Senator Huey Long was shot in the Louisiana state capitol
building. He died about 30 hours later. Called a demagogue
by critics, the populist leader was a larger-than-life figure
who boasted that he bought legislators “like sacks of
potatoes, shuffled them like a deck of cards.”
He gave himself the nickname “Kingfish,” saying “I’m a
small fish here in Washington. But I’m the Kingfish to the
folks down in Louisiana.”
Shortly after leaving a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator
Edward “Ted” Kennedy of Massachusetts drove an Oldsmobile
off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond. Kennedy escaped
the submerged car, but his passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo
Kopechne, did not. The senator did not report the fatal car
accident for 10 hours.
Edward Moore Kennedy
(February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009)
(Reuters) – Former U.S. senator and Democratic Party vice presidential nominee Joe Lieberman has died at the 82.
His family said he suffered complications from a fall on
Wednesday.
(FOX NEWS) – Maureen (Flavin) Sweeney, a lighthouse worker
in Ireland whose critical weather reports helped ensure the
success of the epic D-Day invasion of Normandy in World War
II, died on Sunday at 100 years old, according to multiple
reports on Monday in Irish media.
Her death was received with reverence on Capitol Hill.
Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Michigan (below) told Fox News Digital.
"Maureen Sweeney is a hero and saved countless lives of
Allies."
A young Maureen and the Blacksod Bay Lighthouse.
Albert Bacon Fall (November 26, 1861 – November 30, 1944)
On this day in 1929, during the Teapot Dome scandal, Albert B.
Fall, who served as secretary of the interior in President Warren
G. Harding’s cabinet, was found guilty of accepting a bribe while
in office. Fall, a U.S. senator from New Mexico, was the first
individual to be convicted of a crime committed while a
presidential cabinet member.
Warren Gamaliel Harding
(November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923)
