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Also, fun fact, Sickles is also notable for being the first man to successfully beat a murder charge with the defense of "Temporary Insanity," for (as a sitting congressman) gunning down his wife's lover (the US district attorney for DC) in the middle of Lafayette square in broad daylight.
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I feel like I learned about this but it also seems like a fever dream. I think it was on a podcast though.
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Moon-faced Assassin of Joy
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Before anyone considers him a paragon of fidelity, he was censured by the NY Assembly for escorting his favorite sex worker through the Assembly chambers, and brought her with him to England (to introduce her under a pseudonym to Queen Victoria) while leaving his wife (who was half his age) at home.
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