The Political Graveyard: Albany County, N.Y.

Albany County
New York

Albany County information:

Population: 294,565 (2000); 292,594 (1990)
Land area 524 square miles.
County seat: Albany
Albany County official web site.
Capital Impact: Albany County -- officials, addresses, and political, economic, education data
Fedstats/Mapstats: Albany County -- data on agriculture, population, immigration, business, crime, environment
Albany County NYGenWeb page -- genealogical, historical information and queries
(if this link doesn't work, find the new one through the USGenWeb national site).
Albany County page at Interment.Net (Cemetery Records Online).

Neighboring areas:

The Political Graveyard:

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Selected officials of Albany County

(not intended to be complete)

Benjamin F. Butler (District Attorney, 1821-24) Rufus W. Peckham (District Attorney, 1868) D. Cady Herrick (District Attorney) George H. Fitts (County Surrogate, 1896) Patrick E. McCabe (County Clerk, 1899) Rollin B. Sanford (District Attorney) Julian B. Erway (District Attorney, 1945-53) Edward J. Grogan III (County Legislator, 1968-71)

Politicians who died in Albany County

Albany: Abraham Yates, Jr. 1796 Philip Schuyler 1804 William Paterson 1806 William Cooper 1809 Leonard Gansevoort 1810 De Witt Clinton 1828 John Tayler 1829 Moses Hayden 1830 James Boyd 1839 Charles E. Dudley 1841 Harmanus Bleecker 1849 Charles Humphrey 1850 John Townsend 1854 John C. Spencer 1855 Daniel D. Barnard 1861 George W. Pratt 1862 Clark B. Cochrane 1867 James A. McDougall 1867 Erastus Corning 1872 Jacob Hardenburgh 1872 Ira Harris 1875 Eli Perry 1881 Bradford R. Wood 1889 Amasa J. Parker 1890 Michael N. Nolan 1905 David B. Hill 1910 Edward T. Bartlett 1910 George N. Southwick 1912 John Mosher Bailey 1916 Martin H. Glynn 1924 Parker Corning 1943 George Z. Medalie 1946 James H. Hyer 1956 Edward J. Speno 1971 Dean P. Taylor 1977 Leo W. O'Brien 1982 Enzo Gaspari 1989 William B. Hoyt 1992 Domenick Gabrielli 1994 Francis Bergan 1998 Jacob E. Gunther III 2003
Altamont: Rufus W. Peckham 1909
New Scotland: Samuel Dickson 1858
See also N.Y. deathplaces not assigned to counties.

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