8. Budd Dwyer
Budd Dwyer was a Republican politician from Pennsylvania and from 1965 to 1970, he was a member of the state House of Representatives. The following decade of his life, Budd Dwyer spent in the state Senate. He was elected to be the state Treasurer, and he held the spot until he committed suicide. Dwyer committed suicide just a day before his sentence hearing at the federal court. He was found guilty of mail fraud, interstate transportation, racketeering, bribery and taking $300,000 from a computer company in campaign donations in exchange for $4 million state contract. On January 22, while the TV cameras were rolling and the reporters were watching him during a press conference, he pulled out a gun out of an envelope and took his life.
