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Representative | Republican | PAYNE, SERENO ELISHA, a Representative from New York; born in Hamilton, Madison County, N.Y., June 26, 1843; attended the Auburn (N.Y.) Academy and was graduated from the University of Rochester, N.Y., in 1864; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1866 and practiced in Auburn, N.Y.; city clerk of Auburn… Continue reading Sereno Payne

David’s comment: As has been said many times, Watergate may have had a differentg outsome of Celler had not lost his re-election in 1972 over the issue of the ERA Amendment. Celler was closer to the Nixon administration than his Peter Rodino, who replaced him as Chair of the Judiciary Committee. Representative | Democrat |… Continue reading Emanuel Celler

Representative | Whig | FILLMORE, MILLARD, a Representative from New York, Vice President and 13th President of the United States; born in Locke Township (now Summerhill), Cayuga County, N.Y., January 7, 1800; reared on a farm; largely self-taught; apprenticed to a clothier; taught school in Buffalo while studying law; admitted to the bar in 1823… Continue reading Millard Fillmore

David’s comment: His glorious political career was brought to a sudden end by the untimely death of his young wife, Natalie Wood,.Senator | Democrat | WAGNER, ROBERT FERDINAND, a Senator from New York; born in Nastatten, Province Hessen-Nassau, Germany, June 8, 1877; immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1885 and settled in… Continue reading Robert Wagner

Senator | Democrat | VAN BUREN, MARTIN, (half brother of James Isaac Van Alen), a Senator from New York, a Vice President and 8th President of the United States; born in Kinderhook, Columbia County, N.Y., December 5, 1782; attended the village schools; studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Kinderhook, N.Y., in… Continue reading Martin Van Buren

Lt. Governor | Democrat | LEHMAN, HERBERT HENRY, a Senator from New York; born in New York City, March 28, 1878; attended Sachs Collegiate Institute in New York City; graduated from Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1899; employed by the J. Spencer Turner Co., textile manufacturers; in 1908 became partner in Lehman Bros., investment bankers… Continue reading Herbert Lehman

Governor | Democrat | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) began his storied political career in the New York State Senate. During World War I, he served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1913–1920) and then suffered through and overcame a disabling bout of polio. Assuming the governorship at the onset of the Great Depression, Roosevelt devoted… Continue reading Franklin Roosevelt

Domestic Policy Advisor | Democrat | MOYNIHAN, Daniel Patrick, a Senator from New York; born in Tulsa, Tulsa County, Okla., March 16, 1927; attended the public and parochial schools of New York City; attended City College of New York 1943; graduated, Tufts University, Medford, Mass., 1948; received graduate and law degrees from the Fletcher School… Continue reading Daniel Moynihan