Fitzhugh Lee; fourth cousin once removed ofJohnWayles Eppes,FitzhughLee,EdmundRandolph Cocke,ConnallyFindlay Trigg,JohnAugustine Marshall,RichardEvelyn Byrd,HarryBartow Hawes andWilliamWelby Beverley. | | | | Political family:Livingston-Schuylerfamily of New York (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | See alsoWikipedia article —Find-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 ofcorrespondingwith (orspying for) the Hovas, but more likely because theQueen of the Hovas had granted him 2.5 square miles, rich with rubberand 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. | | | Lafayette Young (1848-1926) — of Des Moines,PolkCounty, Iowa.Born inMonroeCounty, Iowa,May 10,1848.Republican.Newspapereditor and publisher; member of Iowa state legislature, 1890;delegate to Republican National Convention from Iowa,1900,1908;U.S.Senator from Iowa, 1910-11; in May 1915, while working as a warcorrespondent for a Des Moines newspaper, he wasarrestedin Innsbruck, Austria, on suspicion ofespionage; released afew hours later.Died in Des Moines,PolkCounty, Iowa,November15, 1926 (age78 years, 189days).Interment atWoodlandCemetery, Des Moines, Iowa. | | Samuel Dickstein (1885-1954) — also known as"Crook" — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born near Vilna,Lithuania,February5, 1885.Democrat.Lawyer;member ofNew Yorkstate assembly from New York County 4th District, 1919-22;U.S.Representative from New York, 1923-45 (12th District 1923-45,19th District 1945);Justice ofNew York Supreme Court 1st District, 1945-53.Jewish. Member,Freemasons;Shriners;B'naiB'rith;Knightsof Pythias;Elks;American BarAssociation;Veterans ofForeign Wars.According to old Russian recordsfound inthe mid-1990s, he was apaid agent of the Soviet intelligenceservice while in Congress, and received some $12,000 in 1937-40 underthe Soviet code-name "Crook".Died, in Beth IsraelHospital,Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,April22, 1954 (age69 years, 76days).Interment atUnionField Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens, N.Y. | | Robert Alexander Vogeler (1911-1992) — also known asRobert A. Vogeler — of Bedford,WestchesterCounty, N.Y.; Cos Cob, Greenwich,FairfieldCounty, Conn.; Mt. Kisco,WestchesterCounty, N.Y.; Horseheads,ChemungCounty, N.Y.Born in Jackson Heights, Queens,QueensCounty, N.Y.,September6, 1911.Republican. Vice-president, International Telephone and Telegraph;arrestedby the Hungarian Communist government in 1949, tortured,tried andconvicted ofespionage; released in 1951;honored guest, Republican National Convention,1952.Episcopalian.GermanandFrenchancestry.Died in Horseheads,ChemungCounty, N.Y.,April22, 1992 (age80 years, 229days).Burial location unknown. | | Irving Charles Velson (1913-1976) — also known asIrving C. Velson;Irving CharlesShavelson;Charles Wilson;"Nick";"Shavey" —of Brooklyn,KingsCounty, N.Y.;SanFrancisco, Calif.Born in New York City (unknowncounty), N.Y.,June 3,1913.Machinist;boilermaker;shipfitter;president,Local 13,ShipbuildersUnion; American Labor candidate forNew Yorkstate senate 11th District, 1938; served in the U.S. Navy duringWorld War II; in 1951 and 1953, he was brought to testify beforeCongressional committees about his Communist and Soviet activities,including efforts toinfiltratethe U.S. military with Soviet spies; he repeatedly refused to answerquestions, invoking his Fifth Amendment right againstself-incrimination;as a result, he was "barred forlife" by the Shipbuilders' union; later, served asinternationalrepresentative for the (West Coast) International Longshoreman'sand Warehousemen's Union.Venona Project documents (decrypted Soviet messages from the WorldWar II era), released in 1995, show that he was anagent forSoviet military intelligence under the code name "Nick".Died inSanFrancisco, Calif.,February18, 1976 (age62 years, 260days).Cremated;ashes scattered in San Francisco Bay.
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