<Tr> <Th> Alma mater </Th> <Td> Allegheny College </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Profession </Th> <Td> Teacher, politician </Td> </Tr> <P> Robert Budd Dwyer (November 21, 1939--January 22, 1987) was the 30th State Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania . He served from 1971 to 1981 as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate representing the state's 50th district . He then served as the 30th Treasurer of Pennsylvania from January 20, 1981, until his death . On January 22, 1987, Dwyer called a news conference in the Pennsylvania state capital of Harrisburg where he killed himself in front of the gathered reporters, by shooting himself in the mouth with a . 357 Magnum revolver . Dwyer's suicide was broadcast later that day to a wide television audience across Pennsylvania . </P> <P> In the early 1980s, Pennsylvania discovered its state workers had overpaid federal taxes due to errors in state withholding . Many accounting firms competed for a multimillion - dollar contract to determine compensation to each employee . In 1986, Dwyer was convicted of receiving a bribe from the California firm that ultimately won the contract . He was scheduled to be sentenced on those charges on January 23, 1987, the day after his suicide . </P>

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