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- Aaron Burr
- Aaron Clark
- Abraham de Peyster
- Abram Stevens Hewitt
- Addison Gardiner
- Adin Thayer
- Al D'Amato
- Al Smith
- Albany, New York
- Albert Lester
- Alexander Barkley
- Alfred DelBello
- Allen C. Beach
- Alma mater
- Alonzo B. Cornell
- Ambrose Kingsland
- Andrew Cuomo
- Andrew H. Mickle
- Arthur H. Wicks
- Benjamin Enos
- Benjamin F. Bruce
- Betsy McCaughey
- Brooklyn
- Bucktails
- Caleb Heathcote
- Caleb Smith Woodhull
- Charles D. Cooper
- Charles Dayan
- Charles E. Dudley
- Charles Evans Hughes
- Charles Goodell
- Charles H. Sherrill
- Charles Lodwik
- Charles Poletti
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- Chauncey Depew
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- Clinton County, Iowa
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- Ebenezer Wilson
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- Elbridge G. Lapham
- Election of 1812
- Electoral votes
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- Federalist Party
- Fernando Wood
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- Ira Harris
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Brooklyn
Coordinates: 40°41′34″N 73°59′25″W / 40.69278°N 73.99028°W / 40.69278; -73.99028
Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with approximately 2.5 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, after New York County (Manhattan). It is also the westernmost county on Long Island.
Brooklyn was an independent city until it was annexed by New York City in 1898. It continues to maintain a distinct culture. Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves where particular ethnic groups and cultures predominate.
Brooklyn's official motto is Eendraght Maeckt Maght. Written in the (early modern spelling of the) Dutch language, it is inspired by the motto of the United Dutch Provinces and translated "Unity makes strength". The motto is displayed on the borough seal and flag, which also feature a young robed woman bearing fasces, a traditional emblem of republicanism. Brooklyn's official colors are blue and gold.
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Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is an American private Ivy League research university located in New York City, New York, United States. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution. Today the university operates seven Columbia Global Centers overseas in Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Paris, Mumbai, Santiago and Nairobi.
The university was founded in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain. After the American Revolutionary War, King's College briefly became a state entity, and was renamed Columbia College in 1784. The University now operates under a 1787 charter that places the institution under a private board of trustees, and in 1896 it was further renamed Columbia University. That same year, the university's campus was moved from Madison Avenue to its location in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, where it occupies more than six city blocks, or 32 acres (0.13 km2). The university encompasses twenty schools and is affiliated with numerous institutions, including Teachers College, Barnard College, and the Union Theological Seminary, with joint undergraduate programs available through the Jewish Theological Seminary of America as well as the Juilliard School.
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George Opdyke
George Opdyke (1805 - June 12, 1880) was an entrepreneur and the Mayor of New York (1862 to 1863) during the American Civil War.
He was born in Hunterdon County, New Jersey and in the 1820s he lived in Cleveland, Ohio and New Orleans, Louisiana.
As mayor, Opdyke recruited and equipped troops for the war and responded to draft riots. His company was the largest clothing manufacturing and merchandiser in the area.
He joined the Republican Party and its anti-slavery platform. He was a member of the Buffalo Free-soil convention in 1848, and served on its committee on resolutions. He was a candidate for U.S. Congress on the Free-soil ticket in New Jersey.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1859, and was a delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention where he played a role in the nomination of Abraham Lincoln.
Opdyke died in New York in 1880 and was buried in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Newark, New Jersey.
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Illinois
Illinois (
i/ˌɪlɨˈnɔɪ/ IL-i-NOY) is the 25th most extensive and the 5th most populous of the 50 United States, and is often noted as a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal, timber, and petroleum in the south, Illinois has a broad economic base. Illinois is a major transportation hub. The Port of Chicago connects the state to other global ports from the Great Lakes, via the Saint Lawrence Seaway, to the Atlantic Ocean; as well as the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River, via the Illinois River. For decades, O'Hare International Airport has ranked as one of the world's busiest airports. Illinois has long had a reputation as a bellwether both in social and cultural terms and politics.
Although the state's largest population centers today are in northern Illinois, originally the state's population grew from south to north, with settlers arriving from Kentucky in the 1810s. In 1818, Illinois achieved statehood. Chicago was founded in the 1830s on the banks of the Chicago River, one of the few natural harbors on southern Lake Michigan. Railroads and John Deere's invention of the self-scouring steel plow turned Illinois' rich prairie into some of the world's most productive and valuable farmlands, attracting immigrant farmers from Germany and Sweden. By 1900, the growth of industrial jobs in the northern cities and coal mining in the central and southern areas attracted immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe. Illinois was an important manufacturing center during both world wars. The Great Migration established a large community of African Americans in Chicago that created the city's famous jazz and blues cultures.
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John Raines
John Raines (May 6, 1840, Geneva, Ontario County, New York – December 16, 1909, Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
He was educated at Canandaigua Academy and Albany Law School, from where he graduated in 1861. Admitted to the bar upon graduation, Raines set up a law practice in Geneva, New York.
During the American Civil War, Raines formed and served as Captain of Company G of the 85th New York Volunteer Infantry and served in both the Army of the Potomac and the Army of North Carolina.
He was a Republican member of the New York State Assembly in 1881, 1882 and 1885, and of the New York State Senate from 1886 to 1889. In addition he was President of the Board of Education for the Canandaigua school district from 1887 until his death. He was a delegate to the 1888 Republican National Convention.
He was elected to the 51st and 52nd United States Congresses, and served from March 4, 1889, to March 3, 1893. Afterwards he returned to the State Senate where he served from 1894 until his death, and was President pro tempore from 1904 on. He was an alternate delegate to the 1900 and 1904 Republican National Conventions.
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Joseph Bruno
Joseph L. Bruno (born April 8, 1929) is an American businessman, and Republican politician. He was the Temporary President of the New York State Senate and its majority leader. Most recently he also served as Lieutenant Governor of New York (Acting).
On June 23, 2008, Bruno announced that he would not seek reelection to the State Senate in 2008. On June 24, 2008, Bruno stepped down from the positions of Senate Majority Leader and "temporary president of the senate", but remained a State Senator. On July 18, 2008, Bruno resigned from the New York State Senate. He represented the 43rd New York State Senate District, and is on record as a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
On January 23, 2009, Bruno was indicted on eight counts of corruption, including mail and wire fraud.
On December 7, 2009, Bruno was convicted of two counts of mail and wire fraud. He was acquitted of five felonies, and the jury hung on the last count. His convictions were subsequently overturned on appeal, and as of 2011 prosecutors planned to retry him.
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New York
New York (/njuː ˈjɔrk/; locally IPA: [nɪu ˈjɔək] or [nuː ˈjɔɹk] (
listen)) is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. New York is the 27th most extensive, the 3rd most populous, and the 7th most densely populated of the 50 United States. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario to the west and north, and Quebec to the north. The state of New York is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City.
New York City, with a population of over 8.1 million, is the most populous city in the United States. Alone, it makes up over 40 percent of the population of New York state. It is known for its status as a center for finance and culture and for its status as the largest gateway for immigration to the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, New York City is also a destination of choice for many foreign visitors. Both the state and city were named for the 17th century Duke of York, James Stuart, future James II and VII of England and Scotland.
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New York Harbor
New York Harbor refers to the waterways of the estuary near the mouth of the Hudson River that empty into New York Bay. It is one of the largest natural harbors in the world. Although the U.S. Board of Geographic Names does not use the term, New York Harbor has important historical, governmental, commercial, and ecological usages. Originally used to refer to the Upper New York Bay, the term is also used to describe the Port of New York and New Jersey, the port district for New York-Newark metropolitan area, under the jurisdiction of the Port Authority.
The aboriginal population of the 16th century New York Harbor, the Lenape, used the waterways for fishing and travel. In 1524 Giovanni da Verrazzano anchored in what is now called The Narrows, the strait between Staten Island and Long Island that connects the Upper and Lower New York Bay, where he received a canoe party of Lenape. A party of his sailors may have taken on fresh water at a spring called "the watering place" on Staten Island — a monument stands in a tiny park on the corner of Bay Street and Victory Boulevard at the approximate spot — but Verrazzano's descriptions of the geography of the area are a bit ambiguous. It is fairly firmly held by historians that his ship anchored at the approximate location where the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge touches down in Brooklyn today. He also observed what he believed to be a large freshwater lake to the north (apparently Upper New York Bay). He apparently did not travel north to observe the existence of the Hudson River. In 1609 Henry Hudson entered the Harbor and explored a stretch of the river that now bears his name. His journey prompted others to explore the region and engage in trade with the local population.
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Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr, Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was the third Vice President of the United States under President Thomas Jefferson.
After serving as a Continental Army officer in the Revolutionary War, Burr became a successful lawyer and politician. He was elected twice to the New York State Assembly (1784–1785, 1798–1799), was appointed New York State Attorney General (1789–1791), was chosen as a United States Senator (1791–1797) from the state of New York, and reached the apex of his career as Vice President of the United States (1801–1805).
The highlight of Burr's tenure as President of the Senate (one of his few official duties as Vice President) was the Senate's first impeachment trial, of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase. In 1804, the last full year of his single term as Vice President, Burr killed his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Burr was never tried for the illegal duel and all charges against him were eventually dropped. The death of Hamilton, however, ended Burr's political career. President Jefferson dropped him from the ticket for the 1804 presidential election, and he never held office again.
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Aaron Clark
Aaron Clark (October 16, 1787 – August 2, 1861) was an American politician who became the second popularly elected Mayor of New York, serving two one-year terms from 1837 to 1839. He was a member of the Whig Party, the only member of his party to ever serve as mayor of New York.
Clark was born in Worthington, Massachusetts. He grew up in Vermont, attended Union College in Schenectady, New York, and fought in the War of 1812.
After the war, Clark moved to Albany, New York, and was Clerk of the New York State Assembly from 1814 to 1820. Afterwards he removed to New York City where he worked in banking, ran a lottery, and became involved in local politics. He served as alderman, a powerful position in the charged political climate of the city. He was elected mayor in 1837 and 1838 for one year terms, and was defeated in 1839. He thus became the only Whig to be elected mayor of the strongly Democratic New York.
The main event of that year was the financial Panic of 1837, in which the economy collapsed following several years of boom. New York real estate values plummeted. Many were unemployed, some were homeless. There was widespread dissatisfaction among the working and middle class residents.
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Abraham de Peyster
Abraham de Peyster (July 8, 1657 - August 3, 1728) was Mayor of New York City from 1691 to 1694.
De Peyster was born in New Amsterdam on July 8, 1657, to Johannes and Cornelia Lubberts de Peyster. He married his second cousin, Catharina de Peyster on April 5, 1684, while visiting Amsterdam.
He was appointed mayor by Governor Henry Sloughter in October 1691. Though De Peyster had been an early supporter of Jacob Leisler, who led Leisler's Rebellion, he had not participated in Leisler's later actions. Through his suggestion, the city started providing public support to the poor.
From a wealthy merchant family, De Peyster also reportedly served in a number of public roles during his life, including stints as alderman, Associate Judge and later Chief Justice on the province's Supreme Court, President of the King's Council, and as Treasurer for New York and New Jersey provinces. He also served as a Colonel in the militia. Some sources state that he served as governor or acting governor of the Province of New York, which refers to a few months' time in 1701 after the death of Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont, when Lieutenant Governor John Nanfan was abroad. This left De Peyster, as the senior member of the Council, briefly in command until Nanfan returned.
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Addison Gardiner
Addison Gardiner (March 19, 1797 Rindge, Cheshire County, New Hampshire - June 5, 1883 Rochester, Monroe County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician who was the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1854 to 1855.
He was admitted to the bar in 1822, and began practicing law in Rochester, opening a law firm with Samuel L. Selden, who later became a judge of the New York Court of Appeals. The latter's brother Henry R. Selden, later himself a lieutenant governor and judge of the Court of Appeals, was a law student at this firm. Gardiner was the first Justice of the Peace ever elected in Rochester.
In 1825, Gardiner was appointed District Attorney of Monroe County. From 1829 to 1838, he was Judge of the Eighth Circuit Court of New York, with jurisdiction over the counties of Allegany, Erie, Chautauqua, Monroe, Genesee and Niagara. The Anti-Masonic excitement, growing out of the disappearance of William Morgan, had now commenced, and perhaps the most important case that came before Judge Gardiner, while on the bench of the circuit court, was that against Elihu Mather who was tried for conspiracy in the abduction of Morgan. After the acquittal of the defendant, a motion for a new trial was made in the New York State Supreme Court. The case is to be found in the fourth volume of Wendell's reports, page 220. The head notes, giving the disposition of the various questions raised, occupy four pages. On many of the points it has ever been a leading case. All the rulings of the judge were sustained by the Supreme Court, and these, and other decisions, gave him the reputation of the model circuit judge. He resigned his judicial office in February 1838, and returned to the practice of law at Rochester.
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Adin Thayer
Adin Thayer (September 24, 1816 - December 8, 1890 Akron, Summit County, Ohio) was an American politician from New York.
He was the son of Adin Thayer (1785–1858) and Mary (Ball) Thayer. He married first Eliza D. (1821–1843). He married second Fanny A. Crawford (1820–1875).
He lived at Hoosick Falls, New York.
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Al Smith
Alfred Emanuel "Al" Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was an American statesman who was elected the 42nd Governor of New York three times, and was the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928. He was the foremost urban leader of the efficiency-oriented Progressive Movement, and was noted for achieving a wide range of reforms as governor in the 1920s. He was also linked to the notorious Tammany Hall machine that controlled Manhattan politics; he was a strong opponent of prohibition.
As a committed "wet" (anti-Prohibition candidate), he attracted millions of voters of all backgrounds, particularly those concerned about the corruption and lawlessness brought about by the Eighteenth Amendment. However he was unpopular among certain segments, including Southern Baptists and German Lutherans, who believed the Catholic Church and the Pope would dictate his policies. Most importantly, this was a time of national prosperity under a Republican Presidency, and Smith lost in a landslide to Republican Herbert Hoover. Smith attempted the 1932 nomination, but was defeated by his former ally and successor as New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. Smith entered business in New York City, and became an increasingly vocal opponent of Roosevelt's New Deal.
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Albert Lester
Albert Lester (ca. 1803 – March 14, 1867 Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician.
Lester removed from Litchfield, Connecticut to Canandaigua.
He was a Democratic member of the New York State Senate (7th D.) from 1844 to 1847, sitting in the 67th, 68th, 69th and 70th New York State Legislatures. On February 12, 1847, Lester was elected President pro tempore of the State Senate, to preside during the absence of the Lieutenant Governor. In May 1847, Lt. Gov. Addison Gardiner was elected to the New York Court of Appeals and took office on July 5. Gardiner thus vacated the office of lieutenant governor—who is ex officio President of the State Senate—and Lester became Acting Lieutenant Governor of New York. Urged by Governor John Young, the State Legislature passed on September 27 a law to hold a special election for lieutenant governor at the New York state election, 1847 to fill the vacancy, and Hamilton Fish was elected to take office on January 1, 1848.
Lester was buried at the West Avenue Cemetery in Canandaigua.
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Alexander Barkley
Alexander Barkley (May 4, 1817 Argyle, Washington County, New York - January 2, 1893 Argyle, Washington County, NY) was an American politician from New York.
He was the son of James Barkley (1789–1843) and Margaret (MacDougall) Barkley (1795–1857).
In 1861, he was appointed Superintendent of Canal Repairs for Sections 1 and 2 of the Champlain Canal.
In 1868, he ran for Canal Commissioner on the Republican ticket but was defeated by Democrat Oliver Bascom. In 1870, he ran again but was again defeated, this time by the incumbent Democrat George W. Chapman. In 1871, he ran again and was elected, being in office from 1872 to 1874. In 1874, he was defeated for re-election by Democrat Adin Thayer. During the investigation of the Canal Ring, Barkley was indicted by a grand jury in Buffalo, New York for conspiracy.
He was buried at the Prospect Hill Cemetery in Argyle, NY.
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Alfred DelBello
Alfred Benedict DelBello (born July 13, 1944) is an American politician from New York. A registered Democrat, he was the 70th Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1983 to 1985.
DelBello was Mayor of Yonkers, New York and was the first Democrat to become Westchester County Executive prior to being elected lieutenant governor in 1982. He ran for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor as the running mate of then Mayor of New York City Ed Koch. Koch endorsed him as a running mate believing he would help Koch with suburban voters. DelBello faced Ambassador Carl McCall, the running mate of then Lt. Gov. Mario Cuomo, in the Democratic primary.
DelBello won his primary and Cuomo defeated Koch for the governor's nomination. The Cuomo/DelBello ticket then won the 1982 general election. Del Bello had little interaction with Cuomo during his time in office. He focused on his role as President of the New York State Senate during his time as lieutenant governor, along with projects of his initiation and Cuomo's assignment. These projects included emergency management, local government and economic development.
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Ambrose Kingsland
Ambrose Cornelius Kingsland (May 24, 1804 – October 13, 1878) was a wealthy sperm oil merchant who served as mayor of New York from 1851 to 1853. In 1851 he initiated the legislation that eventually led to the building of Central Park.
Kingsland's home was at 114 Fifth Avenue (southwest corner at 17th Street), now the site of a Banana Republic store.
In 1864, Kingsland purchased Hunter Island, now in Pelham Bay Park, Bronx for $127,501.00. He later purchased a sizeable country home north of the city along the Hudson River in North Tarrytown, present day Sleepy Hollow, New York. His sale of this land to the early steam-engine automotive company, Stanley Steamer, helped open North Tarrytown's 20th century era as a major automotive factory town.
A waterfront park in the Westchester County suburb still bears Kingsland's name, as does Kingsland Avenue in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, which he helped survey. There is also a Kingsland Avenue in the Baychester section of the Bronx
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Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Mark Cuomo (pronounced /ˈkwoʊmoʊ/; born December 6, 1957) is the 56th and current Governor of New York, having assumed office on January 1, 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 64th New York State Attorney General, and was the 11th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Born in Queens, New York, he is the son of Mario Cuomo, the 52nd Governor of New York (1983–1994).
Cuomo was born in Queens, New York, to a family of Italian-American origin and is the eldest son of Mario Cuomo, and Matilda Raffa, daughter of Charlie Raffa. He is the older brother of ABC News journalist Chris Cuomo.
Cuomo graduated from Saint Gerard's School in 1971 and Archbishop Molloy High School in 1975. He received his B.A. from Fordham University in 1979, and his J.D. from Albany Law School in 1982. A member of the Democratic Party, Cuomo was a top aide to his father during his 1982 campaign for Governor. He then joined the Governor's staff as one of his father's top policy advisors, earning $1 a year.
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Benjamin Enos
Benjamin Enos (February 13, 1788 Richmond, Washington County, Rhode Island - February 4, 1868 DeRuyter, Madison County, New York) was an American politician.
He was the son of Joseph Enos and Thankful (Coon) Enos. On April 5, 1810, he married Sarah Doty (1788–1884) at Canaan, New York. In 1814, they settled in DeRuyter, NY.
He was a member from Madison County of the New York State Assembly in 1834, 1839 and 1840. He was Supervisor of the Town of DeRuyter in 1837. In 1842, he was elected by the New York State Legislature a canal commissioner. As a member of the Hunker faction of the Democratic Party, he was New York State Treasurer from 1845 to 1846.
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Betsy McCaughey
Betsy McCaughey (pronounced /məˈkɔɪ/; born Elizabeth Helen Peterken, October 20, 1948), formerly known as Betsy McCaughey Ross, was the 72nd Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1995 to 1998, during the first term of Governor George Pataki. She unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination for Governor after Pataki dropped her from his 1998 ticket.
A historian by training, with a Ph.D. from Columbia University, she has, over the years, provided commentary on healthcare policy. Her 1993 attack on the Clinton healthcare plan was considered to be a major factor in the defeat of the bill, and brought her to the attention of Pataki, who then chose her as his Lieutenant Governor running mate. In 2009, her criticisms of the healthcare plan then being debated in the 111th Congress inspired the slogans "death panel" and "pulling the plug on Grandma", which nearly defeated the legislation.
She has been a fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute and Hudson Institute think tanks, and has written numerous articles and op-eds. She was a member of the boards of directors of Genta, a medical supply corporation that focuses on products for cancer treatment from 2001 to 2007, and Cantel Medical Corporation, a company that produces and sells medical equipment—until she resigned in August 2009 to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest during the national debate over healthcare reform legislation.
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Caleb Heathcote
Caleb Heathcote (March 6, 1665 – February 28, 1721) was a Mayor of New York (1711–1713). His estate in Westchester County, New York is the site the present-day town of Scarsdale and was granted on March 21, 1701 or 1702 by Lieutenant Governor of New York John Nanfan. A neighborhood and an elementary school in present-day Scarsdale are named after Heathcote. A bronze statue of Heathcote stands atop the Surrogate's Court (former Hall of Records) on 31 Chambers Street in Manhattan.
Caleb was one of the nine children of Gilbert Heathcote Jr. and Ann Dickons. He is connected to the Heathcote Baronets through two brothers: his eldest brother was Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet Heathcote of London; another brother, Samuel, was the father of Sir William Heathcote, 1st Baronet Heathcote of Hursley.
Caleb married Martha Smith, daughter of Colonel William (Tangier) Smith, Chief Justice of New York. They had six children, four of which died young. Daughter Anne married James DeLancey, while daughter Martha married Lewis Johnston of New Jersey.
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Caleb Smith Woodhull
Caleb Smith Woodhull was the Mayor of New York from 1849 to 1851.
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Charles Dayan
Charles Dayan (July 8, 1792 Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York - December 25, 1877 Lowville, Lewis County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician.
After graduating from Lowville Academy, he became a teacher. He was commissioned a lieutenant colonel in the War of 1812. Afterwards he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1817, and practiced in Lowville.
He was a member of the New York State Senate (5th D.) from 1827 to 1828, sitting in the 50th and 51st New York State Legislatures. He was President pro tempore of the State Senate and Acting Lieutenant Governor of New York from October 17 to December 31, 1828.
Dayan was a presidential elector in 1828, voting for Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun.
He was elected as a Jacksonian to the 22nd United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1831, to March 3, 1833. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Lewis Co.) in 1835 and 1836.
From 1840 to 1845, he was District Attorney of Lewis County. He retired from public life because of ill health, but continued the practice of law.
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Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. (April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York. He served as the 36th Governor of New York (1907–1910), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1910–1916), United States Secretary of State (1921–1925), a judge on the Court of International Justice (1928–1930), and the 11th Chief Justice of the United States (1930–1941). He was the Republican candidate in the 1916 U.S. Presidential election, losing narrowly to Woodrow Wilson.
Hughes was a professor in the 1890s, a staunch supporter of Britain's New Liberalism, an important leader of the progressive movement of the 20th century, a leading diplomat and New York lawyer in the days of Harding and Coolidge, and was known for being swing voter when dealing with cases related to the New Deal in the 1930s. Historian Clinton Rossiter has hailed him as a leading American conservative.
Charles Evans Hughes was born in Glens Falls, New York. He was active in the Northern Baptist church, a Mainline Protestant denomination.
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Charles Goodell
Charles Ellsworth Goodell (March 16, 1926 – January 21, 1987) was a U.S. Representative and a Senator from New York, notable for coming into both offices under special circumstances following the deaths of his predecessors.
Goodell attended the public schools of Jamestown and graduated from Williams College in 1948. He served in the United States Navy as a seaman second class from 1944 to 1946, and in the United States Air Force as a first lieutenant from 1952 to 1953, during the Korean War.
Goodell graduated from Yale Law School in 1951, and also received a graduate degree from Yale University Graduate School of Government in 1952; he was a teacher at Quinnipiac College in New Haven, Connecticut in 1952 as well. He was admitted to the Connecticut bar in 1951, the New York bar in 1954, and began his law practice in Jamestown.
Goodell was a congressional liaison assistant for the Department of Justice in 1954–1955. He won a special election on May 26, 1959, as a Republican to the 86th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Daniel A. Reed. In NY District 43, Goodell polled 27,454 votes (65 percent) to the Democrat Robert E. McCaffery's 14,250 ballots (33.8 percent).[citation needed]
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Charles Lodwik
Charles Lodwik was the Mayor of New York City from 1694 to 1695.
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Charles Poletti
Charles Poletti (July 2, 1903—August 8, 2002) was an American lawyer and politician. He was the 46th Governor of New York in 1942, and was the first Italian-American governor in the United States.
Aldo Charles Poletti was born in Barre, Vermont to Dino Poletti (April 28, 1865, Pogno, Italy -- February 12, 1922, Barre, Vermont) and Carolina (Gervasini) Poletti. Dino Poletti worked as a stonecutter in a Barre granite quarry.
Poletti intended to manage a bakery after graduating from high school, but was encouraged by his principal to attend college. He attended Harvard University on a scholarship, and worked at a variety of part time jobs to finance his studies, including waiting tables, washing dishes, and tutoring. He received his bachelor's degree in 1924, was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa, and then studied at the University of Rome, the University of Bologna and the University of Madrid. Poletti later served on Harvard's Board of Overseers.
Poletti graduated from Harvard Law School in 1928. After passing the bar exam Poletti joined the New York City firm of 1924 Democratic nominee for president John W. Davis.
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Charles Stebbins
Charles Stebbins (1789 Williamstown, Berkshire County, Massachusetts - 1873) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
He graduated from Williams College in 1807, then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1810, and commenced practice in Cazenovia, New York. In 1819, he married Eunice Masters.
He was a member of the New York State Senate from 1826 to 1829, sitting in the 49th, 50th, 51st and 52nd New York State Legislatures. When Governor Van Buren resigned to become Secretary of State in March 1829, and Lieutenant Governor Enos T. Throop succeeded to the governorship, Stebbins was elected President pro tempore of the State Senate and was Acting Lieutenant Governor of New York until the end of 1829.
He was one of the three Bank Commissioners, appointed by the Governor.
He was buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in Cazenovia.
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Chauncey Depew
Chauncey Mitchell Depew (April 23, 1834 – April 5, 1928) was an attorney for Cornelius Vanderbilt's railroad interests, president of the New York Central Railroad System, and a United States Senator from New York from 1899 to 1911.
He was born on April 23, 1834. He attended Peekskill Military Academy for 12 years. He then attended Yale University from 1852 to 1856. He had second dispute appointments Junior and Senior years; speaker at Junior Exhibition and Commencement; member of the Thulia Boat Club, Linonia (third president), Kappa Sigma Epsilon, Kappa Sigma Theta, Psi Upsilon, and Skull and Bones.
Following his graduation from Yale, Depew entered the office of Edward Wells, a lawyer in Peekskill, as a student. Depew read law with William Nelson of Peekskill, New York from 1856–58; was admitted to the bar in March, 1858; opened an office and practiced in Peekskill until 1861; later engaged in the brokerage business in New York City as member of firm of Depew & Potter for a few months; then resumed his law practice in Peekskill, but shortly afterwards moved to New York City; in 1865 appointed and confirmed United States Minister to Japan, but declined the appointment to pursue his railroad career.
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Chuck Schumer
Charles Ellis "Chuck" Schumer (/ˈʃuːmər/; born November 23, 1950) is the senior United States Senator from New York and a member of the Democratic Party. First elected in 1998, he defeated three-term Republican incumbent Al D'Amato by a margin of 55%–44%. He was easily re-elected in 2004 by a margin of 71%–24% and in 2010 by a margin of 66%–33%.
Before his election to the U.S. Senate, Schumer served in the United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 1999. He represented New York's 16th congressional district, which was later redistricted to the 10th congressional district in 1983 and to the 9th congressional district in 1993. A native of Brooklyn and graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, he was a three-term member of the New York State Assembly, serving from 1975 to 1980.
Schumer was chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee from 2005 to 2009, in which post he oversaw a total of 14 Democratic gains in the Senate in the 2006 and 2008 elections. Elected Vice Chairman of the Democratic Caucus in the Senate, in 2006, he is the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, behind Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin. In November 2010, he was also chosen to hold the additional role of chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee starting at the opening of the 112th Congress.
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Cornelius Gardinier
Cornelius Gardinier (b. 1798 Johnstown, then in Montgomery County, now in Fulton County, New York ) was an American politician from New York.
He married Jane Quackenbush (b. 1799) and their son was Henry Wemple Gardinier (later Gardner) (1818–1889).
He lived in Fultonville, New York.
He was a Canal Commissioner from 1854 to 1856, elected on the Whig ticket.
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David Mathews
David Mathews (died 1800) was a lawyer and politician from New York City. He was a Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War and was Mayor of New York from 1776 until 1783. He resettled in Nova Scotia after the war, and became a leading political figure in the Cape Breton colony that was created in 1786.
Mathews lived in Flatbush and was mayor, in 1776, when he was implicated in a plot to kidnap George Washington, then Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. Mathews and William Tryon, the governor of Province of New York, were implicated in the plot, as was a member of Washington's Life Guard, Thomas Hickey, who was eventually executed. The New York Provincial Congress ordered Mathews's arrest for "being Engaged in a Conspiracy against the Authority of the Congress and the Liberties of America." The charges were never proven, and he was briefly imprisoned, and then either escaped or was paroled and returned to New York.
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David Paterson
David Alexander Paterson (born May 20, 1954) is an American politician who served as the 55th Governor of New York, from 2008 to 2010. During his tenure he was the first governor of New York of non Euro American heritage and also the second legally blind governor of any U.S. state after Bob C. Riley, who was Acting Governor of Arkansas for 11 days in January 1975. Patterson is the third African American to serve as governor of any U.S. state. Since leaving office, Paterson has been a radio talk show host on station WOR in New York City.
After graduating from Hofstra Law School, Paterson worked in the District Attorney's office of Queens County, New York, and on the staff of Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins. In 1985, he was elected to the New York State Senate to a seat that was once held by his father, former New York Secretary of State Basil Paterson. In 2003, he rose to the position of Senate Minority Leader. Paterson was selected as running mate by then-New York Attorney General and Democratic Party gubernatorial nominee Eliot Spitzer in the 2006 New York gubernatorial election. Spitzer and Paterson were elected in November 2006 with 69 percent of the vote, and Paterson took office as Lieutenant Governor on January 1, 2007.
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Dean Skelos
Dean G. Skelos (born February 16, 1948) is an American politician and the Republican Temporary President and Majority Leader of the New York State Senate. Skelos represents District 9 in the State Senate, which comprises the southwest region of Nassau County. He is the second Long Islander to hold the position of Majority Leader, following Ralph J. Marino.
Skelos graduated from Washington College with a B.A. in History in 1970, and earned a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 1975.
Dean Skelos first won elective office on November 4, 1980. Skelos, running on the Republican, Conservative and Right-to-Life party lines defeated Democratic and Liberal party candidate Peter S. Kilcommons, Jr. by a 64% to 36% margin (30,749 to 17,371), to win election in the vacant 19th Assembly District representing Nassau County. The New York State Assembly seat became vacant when incumbent Assemblyman Raymond J. McGrath decided to run for an open seat in the United States House of Representatives due to the retirement of nine-term incumbent John W. Wydler.
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DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt Clinton (March 2, 1769 – February 11, 1828) was an early American politician and naturalist who served as United States Senator and the sixth Governor of New York. In this last capacity he was largely responsible for the construction of the Erie Canal. Clinton was the leader of New York's People’s Party, and was a major rival of Martin van Buren, who was attorney general of New York during Clinton's governorship. According to Daniel Walker Howe (2007) Clinton is an authentic but largely forgotten hero of American democracy. Howe explains, "The infrastructure he worked to create would transform American life, enhancing economic opportunity, political participation, and intellectual awareness."
DeWitt Clinton was the second son born to James Clinton and his wife Mary DeWitt (1737–1795, aunt of Simeon De Witt), and was educated at King's College, what is now Columbia University. He became the secretary to his uncle, George Clinton, who was then governor of New York. Soon after he became a member of the Democratic-Republican Party. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1798, and of the New York State Senate from the Southern District from 1798 to 1802, and from 1806 to 1811. He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention in 1801. He was a member of the Council of Appointments in 1801–1802 and 1806–1807.
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Edward Livingston
Edward Livingston (May 28, 1764 – May 23, 1836) was an American jurist and statesman. He was an influential figure in the drafting of the Louisiana Civil Code of 1825, a civil code based largely on the Napoleonic Code. He represented both New York, and later Louisiana in Congress and he served as the U.S. Secretary of State from 1831 to 1833.
Livingston was born in Clermont, Columbia County, New York. He was the youngest son of Robert Livingston and a member of the prestigious Livingston family. He graduated from Princeton University in 1781, was admitted to the bar in 1785, and began to practice law in New York City, rapidly rising to distinction. From 1795 to 1801 Livingson was a Democratic-Republican U.S. Representative in the United States Congress from the state of New York, where he was one of the leaders of the opposition to Jay's Treaty, and introduced the resolution calling upon President George Washington to furnish Congress with the details of the negotiations of the peace treaty with the Kingdom of Great Britain, which the President refused to share. At the close of Washington’s administration he voted with Andrew Jackson and other radicals against the address to the president.
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Edward Schoeneck
Edward Schoeneck (August 1, 1875 Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York - June 22, 1951 Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1915 to 1918.
He was a member from Onondaga County of the New York State Assembly from 1904 to 1907. He was Mayor of Syracuse from 1910 to 1913.
In 1910, he ran for Lieutenant Governor on the ticket with Henry Lewis Stimson, but was defeated. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1915 to 1918, elected on the Republican ticket in 1914 and 1916 with Governor Charles S. Whitman, but both were defeated for re-election in 1918.
He was a delegate to the New York State Convention to ratify the 21st Amendment in 1933.
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Edwin Corning
Edwin Corning (September 30, 1883, Albany, New York – August 7, 1934, Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine) was an American businessman and politician from New York. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1927 to 1928.
He was the son of Erastus Corning (1827-1897) and Mary (Parker) Corning (daughter of Amasa J. Parker). He was educated at The Albany Academy and Groton School, and graduated B.A. from Yale University in 1906. Then he began work for the Ludlum Steel Company in Watervliet, New York, and became its President in 1910.
On November 25, 1908, he married Louise Maxwell, and their children were Erastus Corning 2nd, Louise Corning, Harriet Corning and Edwin Corning, Jr. (b. 1919).
He was a presidential elector in 1924. He was Chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee from 1926 to 1928. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1927 to 1928, elected on the Democratic ticket with Governor Al Smith in 1926. In 1928, when Al Smith planned to run for President, the Democrats asked Corning to run for Governor, but he declined because of ill health.
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Elihu Root
Elihu Root (February 15, 1845 – February 7, 1937) was an American lawyer and statesman and the 1912 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the prototype of the 20th century "wise man", who shuttled between high-level government positions in Washington, D.C. and private-sector legal practice in New York City.
Root was born in Clinton, New York, to Oren Root I and Nancy Whitney Buttrick. His father was professor of mathematics at Hamilton College, where Elihu attended college; there he joined the Sigma Phi Society, and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society After graduation, Root taught for one year at the Rome (N.Y.) Free Academy. In 1867, Root graduated from the New York University School of Law. He went into private practice as a lawyer. While mainly practicing corporate law, Root was a junior defense counsel during the corruption trial of William "Boss" Tweed. Root also had private clients including Jay Gould, Chester A. Arthur, Charles Anderson Dana, William C. Whitney, Thomas Fortune Ryan, and E. H. Harriman.
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Eliot Spitzer
Eliot Laurence Spitzer (born June 10, 1959) is an American lawyer, political commentator, and former Democratic Party politician. Currently, he is the host of Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer, a nightly news and commentary program on Current TV. Prior to that, he was the co-host of In the Arena, a talk-show and punditry forum broadcast on CNN from October 2010 to July 2011. He served as the 54th Governor of New York from January 2007 until his resignation on March 17, 2008 in the wake of the exposure of his involvement as a client of Emperors Club VIP. Prior to being elected governor, Spitzer served as New York State Attorney General.
Spitzer was born and raised in New York, by real estate tycoon Bernard Spitzer. He attended Princeton University for undergraduate studies and then Harvard Law School for his Juris Doctor. It was there that he met his future wife, Silda Wall. He went on to work for the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and subsequently the Manhattan District Attorney's office to pursue organized crime. He launched the investigation that brought down the Gambino family's control over Manhattan's garment and trucking industries. In 1992, Spitzer left to work at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and, later, Constantine and Partners.
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Erastus Root
Erastus Root (March 16, 1773 Hebron, then Windham County, now Tolland County, Connecticut – December 24, 1846 New York City) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1793 and became a teacher. Then he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1796, and commenced practice in Delhi, New York.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Delaware Co.) in 1798–99, 1800–01 and 1802.
He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 8th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1803, to March 3, 1805. Afterwards he resumed his law practice.
Hee was elected to the 11th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1809, to March 3, 1811, and was Chairman of the Committee on Claims.
He was a member of the New York State Senate (Middle D.) from 1812 to 1815, sitting in the 35th, 36th, 37th and 38th New York State Legislatures.
In 1815, he contested successfully the election of John Adams to the 14th United States Congress, and took his seat on December 26, 1815, served until March 3, 1817, and was Chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department.
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Fernando Wood
Fernando Wood (June 14, 1812 – February 14, 1881) was an American politician of the Democratic Party and mayor of New York City; he also served as a United States Representative (1841–1843, 1863–1865, and 1867–1881) and as Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means in both the 45th and 46th Congress (1877–1881).
A successful shipping merchant who became Grand Sachem of the political machine known as Tammany Hall, Wood first served in Congress in 1841. In 1854 he was elected Mayor of New York City. Reelected in 1860 after an electoral loss in 1857 by a narrow majority of 3,000 votes, Wood evinced support for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, suggesting to the New York City Council that New York City secede from the Union and declare itself a free city in order to continue its profitable cotton trade with the Confederacy. Wood's Democratic machine was concerned to maintain the revenues (which depended on Southern cotton) that maintained the patronage.
Following his service as mayor, Wood returned to the United States Congress.
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Francis Kernan
Francis Kernan (January 14, 1816 – September 7, 1892) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was a U.S. Senator (D-NY) from 1875 to 1881.
Kernan's son, Michael Kernan, became a stockbroker and New York State Senator. His grandson, Michael Kernan, Jr. (1927–2005) was a journalist with the Washington Post.
Kernan was the son of Gen. William Kernan, who came to America from County Cavan, Ireland, in 1800, and Rose Anna (Stubbs) Kernan. He graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., in 1836, then studied law, and removed to Utica, New York in 1839. He was admitted to the bar in July 1840, and then practiced law with Joshua A. Spencer. In 1843, he married Hannah A. Devereux, daughter of Nicholas Devereux, of Utica, with whom he had ten children.
Kernan was school commissioner of Utica, manager of the New York State Hospital, Reporter of the New York Court of Appeals from 1854 to 1857, a member of the New York State Assembly from 1860 to 1862, and a regent of the University of the State of New York from 1870 until his death.
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Francis Rombouts
Francis Rombouts (22 June 1631 – 1691) was the Mayor of New York City from 1679 to 1680, when it was New Amsterdam.
Francis came to New Amsterdam in 1653 aboard the ship New Amsterdam. He was from Hasselt in present-day Belgium. He went into the fur-trading business with Gulian Verplanck. He married Helena Teller and had a daughter, Katrina Rombouts, who married Lieutenant Roger Brett.
The Rombout Patent is a legal instrument that was issued by King James II of England. In it, the king granted Francis Rombouts and his associates the right to own land that was then claimed by England.
In 1683, Gulian Verplanck and Francis Rombouts purchased approximately 85,000 acres (340 km2) from the Wappinger Indians. Along with the Rombout Patent, this included most of Southern Dutchess County. The price, about $1,250, was paid in guns, shot, powder, blankets, wampum, alcohol, cloth and other goods. The Rombout Patent was finally granted in 1685 to Verplanck, Rombout, and Stephanus Van Cortlandt.
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Frank Hiscock
Frank Hiscock (September 6, 1834 – June 18, 1914) was a U.S. Representative and Senator from New York.
Hiscock was born in Pompey, Onondaga County, New York, September 6, 1834. He graduated from Pompey Academy and studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1855 and commenced practice in Tully, Onondaga County, New York
Hiscock was district attorney of Onondaga County from 1860 to 1863. He was a member of the State constitutional convention in 1867. He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1877, until his resignation on March 4, 1887, at the close of the Forty-ninth Congress, having been elected Senator. He was chairman of the Committee on Appropriations (Forty-seventh Congress). He was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1887, to March 4, 1893. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection. He served as the chairman of the Committee on Organization, Conduct, and Expenditures of Executive Departments (Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses).
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Franklin Edson
Franklin Edson (April 5, 1832 – September 24, 1904) was the Mayor of New York from 1883 to 1884.
Edson was a grain commission merchant, first in Albany, and then in New York City. He became a business leader and the president of the New York Produce Exchange. He was an Episcopalian and a member of Saint James Church Fordham, in what is now the Bronx.
As mayor, he appointed the commission responsible for the selection and location of public lands for parks in the Bronx, which came to include Van Cortlandt, Bronx, Pelham Bay, Crotona, Claremont and St. Mary's Parks, and the Mosholu, Bronx and Pelham, and Crotona Parkways. He was present at the opening of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge on May 24, 1883.
He died at his home in Manhattan, and was buried in the Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, New York.
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Frederick Follett
Frederick Follett (November 1, 1804 Lincoln,Ontario County, New York - January 18, 1891 New York City) was an American journalist, newspaper editor and politician from New York.
He was the son of Frederick Follett (1761-1804).
In 1819, his brother Oran Follett (member of the New York State Assembly in 1824) founded the Spirit of the Times, a weekly newspaper at Batavia, New York. In 1825, Oran removed to Buffalo, New York, and Frederick took over the paper. In 1826, Frederick married Sarah Sutherland, and they had three sons. In August 1836, he sold the newspaper, and went to Texas to join Sam Houston's army, but the Mexican-American War had ended before he arrived.
From 1840 to 1843, he edited the Batavia Times and Farmers and Mechanics Journal. He was Postmaster of Batavia, NY, from 1843 to 1849. In 1847, he published History of the Press of Western New-York (Rochester NY, 1847, 76 pages).
In 1847, he ran for Canal Commissioner on the Democratic ticket, but was defeated. He was a Canal Commissioner from 1850 to 1855, elected in 1849 and 1852 on the Democratic ticket.
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Gabriel Minvielle
Gabriel Minvielle was a prominent Huguenot who settled in New York in after emigrating from France in 1673. He engaged in foreign trade, especially with the West Indies, and prospered as a merchant and trader and also politically, serving as the Mayor of New York City from 1684 until 1685. Minvielle was later honored several times by appointment as a member of the Governor's Council.
Minvielle was integral in the creation of the Huguenot settlement of New Rochelle, New York in 1688.
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George DeLuca
George Benjamin DeLuca (September 20, 1889 – May 2, 1983) was an American lawyer, banker and politician. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1955 to 1958.
He was the son of Mariano DeLuca and Catherine (Bonetti) DeLuca. His parents came to the United States in the 1880s from the Province of Belluno.
He was District Attorney of Bronx County from 1950 to 1954. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1955 to 1958, elected on the Democratic ticket with Governor W. Averell Harriman in 1954, but defeated for re-election in 1958. He was a delegate to the 1956 and 1960 Democratic National Conventions.
He was a vice president of the Commercial Bank of America, elected in 1959.
He lived in Riverdale, Bronx.
He died at the North Central Bronx Hospital.
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George Opdyke
George Opdyke (1805 - June 12, 1880) was an entrepreneur and the Mayor of New York (1862 to 1863) during the American Civil War.
He was born in Hunterdon County, New Jersey and in the 1820s he lived in Cleveland, Ohio and New Orleans, Louisiana.
As mayor, Opdyke recruited and equipped troops for the war and responded to draft riots. His company was the largest clothing manufacturing and merchandiser in the area.
He joined the Republican Party and its anti-slavery platform. He was a member of the Buffalo Free-soil convention in 1848, and served on its committee on resolutions. He was a candidate for U.S. Congress on the Free-soil ticket in New Jersey.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1859, and was a delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention where he played a role in the nomination of Abraham Lincoln.
Opdyke died in New York in 1880 and was buried in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Newark, New Jersey.
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George Pataki
George Elmer Pataki (/pəˈtɑːki/; born June 24, 1945) is an American politician who was the 53rd Governor of New York. A member of the Republican Party, Pataki served three consecutive four-year terms from January 1, 1995 until December 31, 2006.
Pataki's paternal grandfather was János (later John) Pataki (1883–1971) of Aranyos-Apáti, Hungary, who came to the United States in 1908 and worked in a hat factory. János had married Erzsébet (later Elizabeth; 1887 – 1975) around 1904. Their son, Pataki's father, was Louis P. Pataki (1912–1996), a mailman. Pataki's maternal grandfather was Matteo Laganà (born in Calabria, Italy in 1889), who married Agnes Lynch of County Louth, Ireland around 1914. Their daughter, Margaret Lagana, is Pataki's mother. He has an older brother, Louis. George Pataki can still speak a little Hungarian today.
Pataki married Elizabeth Rowland in 1973, and they have four children: Emily, Teddy, Allison, and Owen.
After attending Peekskill High School, he entered Yale University in 1964 on an academic scholarship, and graduated in 1967. While there he served as chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1970.
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Gideon Lee
Gideon Lee (April 27, 1778 – August 21, 1841) was an American politician who was Mayor of New York and United States Representative from New York.
He attended the common schools. He became a shoemaker in Worthington, Massachusetts. He moved first to New York City and then to Georgia, where he was in the mercantile business. He returned to New York in 1807 and engaged in the leather business.
He served as member of the New York State Assembly in 1823, and as alderman from 1828 to 1830. He was Mayor of New York from 1833 to 1834, but declined to be a candidate for reelection.
Lee was elected as a Jacksonian to the 24th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Campbell P. White and served from November 4, 1835, to March 3, 1837. He then retired and moved to Geneva, New York.
He was a presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1840, voting for William Henry Harrison and John Tyler.
He was buried at the Washington Street Cemetery in Geneva, New York.
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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Gouverneur Morris
Gouverneur Morris (January 31, 1752 – November 6, 1816) was an American statesman, a Founding Father of the United States, and a native of New York City who represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. He was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation. Morris was also an author of large sections of the Constitution of the United States and one of its signers. He is widely credited as the author of the document's preamble, and has been called the "Penman of the Constitution." In an era when most Americans thought of themselves as citizens of their respective states, Morris advanced the idea of being a citizen of a single union of states.
A gifted scholar, Morris enrolled in 1764, at age 12, at King's College, now Columbia College of Columbia University in New York City. He graduated in 1768 and received a Master's degree in 1771.
On 8 May 1775, Morris was elected to represent his family estate in southern Westchester County (now Bronx County), in the New York Provincial Congress. As a member of the congress, he, along with most of his fellow delegates, concentrated on turning the colony into an independent state. However, his advocacy of independence brought him into conflict with his family, as well as with his mentor, William Smith, who had abandoned the patriot cause when it pressed toward independence. Morris was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1777-78.
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Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms (1885–1889 and 1893–1897) and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents. He was the winner of the popular vote for president three times—in 1884, 1888, and 1892—and was the only Democrat elected to the presidency in the era of Republican political domination that lasted from 1861 to 1913.
Cleveland was the leader of the pro-business Bourbon Democrats who opposed high tariffs, Free Silver, inflation, imperialism and subsidies to business, farmers or veterans. His battles for political reform and fiscal conservatism made him an icon for American conservatives of the era. Cleveland won praise for his honesty, independence, integrity, and commitment to the principles of classical liberalism. Cleveland relentlessly fought political corruption, patronage, and bossism. Indeed, as a reformer his prestige was so strong that the reform wing of the Republican Party, called "Mugwumps", largely bolted the GOP ticket and swung to his support in 1884.
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Hamilton Fish
Hamilton Fish (August 3, 1808 – September 7, 1893) was an American statesman and politician who served as the 16th Governor of New York, United States Senator and United States Secretary of State. Fish has been considered one of the best Secretaries of State in the United States history; known for his judiciousness and reform efforts during the Grant Administration. Fish settled the controversial Alabama Claims with Great Britain through his development of the concept of international arbitration. Fish kept the United States out of war with Spain over Cuban independence by coolly handling the volatile Virginius Incident. In 1875, Fish initiated the process for Hawaiian statehood, by having negotiated a reciprocal trade treaty for the island nation's abundant sugar supply. Fish organized a peace conference and treaty in Washington D.C. between South American countries and Spain. Fish worked with James Milton Turner, America's first African American consul, to settle the Liberian-Grebo civil war. President Grant stated that Hamilton Fish, above all, was the person whom he most trusted for political advice.
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Henry Fitzhugh
Henry Fitzhugh (August 7, 1801 "The Hive", Washington County, Maryland - August 11, 1866) was an American merchant, businessman and politician from New York.
He was the son of Col. William Fitzhugh, Jr. (1761–1839, one of the founders of Rochester, New York) and Ann (Hughes) Fitzhugh (1771–1829). Baptised and raised in Saint John's Parish, Henry removed with the Fitzhugh family at the age of 15 to a tract of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase in 1816. On December 11, 1827, Henry married Elizabeth Barbara Carroll (1806–1866, sister of Charles H. Carroll) at Groveland, New York.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Oswego Co.) in 1849. He was a Canal Commissioner from 1852 to 1857, elected on the Whig ticket in the New York state election, 1851 and New York state election, 1854.
He was buried at the Williamsburg Cemetery in Groveland, NY.
U.S. presidential candidates James G. Birney and Gerrit Smith, and State Senator Frederick F. Backus (1794–1858), were his brothers-in-law.
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Henry Jarvis Raymond
Henry Jarvis Raymond (January 24, 1820 – June 18, 1869) was an American journalist and politician and founder of The New York Times.
He was born on January 24, 1820, on the family farm near Lima, New York, a son and the eldest child of Lavinia Brockway, the daughter of Clark Brockway and Sally Wade and Jarvis Raymond, the son of Jonathan P. Raymond and Hannah Jarvis.
He was an 8th generation direct lineal descendant of Captain Richard Raymond, (1602–1692), and his wife, Judith. There is no evidence to suggest that he was born in Essex, England, although Samuel Raymond's family history makes that claim, and he arrived in Salem, Massachusetts about 1629/30, possibly with a contingent led by the Rev. Francis Higginson. The first actual date given for Richard is on August 6, 1629, when he is on the list of the 30 founding members of the First Church (Congregational) of Salem. He was about 27 years old. He was made a Freeman of Salem in 1634 and was later a founder of Norwalk, Connecticut, and an "honored forefather of Saybrook".
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Henry Kirke Brown
Henry Kirke Brown (February 24, 1814, Leyden, Massachusetts – July 10, 1886, Newburgh, New York) was an American sculptor.
He began to paint portraits while still a boy, studied painting in Boston under Chester Harding, learned a little about modelling, and in 1836-1839 spent his summers working as a railroad engineer to earn enough to enable him to study further.
He spent four years (1842–1846) in Italy; but returning to New York he remained distinctively American, and was never dominated, as were so many of the early American sculptors, by Italian influence.
He produced The Choosing of the Arrow for the American Art Union, in 1849. His equestrian statues are excellent, notably that of George Washington (1856) in Union Square, New York City, which was the second equestrian statue made in the United States, following by three years that of Andrew Jackson in Washington, D.C. by Clark Mills (1815–1883), and of Brevet Lt. General Winfield Scott (1874) in Washington, D.C.. Brown was one of the first in America to cast his own bronzes.
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Hiram Gardner
Hiram Gardner (1800 Dutchess County, New York - March 13, 1874 Lockport, Niagara County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Lockport in 1822.
He was a member from Niagara County of the New York State Assembly and a presidential elector in 1836. He was the Secretary of the New York Electoral College, and cast his vote for Martin Van Buren like all the New York electors.
He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1846.
He was First Judge and Surrogate of the Niagara County Court from July 1847 to December 1851.
He was a Canal Commissioner from 1859 to 1861, elected on the Republican ticket.
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Horace White
Horace White (October 7, 1865 – November 27, 1943) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was the 37th Governor of New York in 1910.
He attended Syracuse High School, Cornell University (graduated 1887), and Columbia Law School (graduated 1889), and opened the firm of White, Cheney, Shinaman, and O'Neill in Syracuse, New York in the late 1880s or early 1890s. While at Cornell he was a member of The Kappa Alpha Society.
He served six terms as a member of the New York State Senate from 1896 to 1908 and participated in the drawing of the first charter for the City of New York. He served as Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1909 to 1910, elected in 1908 on the Republican ticket with Governor Charles Evans Hughes. Hughes resigned in October 1910 when he was appointed to the United States Supreme Court, and White succeeded to the governorship, remaining in office until the end of the year.
White served as a trustee of Cornell University from 1916 to 1943. White, who was the nephew of Cornell's first President, Andrew Dickson White, left three-quarters of his estate to the University, and that fund had grown to $1.5 million by 1973. In White's honor, in 1973, Cornell named two professorships after him: the first two Cornell faculty to become Horace White Professors were Michael Fisher and Jack Kiefer. He was also active in Syracuse, serving as president of the Post-Standard Company and participating in numerous other civil, social, and business organizations.
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Horatio Seymour
Horatio Seymour (May 31, 1810 – February 12, 1886) was an American politician. He was the 18th Governor of New York from 1853 to 1854 and from 1863 to 1864. He was the Democratic Party nominee for president of the United States in the presidential election of 1868, but lost the election to Republican and former Union General of the Army Ulysses S. Grant.
Horatio Seymour was born in Pompey Hill, Onondaga County, New York. His father was Henry Seymour, a merchant and politician; his mother, Mary Ledyard Forman (1785–1859), of Matawan, New Jersey, was the daughter of General Johnathan Forman and Mary Ledyard. At the age of 10 he moved with the rest of his family to Utica, where he attended a number of local schools, including Geneva College (later Hobart College). In the autumn of 1824 he was sent to the American Literary, Scientific & Military Academy. Upon his return to Utica in 1827, Seymour read for the law in the offices of Greene Bronson and Samuel Beardsley. Though admitted to the bar in 1832, he did not enjoy work as an attorney and was primarily preoccupied with politics and managing his family's business interests. He married Mary Bleecker in 1835.
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Hugh Carey
Hugh Leo Carey (April 11, 1919 – August 7, 2011) was an American attorney, the 51st Governor of New York from 1975 to 1982, and a seven-term United States Representative (1961–1974).
Carey was born in Brooklyn, New York. Carey joined the U.S. Army as an enlisted man during World War II, served in Europe, and reached the rank of colonel. He received his bachelor's degree in 1942 and law degree in 1951 from St. John's University and was admitted to the bar that same year.
Running as a Democrat, Carey was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1960, unseating Republican incumbent Francis E. Dorn. He served seven terms. He served on the House Ways and Means Committee and led the effort to pass the first Federal Aid to Education program. He was elected Governor of New York in 1974 and resigned his Congressional seat on December 31, 1974. Carey was reelected in 1978, serving two full terms as Governor. On January 1, 1983 he was succeeded by his lieutenant governor, Mario Cuomo. Carey then returned to private law practice with the firm of Harris Beach in New York City, where he resided until his death in August 2011. He was the first congressman from Brooklyn to oppose the Vietnam War.
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Ira Harris
Ira Harris (May 31, 1802 – December 2, 1875) was an American jurist and senator from New York. He was also a friend of Abraham Lincoln's.
Harris grew up on a farm, and graduated from Union College in 1824. Then he studied law in Albany, and in 1828 was admitted to the bar.
He was a Whig/Anti-Rent member of the New York State Assembly (Albany Co.) in 1845 and 1846. He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1846. He was a member of the New York State Senate (3rd D.) in 1847.
He was a justice of the New York Supreme Court (3rd D.) from 1847 to 1859, and was ex officio a judge of the New York Court of Appeals in 1850 and 1858.
In February 1861, Harris was elected a U.S. Senator from New York to succeed William H. Seward who did not seek re-election, but would be appointed U.S. Secretary of State by Abraham Lincoln. In the U.S. Senate, Harris served on the Committees on Foreign Relations, and the Judiciary, and the Select Joint Committee on the Southern States. Although he supported the administration in the main, he did not fear to express his opposition to all measures, however popular at the time, that did not appear to him either wise or just. He visited Lincoln at the White House often and grew a friendship with him. He was also a good friend of his predecessor in the senate William H. Seward.
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Irving Ives
Irving McNeil Ives (January 24, 1896 – February 24, 1962) was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States Senator from New York from 1947 to 1959. He was previously a member of the New York State Assembly for sixteen years, serving as Minority Leader (1935), Speaker (1936), and Majority Leader (1937–1946). A moderate Republican, he was known as a specialist in labor and civil rights legislation.
Irving Ives was born in Bainbridge, New York, to George Albert and Lucie Hough (née Keeler) Ives. His ancestors came from England to the United States, where they settled in Boston, Massachusetts in 1635; they later helped found Quinnipiac Colony in 1638, and lived in Vermont before moving to New York in 1795. His father worked in the coal and feed business. He received his early education at public schools in Bainbridge and Oneonta, graduating from Oneonta High School in 1914.
Ives attended Hamilton College for two years before enlisting in the U.S. Army following the entry of the United States into World War I in 1917. During the war, he served with the American Expeditionary Forces in France and Germany, participating in the Meuse-Argonne and Saint-Mihiel campaigns. He was honorably discharged as a first lieutenant of the Infantry at the war's end in 1919. He then resumed his studies at Hamilton, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1920 and graduated as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
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Isaac De Reimer
Isaac De Reimer was the Mayor of New York from 1700 to 1701.
In 1700, Isaac de Reimer, a merchant of Holland origin was appointed Mayor. He was a descendant of one of the oldest families of the city, and a nephew of the well-known Cornelius Van Steenwyck, the former mayor.
De Reimer Avenue in The Bronx is named after him.
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Jacob Hinds
Jacob Hinds (1800 - October 20, 1873) was an American politician from New York.
In 1826, he married Almira Waldron (1805–1874), and they had five children, among them Franklin Hinds, Harrison Hinds, Mary Katherine Hinds (1832–1913) and Minerva A. Hinds (1830–1890).
About 1830, he removed to Murray, Orleans County, New York, and was among the founders of the village of Hindsburgh (now Hinsburg).
During the administration of Governor William H. Seward, he was appointed Superintendent of Canal Repairs for a section of the Erie Canal.
He was one of the first three Canal Commissioners elected under the New York State Constitution of 1846, and drew the three-year term, being in office from 1848 to 1850. In 1850, he was accused of misadministration, but defended himself successfully before a special committee of the New York State Legislature.
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Jacob Radcliff
Jacob Radcliff (April 20, 1764 Rhinebeck, New York – May 20, 1842 Troy, New York) was Mayor of New York City from 1810 to 1811 and from 1815 to 1818.
Radcliff graduated from Nassau Hall, Princeton in 1783 and practiced law under Egbert Benson, the first Attorney General of New York. He was admitted to the bar in 1786, and about the same time, he married Juliana Smith, the daughter of Cotton Mather Smith and granddaughter of Cotton Mather. While practicing law in Poughkeepsie, he served in the Dutchess County Assembly during the session of 1794 to 1795. He was appointed Assistant Attorney General on February 23, 1796. On December 27, 1798, he became a justice of the New York Supreme Court. In this position he helped revise the state's laws. He resigned his post in 1804 to practice chancery law in Brooklyn. When the Federalist party gained the majority in 1810, Radcliff was appointed mayor of New York City. When the War of 1812 divided the Federalist party, Radcliff aligned with the Tammany Society, which was poised to gain a majority in state politics. Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall John Ferguson became mayor in 1815 but resigned to take the appointment of Surveyor of the Port of New York. Radcliff was chosen as his replacement.
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James Clinton
James Clinton (August 9, 1736 – September 22, 1812) was an American Revolutionary War soldier who obtained the rank of major general.
He was born in Ulster County in the colony of New York, in a location now part of Orange County, New York. He was the grandson of James Clinton a soldier in Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army and the son of Charles Clinton, an Anglo-Irish colonist and a colonel in the French and Indian War. He was the brother of George Clinton, who was governor of New York from 1777 to 1795 and U.S. Vice President from 1805 to 1812. James Clinton's wife was Mary DeWitt, daughter of an old Dutch family, and his second son was DeWitt Clinton, later Governor of New York.
James Clinton's military experience began in the French and Indian War, starting with an ensign's commission in 1757 and achieving the rank of Captain in 1759. In 1758, commanding a company, he participated, along with his father (Colonel) and brother George (Lieutenant), in General John Bradstreet’s capture of Fort Frontenac (now Kingston, Ontario). He and his brother played a key role in capturing a French vessel.
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James Duane
James Duane (February 6, 1733 – February 1, 1797) was an American lawyer, jurist, and Revolutionary leader from New York. He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress, New York state senator, Mayor of New York, and a U.S. District Judge, and was a signor of the Articles of Confederation.
James was a natural born American son of an Anglo-Irish colonial settler. His father, Anthony Duane (c. 1679 – 1747), was a Protestant Irishman from County Galway in Ireland and first came to New York as an officer of the Royal Navy in 1698. Like others of colonial background, Anthony considered himself merely settling from one part of the British Empire to another as a free subject. Consequently, he maintained strong allegiance to the crown throughout his life, values which he later passed onto to his son. He met and courted Eva Benson, whose father, Dirck, was a local American merchant. In 1702 Anthony left the navy, settled in New York, and married Eva. They had two sons before her death. When Eva died, Anthony remarried, this time to Althea Ketaltas, the daughter of a wealthy Dutch merchant family. Anthony entered commerce and prospered, and the couple had a son, James.
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James Hooker
James Hooker (July 12, 1792 Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut - September 2, 1858 Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
He was the son of Captain James Hooker (1742–1805), a merchant, and his third wife, Mary (Chaffee) Hooker. He graduated from Yale College in 1810, and then studied law at the Litchfield Law School. He married Helen Sarah Reade (1790–1879), and they had two daughters.
He was Surrogate of Dutchess County from 1828 to 1840. In 1836, he was a presidential elector. In February 1840, he was elected by the New York State Legislature one of the canal commissioners and was legislated out of office by the Act of May 6, 1844, which re-organized the Canal Commission.
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James Madison
James Madison, Jr. (March 16, 1751 (O.S. March 5) – June 28, 1836) was an American statesman and political theorist, the fourth President of the United States (1809–1817). He is hailed as the “Father of the Constitution” for being instrumental in the drafting of the United States Constitution and as the key champion and author of the United States Bill of Rights. He served as a politician much of his adult life. Like other Virginia statesmen in the slave society, he was a slaveholder and part of the élite; he inherited his plantation known as Montpelier, and owned hundreds of slaves during his lifetime to cultivate tobacco and other crops.
After the constitution had been drafted, Madison became one of the leaders in the movement to ratify it. His collaboration with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay produced the Federalist Papers (1788). Circulated only in New York at the time, they would later be considered among the most important polemics in support of the Constitution. He was also a delegate to the Virginia constitutional ratifying convention, and was instrumental to the successful ratification effort in Virginia. Like most of his contemporaries, Madison changed his political views during his life. During the drafting and ratification of the constitution, he favored a strong national government, though later he grew to favor stronger state governments, before settling between the two extremes late in his life.
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Jeremiah Wood
Jeremiah Wood (September 27, 1876 – January 16, 1962) was an American lawyer and politician. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1921 to 1922.
He was admitted to the bar in 1900, and practiced in New York City.
He was a member from Nassau County of the New York State Assembly in 1912. He was an alternate delegate to the 1916 Republican National Convention.
He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1921 to 1922, elected on the Republican ticket with Governor Nathan L. Miller in 1920. On September 26, 1922, Wood resigned and was appointed a judge of the New York Court of Claims to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William D. Cunningham.
In 1925, he ran for the New York Supreme Court but was defeated.
He was Chairman of the Nassau County Republican Committee from 1927 to 1929.
He resided in North Lynbrook, New York, a community he created when the Village of Malverne became an incorporated village in 1921. Wood did not want to live in a village for fear of higher taxes. To avoid this, he changed the borders of the new village so that his home would not be included. He died in 1962 in Hempstead, Nassau County, New York.
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Johannes de Peyster
Johannes de Peyster (1666-1719) was Mayor of New York City in 1698-99.
Johannes was born in New York City in 1666 to Johannes and Cornelia Lubberts de Peyster. Johannes married Albany, New York, native Anna Bancker (sister of Evert Bancker). In addition to his stint as mayor, he served in the colonial assembly.
Johannes's brother Abraham de Peyster served as mayor from 1691-94. Johannes was succeeded as mayor by David Provost, their brother-in law. Johannes's son, also Johannes, served as mayor of Albany. According to some sources, Johannes was known as "Johannes de Peyster II" and his son as "III".
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John Adams Dix
John Adams Dix (July 24, 1798 – April 21, 1879) was an American politician from New York. He served as Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Senator, and the 24th Governor of New York. He was also a Union major general during the Civil War.
Dix was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire. He joined the Artillery as a military cadet at the age of 14. He served in the United States Army until 1828, and attained the rank of captain.
In 1826, Dix married Catherine Morgan, the adopted daughter of Congressman John J. Morgan, who gave Dix a job overseeing his upstate New York land holdings in Cooperstown. Dix and his wife moved to Cooperstown in 1828, and he practiced law in addition to overseeing the land holdings. In 1830, he was appointed by Governor Enos T. Throop as Adjutant General of the New York State Militia, and moved to Albany, New York. He was Secretary of State of New York from 1833 to 1839, and a member of the New York State Assembly (Albany Co.) in 1842.
Dix was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Silas Wright, Jr., and held office from 1845 to 1849. In November 1848, he was the Barnburner/Free-Soil candidate for Governor of New York, but was defeated by Whig Hamilton Fish. In February 1849, he ran for re-election to the U.S. Senate as the Barnburner's candidate, but the Whig majority of the State Legislature elected William H. Seward.
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John Alden Dix
John Alden Dix (December 25, 1860 – April 9, 1928) was the 38th Governor of New York from January 1911 to December 1912.
Born in Glens Falls, Warren County, New York, Dix attended Cornell University, but never graduated. He was an initiated member of the Beta Charge of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. His uncle was Civil War General and Governor of New York John Adams Dix.
In 1908, he ran for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Democratic ticket with Lewis S. Chanler, but was defeated. Two years later he ran for Governor of New York on the Democratic ticket and was elected.
He died in New York City and was interred at Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, New York.
Dix was to set sail as a passenger aboard the RMS Titanic on April 20, 1912 upon its arrival in New York for its return voyage to Europe. The trip never took place due to the Titanic sinking on her maiden voyage.
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John Cruger
John Cruger (1678 – August 13, 1744) was an immigrant to colonial New York with an uncertain place of birth, but his family was originally Danish. In New York from at least 1696, he became a prosperous merchant and established a successful family as well. He served as an alderman for twenty-two years and as Mayor of New York from 1739 until his death in 1744.
John was probably born in early 1678 in Denmark. He came to America in the late 17th century, when New York was officially an English colony, but still very much marked by the remains of the Dutch influence of New Netherland. He entered the mercantile firm of Onziel Van Swieden and Valentine Cruger as a shipmaster and factor and by 1702 he had become a junior partner, owning ships of his own. The following year he gained citizenship, being recognized as a Freeholder of the Province on March 2, 1703. He also married Maria Cuyler of New York. {Maria Cuyler was an aunt of wife of Albany, New York mayor Dirck Ten Broeck}.
The family would eventually include three sons and three daughters who survived infancy. Their children were Anna (1704–1744), Tileman (1705–1730), Henry (1707–1780), John (1710–1791), Sarah (1714–1766), Maria (1715–1787), and Rachel (1721–1775).
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John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism throughout the world. He advocated support of the French in their war against the Viet Minh in Indochina and it is widely believed that he refused to shake the hand of Zhou Enlai at the Geneva Conference in 1954. He also played a major role in the Central Intelligence Agency operation to overthrow the democratic Mossadegh government of Iran in 1953 (Operation Ajax) and the democratic Arbenz government of Guatemala in 1954 (Operation PBSUCCESS).
Born in Washington, D.C., he was one of five children and the eldest son born to Presbyterian minister Allen Macy Dulles and his wife Edith (Foster). His paternal grandfather, John Welsh Dulles, had been a Presbyterian missionary in India. He attended public schools in Watertown, New York. After graduating from Princeton University (Phi Beta Kappa, 1908), where he competed on the American Whig-Cliosophic Society debate team, and graduating from The George Washington University Law School, he joined the New York City law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, where he specialized in international law. He tried to join the United States Army during World War I but was rejected because of poor eyesight. Instead, Dulles received an Army commission as Major on the War Industries Board.
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John Jay
John Jay (December 12, 1745 – May 17, 1829) was an American statesman, Patriot, diplomat, a Founding Father of the United States, and the first Chief Justice of the United States (1789–95).
Jay was born into a wealthy family of merchants and government officials in New York City. He became a lawyer and joined the New York Committee of Correspondence, and organized opposition to British rule. He joined a conservative political faction that, fearing "mob rule", sought to protect property rights and maintain the "rule of law" while resisting British violations of human rights.
Jay served as the President of the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1779. During and after the American Revolution, Jay was a minister (ambassador) to Spain and France, helping to fashion United States foreign policy. His major diplomatic achievement was to negotiate favorable trade terms with Great Britain in the Jay Treaty of 1794.
Jay, a proponent of strong, centralized government, worked to ratify the new Constitution in New York in 1788 by anonymously writing a few of the Federalist Papers, along with the main authors Alexander Hamilton and James Madison.
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John Laurance
John Laurance (1750 – November 11, 1810) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
He emigrated to the United States in 1767 and settled in New York City where he read law and entered private practice in 1772. At the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, he was a warm adherent of the revolutionaries. He received an officer's commission in the First New York regiment of the Continental Army in 1775, serving under his father-in-law Gen. Alexander MacDougall. He was Judge Advocate General from 1777 to 1782. He was a member of the board that convicted Maj. John André of spying and sentenced André to be executed by hanging.
He was a member from Westchester County of the New York State Assembly in 1782–83, and from New York County in 1784-85. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1785 to 1787. He was an ardent supporter of the constitution proposed by the Federalists, and lost his seat in 1788 to an anti-Federalist. He was a member of the New York State Senate (Southern District) from 1788 to 1790, but vacated his seat after the Legislature enacted in January 1790 a law that made it impossible to be a member of Congress and the State Legislature at the same time.
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John Raines
John Raines (May 6, 1840, Geneva, Ontario County, New York – December 16, 1909, Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
He was educated at Canandaigua Academy and Albany Law School, from where he graduated in 1861. Admitted to the bar upon graduation, Raines set up a law practice in Geneva, New York.
During the American Civil War, Raines formed and served as Captain of Company G of the 85th New York Volunteer Infantry and served in both the Army of the Potomac and the Army of North Carolina.
He was a Republican member of the New York State Assembly in 1881, 1882 and 1885, and of the New York State Senate from 1886 to 1889. In addition he was President of the Board of Education for the Canandaigua school district from 1887 until his death. He was a delegate to the 1888 Republican National Convention.
He was elected to the 51st and 52nd United States Congresses, and served from March 4, 1889, to March 3, 1893. Afterwards he returned to the State Senate where he served from 1894 until his death, and was President pro tempore from 1904 on. He was an alternate delegate to the 1900 and 1904 Republican National Conventions.
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John Sloss Hobart
John Sloss Hobart (May 6, 1738 – February 4, 1805) was an American jurist and politician. He was a member of the Federalist Party who served as United States Senator from New York, and later as a United States federal judge.
Born in Fairfield, Connecticut to Noah Hobart and Ellen Sloss, Hobart graduated from Yale College in 1757 where he studied law. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in New York. On June 22, 1764 he married Mary Greenill, they had no children.
Hobart was member of the Committee of Correspondence in 1774. He was a Deputy to the Provincial Convention of New York in 1775, was also a delegate to the Provincial Congress from 1775 to 1777, and was a member of the council of safety in 1777. He was a Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York from 1777 to 1798, member of the Hartford convention in 1780, and member of the State convention in 1788 which ratified the United States Constitution.
Hobart was elected to the United States Senate as a Federalist to fill the vacancy caused by Philip Schuyler's resignation for health reasons, serving from January 11, 1798 to April 16, 1798, until his own resignation to accept an appointment to the federal court system. He was nominated to the federal bench by John Adams on April 11, 1798, to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of New York vacated by Robert Troup. Hobart was confirmed by the Senate on April 12, 1798, and received his commission the same day. He served on the bench until his death.
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John Tayler
John Tayler (July 4, 1742 – March 19, 1829) was a merchant and politician. He served nine years as Lieutenant Governor of New York, four months as Acting Governor of New York, and also in both houses of the New York State Legislature.
He was a trader, farmer and shopkeeper in Albany. He married Margarita Van Valkenburgh in 1764.
Tayler was a Patriot during the Revolutionary War. He was drawn into public service for the Colonies.
He was a member from Albany County in the New York State Assembly from 1777 to 1779, in 1780-81, and from 1785 to 1787. He was appointed City Recorder (Deputy Mayor) of Albany in 1793, and First Judge of the Albany County Court in 1797. In 1798, he ran for U.S. Senator from New York, but was defeated by Federalist James Watson. He served in the New York State Senate from 1804 to 1813. On January 29, 1811, he was elected President pro tempore of the State Senate and was Acting Lieutenant Governor, Lt. Gov. John Broome having died in August 1810. He served until the end of June 1811 when he was succeeded by DeWitt Clinton who had been elected Lt. Gov. in a special election under the provisions of Article XX of the New York State Constitution of 1777.
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Joseph Bruno
Joseph L. Bruno (born April 8, 1929) is an American businessman, and Republican politician. He was the Temporary President of the New York State Senate and its majority leader. Most recently he also served as Lieutenant Governor of New York (Acting).
On June 23, 2008, Bruno announced that he would not seek reelection to the State Senate in 2008. On June 24, 2008, Bruno stepped down from the positions of Senate Majority Leader and "temporary president of the senate", but remained a State Senator. On July 18, 2008, Bruno resigned from the New York State Senate. He represented the 43rd New York State Senate District, and is on record as a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
On January 23, 2009, Bruno was indicted on eight counts of corruption, including mail and wire fraud.
On December 7, 2009, Bruno was convicted of two counts of mail and wire fraud. He was acquitted of five felonies, and the jury hung on the last count. His convictions were subsequently overturned on appeal, and as of 2011 prosecutors planned to retry him.
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Kenneth Keating
Kenneth Barnard Keating (May 18, 1900 – May 5, 1975), was a United States Representative and a U.S. Senator from New York, and in later life, an appellate judge and a diplomat representing the United States as ambassador to India and later to Israel.
He attended public school and was graduated from Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in 1915. He then attended the University of Rochester, which he was graduated from in 1919, while there he joined The Delta Upsilon Fraternity, and from Harvard Law School in 1923. He was admitted to the bar in 1923 and commenced practice in Rochester. During the First World War he served as a sergeant in the United States Army and during the Second World War served overseas and was promoted to brigadier general in 1948. On returning to the United States he resumed his law practice.
Keating was elected to the House of Representatives as a Republican to the 80th, 81st, 82nd, 83rd, 84th and 85th United States Congresses, and served from January 3, 1947, to January 3, 1959. In 1958 he defeated New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan for the U.S. Senate seat of the retiring Irving M. Ives, and served from January 3, 1959, to January 3, 1965. Before the Cuban Missile Crisis, Senator Keating accused the Soviets and Cuba of building IRBMs in Cuba, and urged President John F. Kennedy to take action. Keating was a moderate, like many prominent New York Republicans of his era. When he was running for re-election in 1964 Keating refused to endorse his party's Presidential nominee, the conservative Senator Barry Goldwater, who was highly unpopular in New York. Keating did run far ahead of Goldwater in New York, but was still defeated for re-election in 1964 by Democrat Robert F. Kennedy, after a campaign in which Keating labelled Kennedy, who had only spent part of his childhood in New York, as a "carpetbagger." Keating's campaign slogan was "Keep Keating."
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Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Elizabeth Rutnik Gillibrand (/ˈkɪərstən ˈdʒɪlɨbrænd/ KEER-stən JIL-ə-brand; born December 9, 1966) is an attorney and the junior United States Senator from the state of New York and a member of the Democratic Party. Prior to being appointed to the Senate by New York Governor David Paterson in 2009, she was twice elected to the United States House of Representatives, from New York's 20th congressional district.
Gillibrand was born and raised in the Albany area. She is a 1988 graduate of Dartmouth College, where she majored in Asian studies. She received her Juris Doctor from UCLA Law School in 1991 and passed the bar the same year. She was an associate in the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell in Manhattan before becoming a partner at Boies, Schiller & Flexner in Albany.
Gillibrand won an upset congressional election in November 2006, beating four-term incumbent John E. Sweeney 53% to 47%. Her reelection campaign in 2008 against Sandy Treadwell was significantly easier, winning 62% to 38%. In December 2008, then President-elect Barack Obama nominated Hillary Rodham Clinton as Secretary of State, leaving an empty seat in the New York senate delegation. After two months and many potential names considered, Governor David Paterson appointed Gillibrand to fill the seat. Gillibrand was required to run in a special election in 2010, which she easily won with 63% of the vote. Her term ends in 2013 and she is currently running for reelection in 2012.
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Lucius Robinson
Lucius Robinson (November 4, 1810, Windham, Greene County, New York – March 23, 1891, Elmira, Chemung County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. He was the 26th Governor of New York from 1877 to 1879.
He graduated from Delaware Academy in Delhi, New York. Afterwards he studied law in the offices of Erastus Root and Amasa J. Parker, was admitted to the bar in 1832, and commenced practice in Catskill, N.Y. He was District Attorney of Greene County from 1837 to 1840. Then he removed to New York City and became a member of Tammany Hall.
He joined the Republican Party when it was founded, and representing this party was a member from Chemung County of the New York State Assembly in 1860 and 1861.
He was New York State Comptroller from 1862 to 1865. In 1861, he was elected on the Union ticket nominated by Republicans and War Democrats. In 1863 he was defeated for re-nomination at the Union state convention, but the nominated candidadte refused to run, and the Republican State Committee put Robinson back on the ticket, and he was re-elected. After the war he joined the Democratic Party again, and was re-nominated for Comptroller on the Democratic ticket, but this time was defeated by the Republican candidate Thomas Hillhouse. After his defeat he resumed the practice of law. In 1871-72 he was a member of the New York State Constitutional Commission.
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Luther Bradish
Luther Bradish (September 15, 1783 Cummington, Hampshire County, Massachusetts - August 30, 1863 Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island) was an American lawyer and politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1839 to 1842.
He was the son of Col. John Bradish and Hannah Bradish (née Warner). He served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812. In 1814, he married Helen Elizabeth Gibbs (daughter of George Gibbs (mineralogist)). She died in 1816 along with their son.
In 1819, Bradish was commissioned by U.S. President James Monroe's United States Secretary of State John Quincy Adams to pursue a treaty with the Ottoman Empire. Up till that point, Philadelphian David Offley was interceding, on behalf of American shippers, with the Empire's regencies along the Barbary Coast, i.e., Algiers, Libya, Tunis, etc., but his effectiveness was limited because the U.S had no official relations with the Empire, even after the conclusion of the Barbary Wars. The treaty terms demanded by Halet Effendi, the Ottoman foreign minister, were unacceptable to the U.S. Any future attempts at negotiations with Halet became moot when he 'offended' the Sultan and was first banished from Constantinople (Istanbul), and then killed. A treaty was eventually completed during President Andrew Jackson's term in office.
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Marinus Willett
Marinus Willett (July 31, 1740 – August 22, 1830) was an American soldier and political leader from New York. He was characterized by historian Mark M. Boatner as "one of the truly outstanding American leaders of the Revolution."
Willett was born in Jamaica, New York, on Long Island, the son of Edward Willett a school teacher and tavern operator. Marinus was the great-grandson of Thomas Willett, a Plymouth Colony merchant who had moved to New York City, where he served as the city's first mayor.
Marinus Willett served in the militia during the French and Indian War. He received a commission as 2nd lieutenant in a New York regiment under the command of Oliver DeLancey Sr. which took part in General James Abercrombie's expedition to Fort Ticonderoga in 1758. His regiment was part of John Bradstreet's army in the Battle of Fort Frontenac. He became ill and stayed at Fort Stanwix until he recovered.
Tradition is between the wars he worked as a cabinetmaker.
During the early stages of the American Revolution, Willett became an informal leader of the Sons of Liberty in New York City. His main participation was as a rabble-rouser and street brawler. When news arrived on April 23, 1775 of the battles at Lexington and Concord he and others broke into the New York City arsenal and seized the weapons. On June 6, 1775 when the British soldiers in New York decided to evacuate the city, Willett stopped the soldiers from taking spare arms with them. On July 20, 1775 he and other members of the Sons of Liberty procured a sloop, surprised the guard, and captured a British storehouse at Turtle Bay.
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Mario Cuomo
Mario Matthew Cuomo (/ˈkwoʊmoʊ/; born June 15, 1932) served as the 52nd Governor of New York from 1983 to 1994, and is the father of Andrew Cuomo, the current governor of New York.
He was born in the New York City borough of Queens to a family of Italian-American origin. His father, Andrea Cuomo, was from Nocera Superiore, Italy, and his mother Immacolata was from Tramonti. The family owned a store in South Jamaica, Queens in New York City. Cuomo attended P.S. 50 and later earned his bachelor's degree in 1953 and law degree in 1956 from St. John's University, graduating first in his class. When he and the salutatorian (the late St. John's Law Dean Patrick Rohan) were summoned to the dean's office (Reverend Joseph T. Tinnelly) at the end of the year, he was asked what field he plans on going into after graduation.[citation needed] Cuomo responded that he would like to be a trial lawyer. Consequently, he was sent to clerk for the Honorable Judge Adrian P. Burke of the New York Court of Appeals. Additionally, he was signed and played baseball in the Pittsburgh Pirates minor league system until he was injured when a ball hit his head, and subsequently became a scout for the team.
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Martin van Buren
Martin Van Buren (Dutch: Maarten van Buren; December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862) was the eighth President of the United States (1837–1841). Before his presidency, he was the eighth Vice President (1833–1837) and the tenth Secretary of State, under Andrew Jackson (1829–1831).
Van Buren was a key organizer of the Democratic Party, a dominant figure in the Second Party System, and the first president not of British or Irish descent—his family was Dutch. He was the first president to be born an American citizen, his predecessors having been born British subjects before the American Revolution. He is also the only president not to have spoken English as his first language, having grown up speaking Dutch, and the first president from New York.
As Andrew Jackson's Secretary of State and then Vice President, Van Buren was a key figure in building the organizational structure for Jacksonian democracy, particularly in New York State. As president, he did not want the United States to annex Texas, an act which John Tyler would achieve eight years after Van Buren's initial rejection. Between the bloodless Aroostook War and the Caroline Affair, relations with Britain and its colonies in Canada also proved to be strained.
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Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren (Dutch: Maarten van Buren; December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862) was the eighth President of the United States (1837–1841). Before his presidency, he was the eighth Vice President (1833–1837) and the tenth Secretary of State, under Andrew Jackson (1829–1831).
Van Buren was a key organizer of the Democratic Party, a dominant figure in the Second Party System, and the first president not of British or Irish descent—his family was Dutch. He was the first president to be born an American citizen, his predecessors having been born British subjects before the American Revolution. He is also the only president not to have spoken English as his first language, having grown up speaking Dutch, and the first president from New York.
As Andrew Jackson's Secretary of State and then Vice President, Van Buren was a key figure in building the organizational structure for Jacksonian democracy, particularly in New York State. As president, he did not want the United States to annex Texas, an act which John Tyler would achieve eight years after Van Buren's initial rejection. Between the bloodless Aroostook War and the Caroline Affair, relations with Britain and its colonies in Canada also proved to be strained.
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Mary Anne Krupsak
Mary Anne Krupsak (b. March 26, 1932 Schenectady, New York) is an American lawyer and politician from New York. She was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1975 to 1978.
She is the daughter of Ambrose M. Krupczak and Mamie (Wytrwal) Krupczak. She grew up in Amsterdam, New York where her parents operated a pharmacy and her father served as a Democratic member of the Board of Supervisors of Montgomery County, New York, representing the City of Amsterdam's Fourth Ward.
Krupsak served two terms in the New York State Assembly and one term in the New York State Senate before running for Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1974.
Elected with Hugh Carey, Krupsak became upset with how Carey treated her in office and felt she was not given enough to do. After committing to run for a second term with Carey in 1978, Krupsak decided to withdraw from the ticket and instead challenge Carey for the Democratic nomination for governor. She lost the primary to Carey and after running unsuccessfully for Congress, retired from politics.
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Mary Donohue
Mary O’Connor Donohue is a Judge of the New York Court of Claims and was the 73rd Lieutenant Governor of New York State. She was first elected lieutenant governor in 1998 and reelected 2002 on a ticket with Gov. George Pataki.
Donohue is a former teacher and lawyer who was once an aide to State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno. She graduated from The College of New Rochelle and received a master's degree in Education from Russell Sage College. In 1983, she received a law degree from Albany Law School.
In addition to working for Bruno, Donohue was an assistant county attorney in Rensselaer County. During her time in the county attorney's office, she worked on Family Court and juvenile justice issues.
Donohue served as the District Attorney of Rensselaer County for several years in the 1990s. During her two terms as district attorney, she prosecuted over 5000 cases a year. She handled several cases herself. In 1996 she was elected as a Justice of the New York State Supreme Court. While serving as a state judge, Donohue handled both civil and criminal cases. She resigned from her judgeship in 1998 when Pataki picked her as a running mate.
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Matthew Linn Bruce
Matthew Linn Bruce (October 1, 1860, Mercersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania – February 26, 1936, Albany, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
He was the son of Dr. James Bruce and Mary (Linn) Bruce (ca. 1830-1907). He was educated at Andes Academy, and graduated A.B. from Rutgers College as valedictorian of the class of 1884. Then he studied law in the office of Cassius M. Shaw at Andes, N.Y., and was admitted to the bar in 1889.
In 1890 removed to New York City where he resided in the Twenty-first Assembly District. He was managing clerk in the office of Hector M. Hitchings until 1892, and then opened his own law office. In 1894, he married Lillian (Ballantine) Knapp, and they had four children.
In 1903, he was President of the New York County Republican Committee, and conducted the unsuccessful campaign of Mayor Seth Low for re-election.
He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1905 to 1906, elected in 1904, but defeated for re-election in November 1906 although his running mate Charles Evans Hughes was elected Governor. All other Republican candidates were defeated by the nominees of the Democratic/Independence League fusion ticket. On December 5, 1906, he resigned and was appointed by Governor Frank W. Higgins a justice of the New York Supreme Court to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Justice Morgan J. O'Brien, and remained on the bench until the end of 1907. In 1908, he resumed the practice of law, but on October 13 of the same year he was reappointed to the Supreme Court by Gov. Hughes to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Justice David Leventritt, and remained on the bench until the end of the year. In November 1908, he ran for the Supreme Court on the Republican ticket to succeed himself, but was defeated by the Democratic candidate Irving Lehman.
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Matthias Nicoll
Matthias Nicoll (1630 – December 22, 1687), aka Nicolls, was Mayor of New York City from 1672 to 1673.
He is the patriarch of the Nicoll family which settled and owned much of Long Island, New York. Numerous place names on the island now bear the Nicoll name.
He lived in Islip, Northamptonshire and practiced law there. He was son of a minister.
In 1664 he came to the United States with Richard Nicolls. It is not known if the two were related although some sources say he was Richard's nephew.
Matthias was Richard's secretary and was present to the first surrender ot the Dutch New Amsterdam to the English. He was clerk of the court in the new English colony and served various judge roles.
He was a member of the Convention at Hempstead, New York in 1664-1665 that established the laws for the new colony.
In 1670 he bought land in present Plandome Manor, New York/Plandome, New York, and he is said to have named it for the latin 'planus domus' meaning 'plain' or 'peaceful' home.
In 1672 he was appointed New York City Mayor, and served for two years.
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Myron Holley
Myron Holley (April 29, 1779 Salisbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut - March 4, 1841 Rochester, Monroe County, New York) was an American politician who had a large part in the construction of the Erie Canal.
Holley was the son of Luther Holley (1752–1824) and Sarah Dakin Holley (1755–1830). He graduated in 1799 from Williams College.
He was a member from Ontario County of the New York State Assembly in 1816 and 1820-21. He worked with DeWitt Clinton to convince the State Legislature to finance the construction of the Erie Canal. He was among the Erie Canal Commissioners appointed in 1816 to supervise the construction, and was chosen Treasurer of the Canal Commission. He oversaw the construction of the canal in person living with the workers for eight years.
In 1822 he built the Old Stone Warehouse at Rochester on speculation. In 1824, an audit revealed a shortage of about $30,000 in the canal funds, and Holley resigned on March 30, giving his personal property to make good for part of the shortage. Holley died a pauper in Rochester, New York and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery. His monument there was paid for by members of the Liberty Party which he likely conceived and had co-founded with John Greenleaf Whittier and others.
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Nathan Sanford
Nathan Sanford (November 5, 1777 – October 17, 1838) was an American politician.
He was the son of Thomas Sanford and Phebe Sanford, née Baker. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1799, and commenced practice in New York City.
In 1803, he was appointed as United States Attorney for the District of New York, and remained in office until 1815 when the district was split into the Northern and the Southern District of New York.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1808-1809 and 1811. In 1811, he was elected Speaker on January 29, but could not attend the session after February 10 because of ill health. The Assembly moved to elect a new Speaker and proceeded to the election of William Ross. He was a member of the New York State Senate (Southern D.) from 1812 to 1815.
In 1815, he was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1815, to March 4, 1821. He was Chairman of the Committee on Commerce and Manufactures (15th and 16th United States Congresses), and a member of the Committee on Naval Affairs (15th Congress) and the Committee on Finance (16th Congress). In 1821, he ran for re-election as a Clintonian, but was defeated by Bucktail Martin Van Buren.
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Nathaniel Pitcher
Nathaniel Pitcher (November 30, 1777 – May 25, 1836) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the eighth Governor of New York from February 11 to December 31, 1828.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1806 and 1815–1817, surrogate of Washington County in 1812 and 1813, town clerk of Kingsbury in 1813 and 1814, and justice of the peace. During these times he studied law and was admitted to the bar and practiced law. He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention in 1821. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1827 and 1828 and became governor upon the death of Governor Clinton. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1823), and reelected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833). Pitcher died on May 25, 1836, aged 58, and was buried at Baker Cemetery in Hudson Falls.
The Town of Pitcher in Chenango County is named after him.
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Nelson Rockefeller
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979) was an American businessman, philanthropist, public servant, and politician. He served as the 41st Vice President of the United States (1974–1977), serving under President Gerald Ford, and the 49th Governor of New York (1959–1973). He also served the Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower administrations in a variety of positions. A member of the Rockefeller family, he was also a noted art collector.
Rockefeller, a Republican, was politically moderate. In his time, moderates in the Republican party were called "Rockefeller Republicans". As Governor of New York from 1959 to 1973 his achievements included the expansion of the State University of New York, efforts to protect the environment, the building of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza in Albany, increased facilities and personnel for medical care, and creation of the New York State Council on the Arts. After unsuccessfully seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 1960, 1964, and 1968, he served as Vice President (under the 25th Amendment) from 1974 to 1977 under President Gerald R. Ford. Ford ascended to the presidency following the August 1974 resignation of Richard Nixon, over the Watergate Scandal, and Ford selected Rockefeller as his own replacement. But Rockefeller did not join the 1976 Republican national ticket with President Ford, marking his retirement from politics.
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Nicholas Bayard
Colonel Nicholas Bayard (c.1644 — 1707) was an official in the colony of New York. Bayard served as the sixteenth Mayor of New York City, from 1685 to 1686. He is notable for being Peter Stuyvesant's brother-in-law and for being the immigrant founder of the Bayard family, which remained prominent in New York City into the 20th century.
Bayard was born in Alphen, Holland, the son of a Huguenot refugee. In May 1647 he accompanied his widowed mother, Ann Stuyvesant to America. Ann was the widow of Samuel Bayard and the sister of Governor Petrus Stuyvesant. Three other children, Balthazar, Petrus, Nicholas and Catharine, also arrived in New Amsterdam. Judith, the sister of Samuel Bayard, had married Director General Stuyvesant, and thus there was a double relationship between the families.
In 1664 Stuyvesant, whose patronage supported Bayard's career, appointed him clerk of the Common Council, and soon afterward became private secretary to Stuyvesant and received the additional appointment of surveyor of the province. After the re-conquest of New York by the Dutch in 1672, Nicholas Bayard became secretary of the province. Under the second English regime, in 1685, when Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick, was governor, Bayard was mayor of New York; prior to 1680, New York mayors served one-year terms but thereafter they served two-year terms, with few exceptions. Bayard was one of the exceptions and served only one year. As a member of the governor's council, Bayard drew up the Dongan Charter that was granted in 1686.
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Nicholas De Mayer
Nicholaes DeMeyer (DeMayer) (c. July 10, 1635 – March 19, 1691) was the ninth mayor of New York City, in the English colony of New York. He was appointed mayor by Governor Edmund Andros on October 14, 1676 and served until 1677.
DeMayer was from Hamburg. He is known to have been married twice, once to Lydia Van Dyck and once to Sarah Kellnar. At one time, DeMayer was described as "the second wealthiest man in the New Netherlands".
DeMayer's father in law, Hendrick Van Dyke, is notable for starting the Peach Tree War by shooting a Native American woman picking peaches on his property. Nicholas also participated in this war.
Due to the various means of spelling his name, and the nonstandard bookkeeping practices of the time, DeMayer's name has been found in many forms:
From "The Roll Family Windmill" {ID:14482}
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Nicholas Fish
Nicholas Fish (1758–1833) was an American Revolutionary soldier, born in New York City.
He attended Princeton but left before graduating to pursue the study of law at King's College (now Columbia University) through the office of John Morin Scott in New York. There he became actively interested in the organization of the Sons of Liberty.
In 1776 he was appointed by Scott aide-de-camp on his staff. Scott had been commissioned brigadier general. On August 21, 1776 he was appointed major of the 2nd New York Regiment. He served as a division inspector under Steuben in 1778, participated in the battles of Saratoga and Monmouth, in Sullivan's expedition against the Native Americans in 1779, and in the Virginia and Yorktown campaigns, in which he served for a time on the staff of Lafayette.
In 1786 he was appointed adjutant general of New York State, which position he held for many years. In 1794 he was appointed by Washington supervisor of the Federal revenue in New York City. On two occasions Fish ran unsuccessfully for United States Congress, losing to Samuel L. Mitchill in 1804 and Gurdon S. Mumford in 1806. Fish also twice ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor of New York. In 1810, he was the Federalist candidate, but lost to incumbent John Broome. Broome subsequently died one month into his term in August 1810. Fish ran in a special election for Lieutenant Governor in 1811 to fill the vacancy created by Broome's death, but lost to the then-mayor of New York City, DeWitt Clinton. During the War of 1812, Fish served as a member of the City Committee of Defense.
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Obadiah German
Obadiah German (April 22, 1766 – September 24, 1842) was an American lawyer and politician.
He was admitted to the bar in 1792, and commenced practice in Norwich.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1798-99, from 1804 to 1805, from 1807 to 1809.
In 1809, he was elected a U.S. Senator from New York, and served from March 4, 1809, to March 4, 1815. German was known as a critic of the lack of military preparations made in advance of the War of 1812, and voted against the declaration of war. In 1812, German was one of the founding trustees of Hamilton College. He was First Judge of the Chenango County Court from 1814 to 1819. He was also a State militia officer, eventually becoming a major general.
Supporting DeWitt Clinton's canal project, German also took part in the construction of the Erie Canal after being appointed State Commissioner of Public Works in 1817. German returned to the Assembly in 1819 and, as a member of the Clintonian faction of the Democratic-Republican Party, was chosen Speaker. Afterwards he resumed the practice of law. German became a Whig when that party was organized.
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Oliver Bascom
Oliver Bascom (1815 Orwell, Addison County, Vermont - November 7, 1869 Whitehall, Washington County, New York) was an American businessman and politician from New York.
His family removed to Whitehall, NY, in 1824. He entered the transportation and forwarding business as a clerk, and in 1841 opened his own company. In 1851 he formed a partnership, Bascom, Vaughn & Co., which later became the Northern Transportation Company. In 1862, he retired from this company, and went to California. Upon his return a short time later, he engaged in farming and the lumber business.
He was four times elected Supervisor of the Town of Whitehall.
In 1868, he was elected a Canal Commissioner on the Democratic ticket, but died near the end of the first year of his term.
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Paul Richard
Paul Richard was the Mayor of New York from 1735 to 1739.
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Peter Buell Porter
Peter Buell Porter (August 14, 1773 – March 20, 1844) was an American lawyer, soldier and politician who served as United States Secretary of War from 1828 to 1829.
He graduated from Yale College in 1791, studied law in Litchfield, Connecticut, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Canandaigua, New York in 1793. He served as clerk of Ontario County from 1797 to 1804 and was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1802 and again in 1828.
In the fall of 1809, Porter moved to Black Rock, New York and was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Eleventh and Twelfth United States Congresses, serving from March 4, 1809 to March 3, 1813, but declined renomination. During his service in Congress, he was a leading figure among Congressional "war hawks" and Chairman of the Committee that recommended preparation for war with Great Britain. At the same time, from 1810 to 1816, he was a member of the Erie Canal Commission, a commission on inland navigation established in 1810 by the New York state Legislature to survey a canal route from the Hudson River to the Great Lakes.
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Philetus Swift
Philetus Swift (June 26, 1763 Kent, Litchfield County, Connecticut – July 24, 1828 Phelps, Ontario County, New York) was an American politician.
He was the son of Elisha Swift (b. 1731) and Mary Ransom (b. 1738). One of Swift's older brothers was future Brigadier General John Swift. On April 4, 1786, he married his first wife Electra Goodrich in Sharon, Connecticut. On May 22, 1793, he married his second wife Sally Deane (1774–1820?) in Phelps, N.Y., and their son was Deane Swift (1794–1818). On November 26, 1823, he married his third wife Fanny (or Fauna, Fawnia, Faunia) Cole (ca. 1792–1880), and their daughter was Electra Jane Swift (1825-1904).
He was a member of the New York State Assembly from Genesee, Ontario and Allegany Counties in 1807 and 1808, and from Ontario County in 1823.
He fought in the War of 1812, and became a lieutenant colonel.
He was a member from the Western District of the New York State Senate from 1810 to 1815 and from 1816 to 1818. In February 1817, when John Tayler became Acting Governor of New York after the resignation of Daniel D. Tompkins, Swift was elected President pro tempore of the State Senate. He was Acting Lieutenant Governor of New York until July 1, 1817.
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Philip Hone
Philip Hone (October 25, 1780 – May 5, 1851) was Mayor of New York from 1826 to 1827. He was most notable for a detailed diary he kept from 1828 until the time of his death in 1851. His recorded diary is said to be the most extensive and detailed of his time in 19th century America.
Son of a German immigrant carpenter, Hone became wealthy in the auction business. He was elected Mayor in 1826, but served only one term. He became a man of great prominence in New York society, for his wealth, sophistication, extensive travel and good taste, and was good friends with most of the political, artistic and scientific leaders of his day. Most notable among them were: Washington Irving, Samuel Morse, Daniel Webster, John Jacob Astor and U.S. Presidents John Quincy Adams and Martin Van Buren.
Hone's diary records not only his society engagements and the major events and spectacles in the city in the first half of the century, but also his view of a changing city: his disapproval of Jacksonian Democracy; the disconcerting effects of the city's constant construction; and his utter disgust with most Irish immigrants.
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Philip Schuyler
Philip John Schuyler (November 20, 1733 – November 18, 1804) was a general in the American Revolution and a United States Senator from New York. He is usually known as Philip Schuyler, while his son is usually known as Philip J. Schuyler.
Philip Schuyler was born in Albany, New York, on November 20, 1733, to John (Johannes) Schuyler, Jr. (1697–1741) and Cornelia Van Cortlandt (1698–1762).
Prior to his father's death, on the eve of his eighth birthday, Schuyler attended the public school at Albany. Afterward, he was educated by tutors at the Van Cortlandt family estate at New Rochelle. He joined the British forces in 1755 during the French and Indian War, raised a company, and was commissioned as its Captain by his cousin, Lt. Governor James Delancey. Later in that war, he served as a quartermaster, purchasing supplies and organizing equipment.
From 1761 to 1762, Schuyler made a trip to England to settle accounts from his work as quartermaster. During this time his home in Albany, later called Schuyler Mansion, was built. His country estate at Saratoga (which is now Schuylerville, New York) was also begun. After the war he also expanded his estate at Saratoga, expanding his holdings to tens of thousands of acres, adding slaves, tenant farmers, a store, mills for flour, flax, and lumber. His flax mill for the making of linen was the first one in America. He built several schooners on the Hudson River, and named the first Saratoga.
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Pierre Van Cortlandt
Pierre Van Cortlandt (January 10, 1721 – May 1, 1814) was the first Lieutenant Governor of the State of New York.
He was born in New York, the son of Philip Van Cortlandt (1683 -1748) (a son of New York Mayor Stephanus Van Cortlandt) and Catherine DePeyster (a granddaughter of Johannes De Peyster— an ancestor of Abraham DePeyster and Arent Schuyler DePeyster). A great uncle Jacobus Van Cortlandt was mayor of New York City.
Van Cortlandt served briefly in the colonial forces during the American Revolution in spite of efforts by British officials to ensure his loyalty to Great Britain.
Van Cortlandt was Vice President of the 4th New York Provincial Congress which convened as the New York State Constitutional Convention from 1776 to 1777. He lost the election as Lieutenant Governor of New York to George Clinton who was elected both Governor and Lt. Gov. in June 1777, but formally resigned the office of Lt. Gov. when he took office as Governor. Van Cortlandt was elected to the New York State Senate in 1777 and was elected Temporary President of the State Senate, and thus was Acting Lt. Governor. In 1778, Van Cortlandt was elected Lt. Gov. to fill the vacancy, and took office on June 30, 1778. He was re-elected five times, remaining in office until 1795.
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Preston King
Preston King (October 14, 1806 – November 12, 1865) was a United States Representative and Senator from New York.
Born in Ogdensburg, New York, he pursued classical studies and graduated from Union College in 1827, where he was an early member of The Kappa Alpha Society. He studied law and was admitted to the bar. He established the St. Lawrence Republican in 1830 and was postmaster of Ogdensburg from 1831 to 1834. He was a member from St. Lawrence County of the New York State Assembly from 1835 to 1838.
King was elected as a Democrat to the 28th and 29th United States Congresses, serving from March 4, 1843, to March 4, 1847. He was Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Invalid Pensions (29th Congress).
King is generally considered as the principal founder of both the Free Soil and Free Soil Democratic Parties, which ran creditable third party national candidates, and one of the two main organizers of the successor Republican Party.
He was elected as a Free Soiler to the 31st and 32nd United States Congresses, serving from March 4, 1849, to March 4, 1853.
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Reuben Fenton
Reuben Eaton Fenton (July 4, 1819 – August 25, 1885) was an American merchant and politician from New York.
The son of a farmer, Fenton was elected a colonel of the New York State Militia in 1840. He became a lumber merchant, and entered politics as a Democrat. He was Supervisor of the Town of Carroll from 1843 to 1850.
He was elected as a Democrat to the 33rd United States Congress, and served from March 4, 1853, to March 4, 1855. In his first term in Congress, Fenton strongly opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 and unsuccessfully tried to persuade President Franklin Pierce and U.S. Secretary of State William L. Marcy to oppose the bill. He was defeated for re-election that year. He was again elected, albeit as a Republican, to the 35th, 36th, 37th and 38th United States Congresses, and served from 1857 to 1865.
He was Governor of New York from 1865 to 1868, elected in 1864 and 1866. In 1868, he was among the candidates to be Vice President but the nomination went eventually to Schuyler Colfax. In January 1869, he was elected a U.S. Senator from New York and served from 1869 to 1875. In 1872 he was among the Republicans opposed to President Ulysses S. Grant who joined the short-lived Liberal Republican Party.
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Richard Ravitch
Richard Ravitch (born July 7, 1933) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 75th Lieutenant Governor of New York from 2009 to 2010. He was appointed to the position in July 2009 by New York Governor David Paterson. A native of New York City, he earned a law degree from Yale Law School and has worked in his family's real estate development business, a number of government and government-appointed positions, including with the New York State Urban Development Corporation and Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and in private industry, including tenures as chairman of the Bowery Savings Bank and as the chief owner representative in labor negotiations for Major League Baseball.
Richard Ravitch (no middle name) was born July 7, 1933 in New York City, the son of Saul (d. 1952) and Sylvia (née Lerner, d. 1974) Ravitch. His father was a co-founder of HRH Construction Corporation, which eventually grew to have offices in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico. The firm had begun building in Manhattan in the late nineteenth century, and by 1965 had built more than $1 billion worth of projects, including Columbia University Law School and New York University Hospital. Ravitch is a member of the third generation of the family to run the company.
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Richard Varick
Richard Varick was an American lawyer and politician. He was born on March 15, 1753 at Hackensack in Bergen County, New Jersey, and he died on July 30, 1831 at Jersey City in Hudson County, New Jersey.
At the outset of the American Revolution, he was studying law at King's College (the former name of Columbia University) in New York City. He suspended his studies and became a captain in the militia. On June 28, 1775, he was appointed captain of the 1st New York Regiment. He served under General Philip Schuyler in various posts until after the Battle of Saratoga when he was appointed inspector-general of West Point.
At West Point, he became an aide to General Benedict Arnold. Although he was no longer serving in this capacity when Arnold defected to the British, Varick, along with David Franks was arrested. They were subsequently cleared by a court of inquiry. After the West Point incident, Varick served under General George Washington as private secretary until the end of the war.
Varick was Recorder of New York from 1784 to 1789, and New York State Attorney General from 1788 to 1789. He was Mayor of New York City from 1789 to 1801. Along with Samuel Jones, Varick revised and standardized the statutes of New York (1788). He was a member of the New York State Assembly from New York County from 1786 to 1788, and he was Speaker during the sessions of 1787 and 1788. Meanwhile, he served as a colonel in the state militia.
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Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat. In 1800, he was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte to design the Nautilus, which was the first practical submarine in history. He is also credited with inventing some of the world's earliest naval torpedoes for use by the British Navy.
Fulton became interested in steamboats in 1777 when he visited William Henry of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who had earlier learned about James Watt's steam engine on a visit to England. Robert Fulton died from exposure in 1815.
Robert Fulton was born on a farm in Little Britain, Pennsylvania, on November 14, 1765. He had at least three sisters--Isabella, Elizabeth, and Mary, and a younger brother, Abraham. His father, Robert Fulton, was born in Ireland and emigrated to Philadelphia where he married Mary smith. The father moved the family to Lancaster, Pennsylvania where the younger Fulton attended a Quaker elementary school. Fulton showed an early interest in mechanical things. At the early age of 13, he invented paddle wheels to go alongside his father's fishing boat. He especially favored gunsmiths and even offered some suggestions that were adopted by the workmen. As a boy he built rockets and experimented with mercury and bullets. His friends nicknamed him “Quicksilver Bob.”
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Roscoe Conkling
Roscoe Conkling (October 30, 1829 – April 18, 1888) was a politician from New York who served both as a member of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. He was the leader of the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party, the first Republican senator from New York to be elected for three terms, and the last person to refuse a U.S. Supreme Court appointment after he had already been confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
Conkling was born in 1829 in Albany, New York to Alfred Conkling, a U.S. Representative and federal judge and his wife Eliza Cockburn. At 17, Roscoe began the study of law in the offices of Spencer and Kernan in Utica, New York. He married Julia Catherine Seymour, sister of the Democratic politician and Governor of New York Horatio Seymour. His first political endeavor came in 1848, when he made campaign speeches in behalf of Taylor and Fillmore. He was admitted to the bar in 1850, and in the same year became district attorney of Oneida County by appointment of Governor Fish.
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Rufus King
Rufus King (March 24, 1755 – April 29, 1827) was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat. He was a delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress. He also attended the Constitutional Convention and was one of the signers of the United States Constitution on September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He represented New York in the United States Senate, served as Minister to Britain, and was the Federalist candidate for both Vice President (1804, 1808) and President of the United States (1816).
He was born on March 24, 1755 at Scarborough which was then a part of Massachusetts but is now in the state of Maine. He was a son of Sabilla Blagden and Richard King, a prosperous farmer-merchant, who had settled at Dunstan Landing in Scarborough, near Portland, Maine, and had made a modest fortune by 1755, the year Rufus was born.
His financial success aroused the jealousy of his neighbors, and when the Stamp Act 1765 was imposed, and rioting became almost respectable, a mob ransacked his house and destroyed most of the furniture. Nobody was punished, and the next year the mob burned down his barn. It was not surprising that Richard King became a loyalist. All of his sons, however, became patriots in the American War of Independence.
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Seymour Lowman
Seymour Lowman (October 7, 1868 Chemung, Chemung County, New York - March 13, 1940) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1925 to 1926.
He was the son of John Lowman (1832–1884) and Fanny (Bixby) Lowman. On September 9, 1893, he married Katherine Harding Smith.
He was admitted to the bar, and practiced at Elmira, New York.
He was a member from Chemung County of the New York State Assembly from 1909 to 1910. He was Chairman of the Chemung County Republican Committee from 1912 to 1934. He was a member of the New York State Senate from the 41st District from 1919 to 1924. He was a delegate to the 1924 and 1932 Republican National Conventions.
He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1925 to 1926, elected in 1924 on the Republican ticket to serve with Democratic Governor Al Smith whose running mate George R. Lunn was defeated. Lowman was the last lieutenant governor of New York who was not the running mate of the elected governor. In 1926, he was defeated for re-election when Al Smith was re-elected with his running mate Edwin Corning.
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Silas Wright
Silas Wright, Jr. (May 24, 1795 – August 27, 1847) was an American Democratic politician. Wright was born in Amherst, Massachusetts and moved with his father to Weybridge, Vermont in 1796. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1815 and moved to Sandy Hill, New York, the next year, where he studied law, being admitted to the bar in 1819. Wright commenced practice in Canton, New York. He served as surrogate of St. Lawrence County 1821-1824 and then as a member of the New York State senate from 1824 to 1827. Wright was appointed brigadier general of the state militia in 1827.
In 1826, he was elected to the Twentieth Congress and served from March 4, 1827, to February 16, 1829, when he resigned. He successfully contested the election of George Fisher to the Twenty-first Congress, but declined to qualify. Wright served as Comptroller of the State of New York from 1829 to 1833, in which post he became a prominent follower of Martin Van Buren and a member of the Albany Regency that ran the state for the Democratic Party in this period. Wright was elected to the United States Senate in 1833 as a Democrat to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William L. Marcy. He was reelected in 1837 and served from January 4, 1833, to November 26, 1844. In the Senate, he served as Chairman of the Finance Committee from 1836 to 1841.
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Simeon De Witt
Simeon De Witt (December 25, 1756 Wawarsing, Ulster County, New York - December 3, 1834 Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York) was Geographer and Surveyor General of the Continental Army during the American Revolution and Surveyor General of the State of New York for the fifty years from 1784 until his death.
He was one of fourteen children of physician Dr. Andries De Witt and Jannetje Vernooy De Witt. He was the only graduate in the class of 1776 at Queens College (now Rutgers College of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. After the capture of New Brunswick by the British during the war, De Witt fled to New York City where he joined the Revolutionary Army.
In June 1778, having been trained as a surveyor by James Clinton, the husband of Simeon's aunt Mary, De Witt was appointed as assistant to the Geographer and Surveyor of the Army Colonel Robert Erskine and contributed to a number of historically significant maps. After Erskine's death in 1780, De Witt was appointed to his post. In 1784, he was appointed New York State Surveyor General and died in office 50 years later, having been re-appointed and re-elected several times. Although he was a first cousin of DeWitt Clinton and a Democratic-Republican, he was never removed from office. Both Federalists and Bucktails recognized his outstanding qualification for the office. From 1810 to 1816, he was also a member of the first Erie Canal Commission.
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Simon Newton Dexter
Simon Newton Dexter (May 11, 1785 Providence, Rhode Island - November 18, 1862 Whitesboro, Oneida County, New York) was an American merchant and politician from New York.
He was the son of Andrew Dexter, the first American manufacturer of cotton goods.
He matriculated at Brown University, but soon left that institution to engage in business in Boston. In 1815, he removed to Whitesboro, and in 1817 took part in the construction of a section of the Erie Canal. From 1824 to 1829, he was engaged in the construction of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.
On returning to Whitesboro he became agent of the Oriskany Manufacturing Company, and in 1832 assumed charge of the Dexter Company. He was also largely interested in manufactures elsewhere in the State of New York and in Elgin, Illinois.
In 1840, he was elected by the New York State Legislature one of the canal commissioners, and remained in office until 1842 when the new Democratic majority removed the Whig commissioners.
He was a trustee of Hamilton College, and for several years supported a professorship, giving the College in all about $32,000. He was President of the Whitestown Bank from 1833 to 1853, and Manager of the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica from 1849 to 1862.
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Stan Lundine
Stanley Nelson Lundine (born February 4, 1939) is a politician from Jamestown, New York who served as Mayor of Jamestown, a United States Representative, and the 71st Lieutenant Governor of New York. A Democrat, he was inaugurated Mayor in 1970 and served to 1976 when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives after the resignation of James F. Hastings in the district representing the Southern Tier of New York State. While he was Mayor Jamestown received national attention as a result of the Labor Management strategy that Lundine implemented. Jamestown, long the center of labor strife, became a model for labor/management co-operation. As a Congressman, Lundine brought his labor/management ideas to Washington, and was instrumental in developing legislation that created labor/management councils and employee stock ownership plans. He focused on finance, banking and economic development policy, and also served on the Science Committee. He was a subcommittee chairman on the House Banking Committee. He graduated from Duke University in 1961 and from the New York University School of Law in 1964. Lundine is the only Democrat to have represented the Western Southern Tier in Congress in the 20th century, and no other Democrats would do so until Democrats Brian Higgins and Eric Massa won both portions of the now-divided district in 2005 and 2009 respectively.
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Stephen Allen
Stephen Allen (July 2, 1767 – July 28, 1852) was an American politician from New York.
He was Mayor of New York City from March 6, 1821 to 1824, first appointed by the Council of Appointment in 1821, and then elected by the Board of Aldermen in 1823 and 1824.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly (New York Co.) in 1826.
He was a member of the New York State Senate (1st D.) from 1829 to 1832, sitting in the 52nd, 53rd, 54th and 55th New York State Legislatures.
In 1835, Allen removed to 1 Washington Square North.
He died in the Henry Clay steamboat disaster on July 28, 1852 in Riverdale, Bronx and was buried at the New York City Marble Cemetery.
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Stephen Bayard
Stephen Bayard was the Mayor of New York City from 1744 to 1747.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt (
/ˈroʊzəvɛlt/ ROH-zə-velt; October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was the 26th President of the United States of America (1901–1909). He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity. He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the short-lived Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party of 1912. Before becoming President, he held offices at the city, state, and federal levels. Roosevelt's achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any office he held as a politician. Roosevelt was 42 years old when sworn in as President of the United States in 1901, making him the youngest president ever; he beat out the youngest elected president, John F. Kennedy, by only one year. Roosevelt was also one of only three sitting presidents to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the other two being Woodrow Wilson and Barack Obama.
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Thomas Clowes
Thomas Clowes (August 5, 1791 Marblehead, Essex County, Massachusetts - April 9, 1866) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
His father and uncles were seafaring men. While a boy he went to sea with his uncle, making two voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1808, he went to live with an uncle, who had settled in Brunswick, Rensselaer County, New York, with the promise of becoming heir to his property. After the death of his uncle, he went to the county seat Troy, New York, to settle the estate, but eventually remained there and studied law at the office of Ross & McConihe. On July 6, 1818, he married Nancy Cox, but of their children only one daughter reached maturity.
He was Surrogate of Rensselaer County from 1821 to 1827.
From 1840 to 1844, he was a Canal Appraiser.
In November 1846, he was elected on the Whig and Anti-Rent tickets a Canal Commissioner. Under the Act of May 6, 1844, there were two canal commissioners to be elected to a four-year term beginning on February 1, 1847, but at the same State election the voters ratified the New York State Constitution of 1846 which extended the terms of the incumbent commissioners until the end of 1847, calling for a new election in November 1847. Thus Clowes could not take office for his elected term. However, on November 1, 1847, Commissioner Nathaniel Jones resigned, and Clowes was elected by the New York State Legislature on November 15 to fill the vacancy, and remained in office for six weeks, until the end of the year.
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Thomas Delavall
Thomas Delavall (also spelled Delaval or DeLavall; 1620 – 1682) was a British-born American official and businessman. He was appointed the Mayor of New York City on three separate occasions, in 1664, 1665 and 1673 respectively.
Born in London, England, Delavall first came to America in 1664 as a officer in Richard Nicolls' army, in which he later accompanied in the Invasion of New York City. Often referred to as "Captain", he had since became a prominent citizen in the community owning a large amount of real estate around the colony, such as houses in New York City and Kingston, along with a mill in Yonkers, and land in Gravesend. Delavall was first appointed Receiver-General of New York City in 1664. He was a member of the Governor's Council of Advisors in 1667, and a judge of the province in 1679.
He was appointed the second mayor of New York City in 1666, succeeding Thomas Willett. He would be reappointed again in 1671, and lastly again in 1678.
Delavall's daughter married William Dervall, another future mayor of the city. Delavall died in 1682 shortly after writing his will.
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Thomas Eddy
Thomas Eddy (September 5, 1758 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - September 16, 1827 New York City) was an American merchant, banker, philanthropist and politician from New York.
He was the son of Irish Quaker immigrants who had come to America about five years prior to his birth. His father was engaged in the shipping business until 1766 when he went into hardware, but died later the same year. A few years later, the family removed to Bucks County, Pennsylvania. When thirteen years old, Eddy was apprenticed to learn the tanning business in Burlington, New Jersey but remained there only two years.
In September 1779, Eddy removed to New York City, and became a merchant, dealing mostly in imported goods which were shipped from England and Ireland by his brother Charles. In 1781, he earned a large amount by the remittance of money from the British headquarters in New York to the troops under General Cornwallis who were held prisoners at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, after the fall of Yorktown.
In 1782, Eddy married Hannah Hartshorne at New York City. Afterward, he returned to Philadelphia and formed a partnership with his brother George. In the wake of the commercial crisis in the middle of the 1780s, he and his brothers George and Charles went bankrupt. He removed to New York City again, and became the first insurance broker there, and later an underwriter, speculating in public funds. He became thus a director of the Mutual Insurance Company, and the Western Inland Lock Navigation Company. In 1803, he was one of the founders of the New York Savings Bank.
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Thomas Willett
Thomas Willett (1605 – August 29, 1674) was a British-born American merchant, Plymouth Colony trader and sea-captain, Commissioner of New Netherland, magistrate of Plymouth Colony, Captain of the Plymouth Colony militia and was the first Mayor of New York City, prior to the consolidation of the five boroughs into the City of New York in 1898.
The fourth son of Andrew Willet, he was born in August 1605, in the rectory-house of Barley, Hertfordshire, and was baptised on the 29th of the same month. He was educated at The King's School, Ely. His father dying when he was only sixteen years of age, he appears to have continued to reside with his widowed mother and maternal grandmother till he came of age. Shortly after he went to Leyden, and then to the new Plymouth Colony where he gained the trust of Governor William Bradford.
In 1633, after he had become a successful trader with the Native Americans, he was admitted to the freedom of the colony, and married a daughter of Major John Brown, a leading citizen. He shortly afterwards became a large shipowner, trading with New Amsterdam. He was elected one of the assistant governors of the Plymouth colony, and acted as arbitrator in disputes between the English and Dutch colonies; he also became captain of a military company. Early in 1660 he left Plymouth, and, establishing himself in Rhode Island, became the founder of the town of Swansey.
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Walter Bowne
Walter Bowne (26 September 1770 – 31 August 1846) was the four term Mayor of New York from 1829 to 1833.
Walter Bowne was born on Flushing, Long Island, the son of James Bowne and his wife Caroline Rodman.
He was a New York State senator from the Southern District from 1816 to 1822, and from the 1st District 1823 to 1824.
He was a member of the Council of Appointment at Albany from 1817 to 1820.
He was Mayor of New York City from 1829 to 1833. Faced with reports of cholera in neighboring towns in 1832, he implemented a strict quarantine policy, regulating travel to and from New York City, and restricting ships to a distance of 300 yards from port, and carriages from within 1.5 miles of the city. His attempt to prevent an epidemic failed - because it was based on the mistaken but then-accepted notion that transmission of cholera was through personal contact rather than through contaminated water and food, The actual means of transmission was not discovered until 1883.
Bowne was also the first President of 7th Ward Bank of New York City.
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Warner Miller
Warner Miller (August 12, 1838 – March 21, 1918) was a Representative and a United States Senator from New York.
Miller was born in Hannibal, Oswego County, New York on August 12, 1838. He attended the common schools and the Charlottesville Academy. Fefe He graduated from Union College, Schenectady, New York, in 1860.
He became a professor of Latin and Greek in the Fort Edward Collegiate Institute. During the American Civil War, he enlisted as a private in the Fifth Regiment, New York Volunteer Cavalry in 1861. He was promoted to the rank of sergeant major and lieutenant. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Winchester. He was exchanged and honorably discharged. He engaged in agricultural pursuits and was the founder of a wood-pulp business. He developed new techniques for paper production and was president of the American Paper & Pulp Association.
Miller was a member of the New York State assembly from 1873 to 1876. He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses and served from March 4, 1879 until his resignation on July 26, 1881. He was elected as a Republican in 1881 to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas C. Platt and served from July 27, 1881, to March 4, 1887. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1887. He was chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry (Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses). He was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of New York in 1888. He was the chairman of the Special Tax Commission of the State of New York 1906.
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Washington Hunt
Washington Hunt (August 5, 1811 – February 2, 1867) was an American lawyer and politician.
He moved to Lockport, New York in 1828 to study law, was admitted to the bar in 1834, and opened a law office on Market Street in 1835. He was First Judge of the Niagara County Court from 1836 to 1841.
He was elected as a Whig to the 28th, 29th and 30th United States Congresses, and served from March 4, 1843, to March 3, 1849.
He was elected New York State Comptroller by the State Legislature after the resignation of Millard Fillmore who had been elected U.S. Vice President. In November 1849, he was re-elected, but resigned the comptrollership after his election as Governor of New York the following year. He was Governor from 1851 to 1852, and was defeated for re-election by Horatio Seymour.
After the break-up of the Whig Party, Hunt, in spite of his previous association with the Seward/Weed faction, was among the more conservative Whigs who refused to join the Republicans. Hunt was the chairman of the 1856 Whig National Convention and supported his fellow New York Whig, former president Millard Fillmore for the presidency in that year. In 1860, Hunt joined the Constitutional Union Party and supported its nominee for the presidency, John Bell. After it became clear that Bell could not win on his own in New York, Hunt was involved in the formation of a fusion ticket with the supporters of Democrat Stephen Douglas.
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Whitehead Hicks
Whitehead Hicks was the Mayor of New York from 1766 to 1776.
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William Dervall
William Dervall (born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands) was Mayor of New York City from October 17, 1675 until October 14, 1676. His wife was the daughter of former Mayor Thomas Delavall.
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William Dorsheimer
William Dorsheimer (February 5, 1832 Lyons, Wayne County, New York – March 26, 1888 Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia) was an American lawyer, journalist and politician.
He was the son of Philip Dorsheimer. He was educated in common schools, then at Phillips Andover Academy, and then studied at Harvard College from 1849 to 1851. He left Harvard without graduating because of a protracted illness, though in 1859 Harvard gave him the degree of M.A. After leaving Harvard in 1851, he settled in Buffalo, New York, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1854. In 1859, he formed a partnership with Solomon G. Haven. In politics, he began as a Democrat, joined the Republican Party in 1856, and in 1860 again supported the Republican ticket.
In 1861, he joined the Union Army as an aide-de-camp with the rank of major and served on the staff of General John C. Frémont, but at the close of the Missouri campaign Dorsheimer returned to civil life, and published a series of articles in the Atlantic Monthly entitled “Frémont's Hundred Days in Missouri.”
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William Dyre
William Dyre was an Englishman who served as the Mayor of New York City from October 30, 1680 until 1682.
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William North
William North (1755 – January 3, 1836) was an American soldier and politician.
He was the son of John North, who commanded Fort Frederick in 1751, and Fort St. George in Thomaston, Maine, in 1758. He moved with his mother, Elizabeth North, to Boston, Massachusetts.
He entered the Continental Army in 1775, and served under Benedict Arnold in the unfortunate expedition to Canada in that year. He was appointed in May 1777 as captain in Henry Jackson's 16th Massachusetts Regiment, with which he participated in the Battle of Monmouth. In 1779 he became aide-de-camp to Baron Steuben, whom he greatly aided in introducing his system of discipline in the Continental Army. Later he accompanied Steuben to Virginia, and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis.
According to historian William Benemann, it is likely that North was romantically involved with Steuben and another male companion, Captain Benjamin Walker. However, based on the limited historical record, Benemann said his research is not entirely conclusive, writing that "it is impossible to prove the nature of the relationships."
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William Peartree
William Peartree (ca. 1643–1714) was Mayor of New York from 1703 to 1707. He married Anna, daughter of Daniel Litsco (1615–1662) (a lieutenant of Peter Stuyvesant) and Annetje Croesen Litsco, who later for many years entertained at "Mother Litsco's Tavern" on lower Pearl Street near the Brooklyn ferry.
Peartree began his career as a planter in Jamaica in the Caribbean and, during King William's War with France, had success as a privateer. After Port Royal, Jamaica sank into the sea in the earthquake of 1692, Peartree moved back to New York much enriched from his depredation upon Spanish and French shipping. When Queen Anne's War began in 1702, William Peartree was elected mayor in 1703, as New Yorkers saw fit to elect an experienced naval captain to defend the town. He served as mayor until 1707 and died in 1714.
William Peartree's great-grandson, William Peartree Smith, was a founder of Princeton University.
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William Sulzer
William Sulzer (March 18, 1863 – November 6, 1941) was an American lawyer and politician, nicknamed Plain Bill Sulzer. He was the 39th Governor of New York and a long-serving congressman from the same state. He was the first and so far only New York Governor to be impeached. His brother Charles August Sulzer served in Congress as a delegate from the Territory of Alaska.
Sulzer attended the public schools and graduated from Columbia College. Then he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1884, and commenced practice in New York City.
He was a member from New York County of the New York State Assembly from 1889 to 1894, and was Speaker in 1893. He was also as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1892, 1896, 1900, 1904, 1908 and 1912.
Sulzer was elected to the Fifty-fourth United States Congress, and served as a U.S. Representative from New York in the eight succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1895, to December 31, 1912. In the Sixty-second United States Congress he chaired the Committee on Foreign Affairs. He resigned from Congress effective December 31, 1912, having been elected Governor of New York in November 1912 for the term beginning on January 1, 1913.
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DeWitt Clinton HS Party 12-04-2009 - Step, Dance and Cheerleaders - Toro Party DJs
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:57
- Updated: 12 May 2012
This party was held on 12-04-2009 @ DeWitt Clinton HS (DWC) and they partied out with TORO PARTY DJS. If your having a HS party in the city, please feel free to visit us online: www.toropartydjs.com Twitter www.twitter.com Facebook: www.facebook.com
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This party was held on 12-04-2009 @ DeWitt Clinton HS (DWC) and they partied out with TORO PARTY DJS. If your having a HS party in the city, please feel free to visit us online: www.toropartydjs.com Twitter www.twitter.com Facebook: www.facebook.com
Ashton Mckenzie PSAL Football - DeWitt Clinton HS
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:46
- Updated: 26 Nov 2012
Ashton Mckenzie PSAL Football - DeWitt Clinton HS
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Ashton Mckenzie PSAL Football - DeWitt Clinton HS
- published: 26 Sep 2011
- views: 1375
- author: sportsclipstv
Stan Lee sings the DeWitt Clinton HS Fight Song
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:58
- Updated: 25 Jan 2013
Stan Lee wants the whole world to hear the DeWitt Clinton HS fight song. Stan graduated from Clinton in 1939 and, ever proud of his Bronx alma mater, he has not forgotten a word of the song. Rumor has it that his creations—Spider-Man, the Hulk, and the Fantastic Four—also know the words by heart. Visit www.dewittclintonalumni.com to download a booklet of notable alumni of DeWitt Clinton High School. Visit www.castleontheparkway.com to learn about DeWitt Clinton High School.
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Stan Lee wants the whole world to hear the DeWitt Clinton HS fight song. Stan graduated from Clinton in 1939 and, ever proud of his Bronx alma mater, he has not forgotten a word of the song. Rumor has it that his creations—Spider-Man, the Hulk, and the Fantastic Four—also know the words by heart. Visit www.dewittclintonalumni.com to download a booklet of notable alumni of DeWitt Clinton High School. Visit www.castleontheparkway.com to learn about DeWitt Clinton High School.
- published: 29 Oct 2012
- views: 1638
- author: dwcgovernors
Bachmann 0-4-0 The DeWitt Clinton
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:54
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
Bachmann 0-4-0 The DeWitt Clinton The De Witt Clinton train which was built by the West Point Foundry, New York, in 1831
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Bachmann 0-4-0 The DeWitt Clinton The De Witt Clinton train which was built by the West Point Foundry, New York, in 1831
- published: 15 Jun 2008
- views: 9560
- author: cactus190706
Dewitt Clinton High School Gymnastics
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:32
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
Jean Carlos Rodriquez doing floor:-)
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The boss telling em straight - Dewitt Clinton High School
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- Duration: 3:26
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
(12/06/12) THE BRONX - Hundreds of students, parents and teachers gathered tonight at DeWitt Clinton High School to figure out the school's fate after it received a failing grade from the Department of Education. The community forum is trying to formulate a plan that would keep the high school open. Teachers at the school say that they want to make it clear to the officials at the department that the school will work on any necessary changes. Many believe that the failing grades are due to the lack of resources that the school has been provided.
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(12/06/12) THE BRONX - Hundreds of students, parents and teachers gathered tonight at DeWitt Clinton High School to figure out the school's fate after it received a failing grade from the Department of Education. The community forum is trying to formulate a plan that would keep the high school open. Teachers at the school say that they want to make it clear to the officials at the department that the school will work on any necessary changes. Many believe that the failing grades are due to the lack of resources that the school has been provided.
- published: 07 Dec 2012
- views: 300
- author: asadalitofficial
Rayan Camilo PSAL Football DeWitt Clinton HS
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- Duration: 0:49
- Updated: 23 Sep 2012
Rayan Camilo PSAL Football DeWitt Clinton HS
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Rayan Camilo PSAL Football DeWitt Clinton HS
- published: 26 Sep 2011
- views: 1356
- author: sportsclipstv
THE DEWITT CLINTON
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:02
- Updated: 12 Aug 2012
one of our nations greatest and most famous locomotives my de witt clinton has been sitting on a display shelf and i couldnt take it any more so i took it down and here is the result. this outstanding little engine was built for the M &H; railway in 1831 and could pull you at the frightening pace of eighteen miles per hour! it set a record by making the albany to schenectady run in 46 minutes. its train was made from stage coaches modified to fit the guage and people rode on top of and in the cars. this proved to be a disadvantage though because the sparks from the wood caght peoples clothes on fire so spark arresters were put into use on the engines. named after the father of the erie canal i am proud to call this model my own. the song is on here because it is relevent to the time period!!!!!!
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one of our nations greatest and most famous locomotives my de witt clinton has been sitting on a display shelf and i couldnt take it any more so i took it down and here is the result. this outstanding little engine was built for the M &H; railway in 1831 and could pull you at the frightening pace of eighteen miles per hour! it set a record by making the albany to schenectady run in 46 minutes. its train was made from stage coaches modified to fit the guage and people rode on top of and in the cars. this proved to be a disadvantage though because the sparks from the wood caght peoples clothes on fire so spark arresters were put into use on the engines. named after the father of the erie canal i am proud to call this model my own. the song is on here because it is relevent to the time period!!!!!!
- published: 23 Nov 2010
- views: 1038
- author: locodriver107
"Make It Better" - DeWitt Clinton HS (Bronx, NY)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:20
- Updated: 06 Jan 2013
How often do you think about where your food comes from? On the twentieth of April, 2010, the bus stopped at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx to record "Make it Better," a track promoting food awareness. Check it out!
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How often do you think about where your food comes from? On the twentieth of April, 2010, the bus stopped at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx to record "Make it Better," a track promoting food awareness. Check it out!
- published: 11 May 2010
- views: 5124
- author: johnlennonbus
DeWitt Clinton HS Prom 2010 - Toro Party DJs - Bronx, NYC
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:18
- Updated: 08 Dec 2012
DeWitt Clinton HS aka DWC prom at the beautiful Glen Island Harbour Club in New Rochelle, NY. Special Thank you to Mr. Jackson for having us at DWC events for another year! And shout out to the Clinton Seniors of 2010!
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DeWitt Clinton HS aka DWC prom at the beautiful Glen Island Harbour Club in New Rochelle, NY. Special Thank you to Mr. Jackson for having us at DWC events for another year! And shout out to the Clinton Seniors of 2010!
- published: 14 Jun 2010
- views: 3256
- author: djtoro163
DeWitt Clinton HS Prom 2009 - Toro Party DJs - Bronx Prom DJ High School
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:45
- Updated: 01 Jun 2012
NYC PROM DJ - Toro Party DJs provides entertainment for De Witt Clinton HS (Bronx, NY) 2009 Prom. Held at the brilliant Glen Island Harbour Club, in New Rochelle, NY, on June 4, 2009. Special thank you to Mr. Jackson of Clinton for having us. www.toropartydjs.com for bookings. For your next event. Call us at 646-769-0924
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NYC PROM DJ - Toro Party DJs provides entertainment for De Witt Clinton HS (Bronx, NY) 2009 Prom. Held at the brilliant Glen Island Harbour Club, in New Rochelle, NY, on June 4, 2009. Special thank you to Mr. Jackson of Clinton for having us. www.toropartydjs.com for bookings. For your next event. Call us at 646-769-0924
- published: 07 Jun 2009
- views: 8714
- author: djtoro163
1973 PSAL Basketball Finals (Dewitt Clinton vs. Harren) @ The Felt Forum.mp4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 107:46
- Updated: 22 Jun 2012
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Dewitt Clinton PSAL Champs 1977 1st Quart (Mike Napolitano)
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- Duration: 9:41
- Updated: 15 Oct 2011
Mike Napolitano Scores 26 Points As Dewitt Clinton Comes From behind to win PSAL Championship over McKee High School From Staten Island In March Of 1977.
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Mike Napolitano Scores 26 Points As Dewitt Clinton Comes From behind to win PSAL Championship over McKee High School From Staten Island In March Of 1977.
- published: 25 Oct 2009
- views: 1035
- author: Joey Santiago
DeWitt Clinton HS Party 02-12-10 - Toro Party DJs - NYC DJs
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:17
- Updated: 20 Oct 2011
Clinton party hosted by the Varsity Baseball team @ DeWitt Clinton HS in the Bronx, NY. Toro Party DJs was in the building to help make sure it was a packed house. We even made some sweet posters to promote this party. www.toropartydjs.com
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Clinton party hosted by the Varsity Baseball team @ DeWitt Clinton HS in the Bronx, NY. Toro Party DJs was in the building to help make sure it was a packed house. We even made some sweet posters to promote this party. www.toropartydjs.com
- published: 11 Mar 2010
- views: 2530
- author: djtoro163
Step, Dance, Cheer Competition at DeWitt Clinton HS - Bronx, NY - Toro Party DJs
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:44
- Updated: 27 Jun 2012
Annual step, dance, & cheerleading competition held at DeWitt Clinton HS in the Bronx, NY with music by Toro Party DJ's. It was a great day full of fun and fierce, but friendly competition. Shout out to all the schools that were in attendance from around NYC. www.toropartydjs.com for bookings. Bronx DJ for your next event.
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Annual step, dance, & cheerleading competition held at DeWitt Clinton HS in the Bronx, NY with music by Toro Party DJ's. It was a great day full of fun and fierce, but friendly competition. Shout out to all the schools that were in attendance from around NYC. www.toropartydjs.com for bookings. Bronx DJ for your next event.
- published: 08 Apr 2009
- views: 7053
- author: djtoro163
Bachmann HO scale DeWitt Clinton
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- Duration: 0:42
- Updated: 18 Jan 2013
My Bachmann HO scale Dewitt Clinton train set whizzes around my test track, garnering attention until an unfortunate head-on encounter with an F7. This video reached 130 views on PriceTveyron's Channel before being taken down, with the comment "lol old". This video has been altered from the original in that it actually shows the collision at 0:30 rather than fading to black just before it.
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My Bachmann HO scale Dewitt Clinton train set whizzes around my test track, garnering attention until an unfortunate head-on encounter with an F7. This video reached 130 views on PriceTveyron's Channel before being taken down, with the comment "lol old". This video has been altered from the original in that it actually shows the collision at 0:30 rather than fading to black just before it.
- published: 11 Jan 2011
- views: 3537
- author: SecondRateCinema
Dr. Norman Weschler speaks about Dewitt Clinton HS
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- Duration: 3:22
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
Former principle Dr. Norman Weschler speaks on behalf of Dewitt Clinton high school. He is my favorite principle of all time.
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Former principle Dr. Norman Weschler speaks on behalf of Dewitt Clinton high school. He is my favorite principle of all time.
- published: 07 Dec 2012
- views: 367
- author: Walter Lucky Church Simons
De WItt Clinton High School PROM!!!!! 09!!!!!
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- Duration: 1:47
- Updated: 02 Jan 2013
Damn this was an unforgettable moment, The name is Aldo Lucero MACY's, what you know about that lol
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Damn this was an unforgettable moment, The name is Aldo Lucero MACY's, what you know about that lol
- published: 07 Jun 2009
- views: 4335
- author: silentsoldier
DeWitt Clinton Fan Trip
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- Duration: 0:50
- Updated: 04 Nov 2012
Here we see the HO scale Bachmann DeWitt Clinton locomotive and coaches making a fan trip on Ernie's DM&IR; model railroad.
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Here we see the HO scale Bachmann DeWitt Clinton locomotive and coaches making a fan trip on Ernie's DM&IR; model railroad.
- published: 03 Jun 2009
- views: 2457
- author: CabinCar
DeWitt Clinton at SV-GTUG 3/3/2010
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- Duration: 54:46
- Updated: 17 Aug 2010
www.meetup.com Googler DeWitt Clinton will be stopping by briefly to take your questions about Buzz. DeWitt posted the Google Buzz Announcement on their Socal Web Blog. You should see his Buzz about the Buzz API too.
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www.meetup.com Googler DeWitt Clinton will be stopping by briefly to take your questions about Buzz. DeWitt posted the Google Buzz Announcement on their Socal Web Blog. You should see his Buzz about the Buzz API too.
- published: 04 Mar 2010
- views: 272
- author: gtugs
Dewitt Clinton High School Gymnastics
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- Duration: 0:27
- Updated: 25 Oct 2012
Boys gymnastics( Emmanuel Tosado doing high bars!:-)
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Boys gymnastics( Emmanuel Tosado doing high bars!:-)
- published: 14 Jan 2011
- views: 668
- author: ellokoboricua
DeWitt Clinton High School: Memories Shared
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- Duration: 4:32
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
this is just a little compilation of my friends and I. We're moving on to senior year and I just wanted to reflect on our past =]]
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this is just a little compilation of my friends and I. We're moving on to senior year and I just wanted to reflect on our past =]]
- published: 15 Aug 2009
- views: 10119
- author: Natsumi4ever
DeWitt Clinton Cheerleaders
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- Duration: 0:46
- Updated: 17 Dec 2011
youtu.be Herbert H. Lehman HS @ DeWitt Clinton HS Final Score 48-6 Clinton 4 - 5 Record 11/7/10
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youtu.be Herbert H. Lehman HS @ DeWitt Clinton HS Final Score 48-6 Clinton 4 - 5 Record 11/7/10
- published: 07 Nov 2010
- views: 1087
- author: N2OCam68
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DeWitt Clinton HS Party 12-04-2009 - Step, Dance and Cheerleaders - Toro Party DJs
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:57
- Updated: 12 May 2012
This party was held on 12-04-2009 @ DeWitt Clinton HS (DWC) and they partied out with TORO PARTY DJS. If your having a HS party in the city, please feel free to visit us online: www.toropartydjs.com Twitter www.twitter.com Facebook: www.facebook.com
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This party was held on 12-04-2009 @ DeWitt Clinton HS (DWC) and they partied out with TORO PARTY DJS. If your having a HS party in the city, please feel free to visit us online: www.toropartydjs.com Twitter www.twitter.com Facebook: www.facebook.com
- published: 07 Dec 2009
- views: 5044
- author: djtoro163
Ashton Mckenzie PSAL Football - DeWitt Clinton HS
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:46
- Updated: 26 Nov 2012
Ashton Mckenzie PSAL Football - DeWitt Clinton HS
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Ashton Mckenzie PSAL Football - DeWitt Clinton HS
- published: 26 Sep 2011
- views: 1352
- author: sportsclipstv
Stan Lee sings the DeWitt Clinton HS Fight Song
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:58
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
Stan Lee wants the whole world to hear the DeWitt Clinton HS fight song. Stan graduated from Clinton in 1939 and, ever proud of his Bronx alma mater, he has not forgotten a word of the song. Rumor has it that his creations—Spider-Man, the Hulk, and the Fantastic Four—also know the words by heart. Visit www.dewittclintonalumni.com to download a booklet of notable alumni of DeWitt Clinton High School. Visit www.castleontheparkway.com to learn about DeWitt Clinton High School.
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Stan Lee wants the whole world to hear the DeWitt Clinton HS fight song. Stan graduated from Clinton in 1939 and, ever proud of his Bronx alma mater, he has not forgotten a word of the song. Rumor has it that his creations—Spider-Man, the Hulk, and the Fantastic Four—also know the words by heart. Visit www.dewittclintonalumni.com to download a booklet of notable alumni of DeWitt Clinton High School. Visit www.castleontheparkway.com to learn about DeWitt Clinton High School.
- published: 29 Oct 2012
- views: 1543
- author: dwcgovernors
Bachmann 0-4-0 The DeWitt Clinton
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:54
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
Bachmann 0-4-0 The DeWitt Clinton The De Witt Clinton train which was built by the West Point Foundry, New York, in 1831
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Bachmann 0-4-0 The DeWitt Clinton The De Witt Clinton train which was built by the West Point Foundry, New York, in 1831
- published: 15 Jun 2008
- views: 9503
- author: cactus190706
Dewitt Clinton High School Gymnastics
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:32
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
Jean Carlos Rodriquez doing floor:-)
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"Make It Better" - DeWitt Clinton HS (Bronx, NY)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:20
- Updated: 06 Jan 2013
How often do you think about where your food comes from? On the twentieth of April, 2010, the bus stopped at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx to record "Make it Better," a track promoting food awareness. Check it out!
http://wn.com/Make_It_Better_DeWitt_Clinton_HS_Bronx,_NY
How often do you think about where your food comes from? On the twentieth of April, 2010, the bus stopped at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx to record "Make it Better," a track promoting food awareness. Check it out!
- published: 11 May 2010
- views: 5115
- author: johnlennonbus
DeWitt Clinton High School: Memories Shared
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:32
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
this is just a little compilation of my friends and I. We're moving on to senior year and I just wanted to reflect on our past =]]
http://wn.com/DeWitt_Clinton_High_School_Memories_Shared
this is just a little compilation of my friends and I. We're moving on to senior year and I just wanted to reflect on our past =]]
- published: 15 Aug 2009
- views: 10065
- author: Natsumi4ever
The boss telling em straight - Dewitt Clinton High School
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- Duration: 3:26
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
(12/06/12) THE BRONX - Hundreds of students, parents and teachers gathered tonight at DeWitt Clinton High School to figure out the school's fate after it received a failing grade from the Department of Education. The community forum is trying to formulate a plan that would keep the high school open. Teachers at the school say that they want to make it clear to the officials at the department that the school will work on any necessary changes. Many believe that the failing grades are due to the lack of resources that the school has been provided.
http://wn.com/The_boss_telling_em_straight_Dewitt_Clinton_High_School
(12/06/12) THE BRONX - Hundreds of students, parents and teachers gathered tonight at DeWitt Clinton High School to figure out the school's fate after it received a failing grade from the Department of Education. The community forum is trying to formulate a plan that would keep the high school open. Teachers at the school say that they want to make it clear to the officials at the department that the school will work on any necessary changes. Many believe that the failing grades are due to the lack of resources that the school has been provided.
- published: 07 Dec 2012
- views: 286
- author: asadalitofficial
1973 PSAL Basketball Finals (Dewitt Clinton vs. Harren) @ The Felt Forum.mp4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 107:46
- Updated: 22 Jun 2012
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DeWitt Clinton HS Prom 2009 - Toro Party DJs - Bronx Prom DJ High School
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:45
- Updated: 01 Jun 2012
NYC PROM DJ - Toro Party DJs provides entertainment for De Witt Clinton HS (Bronx, NY) 2009 Prom. Held at the brilliant Glen Island Harbour Club, in New Rochelle, NY, on June 4, 2009. Special thank you to Mr. Jackson of Clinton for having us. www.toropartydjs.com for bookings. For your next event. Call us at 646-769-0924
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NYC PROM DJ - Toro Party DJs provides entertainment for De Witt Clinton HS (Bronx, NY) 2009 Prom. Held at the brilliant Glen Island Harbour Club, in New Rochelle, NY, on June 4, 2009. Special thank you to Mr. Jackson of Clinton for having us. www.toropartydjs.com for bookings. For your next event. Call us at 646-769-0924
- published: 07 Jun 2009
- views: 8699
- author: djtoro163
Dr. Norman Weschler speaks about Dewitt Clinton HS
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:22
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
Former principle Dr. Norman Weschler speaks on behalf of Dewitt Clinton high school. He is my favorite principle of all time.
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Former principle Dr. Norman Weschler speaks on behalf of Dewitt Clinton high school. He is my favorite principle of all time.
- published: 07 Dec 2012
- views: 348
- author: Walter Lucky Church Simons
THE DEWITT CLINTON
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:02
- Updated: 12 Aug 2012
one of our nations greatest and most famous locomotives my de witt clinton has been sitting on a display shelf and i couldnt take it any more so i took it down and here is the result. this outstanding little engine was built for the M &H; railway in 1831 and could pull you at the frightening pace of eighteen miles per hour! it set a record by making the albany to schenectady run in 46 minutes. its train was made from stage coaches modified to fit the guage and people rode on top of and in the cars. this proved to be a disadvantage though because the sparks from the wood caght peoples clothes on fire so spark arresters were put into use on the engines. named after the father of the erie canal i am proud to call this model my own. the song is on here because it is relevent to the time period!!!!!!
http://wn.com/THE_DEWITT_CLINTON
one of our nations greatest and most famous locomotives my de witt clinton has been sitting on a display shelf and i couldnt take it any more so i took it down and here is the result. this outstanding little engine was built for the M &H; railway in 1831 and could pull you at the frightening pace of eighteen miles per hour! it set a record by making the albany to schenectady run in 46 minutes. its train was made from stage coaches modified to fit the guage and people rode on top of and in the cars. this proved to be a disadvantage though because the sparks from the wood caght peoples clothes on fire so spark arresters were put into use on the engines. named after the father of the erie canal i am proud to call this model my own. the song is on here because it is relevent to the time period!!!!!!
- published: 23 Nov 2010
- views: 1024
- author: locodriver107
DeWitt Clinton HS Prom 2010 - Toro Party DJs - Bronx, NYC
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:18
- Updated: 08 Dec 2012
DeWitt Clinton HS aka DWC prom at the beautiful Glen Island Harbour Club in New Rochelle, NY. Special Thank you to Mr. Jackson for having us at DWC events for another year! And shout out to the Clinton Seniors of 2010!
http://wn.com/DeWitt_Clinton_HS_Prom_2010_Toro_Party_DJs_Bronx,_NYC
DeWitt Clinton HS aka DWC prom at the beautiful Glen Island Harbour Club in New Rochelle, NY. Special Thank you to Mr. Jackson for having us at DWC events for another year! And shout out to the Clinton Seniors of 2010!
- published: 14 Jun 2010
- views: 3245
- author: djtoro163
DeWitt Clinton HS Party 02-12-10 - Toro Party DJs - NYC DJs
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:17
- Updated: 20 Oct 2011
Clinton party hosted by the Varsity Baseball team @ DeWitt Clinton HS in the Bronx, NY. Toro Party DJs was in the building to help make sure it was a packed house. We even made some sweet posters to promote this party. www.toropartydjs.com
http://wn.com/DeWitt_Clinton_HS_Party_02-12-10_Toro_Party_DJs_NYC_DJs
Clinton party hosted by the Varsity Baseball team @ DeWitt Clinton HS in the Bronx, NY. Toro Party DJs was in the building to help make sure it was a packed house. We even made some sweet posters to promote this party. www.toropartydjs.com
- published: 11 Mar 2010
- views: 2522
- author: djtoro163
Step, Dance, Cheer Competition at DeWitt Clinton HS - Bronx, NY - Toro Party DJs
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:44
- Updated: 27 Jun 2012
Annual step, dance, & cheerleading competition held at DeWitt Clinton HS in the Bronx, NY with music by Toro Party DJ's. It was a great day full of fun and fierce, but friendly competition. Shout out to all the schools that were in attendance from around NYC. www.toropartydjs.com for bookings. Bronx DJ for your next event.
http://wn.com/Step,_Dance,_Cheer_Competition_at_DeWitt_Clinton_HS_Bronx,_NY_Toro_Party_DJs
Annual step, dance, & cheerleading competition held at DeWitt Clinton HS in the Bronx, NY with music by Toro Party DJ's. It was a great day full of fun and fierce, but friendly competition. Shout out to all the schools that were in attendance from around NYC. www.toropartydjs.com for bookings. Bronx DJ for your next event.
- published: 08 Apr 2009
- views: 7032
- author: djtoro163
Dewitt Clinton PSAL Champs 1977 1st Quart (Mike Napolitano)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:41
- Updated: 15 Oct 2011
Mike Napolitano Scores 26 Points As Dewitt Clinton Comes From behind to win PSAL Championship over McKee High School From Staten Island In March Of 1977.
http://wn.com/Dewitt_Clinton_PSAL_Champs_1977_1st_Quart_Mike_Napolitano
Mike Napolitano Scores 26 Points As Dewitt Clinton Comes From behind to win PSAL Championship over McKee High School From Staten Island In March Of 1977.
- published: 25 Oct 2009
- views: 1020
- author: Joey Santiago
DeWitt Clinton at SV-GTUG 3/3/2010
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 54:46
- Updated: 17 Aug 2010
www.meetup.com Googler DeWitt Clinton will be stopping by briefly to take your questions about Buzz. DeWitt posted the Google Buzz Announcement on their Socal Web Blog. You should see his Buzz about the Buzz API too.
http://wn.com/DeWitt_Clinton_at_SV-GTUG_3_3_2010
www.meetup.com Googler DeWitt Clinton will be stopping by briefly to take your questions about Buzz. DeWitt posted the Google Buzz Announcement on their Socal Web Blog. You should see his Buzz about the Buzz API too.
- published: 04 Mar 2010
- views: 272
- author: gtugs
DeWitt Clinton Fan Trip
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:50
- Updated: 04 Nov 2012
Here we see the HO scale Bachmann DeWitt Clinton locomotive and coaches making a fan trip on Ernie's DM&IR; model railroad.
http://wn.com/DeWitt_Clinton_Fan_Trip
Here we see the HO scale Bachmann DeWitt Clinton locomotive and coaches making a fan trip on Ernie's DM&IR; model railroad.
- published: 03 Jun 2009
- views: 2450
- author: CabinCar
Bachmann HO scale DeWitt Clinton
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:42
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
My Bachmann HO scale Dewitt Clinton train set whizzes around my test track, garnering attention until an unfortunate head-on encounter with an F7. This video reached 130 views on PriceTveyron's Channel before being taken down, with the comment "lol old". This video has been altered from the original in that it actually shows the collision at 0:30 rather than fading to black just before it.
http://wn.com/Bachmann_HO_scale_DeWitt_Clinton
My Bachmann HO scale Dewitt Clinton train set whizzes around my test track, garnering attention until an unfortunate head-on encounter with an F7. This video reached 130 views on PriceTveyron's Channel before being taken down, with the comment "lol old". This video has been altered from the original in that it actually shows the collision at 0:30 rather than fading to black just before it.
- published: 11 Jan 2011
- views: 3489
- author: SecondRateCinema
Rayan Camilo PSAL Football DeWitt Clinton HS
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:49
- Updated: 23 Sep 2012
Rayan Camilo PSAL Football DeWitt Clinton HS
http://wn.com/Rayan_Camilo_PSAL_Football_DeWitt_Clinton_HS
Rayan Camilo PSAL Football DeWitt Clinton HS
- published: 26 Sep 2011
- views: 1341
- author: sportsclipstv
HO Scale Gauge Model Train Layout video DeWitt Clinton John Bull The Lafayette XRDaddy
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:53
- Updated: 03 Mar 2012
HO Scale Gauge Layout using the DeWitt Clinton, John Bull, and The Lafayette Bachmann Special Edition Trains. Built by XRDaddy in the fall of 2007 and spring of 2008. Be sure to visit the Xrdaddy1 Channel to view the more recent (2012) complementary pictorial video of this layout. Thanks for stopping by... enjoy life!!! -Xrdaddy1.
http://wn.com/HO_Scale_Gauge_Model_Train_Layout_video_DeWitt_Clinton_John_Bull_The_Lafayette_XRDaddy
HO Scale Gauge Layout using the DeWitt Clinton, John Bull, and The Lafayette Bachmann Special Edition Trains. Built by XRDaddy in the fall of 2007 and spring of 2008. Be sure to visit the Xrdaddy1 Channel to view the more recent (2012) complementary pictorial video of this layout. Thanks for stopping by... enjoy life!!! -Xrdaddy1.
- published: 25 May 2009
- views: 6390
- author: Xrdaddy1
DeWitt Clinton Cheerleaders
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:46
- Updated: 17 Dec 2011
youtu.be Herbert H. Lehman HS @ DeWitt Clinton HS Final Score 48-6 Clinton 4 - 5 Record 11/7/10
http://wn.com/DeWitt_Clinton_Cheerleaders
youtu.be Herbert H. Lehman HS @ DeWitt Clinton HS Final Score 48-6 Clinton 4 - 5 Record 11/7/10
- published: 07 Nov 2010
- views: 1078
- author: N2OCam68
Dewitt Clinton High School Marching Band Bronx NY
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:22
- Updated: 28 Oct 2011
Dewitt Clinton marching band at the University Heights Bridge Centenial Celebration.
http://wn.com/Dewitt_Clinton_High_School_Marching_Band_Bronx_NY
Dewitt Clinton marching band at the University Heights Bridge Centenial Celebration.
- published: 12 Jun 2008
- views: 5229
- author: AndrewNIDC
4:57
DeWitt Clinton HS Party 12-04-2009 - Step, Dance and Cheerleaders - Toro Party DJs
This party was held on 12-04-2009 @ DeWitt Clinton HS (DWC) and they partied out with TORO...
published: 07 Dec 2009
author: djtoro163
DeWitt Clinton HS Party 12-04-2009 - Step, Dance and Cheerleaders - Toro Party DJs
This party was held on 12-04-2009 @ DeWitt Clinton HS (DWC) and they partied out with TORO PARTY DJS. If your having a HS party in the city, please feel free to visit us online: www.toropartydjs.com Twitter www.twitter.com Facebook: www.facebook.com
- published: 07 Dec 2009
- views: 5044
- author: djtoro163
0:46
Ashton Mckenzie PSAL Football - DeWitt Clinton HS
Ashton Mckenzie PSAL Football - DeWitt Clinton HS...
published: 26 Sep 2011
author: sportsclipstv
Ashton Mckenzie PSAL Football - DeWitt Clinton HS
Ashton Mckenzie PSAL Football - DeWitt Clinton HS
- published: 26 Sep 2011
- views: 1352
- author: sportsclipstv
1:58
Stan Lee sings the DeWitt Clinton HS Fight Song
Stan Lee wants the whole world to hear the DeWitt Clinton HS fight song. Stan graduated fr...
published: 29 Oct 2012
author: dwcgovernors
Stan Lee sings the DeWitt Clinton HS Fight Song
Stan Lee wants the whole world to hear the DeWitt Clinton HS fight song. Stan graduated from Clinton in 1939 and, ever proud of his Bronx alma mater, he has not forgotten a word of the song. Rumor has it that his creations—Spider-Man, the Hulk, and the Fantastic Four—also know the words by heart. Visit www.dewittclintonalumni.com to download a booklet of notable alumni of DeWitt Clinton High School. Visit www.castleontheparkway.com to learn about DeWitt Clinton High School.
- published: 29 Oct 2012
- views: 1543
- author: dwcgovernors
0:54
Bachmann 0-4-0 The DeWitt Clinton
Bachmann 0-4-0 The DeWitt Clinton The De Witt Clinton train which was built by the West Po...
published: 15 Jun 2008
author: cactus190706
Bachmann 0-4-0 The DeWitt Clinton
Bachmann 0-4-0 The DeWitt Clinton The De Witt Clinton train which was built by the West Point Foundry, New York, in 1831
- published: 15 Jun 2008
- views: 9503
- author: cactus190706
1:32
Dewitt Clinton High School Gymnastics
Jean Carlos Rodriquez doing floor:-)...
published: 22 Jan 2011
author: ellokoboricua
Dewitt Clinton High School Gymnastics
Jean Carlos Rodriquez doing floor:-)
- published: 22 Jan 2011
- views: 1357
- author: ellokoboricua
3:20
"Make It Better" - DeWitt Clinton HS (Bronx, NY)
How often do you think about where your food comes from? On the twentieth of April, 2010, ...
published: 11 May 2010
author: johnlennonbus
"Make It Better" - DeWitt Clinton HS (Bronx, NY)
How often do you think about where your food comes from? On the twentieth of April, 2010, the bus stopped at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx to record "Make it Better," a track promoting food awareness. Check it out!
- published: 11 May 2010
- views: 5115
- author: johnlennonbus
4:32
DeWitt Clinton High School: Memories Shared
this is just a little compilation of my friends and I. We're moving on to senior year and ...
published: 15 Aug 2009
author: Natsumi4ever
DeWitt Clinton High School: Memories Shared
this is just a little compilation of my friends and I. We're moving on to senior year and I just wanted to reflect on our past =]]
- published: 15 Aug 2009
- views: 10065
- author: Natsumi4ever
3:26
The boss telling em straight - Dewitt Clinton High School
(12/06/12) THE BRONX - Hundreds of students, parents and teachers gathered tonight at DeWi...
published: 07 Dec 2012
author: asadalitofficial
The boss telling em straight - Dewitt Clinton High School
(12/06/12) THE BRONX - Hundreds of students, parents and teachers gathered tonight at DeWitt Clinton High School to figure out the school's fate after it received a failing grade from the Department of Education. The community forum is trying to formulate a plan that would keep the high school open. Teachers at the school say that they want to make it clear to the officials at the department that the school will work on any necessary changes. Many believe that the failing grades are due to the lack of resources that the school has been provided.
- published: 07 Dec 2012
- views: 286
- author: asadalitofficial
107:46
1973 PSAL Basketball Finals (Dewitt Clinton vs. Harren) @ The Felt Forum.mp4
...
published: 19 Oct 2011
author: Joey Santiago
1973 PSAL Basketball Finals (Dewitt Clinton vs. Harren) @ The Felt Forum.mp4
- published: 19 Oct 2011
- views: 1342
- author: Joey Santiago
3:45
DeWitt Clinton HS Prom 2009 - Toro Party DJs - Bronx Prom DJ High School
NYC PROM DJ - Toro Party DJs provides entertainment for De Witt Clinton HS (Bronx, NY) 200...
published: 07 Jun 2009
author: djtoro163
DeWitt Clinton HS Prom 2009 - Toro Party DJs - Bronx Prom DJ High School
NYC PROM DJ - Toro Party DJs provides entertainment for De Witt Clinton HS (Bronx, NY) 2009 Prom. Held at the brilliant Glen Island Harbour Club, in New Rochelle, NY, on June 4, 2009. Special thank you to Mr. Jackson of Clinton for having us. www.toropartydjs.com for bookings. For your next event. Call us at 646-769-0924
- published: 07 Jun 2009
- views: 8699
- author: djtoro163
3:22
Dr. Norman Weschler speaks about Dewitt Clinton HS
Former principle Dr. Norman Weschler speaks on behalf of Dewitt Clinton high school. He is...
published: 07 Dec 2012
author: Walter Lucky Church Simons
Dr. Norman Weschler speaks about Dewitt Clinton HS
Former principle Dr. Norman Weschler speaks on behalf of Dewitt Clinton high school. He is my favorite principle of all time.
- published: 07 Dec 2012
- views: 348
- author: Walter Lucky Church Simons
2:02
THE DEWITT CLINTON
one of our nations greatest and most famous locomotives my de witt clinton has been sittin...
published: 23 Nov 2010
author: locodriver107
THE DEWITT CLINTON
one of our nations greatest and most famous locomotives my de witt clinton has been sitting on a display shelf and i couldnt take it any more so i took it down and here is the result. this outstanding little engine was built for the M &H; railway in 1831 and could pull you at the frightening pace of eighteen miles per hour! it set a record by making the albany to schenectady run in 46 minutes. its train was made from stage coaches modified to fit the guage and people rode on top of and in the cars. this proved to be a disadvantage though because the sparks from the wood caght peoples clothes on fire so spark arresters were put into use on the engines. named after the father of the erie canal i am proud to call this model my own. the song is on here because it is relevent to the time period!!!!!!
- published: 23 Nov 2010
- views: 1024
- author: locodriver107
5:18
DeWitt Clinton HS Prom 2010 - Toro Party DJs - Bronx, NYC
DeWitt Clinton HS aka DWC prom at the beautiful Glen Island Harbour Club in New Rochelle, ...
published: 14 Jun 2010
author: djtoro163
DeWitt Clinton HS Prom 2010 - Toro Party DJs - Bronx, NYC
DeWitt Clinton HS aka DWC prom at the beautiful Glen Island Harbour Club in New Rochelle, NY. Special Thank you to Mr. Jackson for having us at DWC events for another year! And shout out to the Clinton Seniors of 2010!
- published: 14 Jun 2010
- views: 3245
- author: djtoro163
3:17
DeWitt Clinton HS Party 02-12-10 - Toro Party DJs - NYC DJs
Clinton party hosted by the Varsity Baseball team @ DeWitt Clinton HS in the Bronx, NY. To...
published: 11 Mar 2010
author: djtoro163
DeWitt Clinton HS Party 02-12-10 - Toro Party DJs - NYC DJs
Clinton party hosted by the Varsity Baseball team @ DeWitt Clinton HS in the Bronx, NY. Toro Party DJs was in the building to help make sure it was a packed house. We even made some sweet posters to promote this party. www.toropartydjs.com
- published: 11 Mar 2010
- views: 2522
- author: djtoro163
Vimeo results:
9:02
Trailer To Raise Support for A Film About DeWitt Clinton HS
ONE CORRECTION. PLEASE IGNORE THE INACCURATE DONATION INFORMATION AT THE END OF THiS TRA...
published: 16 Jan 2012
author: DANNY Schechter
Trailer To Raise Support for A Film About DeWitt Clinton HS
ONE CORRECTION. PLEASE IGNORE THE INACCURATE DONATION INFORMATION AT THE END OF THiS TRAILER. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SUPPORT THIS DOCUMENTARY, PLEASE SEND YOUR CHECK, MADE OUT TO THE GLOBAL CENTER, TO THE GLOBAL CENTER, PO BOX 677, NEW YORK, NY 10035. WRITE CLINTON FILM PROJECT ON THE MEMO LINE OF THE CHECK. THANK YOU.
Public Education is in crisis. The story of DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx New York offers a microcosm of the important role a public high school can play in transforming lives, contributing to our cultural heritage as well as our country's future leadership.
Founded in 1897, Clinton has won national attention for its educational quality, athletic achievements, and the influential legacy of its graduates who have transformed our politics, legal system and cultural environment. This is a story is finally being told in a professional and engaging way.
Filmmakers Danny Schechter, a journalist, and his brother Bill Schechter, an educator and historian, are making what we hope will become THE film on DeWitt Clinton.
Both were editors of the Clinton News. Bill has won honors for excellence in teaching, and Danny was a multiple Emmy Award Winner at ABC News 20/20, and producer of widely seen international documentaries.
They have already interviewed students, teachers and prominent alumni including comedian Robert Klein who is enthusiastically supporting the film.
They are working with two former teachers, Gerard J. Pelisson, and James A Garvey 111, authors of the definitive Clinton story, "The Castle on The Parkway."
This team is now appealing to Clinton alums, and others in a position to help, to support the film with tax deductible donations to The Global Center, PO Box 677, New York. New York. Questions and suggestions to dissector@mediachannel.org
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Teaser Video for A Film On DeWitt Clinton H.S. ---Bronx N.Y
Danny Schechter here, filmmaker and graduate of DeWitt Clinton High School. I am directing...
published: 15 Jan 2012
author: DANNY Schechter
Teaser Video for A Film On DeWitt Clinton H.S. ---Bronx N.Y
Danny Schechter here, filmmaker and graduate of DeWitt Clinton High School. I am directing and co-producing a film about the venerable DeWitt Clinton High School, a great model of what was and still could become a model of the best in public education. Founded in 1897, it was one of the first great High Schools in America with tens of thousands of graduates who transform New York City and many leading industries. We are in the process of raising money for the film that I am making with by brother Bill Schechter, a historian and DWC grad, and two great teachers. This video was edited by Christine Monaco. It features Gerard Pellison, a former Clinton teacher and author of the the Castle on The Parkway and comedian and Clinton grad, Robert Klein.
4:08
Clinton Wreck
The 170 foot Dewitt Clinton is a former dredge barge, sunk by the Broward County Artificia...
published: 22 Dec 2009
author: Lisa Edwards
Clinton Wreck
The 170 foot Dewitt Clinton is a former dredge barge, sunk by the Broward County Artificial Reefs Program (BCARP) on 12-May-1995 in 175 fsw. On 26-Apr-2008, the underwater gods smiled, resulting in favorable conditions for two CCR and two OC divers on Miss Conduct Charters. Follow the CCR diver as he tours the wreck.
1:15
Mr. Dog and Mr. Cat
Chase scene I had to film for production class. Filmed with an HMC150 HD camera in Clinton...
published: 24 Nov 2012
author: Erin DeWitt
Mr. Dog and Mr. Cat
Chase scene I had to film for production class. Filmed with an HMC150 HD camera in Clinton Hill. I edited with FCPX. Maximum of 15 shots with two characters chasing each other. It was around Halloween so I bought cat and dog masks and this is what came out.
Youtube results:
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Step, Dance, Cheer Competition at DeWitt Clinton HS - Bronx, NY - Toro Party DJs
Annual step, dance, & cheerleading competition held at DeWitt Clinton HS in the Bronx, NY ...
published: 08 Apr 2009
author: djtoro163
Step, Dance, Cheer Competition at DeWitt Clinton HS - Bronx, NY - Toro Party DJs
Annual step, dance, & cheerleading competition held at DeWitt Clinton HS in the Bronx, NY with music by Toro Party DJ's. It was a great day full of fun and fierce, but friendly competition. Shout out to all the schools that were in attendance from around NYC. www.toropartydjs.com for bookings. Bronx DJ for your next event.
- published: 08 Apr 2009
- views: 7032
- author: djtoro163
9:41
Dewitt Clinton PSAL Champs 1977 1st Quart (Mike Napolitano)
Mike Napolitano Scores 26 Points As Dewitt Clinton Comes From behind to win PSAL Champions...
published: 25 Oct 2009
author: Joey Santiago
Dewitt Clinton PSAL Champs 1977 1st Quart (Mike Napolitano)
Mike Napolitano Scores 26 Points As Dewitt Clinton Comes From behind to win PSAL Championship over McKee High School From Staten Island In March Of 1977.
- published: 25 Oct 2009
- views: 1020
- author: Joey Santiago
54:46
DeWitt Clinton at SV-GTUG 3/3/2010
www.meetup.com Googler DeWitt Clinton will be stopping by briefly to take your questions a...
published: 04 Mar 2010
author: gtugs
DeWitt Clinton at SV-GTUG 3/3/2010
www.meetup.com Googler DeWitt Clinton will be stopping by briefly to take your questions about Buzz. DeWitt posted the Google Buzz Announcement on their Socal Web Blog. You should see his Buzz about the Buzz API too.
- published: 04 Mar 2010
- views: 272
- author: gtugs
0:50
DeWitt Clinton Fan Trip
Here we see the HO scale Bachmann DeWitt Clinton locomotive and coaches making a fan trip ...
published: 03 Jun 2009
author: CabinCar
DeWitt Clinton Fan Trip
Here we see the HO scale Bachmann DeWitt Clinton locomotive and coaches making a fan trip on Ernie's DM&IR; model railroad.
- published: 03 Jun 2009
- views: 2450
- author: CabinCar
For the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad locomotive of the same name, see DeWitt Clinton (locomotive).
| DeWitt Clinton | |
|---|---|
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| 6th Governor of New York | |
| In office July 1, 1817 – December 31, 1822 |
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| Lieutenant | John Tayler |
| Preceded by | John Tayler |
| Succeeded by | Joseph C. Yates |
| In office January 1, 1825 – February 11, 1828 |
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| Lieutenant | James Tallmadge, Jr. Nathaniel Pitcher |
| Preceded by | Joseph C. Yates |
| Succeeded by | Nathaniel Pitcher |
| United States Senator from New York |
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| In office February 23, 1802 – November 4, 1803 |
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| Preceded by | John Armstrong, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | John Armstrong, Jr. |
| Mayor of New York City | |
| In office 1803–1807 |
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| Preceded by | Edward Livingston |
| Succeeded by | Marinus Willett |
| In office 1808–1810 |
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| Preceded by | Marinus Willett |
| Succeeded by | Jacob Radcliff |
| In office 1811–1815 |
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| Preceded by | Jacob Radcliff |
| Succeeded by | John Ferguson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1769-03-02)March 2, 1769 Little Britain, Province of New York |
| Died | February 11, 1828(1828-02-11) (aged 58) Albany, New York |
| Political party | Democratic-Republican Federalist |
| Spouse(s) | Maria Franklin Catharine Jones |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Religion | Presbyterian |
| Signature |  |
DeWitt Clinton (March 2, 1769 – February 11, 1828) was an early American politician and naturalist who served as United States Senator and the sixth Governor of New York. In this last capacity he was largely responsible for the construction of the Erie Canal.[1] Clinton was the leader of New York's People’s Party, and was a major rival of Martin van Buren, who was attorney general of New York during Clinton's governorship. According to Daniel Walker Howe (2007) Clinton is an authentic but largely forgotten hero of American democracy. Howe explains, "The infrastructure he worked to create would transform American life, enhancing economic opportunity, political participation, and intellectual awareness."[2]
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Early life and political career[link]
DeWitt Clinton was the second son born to James Clinton and his wife Mary DeWitt (1737–1795, aunt of Simeon De Witt), and was educated at King's College, what is now Columbia University. He became the secretary to his uncle, George Clinton, who was then governor of New York. Soon after he became a member of the Democratic-Republican Party. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1798, and of the New York State Senate from the Southern District from 1798 to 1802, and from 1806 to 1811. He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention in 1801. He was a member of the Council of Appointments in 1801–1802 and 1806–1807.
He won the by-election for U.S. Senator from New York after the resignation of John Armstrong, Jr. and served from February 23, 1802, to November 4, 1803. He resigned, unhappy with living conditions in newly built Washington, DC, and was appointed Mayor of New York City. He served as Mayor in 1803–1807, 1808–1810, and 1811–1815. While serving as Mayor, he organized the Historical Society of New York in 1804 and was its president. He also helped re-organizing the American Academy of the Fine Arts in 1808 served as its president between 1813 and 1817. He was Regent of the University of New York from 1808 to 1825.
He was married twice. On February 13, 1796, he married Maria Franklin, daughter of the prominent New York Quaker merchant, Walter Franklin. By her he had ten children, four sons and three daughters surviving at the time of her death in 1818. On May 8, 1819, he married Catharine Jones, daughter of a New York physician, Thomas Jones; she outlived her husband. His son, George William Clinton (1807–1885), served as Mayor of Buffalo, New York, 1842–1843.
Later political career and governorship[link]
From 1810 to 1824, he was a member of the Erie Canal Commission. He was among the first members, appointed in 1810, who projected and surveyed the route to be taken. After 1816, he became the driving force during the construction of the canal.
In 1811, the death of John Broome left a vacancy in the office of Lieutenant Governor of New York. In a special election, Clinton defeated the Federalist Nicholas Fish and the Tammany Hall candidate Marinus Willett, to become Lieutenant Governor under Governor Daniel D. Tompkins until the end of the term in June 1813.
In 1812, Clinton ran for President of the United States as candidate for both the Federalist Party and a small group of anti-war Democratic-Republicans. In the close Election of 1812, Clinton was defeated by President Madison; Clinton received 89 electoral votes to James Madison's 128. It was the strongest showing of any Federalist candidate for the Presidency since 1800, and the change of the votes of one or two states would have given Clinton the victory.
After the resignation of Governor Tompkins, who had been elected Vice President, he won a special gubernatorial election in which he was the only candidate. 1,479 votes were cast for Peter Buell Porter – against Clinton's 43,310 – because the Tammany organization, which fiercely hated Clinton, had printed ballots with Porter's name and distributed among the Tammany followers in New York City. On July 1, 1817, Clinton took office as Governor of New York. He was re-elected in 1820, defeating the sitting Vice President Tompkins in a narrow race – DeWitt Clinton 47,447 votes, Tompkins 45,900 – and served until December 31, 1822.
During his second term, the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1821 shortened the gubernatorial term to two years, and moved the beginning of the term from July 1 to January 1, actually cutting off the last 6 months of the 3-year-term he had been elected to. Also the gubernatorial election was moved from April to November, but Clinton was not renominated by his party to run for re-election in November 1822. Even so, he still kept his post as President of the Erie Canal Commission. In April 1824, a majority of his political enemies, the Bucktails, voted in the New York State Legislature for his removal from the Canal Commission. This caused such a wave of indignation among the electorate, that he was nominated for Governor by the "People's Party", and was re-elected governor, against the official candidate of the Democratic-Republican Party, fellow canal commissioner Samuel Young. He served another two terms until his sudden death in office.
Clinton was a Freemason, and in 1806, he was elected Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New York. He retained this title until 1819. The Grand Lodge of New York has established The DeWitt Clinton Award. The Award recognizes distinguished or outstanding community service by non-Masonic organizations or individuals whose actions exemplify a shared concern for the well-being of Mankind and a belief in the worldwide brotherhood of Man.[3]
He was originally buried at the Clinton Cemetery in Little Britain, New York, later he was re-interred at the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. Clinton was able to accomplish many things as a leader in civic and state affairs, such as improving the New York public school system, encouraging steam navigation, and modifying the laws governing criminals and debtors. The 1831 DeWitt Clinton locomotive was named in his honor. The community of Whitestone, New York, was for several decades after his death known as Clintonville, but reverted to its traditional name; however, the governor is memorialized to this day by Clintonville street, a major local road.
Erie Canal[link]
Main article: Erie Canal
While governor, Clinton was largely responsible for the construction of the Erie Canal. He was persuaded by Canal proponent Jesse Hawley to support construction of a canal from the eastern shore of Lake Erie to the upper Hudson River. Many thought the project was impracticable, and opponents mocked it as "Clinton's Ditch".[4] But in 1817, he got the legislature to appropriate $7,000,000 for construction. When the Canal was finished in 1825, Governor Clinton opened it, sailing in the packet boat Seneca Chief along the Canal into Buffalo. After sailing from the mouth of Lake Erie to New York City he emptied two casks of water from Lake Erie into New York Harbor, celebrating the first connection of waters from East to West. The Canal was an immense success, carrying huge amounts of passenger and freight traffic. It provided cheap transportation from the Atlantic to the West, drawing traffic to New York state and New York City, which became the most important state and city in America.
Legacy[link]
List of places named for DeWitt Clinton:
Towns[link]
- Clinton, Arkansas
- DeWitt, Arkansas
- Clinton, Connecticut
- Clinton, Illinois which is located in DeWitt County
- Clinton, Indiana
- Clinton, Iowa
- Clinton, Louisiana
- Clinton, Massachusetts
- Clinton, Mississippi
- Clinton, Missouri
- Clinton, New Jersey
- Port Clinton, Pennsylvania
- DeWitt, Iowa which is located in Clinton County
- DeWitt, Michigan which is located in Clinton County
- DeWitt, New York
Counties[link]
- Clinton County, Iowa, the county seat of which is Clinton, Iowa
- Clinton County, Kentucky
- Clinton County, Michigan
- Clinton County, Pennsylvania
- Clinton County, Illinois
- DeWitt County, Illinois, the county seat of which is Clinton, Illinois
(Note that the naming of two counties in Illinois after Clinton is the only instance in the United States of two counties in the same state being named after the same person.)
Non-geographic namesakes[link]
- DeWitt Clinton High School, Bronx, New York
- An engraved portrait of Clinton appeared on the Legal Tender (United States Note) issue of 1880 in the $1000.00 denomination. An illustrated example can be found on the website of Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's "American Currency Exhibit".
- Dewitt Clinton Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois
- Dewitt Clinton Elementary School, Lockport, New York
- Dewitt Clinton Elementary School, Detroit, Michigan
- Ted DeWitt Clinton, a character from the animated series Daria.
- DeWitt Clinton Park, Manhattan, New York City. The neighborhood around it, Hell's Kitchen, has also become known as Clinton, or the Special Clinton District (a City Government preservation zone) in recent years.
- East Asian plant Clintonia.
See also[link]
Notes[link]
- ^ Edwin G. Burrows "Little Short of Madness," American Heritage, Winter 2010.
- ^ Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848, (2007) p. 241
- ^ "Masonic Service Awards". Grand Lodge of New York. http://www.nymasons.org/cms/files/CommunityServAwardBrochure_0.pdf. Retrieved 2011-11-06.
- ^ John Steele Gordon "10 Moments That Made American Business," American Heritage, February/March 2007.
External material[link]
Sources[link]
- Congress Bio
- Political Graveyard
- Bio at Erie Canal
- NY History with Lt. Gov. election in 1811
- NY History with Presidential Election result 1812
- NY History with Gov. election result 1817
- DeWitt genealogy, at Mr. Jumbo
References[link]
- Bobbe, Dorothie. DeWitt Clinton (1933)
- Cornog, Evan. The Birth of Empire: Dewitt Clinton and the American Experience, 1769–1828 (1998) Oxford University Press, (2000) online
- Hanyan, Craig and Mary L. De Witt Clinton and the Rise of the People's Men McGill-Queens University Press, (1996) online
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- Sloan, De Villo. The Crimsoned Hills of Onondaga. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2008 [1]
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Stan Lee (born December 28, 1922) is an American comic book writer, editor, actor, producer, publisher, television personality, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.
In collaboration with several artists, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Hulk, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Thor, and many other fictional characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. In addition, he headed the first major successful challenge to the industry's censorship organization, the Comics Code Authority, and forced it to reform its policies. Lee subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.
He was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1995.
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Early life[link]
Stan Lee was born Stanley Martin Lieber in New York City on December 28, 1922, in the apartment of his Romanian-born Jewish immigrant parents, Celia (née Solomon) and Jack Lieber, at the corner of West 98th Street and West End Avenue in Manhattan.[1][2][3] His father, trained as a dress cutter, worked only sporadically after the Great Depression,[1] and the family moved further uptown to Fort Washington Avenue,[4] in Washington Heights, Manhattan. When Lee was nearly 9, his only sibling, brother Larry Lieber, was born.[5] He said in 2006 that as a child he was influenced by books and movies, particularly those with Errol Flynn playing heroic roles.[6] By the time Lee was in his teens, the family was living in a one-bedroom apartment at 1720 University Avenue in The Bronx. Lee described it as "a third-floor apartment facing out back", with him and his brother sharing a bedroom and his parents using a foldout couch.[5]
Lee attended DeWitt Clinton High School in The Bronx.[7] In his youth, Lee enjoyed writing, and entertained dreams of one day writing The Great American Novel,[8] He has said that in his youth he worked such part-time jobs as writing obituaries for a news service and press releases for the National Tuberculosis Center; delivering sandwiches for the Jack May pharmacy to offices in Rockefeller Center; working as an office boy for a trouser manufacturer; ushering at the Rivoli Theater on Broadway;[citation needed] and selling subscriptions to the New York Herald Tribune newspaper. He graduated high school early, at age 16½ in 1939, and joined the WPA Federal Theatre Project.[9]
Career[link]
Early career[link]
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A text filler in Captain America Comics #3 (May 1941) was Lee's first published work. Cover art by Alex Schomburg.
With the help of his uncle Robbie Solomon,[10][11] Lee became an assistant in 1939 at the new Timely Comics division of pulp magazine and comic-book publisher Martin Goodman's company.[11] Timely, by the 1960s, would evolve into Marvel Comics. Lee, whose cousin Jean[12] was Goodman's wife, was formally hired by Timely editor Joe Simon.[11]
His duties were prosaic at first. "In those days [the artists] dipped the pen in ink, [so] I had to make sure the inkwells were filled", Lee recalled in 2009. "I went down and got them their lunch, I did proofreading, I erased the pencils from the finished pages for them".[13] Marshaling his childhood ambition to be a writer, young Stanley Lieber made his comic-book debut with the text filler "Captain America Foils the Traitor's Revenge" in Captain America Comics #3 (May 1941), using the pseudonym "Stan Lee", which years later he would adopt as his legal name. Lee later explained in his autobiography and numerous other sources that he had intended to save his given name for more literary work. This initial story also introduced Captain America's trademark ricocheting shield-toss, which immediately became one of the character's signatures.[14]
He graduated from writing filler to actual comics with a backup feature, "'Headline' Hunter, Foreign Correspondent", two issues later. Lee's first superhero co-creation was the Destroyer, in Mystic Comics #6 (Aug 1941). Other characters he created during this period fans and historians call the Golden Age of comics include Jack Frost, debuting in USA Comics #1 (Aug. 1941), and Father Time, debuting in Captain America Comics #6 (Aug. 1941).[15]
When Simon and his creative partner Jack Kirby left late in 1941, following a dispute with Goodman, the 30-year-old publisher installed Lee, just under 19 years old, as interim editor.[16] The youngster showed a knack for the business that led him to remain as the comic-book division's editor-in-chief, as well as art director for much of that time, until 1972, when he would succeed Goodman as publisher.[17][18]
Lee entered the United States Army in early 1942 and served stateside in the Signal Corps, writing manuals, training films, and slogans, and occasionally cartooning. His military classification, he says, was "playwright"; he adds that only nine men in the U.S. Army were given that title.[19] Vincent Fago, editor of Timely's "animation comics" section, which put out humor and funny animal comics, filled in until Lee returned from his World War II military service in 1945. Lee now lived in the rented top floor of a brownstone in the East 90s in Manhattan.[20]
He married Joan Clayton Boocock on December 5, 1947,[21] and in 1949, the couple bought a two-story, three-bedroom home at 1084 West Broadway in Woodmere, New York, on Long Island, living there through 1952.[22] By this time, the couple had daughter Joan Celia "J.C." Lee, born in 1950; another child, Jan Lee, died three days after delivery in 1953.[23] Lee by this time had bought a home at 226 Richards Lane in the Long Island town of Hewlett Harbor, New York, where he and his family lived from 1952 to 1980,[24] including the 1960s period when Lee and his artist collaborators would revolutionize comic books.
In the mid-1950s, by which time the company was now generally known as Atlas Comics, Lee wrote stories in a variety of genres including romance, Westerns, humor, science fiction, medieval adventure, horror and suspense. By the end of the decade, Lee had become dissatisfied with his career and considered quitting the field.[25][26]
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The Fantastic Four No.1 (November 1961). Cover art by Jack Kirby (penciller) and an unconfirmed inker.
Marvel revolution[link]
In the late 1950s, DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz revived the superhero archetype and experienced a significant success with its updated version of the Flash, and later with super-team the Justice League of America. In response, publisher Martin Goodman assigned Lee to create a new superhero team. Lee's wife urged him to experiment with stories he preferred, since he was planning on changing careers and had nothing to lose.[25][26]
Lee acted on that advice, giving his superheroes a flawed humanity, a change from the ideal archetypes that were typically written for preteens. Before this, most superheroes were idealistically perfect people with no serious, lasting problems.[27] Lee introduced complex, naturalistic characters[28] who could have bad tempers, fits of melancholy, vanity; they bickered amongst themselves, worried about paying their bills and impressing girlfriends, got bored or even were sometimes physically ill.
The first superhero group Lee and artist Jack Kirby created was the Fantastic Four. The team's immediate popularity led Lee and Marvel's illustrators to produce a cavalcade of new titles. With Kirby primarily, Lee created the Hulk, Iron Man, Thor and the X-Men; with Bill Everett, Daredevil; and with Steve Ditko, Doctor Strange and Marvel's most successful character, Spider-Man, all of whom lived in a thoroughly shared universe.[29]
Comics historian Peter Sanderson wrote that in the 1960s:
DC was the equivalent of the big Hollywood studios: After the brilliance of DC's reinvention of the superhero ... in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it had run into a creative drought by the decade's end. There was a new audience for comics now, and it wasn't just the little kids that traditionally had read the books. The Marvel of the 1960s was in its own way the counterpart of the French New Wave.... Marvel was pioneering new methods of comics storytelling and characterization, addressing more serious themes, and in the process keeping and attracting readers in their teens and beyond. Moreover, among this new generation of readers were people who wanted to write or draw comics themselves, within the new style that Marvel had pioneered, and push the creative envelope still further.[30]
Stan Lee's Marvel revolution extended beyond the characters and storylines to the way in which comic books engaged the readership and built a sense of community between fans and creators.[31] Lee introduced the practice of including a credit panel on the splash page of each story, naming not just the writer and penciller but also the inker and letterer. Regular news about Marvel staff members and upcoming storylines was presented on the Bullpen Bulletins page, which (like the letter columns that appeared in each title) was written in a friendly, chatty style.
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Amazing Fantasy#15 (1962), the first appearance of Spider-Man. Cover art by Jack Kirby (penciller) & Steve Ditko (inker).
Throughout the 1960s, Lee scripted, art-directed, and edited most of Marvel's series, moderated the letters pages, wrote a monthly column called "Stan's Soapbox," and wrote endless promotional copy, often signing off with his trademark phrase "Excelsior!" (which is also the New York state motto). To maintain his taxing workload, yet still meet deadlines, he used a system that was used previously by various comic-book studios, but due to Lee's success with it, became known as the "Marvel Method" or "Marvel style" of comic-book creation. Typically, Lee would brainstorm a story with the artist and then prepare a brief synopsis rather than a full script. Based on the synopsis, the artist would fill the allotted number of pages by determining and drawing the panel-to-panel storytelling. After the artist turned in penciled pages, Lee would write the word balloons and captions, and then oversee the lettering and coloring. In effect, the artists were co-plotters, whose collaborative first drafts Lee built upon.
Because of this system, the exact division of creative credits on Lee's comics has been disputed, especially in cases of comics drawn by Kirby and Ditko. Lee shares co-creator credit with Kirby and Ditko on, respectively, the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man feature film series.
In 1971, Lee indirectly helped reform the Comics Code.[32] The US Department of Health, Education and Welfare had asked Lee to write a comic-book story about the dangers of drugs and Lee conceived a three-issue subplot in The Amazing Spider-Man #96–98 (cover-dated May–July 1971), in which Peter Parker's best friend becomes addicted to pills. The Comics Code Authority refused to grant its seal because the stories depicted drug use; the anti-drug context was considered irrelevant. With Goodman's cooperation and confident that the original government request would give him credibility, Lee had the story published without the seal. The comics sold well and Marvel won praise for its socially conscious efforts. The CCA subsequently loosened the Code to permit negative depictions of drugs, among other new freedoms.[33]
Lee also supported using comic books to provide some measure of social commentary about the real world, often dealing with racism and bigotry. "Stan's Soapbox", besides promoting an upcoming comic book project, also addressed issues of discrimination, intolerance, or prejudice.[34][35]
Later career[link]
In later years, Lee became a figurehead and public face for Marvel Comics. He made appearances at comic book conventions around America, lecturing at colleges and participating in panel discussions. By this time he owned a vacation home on Cutler Lane in Remsenburg, New York[36] and, from 1975 to 1980, a two-bedroom condominium on the 14th floor of 220 East 63rd Street in Manhattan.[37] He moved to California in 1981 to develop Marvel's TV and movie properties. He has been an executive producer for, and has made cameo appearances in, Marvel film adaptations and other movies. He and his wife bought a home in West Hollywood, California previously owned by comedian Jack Benny's radio announcer, Don Wilson.[38] Lee was briefly president of the entire company, but soon stepped down to become publisher instead, finding that being president was too much about numbers and finance and not enough about the creative process he enjoyed.[39]
Peter Paul and Lee began to start a new Internet-based superhero creation, production and marketing studio, Stan Lee Media, in 1998. It grew to 165 people and went public, but near the end of 2000, investigators discovered illegal stock manipulation by Paul and corporate officer Stephan Gordon.[40] Stan Lee Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February 2001.[41] Paul was extradited to the U.S. from Brazil, and pleaded guilty to violating SEC Rule 10b-5 in connection with trading of his stock in Stan Lee Media.[42][43] Lee was never implicated in the scheme.
In the 2000s, Lee did his first work for DC Comics, launching the Just Imagine... series, in which Lee reimagined the DC superheroes Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and the Flash.[44]
In 2001, Lee, Gill Champion and Arthur Lieberman formed POW! (Purveyors of Wonder) Entertainment to develop film, television and video game properties. Lee created the risqué animated superhero series Stripperella for Spike TV. In 2004 he announced a superhero program that would feature Ringo Starr, the former Beatle, as the lead character.[45] Additionally, in August of that year, Lee announced the launch of Stan Lee's Sunday Comics,[46] hosted by Komikwerks.com, where monthly subscribers could read a new, updated comic and "Stan's Soapbox" every Sunday. The column has not been updated since February 15, 2005.
In 2006, Marvel commemorated Lee's 65 years with the company by publishing a series of one-shot comics starring Lee himself meeting and interacting with many of his co-creations, including Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, the Thing, Silver Surfer and Doctor Doom. These comics also featured short pieces by such comics creators as Joss Whedon and Fred Hembeck, as well as reprints of classic Lee-written adventures.[citation needed]
On March 15, 2007, Stan Lee Media's new president, Jim Nesfield, filed a lawsuit against Marvel Entertainment for $5 billion, claiming that the company is co-owner of the characters that Lee created for Marvel.[47] On June 9, 2007, Stan Lee Media sued Lee; his newer company, POW! Entertainment; POW! subsidiary QED Entertainment; and other former Stan Lee Media staff at POW![48]
In 2008, Lee wrote humorous captions for the political fumetti book Stan Lee Presents Election Daze: What Are They Really Saying?.[49] In April of that year, at the New York Comic Con, Viz Media announced that Lee and Hiroyuki Takei were collaborating on the manga Karakuridôji Ultimo, from parent company Shueisha.[50] That same month, Brighton Partners and Rainmaker Animation announced a partnership POW! to produce a CGI film series, Legion of 5.[51] That same month, Virgin Comics announced Lee would create a line of superhero comics for that company.[52] He is also working on a TV adaptation of the novel Hero.[53] He wrote the foreword to the 2010 non-fiction e-book memoir Skyscraperman by skyscraper fire-safety advocate Dan Goodwin, who had climbed skyscrapers dressed as Spider-Man.[54]
In 2009, he and the Japanese company Bones produced its first manga feature, Heroman, serialized in Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan; the feature was adapted to anime in April 2010.[55][56]
In October 2010, Lee's SLG Entertainment partnered with Guardian Media Entertainment on The Guardian Project to create superhero mascots for the National Hockey League.[57]
In August 2011, Lee announced his support for the Eagle Initiative, a program to find new talent in the comic book field.[58]
In 2011, Lee was writing a live-action musical, The Yin and Yang Battle of Tao.[59] In October, Lee announced he would partner with 1821 Comics on a multimedia imprint for children, Stan Lee’s Kids Universe, a move he said addressed the lack of comic books targeted for children; and that he was collaborating with the company on its futuristic graphic novel Romeo & Juliet: The War, by writer Max Work and artist Skan Srisuwan.[60][61]
Action figure[link]
At the 2007 Comic-Con International, Marvel Legends introduced a Stan Lee action figure. The body beneath the figure's removable cloth wardrobe is a re-used mold of a previously released Spider-Man action figure, with only minor changes.[62]
Charity work[link]
The Stan Lee Foundation was founded in 2010 to focus on literacy, education and the arts. Its stated goals include supporting programs and ideas that improve access to literacy resources, as well as promoting diversity, national literacy, culture and the arts.[63]
Stan Lee has donated portions of his personal effects to the University of Wyoming at various times, between 1981 and 2001.[64]
Awards and honors[link]
- Lee has received several awards for his work, including being inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1995.
- On November 17, 2008, Stan Lee was awarded the National Medal of Arts.[34][65]
- The County of Los Angeles declared October 2, 2009 Stan Lee Day.[66]
- The City of Long Beach declared October 2, 2009 Stan Lee Day.[66]
- Lee won the Comic-Con Icon Award 2009 at Scream Awards.[67]
- Lee received the 2,428th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on January 4, 2011.
- On January 21, 2012, Lee received the Vanguard Award from the Producers Guild of America.[68]
Fictional portrayals[link]
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Lee and Kirby (lower left) as themselves on the covers of The Fantastic Four No.10 (Jan. 1963). Art by Kirby & Dick Ayers.
Stan Lee and his collaborator Jack Kirby appear as themselves in The Fantastic Four No.10 (January 1963), the first of several appearances within the fictional Marvel Universe.[69] The two are depicted as similar to their real-world counterparts, creating comic books based on the "real" adventures of the Fantastic Four.
Kirby later portrayed himself, Lee, production executive Sol Brodsky, and Lee's secretary Flo Steinberg as superheroes in What If #11, "What If the Marvel Bullpen Had Become the Fantastic Four?", in which Lee played the part of Mister Fantastic. Lee has also made numerous cameo appearances in many Marvel titles, appearing in audiences and crowds at many characters' ceremonies and parties, and hosting an old-soldiers reunion in Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos No.100 (July 1972). Lee appeared, unnamed, as the priest at Luke Cage and Jessica Jones' wedding in New Avengers Annual #1. He pays his respects to Karen Page at her funeral in the Daredevil "Guardian Devil" story arc,[volume & issue needed] and appears in The Amazing Spider-Man (June 1977).
In Marvel's July 1997 "Flashback" event, a top-hatted caricature of Lee as a ringmaster introduced stories which detailed events in Marvel characters' lives before they became superheroes, in special "-1" editions of many Marvel titles. The "ringmaster" depiction of Lee was originally from Generation X #17 (July 1996), where the character narrated a story set primarily in an abandoned circus. Though the story itself was written by Scott Lobdell, the narration by "Ringmaster Stan" was written by Lee, and the character was drawn in that issue by Chris Bachalo.
Under his given name of Stanley Lieber, Stan Lee appears briefly in Paul Malmont's 2006 novel The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril.[citation needed]
Lee and other comics creators are mentioned on page 479 of Michael Chabon's 2000 novel about the comics industry The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Chabon also acknowledges a debt to Lee and other creators on the book's Author's Note page.
On one of the last pages of Truth: Red, White, and Black, Lee appears in a real photograph among other celebrities on a wall of the Bradley home.[citation needed]
In Stan Lee Meets Superheroes, which Lee wrote, he comes in to contact with some of his favorite creations.
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby appear as professors in Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #19.
Film and television appearances[link]
Marvel television[link]
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Lee as Willie Lumpkin in Fantastic Four, 2005.
- One of Lee's earliest contributions to animation based on Marvel properties was narrating the 1980s Incredible Hulk animated series, always beginning his narration with a self-introduction and ending with "This is Stan Lee saying, Excelsior!" Lee had previously narrated the "Seven Little Superheroes" episode of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, which the Hulk series was paired with for broadcast.
- Lee did the narration for the original 1989 X-Men animated series pilot titled X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men.
- Lee was an executive producer of the 1990s animated TV series Spider-Man. He appeared as himself in animated form in the series finale episode titled "Farewell, Spider-Man". Spider-Man is transported by Madame Web into the "real" world where he is a fictional character. He meets Lee and the two swing around until Spider-Man drops him off on top of a building; Madame Web appears and brings Spider-Man back to his homeworld. Realizing he is stuck on a roof, Lee muses, hoping the Fantastic Four will show up and lend a hand.
- He also voices the character "Frank Elson" in an episode of Spider-Man: The New Animated Series series broadcast by MTV in 2003, and titled "Mind Games" (Parts 1 & 2, originally aired on August 15 & 22, 2003).
- He voiced a loading dock worker named Stan on The Spectacular Spider-Man in the episode "Blueprints".
- In the pilot episode of The Superhero Squad Show, Lee voices the mayor of the city, preparing to give away the city's key when disaster strikes.
- Lee has appeared in episodes of the Disney XD TV series Ultimate Spider-Man as a high school janitor named Stan, in which he makes references to Lee's real-life career. In the pilot, "Great Power", he mentions Irving Forbush, a character Lee co-created in 1955 as a literary device.[70] He appears in Episode 6, "Why I Hate Gym".[71]
Marvel films[link]
Lee has had cameo appearances in many films based on Marvel characters that he created or co-created:
- In the TV-movie The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989), Lee's first appearance in a Marvel movie or TV project is as a jury foreman in the trial of Dr. David Banner.
- In X-Men (2000), Lee appears as a hotdog stand vendor on the beach when Senator Kelly emerges naked onshore after escaping from Magneto.
- In Spider-Man (2002), he appeared during Spider-Man's first battle with the Green Goblin, pulling a little girl away from falling debris. In the DVD's deleted scenes, Lee has an expanded cameo in which he plays a street vendor who tries to sell Peter Parker a pair of sunglasses "just like the X-Men wear."
- In Daredevil (2003), as a child, Matt Murdock stops Lee from crossing the street and getting hit by a bus.
- In Hulk (2003), he appears walking alongside former TV-series Hulk Lou Ferrigno in an early scene, both as security guards at Bruce Banner's lab. It was his first speaking role in a film based on one of his characters.
- In Spider-Man 2 (2004), Lee pulls an innocent person away from danger during Spider-Man's first battle with Doctor Octopus. In a deleted scene that appears as an extra on the film's DVD release, Lee has another cameo, saying, "Look, Spider-Man stole that child's sneakers."
- In Fantastic Four (2005), Lee appears for the first time as a character from the comics, in a role credited as Willie Lumpkin, the mail carrier who greets the Fantastic Four as they enter the Baxter Building.
- In X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), Lee and Chris Claremont appear as two of Jean Grey's neighbors in the opening scenes set 20 years ago. Lee, credited as "Waterhose man," is watering the lawn when Jean telekinetically redirects the water from the hose into the air.
- In Spider-Man 3 (2007), Lee appears in a credited role as "Man in Times Square". He stands next to Peter Parker, both of them reading a news bulletin about Spider-Man, and commenting to Peter that, "You know, I guess one person can make a difference". He then says his catch phrase, "'Nuff said."
- In Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), Lee appears as himself at Reed Richards' and Susan Storm's first wedding, being turned away by a security guard for not being on the guest list. In Fantastic Four Annual No.3 (1965), in which the couple married, Lee and Jack Kirby are similarly turned away.
- In Iron Man (2008), Lee (credited as "Himself") appears at a gala cavorting with three blonds, where Tony Stark mistakes him for Hugh Hefner.[72] In the theatrical release of the film, Stark simply greets Lee as "Hef" and moves on without seeing Lee's face; another version of the scene was filmed where Stark realizes his mistake, but Lee graciously responds, "That's okay, I get this all the time."[73]
- In The Incredible Hulk (2008), Lee appears as a hapless citizen who accidentally ingests a soft drink mixed with Bruce Banner's blood, leading to the discovery of Dr. Banner's location in a bottling plant in Brazil.
- In Iron Man 2 (2010), during the Stark Expo, Lee, wearing suspenders and a red shirt and black and purple tie, is greeted by Tony Stark as "Larry King".
- In Thor (2011), Lee appears among many people at the site where Thor's hammer Mjolnir lands on earth. He tears the back off his pickup truck in an attempt to pull Mjolnir out of the ground with a chain and causes everyone to laugh by asking, "Did it work?".
- In Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Lee is again used as comic relief, this time portraying a general in World War II. When Captain America/Steve Rogers is queued to a stage to receive an award, a man goes on stage to tell the presenter that Rogers will not be attending. The general mistakes the man for Rogers, commenting, "I thought he'd be taller." Lee said in April 2011, "Marvel Studios has upgraded my cameo for the Captain America movie! They’ve given me one more word of dialogue than originally planned!"[74]
- In The Avengers (2012), Lee makes a cameo appearance as a man interviewed by the media about his opinion concerning the Avengers thwarting the Chitauri's attack on Manhattan Island. Lee's character responds with, "Superheroes in New York? Give me a break", and then returns to a game of chess with a fellow senior citizen. [75]
- In The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), Lee is scheduled to have a cameo in an action scene where he plays a librarian oblivious to the fight between Spider-Man and the Lizard happening behind him.[76]
Warner/DC properties[link]
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Stan Lee mourning on Dan Turpin's funeral. Above TV capture from original episode and below storyboard art by Bruce Timm and text comments by Paul Dini.
In the original February 7, 1998, broadcast airing of the Superman: The Animated Series episode "Apokolips... Now! Part 2" on the Kids' WB programming block, an animated Stan Lee was visible mourning the death of Daniel "Terrible" Turpin, a character based on his longtime Marvel Comics collaborator Jack Kirby. This shot was later modified to remove the likeness of Lee and other of background Marvel characters when the episode was released on DVD.[77]
Other film, TV, and video[link]
- In the 1990s, Lee hosted the documentary series The Comic Book Greats and interviewed notable comic book creators such as Chris Claremont, Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, Rob Liefeld and Whilce Portacio.
- Lee has an extensive cameo in the 1995 Kevin Smith film Mallrats. He plays himself, this time visiting the mall to sign books at a comic store. Later, he takes on the role of a sage-like character, giving Jason Lee's character, Brodie Bruce (a longtime fan of Stan's), advice on his love life. He also recorded interviews with Smith for the non-fiction video Stan Lee's Mutants, Monsters, and Marvels (2002).
- Lee is the host of the 2010 History Channel documentary series Stan Lee's Superhumans.
- Lee makes a cameo appearance as the "Three Stooges Wedding Guest" in the 2004 Disney film The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement.
- Lee hosted and judged contestants in the SyFy series Who Wants to Be a Superhero?
- Lee appears with director Kevin Smith and 2000s Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada in the DVD program Marvel Then & Now: An Evening with Stan Lee and Joe Quesada, hosted by Kevin Smith.
- Lee was interviewed on the History Channel show Superhuman by Daniel Browning Smith, who held several Guinness Records for extreme flexibility[78] due to having Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a genetic condition affecting collagen formation. Smith had created his own comic book to display his own struggles as an outcast for his flexibility, and legitimately surprised Lee with a quick demonstration of his talent.
- In the animated series Jim Henson's Muppet Babies, Lee plays himself in a live-action scene of the "Comic Capers" episode.
- Lee appeared as himself in an extended self-parodying sketch on the episode "Tapping a Hero" of Robot Chicken.
- Lee appears as himself in writer-director Larry Cohen's The Ambulance (1990), in which Eric Roberts plays an aspiring comics artist.
- In "I Am Furious Yellow", the April 28, 2002, episode of The Simpsons, Lee voices the animated Stan Lee, who is a prolonged visitor to Comic Book Guy's store. He asks if Comic Book Guy is the stalker of Lynda Carter – the star of the 1970s show Wonder Woman – and shows signs of dementia, such as breaking a customer's toy Batmobile by trying to cram a Thing action figure into it (claiming that he "made it better"), hiding DC comics behind Marvel comics, and believing that he is the Hulk (and fails trying to become the Hulk, while Comic Book Guy comments he couldn't even change into Bill Bixby). Lee also appeared on the commentary track along with other Simpsons writers and directors on the episode for The Simpsons Season 13 box set released in 2010. In a later Simpsons episode, "Worst Episode Ever", Lee's picture is seen next to several others on the wall behind the register, under the heading "Banned for life".
- Lee appears as himself in the Mark Hamill-directed Comic Book: The Movie (2004), a direct-to-video mockumentary primarily filmed at the 2002 San Diego Comic-Con.
- Lee made an appearance on December 21, 2006, on the NBC game show Identity.
- Lee appeared as himself in "The Excelsior Acquisition", a third season episode of The Big Bang Theory, in March 2010.[79] He appears at the front door of his house wearing Fantastic Four pajamas, ultimately calling into the rest of the house, "Joanie, call the police!" to get rid of Sheldon.
- Lee voices the Mayor of Superhero City in the Super Hero Squad Show.
- He plays a bus driver in the 16th episode of the first season of Heroes.[80]
- Lee made a guest appearance as himself in "Bottom's Up", a season seven episode of the TV series Entourage. He guest-starred in "Glimpse", a season five episode of Eureka that aired in July 2011.[81]
- Lee appears in "The Guardian", the October 7, 2010, episode of Nikita, as Hank Excelsior, a witness to a bank robbery who is interviewed by a TV reporter.
- Lee was interviewed in the 2011 documentary Superheroes.
- Lee is scheduled to appear on X Japan's music video "Born to be Free".[82]
- Lee portrayed himself at a CIA holiday party in the fifth season of Chuck, in which it is revealed in that universe he secretly works for the government and has a romantic interest in General Beckman.
- Stan Lee appeared in the eleventh episode of season five of The Guild, in which he was captured at a convention by the character Zaboo's Master Chief cosplaying henchmen.[episode needed]
- Stan Lee portrayed a future version of Tony Stark in "Episode 205 – The Future!" of the comedy web series Avengers Assemble!. In this episode, he delivered from the future a cryptic message to the rest of his fellow Avengers, but constantly frustrated his companions due to his ineptness with the technology of his future era.[83]
Video games and applications[link]
- Lee narrates the 2000 video game Spider-Man,[84] the 2001 sequel Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro[85] and 2010's Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions.[86][87]
- Lee made his first-ever onscreen video game appearance as a senator named after himself in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2.[88]
- Lee narrates the The Avengers Origins: Hulk and Avengers Origins: Assemble! apps for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch, which were released by Disney Publishing Worldwide in February 2012.[89]
- Lee is a playable character in Activision's The Amazing Spider-Man video game, which is scheduled to be released in June 2012, as a tie-in to the film of the same name.[90]
Personal life[link]
Lee's favorite authors include Stephen King, H. G. Wells, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, and Harlan Ellison.[91] He is also a fan of the films of Bruce Lee.[92]
Bibliography[link]
Lee's comics work includes:[93]
DC[link]
- DC Comics Presents: Superman #1 (2004)
- Just Imagine Stan Lee creating:
- Aquaman (with Scott McDaniel) (2002)
- Batman (with Joe Kubert) (2001)
- Catwoman (with Chris Bachalo) (2002)
- Crisis (with John Cassaday) (2002)
- Flash (with Kevin Maguire) (2002)
- Green Lantern (with Dave Gibbons) (2001)
- JLA (with Jerry Ordway) (2002)
- Robin (with John Byrne) (2001)
- Sandman (with Walt Simonson) (2002)
- Secret Files and Origins (2002)
- Shazam! (with Gary Frank) (2001)
- Superman (with John Buscema) (2001)
- Wonder Woman (with Jim Lee) (2001)
Marvel[link]
- Amazing Spider-Man #1–100, 105–110, 116–118, 200 (1962–80); (backup stories): #634–655 (2010–11)[94]
- Avengers #1–35 (1963–66)
- Captain America #100–141 (1968–71) (continues from Tales of Suspense #99)
- Daredevil, #1–9, 11–50, 53 (1964–69)
- Daredevil, vol. 2, #20 (backup story) (2001)
- Epic Illustrated #1 (Silver Surfer) (1980)
- Fantastic Four #1–114, 120–125 (1961–72); #296 (1986)
- The Incredible Hulk #1–6 (continues to Tales to Astonish #59)
- Journey into Mystery (Thor) plotter #83–96 (1962–63), writer #97–125 (1963–66) (continues to Thor #126)
- Ravage 2099 #1–7 (1992–93)
- Savage She-Hulk #1 (1980)
- Sgt. Fury #1–28 (1963–66)
- Silver Surfer #1–18 (1968–70)
- Silver Surfer vol. 2, #1 (1982)
- Silver Surfer: Parable #1–2 (1988)
- Solarman #1–2 (1989–90)
- Strange Tales (diverse stories): #9, 11, 74, 89, 90–100 (1951–62); (Human Torch): #101–109, 112–133; (Doctor Strange): #110–111, 115–142, 151–158 (1962–67); (Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.: #135–147, 150–152 (1965–67)
- Tales to Astonish (diverse stories): #1, 6, 12–13, 15–17, 24–33 (1956–62); Ant-Man/Giant Man: #35–69 (1962–65) (Incredible Hulk: #59–101 (1964–1968); Sub-Mariner: #70–101 (1965–68)
- Tales of Suspense (diverse stories): #7, 9, 16, 22, 27, 29–30 (1959–62); (Iron Man): plotter #39–46 (1963), writer #47–98 (1963–68) (Captain America): #58–99 (1964–86)
- Thor #126–192, 200 (1966–72), 385 (1987)
- What If (Fantastic Four) #200 (2011)
- The X-Men #1–19 (1963–66)
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References[link]
- ^ a b Lee, Stan; Mair, George (2002). Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee. Fireside Books. p. 5. ISBN 0-684-87305-2.
- ^ "The Celebrity who's who – World Almanac – Google Books". Books.google.ca. http://books.google.ca/books?id=ZzuwrsIil0UC&q=Celia+Solomon+Lieber&dq=Celia+Solomon+Lieber&hl=en&redir_esc=y. Retrieved 2012-05-15.
- ^ Hoffman, Jordan (2012-04-29). "A marvel in comics". The Times of Israel. http://www.timesofisrael.com/a-marvel-in-comics/. Retrieved 2012-05-15.
- ^ Edward, Lewine (September 4, 2007). "Sketching Out His Past: Image 1". The New York Times Key Magazine. Archived from the original on July 31, 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/09/04/realestate/keymagazine/20070909STANLEE_2.html. Retrieved April 27, 2010.
- ^ a b Lewine. "Image 2". Archived from the original on July 31, 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/09/04/realestate/keymagazine/20070909STANLEE_3.html. Retrieved April 27, 2010.
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- ^ Lee and Mair, p. 17
- ^ Sedlmeier, Cory (Editor). Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk Volume 2. Marvel Comics. Page 244.
- ^ Lee and Mair, p. 18
- ^ "I Let People Do Their Jobs!': A Conversation with Vince Fago—Artist, Writer, and Third Editor-in-Chief of Timely/Marvel Comics". Alter Ego (TwoMorrows Publishing) 3 (11). November 2001. Archived from the original on November 24, 2009. http://www.twomorrows.com/alterego/articles/11fago.html.
- ^ a b c Lee's account of how he began working for Marvel's predecessor, Timely, has varied. He has said in lectures and elsewhere that he simply answered a newspaper ad seeking a publishing assistant, not knowing it involved comics, let alone his cousin's husband:
I applied for a job in a publishing company ... I didn't even know they published comics. I was fresh out of high school, and I wanted to get into the publishing business, if I could. There was an ad in the paper that said, "Assistant Wanted in a Publishing House." When I found out that they wanted me to assist in comics, I figured, 'Well, I'll stay here for a little while and get some experience, and then I'll get out into the real world'. ... I just wanted to know, 'What do you do in a publishing company?' How do you write? ... How do you publish? I was an assistant. There were two people there named Joe Simon and Jack Kirby – Joe was sort-of the editor/artist/writer, and Jack was the artist/writer. Joe was the senior member. They were turning out most of the artwork. Then there was the publisher, Martin Goodman.... And that was about the only staff that I was involved with. After a while, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby left. I was about 17 years old [sic], and Martin Goodman said to me, 'Do you think you can hold down the job of editor until I can find a real person?' When you're 17, what do you know? I said, 'Sure! I can do it!' I think he forgot about me, because I stayed there ever since. — Lee, in Plume, Kenneth (June 26, 2000). "Stan Lee interview part 1 of 5". IGN.com. Archived from the original on July 31, 2011. http://www.webcitation.org/60bTUWCWn.
However, in his above-cited, 2002 autobiography, Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee, he says:
My uncle, Robbie Solomon, told me they might be able to use someone at a publishing company where he worked. The idea of being involved in publishing definitely appealed to me. ... So I contacted the man Robbie said did the hiring, Joe Simon, and applied for a job. He took me on and I began working as a gofer for eight dollars a week....Joe Simon, in his autobiography The Comic Book Makers (Crestwood/II, 1990; ISBN 1-887591-35-4; reissued Vanguard Productions, 2003, ISBN 1-887591-35-4), gives the account slightly differently:
One day [Goodman's relative known as] Uncle Robbie came to work with a lanky 17-year-old in tow. 'This is Stanley Lieber, Martin's wife's cousin', Uncle Robbie said. 'Martin wants you to keep him busy.'In an appendix, however, Simon appears to reconcile the two accounts. He relates a 1989 conversation with Lee:
Lee: I've been saying this [classified-ad] story for years, but apparently it isn't so. And I can't remember because I['ve] said it so long now that I believe it".
...
Simon: "Well, Stan, you told me seventeen. You were probably trying to be older.... I did hire you."
Simon: "Your Uncle Robbie brought you into the office one day and he said, 'This is Martin Goodman's wife's nephew'. [sic] ... You were seventeen years old".
Lee: "Sixteen and a half!" - ^ Lee, Mair, p. 22
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- ^ Thomas, Roy, Stan Lee's Amazing Marvel Universe (Sterling Publishing, New York, 2006), p. 11. ISBN 978-1-4027-4225-5 The line reads: "With the speed of thought, he sent his shield spinning through the air to the other end of the tent, where it smacked the knife out of Haines' hand!" It became a convention starting the following issue, in a Simon & Kirby's comics story depict the following: "Captain America's speed of thought and action save Bucky's life—as he hurls his shield across the room".
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- ^ Lee, Mair, p. 69
- ^ Lewine. "Images 4–5". Archived from the original on July 31, 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/09/04/realestate/keymagazine/20070909STANLEE_5.html. Retrieved April 27, 2010.
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The DC comics were ... one dimensional characters whose only characteristic was they dressed up in costumes and did good. Whereas Stan Lee had this huge breakthrough of two-dimensional characters. So, they dress up in costumes and do good, but they've got a bad heart. Or a bad leg. I actually did think for a long while that having a bad leg was an actual character trait.
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- ^ "Episode 205 – The Future!". September 1, 2011. http://avengersassembletheseries.com/episodes/episode-205-the-future/. Retrieved September 1, 2011.
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- ^ Stan Lee at the Grand Comics Database
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Further reading[link]
- Lee, Stan, Origins of Marvel Comics (Simon and Schuster, 1974; Marvel Entertainment Group, 1997 reissue, ISBN 0-7851-0551-4)
- McLaughlin, Jeff, ed. Stan Lee: Conversations (University Press of Mississippi, 2007), ISBN 978-1-57806-985-9
- Ro, Ronin. Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American Comic Book Revolution (Bloomsbury USA, 2005 reissue) ISBN 1-58234-566-X
- Raphael, Jordan, and Spurgeon, Tom. Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book (Chicago Review Press, 2003) ISBN 1-55652-506-0
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- POW! Entertainment (official site)
- "Biography". StanLeeWeb.com (fan site by minority shareholders of POW! Entertainment. Archived from the original on October 24, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20081024041934/http://www.stanleeweb.com/stan_bio.htm. Retrieved April 27, 2010.
- McCave, Joseph. "SDCC 2009: Stan Lee Talks 'Time Jumper'!" FearNet.com, July 27, 2009
- Framingham, Mass. "Myth and the Hero's Journey: Big Screen Blockbusters – Star Wars, Spider-Man Tell Timeless Tales", Daily News (May 5, 2002), by Chris Bergeron
- Archive of "Fast Chat: Stan Lee". Newsday, April 1, 2007. Online version March 31, 2007.
- Stan Lee at ComiCon in Seattle
- Stan Lee at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators
- Stan Lee at the Comic Book DB
- Stan Lee at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Stan Lee at the Internet Movie Database
Audio/video
- Audio of Merry Marvel Marching Society record, including voice of Stan Lee
- "Stan Lee". (video interviews) WebOfStories.com. undated. http://www.webofstories.com/play/16741.
- Comic Geek Speak: Episode 83 – Stan Lee interview podcast, December 12, 2005
- Mahalo Daily with Veronica Belmont: "MD044 – Stan Lee Interview", January 28, 2008
- Stan Lee receives 1st New York comics legend award April 17, 2008
- "Authors@Google: Stan Lee", Authors@Google, "AtGoogleTalks", YouTube, July 18, 2008. (Video podcast)
- Conan, Neal (October 27, 2010). "Stan Lee, Mastermind Of The Marvel Universe". Talk of the Nation (National Public Radio). http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130862700. (Radio broadcast)
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| Name | Lee, Stan |
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| Short description | Comic book writer and creator |
| Date of birth | December 28, 1922 |
| Place of birth | New York City, New York, US |
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