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John W. Dawson (1820-1877) —
of Fort Wayne, Allen
County, Ind.
Born in Cambridge, Dearborn
County, Ind., October
21, 1820.
Farmer;
lawyer;
newspaper
editor; candidate for Indiana
state house of representatives, 1854; candidate for secretary of
state of Indiana, 1856; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1858; Governor of
Utah Territory, 1861.
In December, 1861, after less than a month as territorial governor,
fled
Utah amid controversy and scandal.
Just east of Salt Lake City, he was attacked
by three men and badly injured.
Died in Indiana, September
10, 1877 (age 56 years, 324
days).
Interment at Lindenwood
Cemetery, Fort Wayne, Ind.
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John Doyle Lee (1812-1877) —
also known as John D. Lee —
Born in Kaskaskia, Randolph
County, Ill., September
12, 1812.
Member of Utah
territorial House of Representatives, 1858.
Mormon.
Involved in the Mountain Meadows massacre on September 11, 1857, when
a Mormon militia and/or Paiute Indian tribesmen (accounts differ)
slaughtered about 120 settlers who had been traveling through Utah by
wagon train; indicted
for murder
almost twenty years later, and tried in
1875; the first trial ended in a hung jury; retried
in 1876; convicted
and sentenced to
death; released for a time in order to settle his business
affairs; executed
by firing squad, at Mountain Meadows, Washington
County, Utah, March 23,
1877 (age 64 years, 192
days).
Interment at Panguitch
Cemetery, Panguitch, Utah.
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George Quayle Cannon (1827-1901) —
also known as George Q. Cannon —
of Utah.
Born in Liverpool, England,
January
11, 1827.
Son of George Cannon (1794-1844) and Ann (Quayle) Cannon (1798-1842).
Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member Utah
territorial council, 1865-66, 1869-72; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Utah Territory, 1873-81.
Mormon.
Had five wives and 32 children; spent six months in federal penitentiary
for cohabitation.
Died in Monterey, Monterey
County, Calif., April 12,
1901 (age 74 years, 91
days).
Interment at Salt
Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Brigham Henry Roberts (1857-1933) —
also known as Brigham H. Roberts —
of Utah.
Born in Warrington, Lancashire, England,
March
13, 1857.
Democrat. Delegate to
Utah state constitutional convention, 1894; U.S.
Representative from Utah at-large, 1899-1900.
Mormon.
His seat in Congress was declared
vacant in January 1900, because he was a polygamist.
Died in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, September
27, 1933 (age 76 years, 198
days).
Interment at Centerville
Ward Cemetery, Centerville, Utah.
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Robert Page Walter Morris (1853-1924) —
also known as R. Page W. Morris —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Lynchburg,
Va., June 30,
1853.
Republican. College
professor; lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1884; district judge in Minnesota
11th District, 1895-96; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 6th District, 1897-1903; U.S.
District Judge for Minnesota, 1903-23; took senior status 1923.
Arrested
in Salt Lake City, 1921, following an accident in which his car
struck a pedestrian, Mrs. Elizabeth Holmes.
Died in Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn., December
16, 1924 (age 71 years, 169
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Duluth, Minn.
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Ernest Bamberger (1877-1958) —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, August
11, 1877.
Son of Jacob Emanuel Bamberger (1852-1928) and Bertha (Greenwald)
Bamberger (1858-1939).
Republican. Mining
executive; member of Republican
National Committee from Utah, 1920-24, 1935; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Utah, 1922, 1928.
Jewish.
Member, Chi Psi.
Arrested
in 1923, along with three friends, for smoking
cigars in the Vienna Cafe, Salt Lake City; however, on March 9,
Utah's ban on public smoking was repealed.
Died in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, January
11, 1958 (age 80 years, 153
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Allan Turner Howe (1927-2000) —
of Utah.
Born in Utah, 1927.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Utah 2nd District, 1975-77; defeated, 1976.
Arrested
in Salt Lake City, Utah, 1976, for soliciting
sex from a policewoman posing as a prostitute.
Died December
14, 2000 (age about 73
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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John William Snow (b. 1939) —
also known as John W. Snow —
of Richmond,
Va.
Born in Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio, August 2,
1939.
Lawyer;
charged
with driving
while intoxicated,
in West Valley City, Utah, 1982; chairman and chief executive officer
of CSX railroad;
U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 2003-06; director, Marathon Oil Co.
Episcopalian.
Member, Delta
Tau Delta.
Still living as of 2009.
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David Nelson (b. 1962) —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born, in a hospital
at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, April 7,
1962.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Utah, 1996,
2000.
Gay.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; National Rifle
Association.
Convicted
on a misdemeanor act of civil
disobedience, 1995 Recipient of Democratic National Committee's
Lawrence O'Brien Achievement Award, 1998.
Still living as of 2004.
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