Birth Name: Robert Budd Dwyer
Date of Birth: November 21, 1939
Place of Birth: Saint Charles, Missouri, United States
Date of Death: January 22, 1987
Place of Death: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Ethnicity: English, some German, remote Dutch, remote Scottish
R. Budd Dwyer was an American politician. He is known for committing suicide by gunshot during a press conference, while he was serving his term as Treasurer of Pennsylvania. He was the son of Anna Mary (Budd) and Robert Malcolm Dwyer. He was married to Joanne Grappy.
Budd’s paternal grandparents were Charles Sumner Dwyer (the son of William Henry Harrison Dwyer and Mary Joselyn Greenleaf) and Edna Winta Teeter (the daughter of William K. Teeter and Margaret B. Watson).
Budd’s maternal grandparents were Horace Franklin Budd (the son of William Prower Budd and Mary Jane Harn) and Jessie Melissa Goodenough (the daughter of Linas Goodenough and Alice Gertrude Day). William and Mary were English immigrants.