See thetrouble anddisgrace main page, as well as theFAQ and thePoliticalGraveyard privacy policy, for important explanations anddisclaimers. in chronological order | |  John Singleton Mosby (1833-1916) — also known asJohn S. Mosby;"The GrayGhost" —ofBristol,Va.; Warrenton,FauquierCounty, Va.Born inPowhatanCounty, Va.,December6, 1833.In 1852, heshotand wounded George R. Turpin, with whom he had quarreled;arrestedandtried,ultimatelyconvictedonly of the misdemeanor charge ofunlawful shooting andsentencedto one year injail;pardonedby Gov.JosephJohnson in 1853; colonel in the Confederate Army during the CivilWar; U.S. Consul inHong Kong, 1878-85.ScottishandWelshancestry.Died inWashington,D.C.,May 30,1916 (age82 years, 176days).Interment atWarrentonCemetery, Warrenton, Va. | | John Brown Moore (1835-1926) — ofAndersonCounty, S.C.; Colusa,ColusaCounty, Calif.Born in Anderson District (nowAndersonCounty), S.C.,March22, 1835.Democrat.Lawyer;major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member ofSouthCarolina state house of representatives from Anderson County,1868-70;vice-chair ofSouth Carolina Democratic Party, 1878; member ofSouthCarolina state senate from Anderson County, 1882-86; involved ina dispute over alcohol prohibition in Anderson County, which heopposed; on September 15, 1885, in the public square of Anderson,S.C., heshotatEdwardsBobo Murray, and wasshot andinjured; subsequentlypleadedguilty todisturbingthe peace and to carrying aconcealed weapon; chargesagainst Murray were dismissed.Presbyterian.Died in Colusa,ColusaCounty, Calif.,November22, 1926 (age91 years, 245days).Interment atColusa Community Cemetery, Colusa, Calif. | | Charles William Dempster (1879-1941) — also known asCharles W. Dempster — of Los Angeles,LosAngeles County, Calif.Born in Council Bluffs,PottawattamieCounty, Iowa,August24, 1879.Republican.Lawyer;member ofMontanastate house of representatives, 1901-02; Supreme Secretary of theFraternal Brotherhood, aninsuranceunion; on February 1, 1917, when he wasoustedby the brotherhood's Supreme Council on grounds of insubordination,hedrew a revolver and held the council at bay for tenminutes; after being disarmed by a private detective, he wasarrestedfor disturbing the peace; candidate forCaliforniastate senate 31st District, 1920; member ofCaliforniastate assembly, 1931-34 (57th District 1931-32, 61st District1933-34); candidate formayorof Los Angeles, Calif., 1932, 1933 (primary).Member,Freemasons;Shriners;Elks;OddFellows;Eagles.Died in Los Angeles,Los AngelesCounty, Calif.,July 20,1941 (age61 years, 330days).Interment atInglewoodPark Cemetery, Inglewood, Calif. | | Fred William Yoos (1879-1940) — also known asFred W. Yoos — of Akron,SummitCounty, Ohio.Born in Cleveland,CuyahogaCounty, Ohio,January20, 1879.Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;railroadflagman;policeofficer;rubbertireworker; after serving as an organizer for the Ku Klux Klan, heresigned, or was expelled, and announced in January 1923 that hewould expose corruption and "un-American prejudice" in the local Klanorganization; on January 18, police received an anonymous "tip off"that Yoos was illegallycarrying a concealed weapon; he wassearched,and no weapon was found on his person, but a companion had a gun, andYoos wasarrestedand held in jail for days until released; he continued to expressopposition to the Ku Klux Klan, but did not make the disclosures hepromised; Independent candidate formayor ofAkron, Ohio, 1923.Germanancestry. Member,Ku KluxKlan;Freemasons.Died in Akron,SummitCounty, Ohio,May 31,1940 (age61 years, 132days).Interment atRoseHill Burial Park, Fairlawn, Ohio.| |  Relatives: Sonof Fred B. Yoos and Katie (Hurst) Yoos; married,October24, 1900, to Hedwig 'Hattie' Wojahn. |
| | Bobby Lee Rush (b. 1946) — also known asBobby L. Rush — of Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.Born in Albany,DoughertyCounty, Ga.,November23, 1946.Democrat. Candidate forIllinoisstate house of representatives, 1978;U.S.Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1993-; delegate toDemocratic National Convention from Illinois,1996,2000,2004,2008;candidate formayorof Chicago, Ill., 1999; Democratic Presidential Elector forIllinois,2024(voted forKamalaD. Harris andTimWalz).Protestant.Africanancestry.As a Black Panther, spent six months inprisonon aweaponscharge.Still living as of 2024. | | Bernhard Hugo Goetz (b. 1947) — also known asBernhard H. Goetz;Bernie Goetz;"Subway Vigilante" —of New York City (unknowncounty), N.Y.Born in Queens,QueensCounty, N.Y.,November7, 1947.On December 22, 1984, heshotand wounded four young men who were about to rob him, andsubsequentlyfledto New England, until heturnedhimself in at Concord, N.H.;arraignedonattemptedmurder,assault,andweaponscharges;convictedonly forcarrying an unlicensed gun;sentencedto one year injail;served eight months; Fusion candidate formayorof New York City, N.Y., 2001.GermanandJewishancestry.Still living as of 2014. | | Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. (b. 1940) — also known asGlenn Miller;"Frazier GlennCross";"Rounder" —of North Carolina; Aurora,LawrenceCounty, Mo.Born in Springfield,GreeneCounty, Mo.,1940.Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; candidate inDemocratic primary forGovernor ofNorth Carolina, 1984; candidate in Republican primary forNorthCarolina state senate, 1986;convictedon federalcontemptof court charges in 1986;sentencedto one year in prison, butdisappearedwhile out on bond; latercapturedin Missouri, along with four other Klansmen and a cache of weapons;indictedin 1987 for plottingrobberiesand anassassination;in a deal with prosecutors, hepleadedguilty to aweapons charge and to makingthreatsthrough the mail; served three years inprison; candidate forU.S.Representative from Missouri 7th District, 2006; candidate forU.S.Senator from Missouri, 2010; on April 13, 2014, in an apparenthatecrime heshotand killed three people at a Jewish community center andretirement complex in Overland Park, Kansas.Member,KuKlux Klan.Still living as of 2014. | | Carl Thomas Rowan (1925-2000) — also known asCarl T. Rowan — ofWashington,D.C.Born in Ravenscroft,WhiteCounty, Tenn.,August11, 1925.Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; syndicatednewspapercolumnist,author,biographer,televisionandradiocommentator; U.S. Ambassador toFinland, 1963-64; in 1988, heshotand wounded an intruder in his backyard in Washington, D.C.; hewasarrested,chargedwith aweapons violation, andtried;the jury was unable to reach a verdict, and a mistrial was declared;received theSpingarnMedal in 1997.Africanancestry. Member,Americansfor Democratic Action.Died, ofheart andkidneyailments anddiabetes,at the WashingtonHospitalCenter,Washington,D.C.,September23, 2000 (age75 years, 43days).Burial location unknown.  | Drew Nixon (b. 1959) — of Carthage,PanolaCounty, Tex.BornNovember21, 1959.Republican.Real estatesales;accountant;insurancebusiness; member ofTexasstate senate 3rd District, 1995-2000;arrestedin February 1997, after heofferedmoney to a police officer posing as a prostitute; aloadedrevolver was found under the seat of his car, though he had noconcealed hangun permit;pleadedguilty and sentenced to six months in jail.Baptist.Still living as of 2000. |  | Raymond C. Ubinger (b. 1965) — also known asRay Ubinger — of Durham,DurhamCounty, N.C.Born in1965.Libertarian.Musician;candidate forU.S.Senator from North Carolina, 1996; on principle, he refused torenew his driver's license when it expired in 1998, and wasrepeatedlycitedfordrivingwithout one; candidate formayor ofDurham, N.C., 1999; candidate forNorthCarolina state house of representatives 23rd District, 2000;arrestedin 2001 onchargesofcarrying a concealed pistol andresistingarrest;convicted,fined,and put on unsupervisedprobation;candidate forNorthCarolina state senate, 2004 (20th District), 2018 (22ndDistrict), 2020 (22nd District), 2022 (22nd District); Libertariancandidate for Presidential Elector for North Carolina,2012(on behalf ofGaryE. Johnson andJamesP. Gray); Libertarian candidate for Presidential Elector forNorth Carolina,2016(on behalf ofGaryE. Johnson andWilliamF. Weld); Libertarian candidate for Presidential Elector forNorth Carolina,2020(on behalf ofJoJorgensen andJeremyCohen).Still living as of 2022. | | | John Nathan Hostettler (b. 1961) — also known asJohn N. Hostettler — of Blairsville,PoseyCounty, Ind.Born in Evansville,VanderburghCounty, Ind.,July 19,1961.Republican.Powerplantperformanceengineer;U.S.Representative from Indiana 8th District, 1995-2007; defeated,2006; in April 2004, he wasdetainedat Louisville International Airport when he attempted to board aflight with aloaded pistol in his briefcase;pleadedguilty in August tocarrying a concealed weapon; candidateforU.S.Senator from Indiana, 2010.Baptist.Still living as of 2015. | | Charles Stanard Severance (b. 1960) — also known asCharles S. Severance — ofAlexandria,Va.Born inFairfaxCounty, Va.,September25, 1960.Candidate formayorof Alexandria, Va., 1996, 2000 (Independent); Independentcandidate forU.S.Representative from Virginia 8th District, 1996; during 2003-14,heshotand killed three people; he wasarrestedin 2014,tried onmurderand onfelony firearms charges,convictedand sentenced to life in prison plus 48 years.Still living as of 2022. | | Mark Thomas McCloskey — also known asMark McCloskey — ofSt.Louis, Mo.Born inSt.Louis, Mo.Republican.Lawyer; onJune 28, 2020, as a group of Black Lives Matter protesters passed bytheir home, he and his wifePattyyelled at the protesters andbrandished guns at them; theincident was captured on video and received national publicity; theywerechargedwith aweapons violation andtamperingwith evidence; ultimately pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor andfined;speaker, Republican National Convention, 2020 ;candidate forU.S.Senator from Missouri, 2022.Still living as of 2022. | | Patricia McCloskey — also known asPatty McCloskey;PatriciaNovak —ofSt.Louis, Mo.Republican.Lawyer; onJune 28, 2020, as a group of Black Lives Matter protesters passed bytheir home, she and her husbandMarkyelled at the protesters andbrandished guns at them; theincident was captured on video and received national publicity; theywerechargedwith aweapons violation andtamperingwith evidence; ultimately pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor andfined;speaker, Republican National Convention, 2020.Female.Still living as of 2020.
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