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John Smith (c.1735-1824) —
of Columbia (now part of Cincinnati), Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born about 1735.
Democrat. Member of Northwest
Territory legislature, 1799-1803; delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention from Hamilton County,
1802; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1803-08; resigned 1808.
Indicted
in Richmond, Virginia, 1807 on charges
of participating in treasonous
schemes with Aaron
Burr; the charges were dropped after Burr was acquitted. Later
that year, a Senate committee chaired by John
Quincy Adams recommended that Smith be expelled
from the Senate for his association
with Burr. A trial was
held in April 1808; Smith was represented by Francis
Scott Key and Robert
Goodloe Harper. The expulsion
resolution failed on a vote of 19 to 10, one vote short of the
two-thirds required.
Died in St. Francisville, West
Feliciana Parish, La., July 30,
1824 (age about 89
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Stanbery (1788-1873) —
of Newark, Licking
County, Ohio.
Born in Essex
County, N.J., August
10, 1788.
Lawyer;
member of Ohio state
senate, 1824-25; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 8th District, 1827-33; censured
by the Congress for use of unparliamentary
language, July 11, 1832.
Died in Newark, Licking
County, Ohio, January
23, 1873 (age 84 years, 166
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Newark, Ohio.
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Samuel W. Davies (c.1776-1843) —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in England,
about 1776.
Mayor
of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1833-43.
Tried
by the city council in 1842 for mishandling
a bank riot, and found
guilty, but excused due to poor health.
Died December
22, 1843 (age about 67
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Benjamin Tappan (1773-1857) —
of Ohio.
Born in Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass., May 25,
1773.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Ohio state
senate from Trumbull County, 1803-04; served in the U.S. Army
during the War of 1812; common pleas court judge in Ohio, 1816-23;
candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1826; Presidential Elector for Ohio, 1832;
U.S.
District Judge for Ohio, 1833; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1839-45.
Censured
by the Senate on May 10, 1844, over his disclosure
to the New York Evening Post of a secret
message from President John
Tyler outlining terms for the annexation of Texas.
Died in Steubenville, Jefferson
County, Ohio, April 20,
1857 (age 83 years, 330
days).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, Steubenville, Ohio.
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Henry Everard Peck (1821-1867) —
also known as H. E. Peck —
of Oberlin, Lorain
County, Ohio.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., July 20,
1821.
Republican. College
professor; delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio,
1856;
U.S. Diplomatic Commissioner to Haiti, 1865-66; U.S. Minister to Haiti, 1866-67, died in office 1867.
Abolitionist; involved in rescue of an escaping slave in Wellington,
near Oberlin, Ohio, in September 1858; among the 20 men who were arrested
and charged
with "infringement of the Fugitive
Slave Law"; the trial
ended when the slave catchers (who had pressed the charges) were
indicted for kidnapping.
Died, of yellow
fever, in Haiti,
June
9, 1867 (age 45 years, 324
days).
Interment somewhere
in Oberlin, Ohio.
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Edson Baldwin Olds (1802-1869) —
also known as Edson B. Olds —
of Circleville, Pickaway
County, Ohio; Lancaster, Fairfield
County, Ohio.
Born in Marlboro, Windham
County, Vt., June 3,
1802.
Democrat. Physician;
member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1842-43, 1845-46, 1862-66; member of Ohio state
senate, 1846-48; U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1849-55 (9th District 1849-53, 12th
District 1853-55); defeated, 1854; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Ohio, 1864.
Arrested
for alleged disloyalty
to the Union and imprisoned
in Fort Lafayette in 1862.
Died in Lancaster, Fairfield
County, Ohio, January
24, 1869 (age 66 years, 235
days).
Interment at Forest
Cemetery, Circleville, Ohio.
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Lawrence Washington Hall (1819-1863) —
of Bucyrus, Crawford
County, Ohio.
Born in Lake
County, Ohio, 1819.
Democrat. Lawyer;
common pleas court judge in Ohio, 1852-57; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 9th District, 1857-59; defeated, 1858.
Imprisoned
for alleged disloyalty
to the Union in 1862.
Died of a lung
hemorrhage, Bucyrus, Crawford
County, Ohio, January
18, 1863 (age about 43
years).
Original interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Bucyrus, Ohio; reinterment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Clement Laird Vallandigham (1820-1871) —
also known as Clement L. Vallandigham —
of Ohio.
Born in New Lisbon (now Lisbon), Columbiana
County, Ohio, July 29,
1820.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1845-46; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Ohio, 1856,
1864,
1868;
U.S.
Representative from Ohio 3rd District, 1858-63; defeated, 1852,
1854, 1862; candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1863.
Leader of the pro-Southern "Copperheads" during the Civil War; arrested
by the Union military authorities in 1863 for treasonable
utterances, and banished
to the Confederate States; returned to the North by way of Canada.
Accidentally
shot
himself, while practicing a courtroom
demonstration he planned as part of a defense in a murder trial (not
actually in court at the time, contrary to legend), and died of his
wound the next day, in the Lebanon House hotel,
Lebanon, Warren
County, Ohio, June 17,
1871 (age 50 years, 323
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio.
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Alexander Long (1816-1886) —
of Ohio.
Born in Greenville, Mercer
County, Pa., December
24, 1816.
Democrat. Member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1848; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 2nd District, 1863-65; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1864;
candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1865.
Censured
by the House of Representatives during the Civil War, for treasonable
utterances.
Died in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, November
28, 1886 (age 69 years, 339
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Samuel Medary (1801-1864) —
also known as "The Wheel Horse of Ohio
Democracy" —
of Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio.
Born in Montgomery Square, Montgomery
County, Pa., February
25, 1801.
Democrat. Member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1834; member of Ohio state
senate, 1836; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Ohio, 1844,
1856,
1864;
Governor
of Minnesota Territory, 1857-58; Governor of
Kansas Territory, 1858-59, 1859-60, 1860, 1860; candidate for Governor of
Kansas, 1859.
Originated the slogan "Fifty-four forty or fight," calling for
aggressive action on the Oregon boundary question. Indicted
by a federal grand jury in 1864 for conspiracy
against the government; arrested;
released on bond; never tried. Medary, S.D., is named for
him.
Died in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, November
7, 1864 (age 63 years, 256
days).
Interment at Green
Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio.
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George B. Cox —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1900,
1904,
1908.
Political boss of Cincinnati at the turn of the century. Indicted
on corruption charges in 1906, but never convicted.
Burial
location unknown.
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Frank Sylvestor Monnett (b. 1857) —
also known as Frank S. Monnett —
of Crawford
County, Ohio.
Born in Kenton, Hardin
County, Ohio, March 19,
1857.
Lawyer;
Ohio
state attorney general, 1896-1900; defeated in Democratic
primary, 1926; Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from Ohio 12th District, 1910; in 1915, when the
U.S. was still neutral in World War I, he was a committee chair in
"Labor's National Peace Council," which advocated a weapons embargo
against the countries then at war; the organization secretly received
funding from German
agents; indicted
in December 1915, along with H.
Robert Fowler, Frank
Buchanan, and others, for restraint
of trade over the Peace Council's attempts to foment
strikes in U.S. munitions plants; stood
trial with seven co-defendants, but during the trial, the charges
against him were dismissed.
Died in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio.
Interment at Monnett
Chapel Graveyard, Dallas Township, Crawford County, Ohio.
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Charles M. Slaughter —
of Athens, Athens
County, Ohio.
Mayor
of Athens, Ohio, 1910-14.
Charged
with misconduct
as justice of the peace; convicted
on a lesser charge of misappropriating public funds; served about a
year in prison;
pardoned;
made restitution.
Burial
location unknown.
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Elmer T. Allison (1883-1982) —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Bethel, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Washington.
Born in Houstonia, Pettis
County, Mo., December
5, 1883.
Son of Nathaniel Allison and Mattie (Johnson) Allison.
Sawmill
worker; arrested
in Cleveland, 1919, on charges
of violating the state's criminal
syndicalism law; Workers candidate for New York
state senate 14th District, 1926; poet.
Member, Industrial
Workers of the World.
Died in Olympia, Thurston
County, Wash., July 18,
1982 (age 98 years, 225
days).
Interment at Woodbine
Cemetery, Puyallup, Wash.
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Thomas B. Roush (born c.1861) —
of Athens, Athens
County, Ohio.
Born in Ohio, about 1861.
Mayor
of Athens, Ohio, 1920-22; resigned 1922.
Resigned
as mayor after his son, the police chief, was caught soliciting and
accepting a bribe.
Burial
location unknown.
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Harry Micajah Daugherty (1860-1941) —
also known as Harry M. Daugherty —
of Washington Court House, Fayette
County, Ohio; Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio.
Born in Washington Court House, Fayette
County, Ohio, January
26, 1860.
Son of John H. Daugherty and Jane A. (Draper) Daugherty.
Republican. Lawyer; Fayette
County Prosecuting Attorney; member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1890-94; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Ohio, 1904,
1908,
1912,
1924;
U.S.
Attorney General, 1921-24.
Methodist.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Subject of a Senate investigation
of his conduct
as Attorney General; resigned
under fire; indicted
on charges of conspiracy to defraud
the U.S. government, but acquitted in 1927.
Died in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, October
12, 1941 (age 81 years, 259
days).
Interment at Washington
Cemetery, Washington Court House, Ohio.
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Walter Ellsworth Brehm (1892-1971) —
also known as Walter E. Brehm —
of Logan, Hocking
County, Ohio; Millersport, Fairfield
County, Ohio.
Born in Somerset, Perry
County, Ohio, May 25,
1892.
Son of Gilbert M. Brehm and Lucy E. (Lenhart) Brehm.
Republican. Dentist;
member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1938-42; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 11th District, 1943-53.
Member, Grange; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Eagles; Elks; Kiwanis;
Psi
Omega.
Convicted
in 1950 of accepting illegal campaign
contributions.
Died in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, August
24, 1971 (age 79 years, 91
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Gerald Norman Springer (b. 1944) —
also known as Jerry Springer; "Sultan of
Salaciousness" —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in London, England,
February
13, 1944.
Democrat. Resigned
from Cincinnati city council in 1974 after admitting he paid
a prostitute with a personal check, which was found in a police
raid on a massage parlor; won back his council seat in 1975 and went
on to become mayor; mayor
of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1977-78; candidate in primary for Governor of
Ohio, 1982; local television news
anchor; host of a raucus national television talk
show; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 2004.
Jewish.
Member, Tau
Epsilon Phi.
Still living as of 2009.
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Wayne Levere Hays (1911-1989) —
also known as Wayne L. Hays —
of Flushing, Belmont
County, Ohio.
Born in Bannock, Belmont
County, Ohio, May 13,
1911.
Democrat. Mayor of Flushing, Ohio, 1939-45; member of Ohio state
senate, 1941-42; Belmont
County Commissioner, 1945-48; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 18th District, 1949-76; resigned 1976;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1960,
1964;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1976;
member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1979.
In May 1976, he was caught up in a scandal
when a clerk in his congressional office, Elizabeth Ray, charged
that she was on the public payroll solely to provide sexual
favors to the Congressman; Hays admitted
most of the allegations; he resigned
as committee chair in June, and resigned
from Congress in September.
Died February
13, 1989 (age 77 years, 276
days).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, St. Clairsville, Ohio.
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James Anthony Traficant, Jr. (b. 1941) —
also known as James A. Traficant, Jr. —
of Warren, Trumbull
County, Ohio.
Born in Youngstown, Mahoning
County, Ohio, May 8,
1941.
Sheriff;
U.S.
Representative from Ohio 17th District, 1985-2002; removed 2002;
defeated, 2002; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio,
1996,
2000.
As sheriff in the 1980s, was charged
with accepting
bribes, tried and
acquitted. In May, 2001, he was indicted
on ten counts of bribery
and racketeering; tried and
convicted;
sentenced
to prison;
expelled
from the U.S. House of Representatives, July 24, 2002.
Still living as of 2009.
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Louis Stokes (b. 1925) —
of Warrensville Heights, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, February
23, 1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1969-99 (21st District 1969-93, 11th
District 1993-99); delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Ohio, 1972,
1996.
Methodist.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Kappa
Alpha Psi.
Arrested
for drunken
driving
in 1983; convicted
on a lesser charge
and fined.
Still living as of 2009.
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J. William Petro (c.1940-2002) —
of Ohio.
Born about 1940.
U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, 1982-84.
Fired
as U.S. attorney amid charges
that he leaked
confidential information; found
guilty of criminal
contempt of court in 1985.
Died, of a cerebral
hemorrhage, May 23,
2002 (age about 62
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Marvin Leon Warner (1919-2002) —
also known as Marvin L. Warner —
of Ohio.
Born in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., 1919.
Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, 1977-79.
One of 13 part-owners of the New York Yankees baseball
team in 1973-75, and was also part owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
and Birmingham Stallions football
teams. Horses he owned or bred competed in the Kentucky Derby. His
first wife later married Albert Sabin, inventor of the oral polio
vaccine. Head of the Cincinnati-based Home State Savings Bank when it
collapsed in 1985, touching off a run on other Ohio banks. Convicted
on fraud
charges in 1987 and served 28 months in prison.
Also charged
in federal court, but acquitted.
On a visit to witness a launch of the space shuttle Atlantis,
suffered a heart
attack and died, at Cape Canaveral, Brevard
County, Fla., April 8,
2002 (age about 82
years).
Interment at Lakeside
Cemetery, Miami, Fla.
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Donald Edgar Lukens (b. 1931) —
also known as Donald E. Lukens; Buz Lukens —
of Middletown, Butler
County, Ohio.
Born in Harveysburg, Warren
County, Ohio, February
11, 1931.
Son of William Arthur Lukens and Edith (Greene) Lukens.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1967-71, 1987-90 (24th District
1967-71, 8th District 1987-90); member of Ohio state
senate, 1975.
Member, Sertoma;
Farm
Bureau; Delta
Chi; Order of
Ahepa; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Kiwanis;
Toastmasters.
Convicted
in 1989 on a misdemeanor charge of
contributing to the delinquency of a minor, by having sex
with a 16 year old girl; sentenced
to 30 days in jail. Indicted
in February 1995 on five counts of bribery
and conspiracy; a jury in October 1995 found him not guilty on three
counts but was unable to reach a verdict on the other two; a mistrial
was declared. Reindicted
in March 1996; tried and
convicted.
Still living as of 2009.
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Mary Rose Oakar (b. 1940) —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Ohio, March 5,
1940.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Ohio 20th District, 1977-93; defeated, 1992;
member, Rules Committee, Democratic National
Convention, 2008.
Female.
She and two nephews were indicted
in 1995 over a scheme to evade campaign
finance limits and put money into her campaign under the names of
fake donors; she was also charged
with obtaining money through bad checks on the House
bank; pleaded not guilty to seven felonies, and challenged the
validity of the charges; in 1998, pleaded
guilty to two misdemeanor campaign
finance violations.
Still living as of 2009.
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John Stozich (c.1927-2004) —
of Findlay, Hancock
County, Ohio.
Born in Mingo Junction, Jefferson
County, Ohio, about 1927.
Republican. Member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1983-91; director, Ohio Department of
Industrial Relations, 1991-95; mayor of
Findlay, Ohio, 1996-2000; convicted
of vehicular
manslaughter
in May, 2004 for a traffic accident in which a woman died; sentenced
to three years probation;
a jail term was suspended.
Catholic.
Died, in Blanchard Valley Regional Health
Center, Findlay, Hancock
County, Ohio, July 5,
2004 (age about 77
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Robert Alphonso Taft II (b. 1942) —
also known as Bob Taft II —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
8, 1942.
Son of Robert
Taft, Jr..
Republican. Served
in the Peace Corps; member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1977-81; Hamilton
County Commissioner, 1981-90; secretary of
state of Ohio, 1991-99; Governor of
Ohio, 1999-2007; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Ohio, 2004;
in 2005, he pleaded no
contest to four misdemeanors involving failure
to disclose gifts, and was fined
$4,000; subsequently reprimanded
by the Ohio Supreme Court.
Methodist.
Still living as of 2009.
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