3. James Traficant
James Traficant was serving as a nine-term Democrat in Ohio from 1985 to 2002, and he was known as unconventional congressmen who is willing to say whatever he has in mind. Back in 2002, a week after the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct recommended to kick James Traficant from the Congress; he was ousted with a 420-1 vote. Since the Civil War, he is only the second member of the House that has been removed; the first member was Michael Mayers, and he was ousted back in 1980 for taking bribes. James Traficant, on the other hand, was convinced with even 10 felonies including racketeering, tax evasion, and bribery. He claimed he was unfairly targeted by the federal prosecutors and said: “I’ll go to jail before I resign and admit to something I didn’t do.” He was released from federal prison on September 2, 2009.
