Note: This is just one of
1,130
family groupings listed on
The Political Graveyard web site.
These families each have three or more politician members,
all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
These groupings — even the names of the groupings,
and the areas of main activity — are the
result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,
not the choices of any historian or genealogist.
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Erastus Corning (1794-1872) —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Norwich, New London
County, Conn., December
14, 1794.
Democrat. Mayor of
Albany, N.Y., 1834-37; member of New York
state senate 3rd District, 1842-45; founder (1853) and first
president of the New York Central Railroad;
U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1857-59, 1861-63;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1860;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1867.
Died in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., April 9,
1872 (age 77 years, 117
days).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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Parker Corning (1874-1943) —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., January
22, 1874.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 28th District, 1923-37; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1924.
Died in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., May 24,
1943 (age 69 years, 122
days).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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Edwin Corning (1883-1934) —
of Bethlehem, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., September
30, 1883.
Democrat. New York
Democratic state chair, 1926-28; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1927-28.
President of Ludlum Steel
Company; officer of Albany Felt
Company; director of banks.
Died in 1934
(age about
50 years).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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Erastus Corning II (1909-1983) —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., October
7, 1909.
Democrat. Insurance
broker; member of New York
state assembly from Albany County 1st District, 1936; member of
New
York state senate 30th District, 1937-41; resigned 1941; mayor of
Albany, N.Y., 1942-83; died in office 1983; served in the U.S.
Army during World War II; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New York, 1944,
1948,
1952,
1956,
1960,
1964,
1972,
1980;
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1946; member of New York
Democratic State Committee, 1964; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 40th District, 1967.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Chi Psi.
Died, of cardio-pulmonary
failure, in University Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 28,
1983 (age 73 years, 233
days).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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