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
F. Joseph Sensenbrenner Jr. and governments. Sensenbrenner is a native of Appleton and a third cousin of longtime Republican congressman F. James Sensenbrenner. F. Joseph Sensenbrenner Jr. Frank Joseph "Joe" Sensenbrenner Jr. (born 1948) served as mayor of Madison, Wisconsin from 1983 to 1989. A member of the Democratic Party, Sensenbrenner held high-ranking state government positions before his election as mayor: he was deputy attorney general of Wisconsin under Bronson La Follette, and was executive secretary and legal adviser to Governor Patrick J. Lucey. Sensenbrenner was elected mayor in 1983, defeating former alderman Toby Reynolds, but lost his bid for a third term to