Hillary Clinton's brothers Tony Rodham (left, holding son Zachary) and Hugh Rodham join her and husband Bill in 1995 at the grave of Hugh Rodham Sr. in Scranton, Pennsylvania, for Zachary's christening. Police on Tuesday said the tombstone was knocked over in a possible case of vandalism. Tombstone of Hillary Clinton's father toppled

The tombstone of Hillary Clinton’s father, Hugh Rodham, was knocked over in a possible case of vandalism, police in Pennsylvania said Tuesday.

Scranton Police Chief Carl Graziano said someone reported the stone had been disturbed at the Washburn Street Cemetery on Tuesday morning, according to a local report.


“I’m not sure how else it would have fallen over,” police chief Carl Graziano told the Scranton Times-Tribune newspaper.

“I hope this had nothing to do with politics because that’s just wrong,” said Paul McGloin, whom the Times-Tribune described as a caretaker. WNEP-TV reported that he has cared for the Rodham gravesite since his 1993 burial.

An administrator for Lackawanna Management Company, which owns Washburn Street Cemetery, sought to clarify local media reports about care of the headstone in an email to POLITICO.

“Contrary to reports in the local media here, I am the supervisor of this cemetery,” Dominic Graziano wrote in an email to POLITICO, adding that he was the one who brought in a crew to fix the headstone and that he did not meet McGloin until after he spoke with police.

“When I met Mr. McGloin [Tuesday], he told me that he has been caring for the Rodham headstone since Mr. Rodham’s burial,” Graziano wrote in a subsequent email. “He also told me that he had driven by the headstone earlier in the day on Monday, and that it was still standing.”

Graziano said a local funeral director called him Monday night to tell him that the stone was out of position.

“After meeting with the police on Tuesday and filing a police report, the stone was put back in place a few minutes later,” he wrote.

Rodham died following a stroke in 1993, in Little Rock, Arkansas, months after President Bill Clinton’s inauguration. He was buried at the cemetery in his birthplace of Scranton.

The report comes days after the former secretary of state, senator and first lady announced her second presidential campaign.

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