Leo Ryan Folsom Prison as an inmate. During his time in Congress, Ryan traveled to Newfoundland to investigate the practice of seal hunting. He was also famous for vocal criticism of the lack of Congressional oversight of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and authored the Hughes–Ryan Amendment, passed in 1974. Ryan was shot and killed at an airstrip in Guyana in November 1978 while his party was attempting to escape a dangerous situation. He had traveled to Guyana to investigate claims that people were being held against their will at the Peoples Temple Jonestown settlement. Ryan was killed the same day of
Samuel Ryan Jr. Driggs. Martha's sister, Mary, was married to William J. Fisk. Ryan died of pneumonia on March 26, 1907. Ryan was a member of the Assembly in 1865. From 1865 to 1873, he was an Outagamie County, Wisconsin, judge. In 1895, Ryan was appointed U.S. Consul in St. John's, Newfoundland. He was a Democrat. Samuel Ryan Jr. Samuel Ryan Jr. (March 13, 1824 – March 26, 1907) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. Ryan was born in Sackets Harbor, New York, in 1824. He moved with his parents to Green Bay, Wisconsin, in 1826. In 1853, Ryan established the