Living under false pretenses

As I am going about Twitter, I run across a post from Ken Coleman about Daniel West, a Michigan State Representative. The interesting thing is, it is not his real identity. it is a con artist using a dead man's name to get ahead in life. The original Daniel West was a lawyer in New York that died in the early 1960s, and a man from Detroit who owned several businesses assumed his identity and ran for office. (here is his legislative biography). After his story came to light, He was refused a seat in the Michigan Legislature, and was on the run in 1965 under the threat of being charged with Tax-related offenses. He was reportedly spotted in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, right across the river from Detroit, in the mid-1970s but it was not him. The man's identity was never known or revealed, and we may never know who he was.