Alphabetic card index to governors' correspondence files, 1907-1928.

Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944

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Alfred Emanuel Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was an American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 1928. Smith was the foremost urban leader of the Efficiency Movement in the United States and was noted for achieving a wide range of reforms as governor in the 1920s. The son of an Irish-American mother and a Civil War veteran father, he was raised in the Lower East Side of Manhattan near the Brooklyn Bri...

Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948

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Charles Evans Hughes Sr. (April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was an American statesman, Republican Party politician, and the 11th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was also the 36th Governor of New York, the Republican nominee in the 1916 presidential election, and the 44th United States Secretary of State. Born to a Welsh immigrant preacher and his wife in Glens Falls, New York, Hughes pursued a legal career in New York City. After working in private practice for several ye...

New York (State). Governor (1919-1920 : Smith)

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Alfred Emanuel Smith was born in New York City on December 30, 1873. He married Catherine (Katie) Dunn on May 6, 1900 and the couple raised a family of five children: Alfred, Jr., Emily, Catherine, Arthur, and Walter. Smith was first elected to public office in 1903, when with the support of the Democratic Tammany Hall organization he claimed a seat in the New York State Assembly. At the outset of the 1911 legislative session, he was named Assembly Majority Leader as well as chairma...

New York (State). Governor (1921-1922 : Miller)

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Legislation of 1921 established a Board of Estimate and Control and directed it to conduct a survey of all state departments, offices, and institutions to determine where waste and duplication of effort existed. The Board was then to recommend improvements to each agency or recommend to the legislature that agencies or functions be consolidated or discontinued. The legislation also directed that agency budget requests be submitted to the Board for examination and revisio...

Whitman, Charles Sidney, 1840-

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Dix, John A. (John Alden), 1860-1928

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New York (State). Governor (1907-1910 : Hughes)

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Charles Evans Hughes was born on April 11, 1862 in Glens Falls, New York. He married Antoinette Carter in 1888 and together the couple raised four children. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 1884 and later served as professor of law at Cornell University. In 1905, Hughes gained valuable insight that would serve him in future years by leading an inquiry into malpractices of the New York City utilities industry and the New York life insurance scandals. Hughes defeat...

Miller, Nathan L.

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White, Horace, 1865-1943.

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Lieutenant Governor and Governor of New York State, 1909-1910. From the description of Horace White papers, 1886-1947. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64073330 ...

New York (State). Governor

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Articles I and IV of the State Constitution authorize the governor to grant executive clemency to convicted criminials (Executive Law, Sections 15-19). Among the types of clemency offered is restoration of citizensip rights, by which the governor restores civil rights lost as a result of a conviction (e.g. right to vote, right to hold public office). From the description of Restoration of citizenship rights application ledgers, 1857-1902. (New York State Archives). WorldCat record id...

New York (State). Governor (1913-1914 : Glynn)

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New York (State). Governor (1910 : White)

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Glynn, Martin Henry, 1871-1924

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Journalist and politician; Governor of New York State, 1913-1914. From the description of Papers, 1913-1924. (New York State Library). WorldCat record id: 85821850 Martin Henry Glynn (1871-1924) was an American politician and Democrat. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1899 and served one term as the representative of the 20th District of New York. He later served as New York State Comptroller (1907-1908) and Lieutenant Governor (1912). Glynn then became Gove...

New York (State). Governor (1923-1928 : Smith)

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New York (State). Governor (1915-1918 : Whitman)

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New York (State). Governor (1873-1875 : Dix)

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