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Samuel Swartwout (1783-1856) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y., November
17, 1783.
Son of Abraham Swartwout and Maria (North) Swartwout.
He was participant in Aaron
Burr's "Western Conspiracy"; delivered a message from Burr to
Gen. James Wilkinson in New Orleans; subsequently arrested
in November 1806 for misprision
of treason, but released a few months later; early promoter of railroads;
openly supported the Texas Republic in its war for independence from
Mexico; served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S. Collector of Customs,
1829-38; in 1838, it was alleged that he had embezzled
more than $1.2 million from the New York customs house, and fled
to England; later investigation implicated a subordinate of his as
having obtained most of that money; forfeited
his property and returned to the U.S. in 1841.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
21, 1856 (age 73 years, 4
days).
Interment at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.
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John Armstrong, Jr. (1758-1843) —
also known as "Old Soldier"; "Monsieur
Tombo" —
Born in Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., November
25, 1758.
Son of John
Armstrong and Rebecca (Lyon) Armstrong.
Republican. Major in Continental Army during the Revolutionary War;
secretary
of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1783-87; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1787-88; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1800-02, 1803-04; U.S. Minister to France, 1804-10; general in the U.S. Army during the War of
1812; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1813-14; blamed
for the British capture of Washington, D.C. in August 1814, and forced to
resign; member of New York
state assembly from Dutchess County, 1825.
Catholic.
Died in Red Hook, Dutchess
County, N.Y., April 1,
1843 (age 84 years, 127
days).
Interment at Rhinebeck
Cemetery, Rhinebeck, N.Y.
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Richard Cutts (1771-1845) —
of Pepperell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Saco, York
County, Maine, June 28,
1771.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts state legislature; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1801-13 (at-large 1801-05,
14th District 1805-13); imprisoned
for debt, 1828.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April 7,
1845 (age 73 years, 283
days).
Original interment at St.
John's Church Cemetery, Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.;
reinterment in 1857 at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Laurence Massillon Keitt (1824-1864) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Orangeburg
County, S.C., October
4, 1824.
Democrat. Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1848; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 3rd District, 1853-55,
1855-56, 1856-60; censured
by the House in 1856 for aiding Rep. Preston
S. Brooks in his caning
attack on Sen. Charles
Sumner; resigned; re-elected to his seat within a month; Delegate
from South Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress,
1861-62; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Mortally
wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, and died the next day, near
Richmond (unknown
county), Va., June 4,
1864 (age 39 years, 244
days).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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Philemon Thomas Herbert (1825-1864) —
also known as Philemon T. Herbert —
of Mariposa, Mariposa
County, Calif.; El Paso, El Paso
County, Tex.
Born in Pine Apple, Wilcox
County, Ala., November
1, 1825.
Democrat. Member of California
state assembly, 1853-55 (10th District 1853-54, 6th District
1854-55); U.S.
Representative from California at-large, 1855-57; in 1856, drunk
at breakfast, he shot
and killed Thomas Keating, a waiter at the Willard Hotel in
Washington; charged
with murder,
twice tried,
and eventually acquitted; colonel in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War.
Wounded at the Battle of Mansfield, April 8, 1864, and died in
Kingston, DeSoto
Parish, La., July 23,
1864 (age 38 years, 265
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Kingston, La.
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Daniel Edgar Sickles (1819-1914) —
also known as Daniel E. Sickles; "Devil
Dan" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
20, 1819.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1847; member of New York
state senate 3rd District, 1856-57; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1857-61, 1893-95 (3rd District
1857-61, 10th District 1893-95); defeated, 1894; general in the Union
Army during the Civil War; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1868;
U.S. Minister to Spain, 1869-74; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1892.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Shot and killed
Philip
Barton Key, his wife's lover and the son of the author of the
national anthem, at Lafayette Park, Washington, D.C, 1859; charged
with murder,
but with the help of his attorney Edwin
M. Stanton, was acquitted after the first
successful plea of temporary insanity in U.S. legal history.
Received the Medal
of Honor in 1897 for action at the Battle of Gettysburg, July 2,
1863; lost a
leg in that battle; his amputated leg was displayed at the Army
Medical Museum, where he frequently visited it in later years.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 3,
1914 (age 94 years, 195
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Philip Barton Key (1818-1859) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Georgetown, Washington,
D.C., April 5,
1818.
Son of Francis
Scott Key.
U.S.
Attorney for the District of Columbia, 1853-59; died in office
1859.
Shot
and killed by
Daniel
E. Sickles, in retaliation
for Key's affair
with his wife Teresa, at Lafayette Park, Washington,
D.C., February
27, 1859 (age 40 years, 328
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; cenotaph at Westminster
Burying Ground, Baltimore, Md.
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William Adams Richardson (1821-1896) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Tyngsboro, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
2, 1821.
Republican. Probate judge in Massachusetts, 1856; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1873-74; while Secretary of the
Treasury, he hired John D. Sanborn to collect unpaid taxes and
receive a commission, some of which went as a kickback
to Richardson himself; this arrangement caused an uproar,
and Richardson resigned
under fire; Judge of
U.S. Court of Claims, 1874-96.
Unitarian.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
19, 1896 (age 74 years, 352
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Donald Wakefield Smith —
also known as Donald W. Smith —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.; Washington,
D.C.
Democrat. Member, National
Labor Relations Board, 1936-39; indicted
in federal court in 1943, with James
M. Curley and others, over his participation in Engineers Group,
Inc., which fraudulently
obtained war contracts; re-indicted
in 1944; tried in
1945-46 and convicted;
sentenced
to four months to one year and one day in prison
and fined
$1,000.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Daniel W. West —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan,
1960,
1964
(alternate); member of Michigan
state house of representatives, 1963-65 (Wayne County 6th
District 1963-64, 24th District 1965); defeated in primary, 1954
(Wayne County 6th District), 1956 (Wayne County 6th District), 1958
(Wayne County 6th District), 1960 (Wayne County 6th District), 1965
(24th District).
Convicted
of various crimes, including burglary,
larceny,
and forgery,
in Minnesota, Iowa, and Washington, D.C., and was sentenced to prison in
those places; came to Michigan and assumed the identity of a deceased
New York attorney of the same name; indicted
in late 1964 on state charges
of voter
registration fraud and federal charges
of income
tax fraud and forgery;
in January 1965, his seat in the Michigan House was declared
vacant.
Still living as of 1965.
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John Newton Mitchell (1913-1988) —
also known as John N. Mitchell —
of New York; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., September
15, 1913.
Son of Joseph Charles Mitchell and Margaret Agnes (McMahon) Mitchell.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Attorney General, 1969-72.
Member, American Bar
Association.
A central figure in the Watergate scandal.
Indicted
in 1973, along with Maurice
Stans, for perjury
and obstruction
over a contribution
from fugitive
financier Robert Vesco to President Richard
M. Nixon's re-election campaign; tried and
acquitted. Convicted
in February 1975 of conspiracy, obstruction
of justice and perjury,
over his role in the Watergate
break-in, and sentenced
to two and a half to eight years in prison;
served 19 months.
Suffered a heart
attack, and died later the same day, at George Washington
University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., November
9, 1988 (age 75 years, 55
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Joe David Waggonner, Jr. (1918-2007) —
also known as Joe Waggonner, Jr. —
of Plain Dealing, Bossier
Parish, La.
Born near Plain Dealing, Bossier
Parish, La., September
7, 1918.
Son of Joe David Waggonner and Elizzibeth (Johnston) Waggonner.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; served in the
U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict; wholesale petroleum
products distribution business; member, Louisiana state board of
education, 1960-61; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 4th District, 1961-79.
Methodist.
Member, American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Lions; Kappa
Sigma.
Arrested
in Washington, D.C., 1976, for soliciting
a policewoman posing as a prostitute.
Died in Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La., October
7, 2007 (age 89 years, 30
days).
Interment at Plain
Dealing Cemetery, Plain Dealing, La.
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Frederick William Richmond (b. 1923) —
also known as Frederick W. Richmond; Fred
Richmond —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Massachusetts, November
15, 1923.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1964;
U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1975-82.
Jewish.
Arrested
in Washington, D.C., in 1978 for soliciting
sex from a minor and from an undercover police officer; pleaded
guilty to a misdemeanor. In 1982, charged
with tax
evasion, marijuana
possession, and improper
payments to a federal employee, he pleaded
guilty and was sentenced
to a year and a day in prison;
served nine months.
Still living as of 1998.
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John Logan Cashin, Jr. (1928-2011) —
also known as John L. Cashin, Jr. —
of Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala., April 16,
1928.
Dentist;
candidate for mayor
of Huntsville, Ala., 1964; National Democratic candidate for Governor of
Alabama, 1970.
African
ancestry.
Convicted
of theft and
perjury
in 1982; served 17 months in federal
prison.
Died, of renal
failure and pneumonia,
in Specialty Hospital
of Washington-Hadley, Washington,
D.C., March 21,
2011 (age 82 years, 339
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Ronald Vernie Dellums (b. 1935) —
also known as Ronald V. Dellums —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.; Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., November
24, 1935.
Democrat. Social
worker; U.S.
Representative from California, 1971-98 (7th District 1971-75,
8th District 1975-93, 9th District 1993-98); arrested
during an anti-apartheid
protest outside the South African Embassy
in Washington, 1984; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1988,
1996,
2008.
Protestant.
African
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Phi Alpha.
Still living as of 2009.
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Walter Edward Fauntroy (b. 1933) —
also known as Walter E. Fauntroy —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
6, 1933.
Democrat. Baptist
minister; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from the District of Columbia, 1971-91;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1972;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia,
1972,
1980;
arrested
during an anti-apartheid
sit-in at the South African Embassy
in Washington, 1984; candidate in primary for mayor
of Washington, D.C., 1990.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi.
Charged
in federal court on March 22, 1995 with making false statements on financial
disclosure forms, including a claimed donation of almost $24,000
to the New Bethel Baptist Church where he served as pastor, to make
it appear that he had complied with House rules limiting outside
income, and that he had failed
to disclose a June 1988 loan of $24,200. Pleaded
guilty to one felony count, and sentenced
to probation.
Still living as of 2009.
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John Conyers, Jr. (b. 1929) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., May 16,
1929.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Michigan, 1965-2003 (1st District 1965-93,
14th District 1993-2003); delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Michigan, 1972,
1984,
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
arrested
during an anti-apartheid
protest outside the South African Embassy in Washington, 1984;
candidate for mayor of
Detroit, Mich., 1989.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; American Civil
Liberties Union; Kappa
Alpha Psi; Americans
for Democratic Action; Council on
Foreign Relations; Pi
Sigma Alpha.
Still living as of 2009.
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William Donlon Edwards (b. 1915) —
also known as Don Edwards —
of San Jose, Santa Clara
County, Calif.
Born in San Jose, Santa Clara
County, Calif., January
6, 1915.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from California, 1963-95 (9th District 1963-75,
10th District 1975-93, 16th District 1993-95); delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1964,
1968,
1988;
arrested
during an anti-apartheid
protest outside the South African Embassy
in Washington, 1984.
Unitarian.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Still living as of 2009.
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Charles Arthur Hayes (1918-1997) —
also known as Charles A. Hayes —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Cairo, Alexander
County, Ill., February
17, 1918.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1983-93; defeated in
primary, 1992; arrested
during an anti-apartheid
protest outside the South African Embassy
in Washington, 1984.
African
ancestry.
Died, from complications of lung
cancer, at South Suburban Hospital,
Hazel Crest, Cook
County, Ill., April 8,
1997 (age 79 years, 50
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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George William Crockett, Jr. (1909-1997) —
also known as George W. Crockett, Jr. —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., August
10, 1909.
Democrat. Recorder's court judge in Michigan, 1966-78; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 13th District, 1980-91; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1984;
arrested
during an anti-apartheid
protest outside the South African Embassy
in Washington, 1984.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi; National
Lawyers Guild.
Served four months in federal prison
for contempt
of court in 1950, following his defense of a Communist leader on
trial in New York for advocating the overthrow of the government.
Among the founders of the nation's first
interracial law firm.
Ill with bone
cancer in 1997, he suffered a stroke and
died five days later, in Washington Home and Hospice,
Washington,
D.C., September
7, 1997 (age 88 years, 28
days).
Cremated.
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Joseph Echols Lowery (b. 1921) —
also known as Joseph E. Lowery —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala., October
6, 1921.
Democrat. Pastor;
leader in the civil rights movement; co-founder of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference; escaped death in 1963 when his hotel
room in Birmingham, Ala., was bombed,
and in 1979 when Klansmen in Decatur, Ala., opened
fire on Lowery and other protesters; arrested
while demonstrating
in support of a garbage workers' strike in Atlanta, 1968; arrested
during protests
in Cullman, Ala., 1978; arrested
while protesting
apartheid at the South African Embassy
in Washington, D.C., 1984; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Georgia, 2008;
speaker, 1988;
delivered eulogies at the funerals of Rosa Parks and Coretta
Scott King.
Methodist.
African
ancestry.
Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard in Atlanta is named for
him.
Still living as of 2008.
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William H. Simons —
also known as Bill Simons —
of Washington,
D.C.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; school
teacher; president,
Washington Teachers Union; vice-president,
American Federation of Teachers; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from District of Columbia, 1980,
1996,
2000;
arrested
during an anti-apartheid
protest outside the South African Embassy
in Washington, 1984; Presidential Elector for District of Columbia,
2000.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2000.
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Mary Frances Berry (b. 1938) —
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., February
17, 1938.
Lawyer;
writer;
university
professor; member, U.S.
Civil Rights Commission, 1978-2004; chair, U.S. Civil Rights
Commission, 1993-99; arrested
during an anti-apartheid
sit-in at the South African Embassy
in Washington, 1984.
Female.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2004.
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Carl Thomas Rowan (1925-2000) —
also known as Carl T. Rowan —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Ravenscroft, White
County, Tenn., August
11, 1925.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S. Ambassador to Finland, 1963-64.
African
ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Widely syndicated newspaper
columnist,
author,
biographer,
television
and radio
commentator, founder of the Project Excellence scholarship program.
In 1988, he shot
and wounded an intruder in his backyard in Washington, D.C.; he
was arrested,
charged
with a weapons
violation, and tried;
the jury was unable to reach a verdict, and a mistrial was declared.
Died, of heart and
kidney
ailments and diabetes,
at the Washington Hospital
Center, Washington,
D.C., September
23, 2000 (age 75 years, 43
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Marion S. Barry, Jr. (b. 1936) —
also known as Marion Barry —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Itta Bena, Leflore
County, Miss., March 6,
1936.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of
Columbia, 1972
(alternate), 1980,
1996;
mayor
of Washington, D.C., 1979-91, 1995-99.
African
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Phi Alpha.
Convicted
in 1990 of misdemeanor cocaine
possession after being caught on videotape smoking
crack cocaine; sentenced
to six months in prison.
Still living as of 2009.
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Barbara A. Bullock (born c.1939) —
also known as Barbara Bullock —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born about 1939.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of
Columbia, 1996,
2000.
Female.
President
of the Washington Teachers Union, 1994-2002; pleaded
guilty in 2003 to federal charges
of embezzlement
from a labor union, over her use of a union credit card to
purchase costly costly luxury items including jewelry, furs and
clothing; she and two co-conspirators also wrote union checks to
themselves and to intermediaries who shared the proceeds, amounting
to millions of dollars. Her chauffeur pleaded guilty to money
laundering on her behalf. Sentenced to nine years in prison;
the sentence was later reduced to six and a half years.
Still living as of 2007.
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Thomas Peter Lantos (1928-2008) —
also known as Tom Lantos; Tamas Peter
Lantos —
of Millbrae, San Mateo
County, Calif.; Hillsborough, San Mateo
County, Calif.; San Mateo, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in Budapest, Hungary,
February
1, 1928.
Democrat. University
professor; television
news commentator; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1976,
1988,
1996,
2000,
2004;
U.S.
Representative from California, 1981-2008 (11th District 1981-93,
12th District 1993-2008); died in office 2008.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Alpha Mu.
Arrested
for disorderly conduct in April 2006, while taking part civil
disobedience action to protest
genocide in Darfur, in front of the Sudanese embassy
in Washington, D.C.
Died, of cancer
of the esophagus, in Bethesda
Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., February
11, 2008 (age 80 years, 10
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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