The Political Graveyard: Bronx County, N.Y.

Bronx County
New York

Bronx County information:

Population: 1,332,650 (2000); 1,203,789 (1990)
Land area 42 square miles.
County seat: Bronx
Capital Impact: Bronx County -- officials, addresses, and political, economic, education data
USA MapStats: Bronx County -- census data on population, race, economics
Bronx County NYGenWeb page -- genealogical, historical information and queries
(if this link doesn't work, find the new one through the USGenWeb national site).
Bronx County page at Interment.Net (Cemetery Records Online).

Neighboring areas:

North: Westchester County
East: Long Island Sound
South: East River; Queens County
Southwest: Harlem River; New York County
West: Lower Hudson River

The Political Graveyard:

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Selected officials of Bronx County

(not intended to be complete)

Joseph I. Berry (Coroner, 1902-05) James V. Ganly (County Clerk, 1914-17) Francis Martin (District Attorney, 1914-20) James F. Donnelly (Sheriff, 1918-21) Joseph M. Callahan (County Clerk, 1918-21) Edward J. Glennon (District Attorney, 1920-23) Edward J. Flynn (Sheriff, 1922-25) John E. McGeehan (District Attorney, 1924-29) Louis A. Schoffel (County Register, 1925-32) Lester W. Patterson (Sheriff, 1926-29) Charles B. McLaughlin (District Attorney, 1930-33) Lester W. Patterson (County Clerk, 1930-33) Herman M. Albert (County Register, 1933-41) Samuel Foley (District Attorney, 1933-50) John J. Hanley (Sheriff, 1934-37) Nicholas J. Eberhard (County Clerk, 1934-37) George B. DeLuca (District Attorney, 1950-54) David M. Potts (County Surrogate, 1951-53) Daniel V. Sullivan (District Attorney, 1955-59) Isidore Dollinger (District Attorney, 1960-68) Burton B. Roberts (District Attorney, 1968-72) Mario Merola (District Attorney, 1973-87) Paul Gentile (District Attorney, 1987-88) Robert T. Johnson (District Attorney, 1989-)

Politicians who were born in Bronx County

Bronx: Lewis Morris 1726 John Bussing Haskin 1821 Joseph E. Kinsley 1897 Adrian P. Burke 1904 Gladys E. Banks c.1904 James C. Healey 1909 Paul A. Fino 1913 John J. Donovan, Jr. 1913 Enzo Gaspari 1915 Alexander Chananau 1915 Francis J. McCaffrey 1917 Jacob H. Gilbert 1920 Bella S. Abzug 1920 John R. Schmidhauser 1922 Edward I. Koch 1924 Leonard P. Stavisky c.1926 Anthony Pace 1927 Harriet R. Taylor c.1932 Aurelia Greene 1934 Harrison J. Goldin 1936 Nita M. Lowey 1937 Robert Abrams 1938 Gloria Davis 1938 G. Oliver Koppell 1940 Gray Davis 1942 Parris N. Glendening 1942 Virginia Ann Foxx 1943 Lynn Schenk 1945 John P. Flannery 1946 Eliot L. Engel 1947 Fernando Ferrer 1950 Peter R. Deutsch 1957 Eliot Spitzer 1959
Bronx, New York County (now Bronx County): Henry Bruckner 1871 Charles A. Buckley 1890 Milton H. Adler c.1906
Melrose, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, Bronx County): Louis F. Haffen 1854
Morrisania, Bronx: Gouverneur Morris 1752
New York, New York County (part now in Bronx, Bronx County): Edward J. Flynn 1891 John F. Reidy 1893 Walter A. Lynch 1894
Riverdale, Bronx: George W. Perkins 1895 Joan Bennett Kennedy 1936
Throgg's Neck, Bronx: Charles Goadsby Ferris c.1796
West Farms, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, Bronx County): James L. Wells c.1852
See also N.Y. birthplaces not assigned to counties.

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