Charles O'Conor (1804-1884)
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York & Presidential Nominee
He was the Senior Counsel for Jefferson Davis on the charge of treason and, as Attorney General for the State of New York, he played a prominent role in the prosecution of Boss Tweed and members of his ring. In the 1872 U.S. Presidential election, he was nominated for the presidency (the first Catholic to be nominated for the U.S. Presidency) by the "Bourbon Democrats" (who refused to support Horace Greeley) and the "Labor Reformers". He declined the nomination, as did his running mate, John Quincy Adams II, but they remained on the ballot anyway receiving 21,559 votes while the election was won by the incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant. He married his wife in 1854 but they separated soon afterwards and he died without children.
