Selected officials of Richmond County

(not intended to be complete)

Paul Micheau (Sheriff, 1736) Paul Micheau (County Clerk, 1761-1780) Abraham Bancker (Sheriff, 1784) Adrian Bancker (County Surrogate, 1787-92) Benjamin Micheau (County Treasurer, 1787) Abraham Bancker (County Surrogate, 1792-1809) Stephen D. Stephens, Jr. (County Judge and Surrogate) Albert C. Fach (District Attorney, 1929)

Politicians who were born in Richmond County

• Marshland (now Greenridge), Staten Island: Henry J. Seaman 1805
• New Dorp, Staten Island: Samuel Barton 1785
• Port Richmond, Staten Island: Anning S. Prall 1870
• Stapleton Heights, Staten Island: William A. Stevens 1879
• Staten Island: Henry Crocheron 1772 Jacob Crocheron 1774 Obadiah Bowne 1822 Albert J. Fountain 1838 Richard A. Donnelly 1841 Thomas J. Walsh c.1884 James A. O'Leary 1889 S. Pinkney Tuck 1891 Rae L. Egbert 1892 Cecil B. Lyon 1903 John M. Braisted, Jr. 1907 Arthur T. Berge 1907 Robert S. Bainbridge 1913 Taylor G. Belcher 1920 Mark A. Costantino 1920 John J. Marchi 1921 Orlando L. Abbruzzese 1922 John M. Murphy 1926 John T. Gregorio c.1927 Albert H. McGeehan 1944 Susan Molinari 1958 Vito Fossella 1965
• West New Brighton, Staten Island: Eric N. Vitaliano 1948
• See also N.Y. birthplaces not assigned to counties.

Politicians who lived in Richmond County

• No city given: Cornelius Corsen - John C. Dongan - Thomas Frost - Abraham Jones - Joshua Mersereau - Johannes Van Wagenen - Peter Winant
• Bay View, Staten Island: Robert Christie, Jr.
• Brighton, Staten Island: Carolyn R. Zaroff
• Clifton, Staten Island: George J. Greenfield - Ferdinand C. Townsend
• Concord, Staten Island: Henry A. Seesselberg
• Dongan Hills, Staten Island: Charles W. Berry - George Cromwell - John J. O'Rourke - Robert S. Woodward
• Emerson Hill, Staten Island: George Williams
• Emerson Hills, Staten Island: Walter W. Price
• Great Kills, Staten Island: Richard L. Templeton
• Mariner's Harbor, Staten Island: Thomas J. Lanahan - Calvin D. Van Namee
• New Brighton, Staten Island: Howard R. Bayne - George Sutherland Bowman - Lester W. Clark - Bertram G. Eadie - Smith Ely - Charles J. McCormack - William Merrifield - Nicholas Muller - Anna G. Riley - Stephen D. Stephens, Jr. - S. Pinkney Tuck
• New Dorp, Staten Island: Edward V. Curry - H. Robert Fetteroll - S. Robert Molinari - George P. Reynaud
• North Shore, Staten Island: Gabriel P. Disosway
• Pattenville, Staten Island: Gilbert C. Dean
• Port Richmond, Staten Island: William T. Croak - Thomas W. Fitzgerald - George Garby - William B. Muirhead - Harry J. Palmer - Clinton J. Sharrett - J. Walter Thompson - Frieda Vaughan
• Richmond Valley, Staten Island: Esli L. Sutton - Ephraim J. Totten
• Rosebank, Staten Island: James H. Clark - Harry J. Palmer - Peter P. Spinelli - John Timlin, Jr.
• St. George, Staten Island: Robert S. Bainbridge - Francis P. Heffernan
• Stapleton, Staten Island: Gustav A. Barth - George Bechtel - Charles Bormann - James E. Cooley - Charles Hormann - William M. Mullen - Alfred V. Norton - Edmund P. Radigan - C. Ernest Smith - Michael S. Tynan - Thomas J. Walsh
• Staten Island:
  • Lived in Staten Island, year not specified: Isaac R. Housman
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1730-1739: Paul Micheau
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1740-1749: Paul Micheau
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1750-1759: Paul Micheau
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1760-1769: Paul Micheau
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1770-1779: Adrian Bancker - Richard Conner - Aaron Cortelyou - John Journeay - Richard Lawrence - Paul Micheau
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1780-1789: Abraham Bancker - Adrian Bancker - Benjamin Micheau - Paul Micheau
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1790-1799: Abraham Bancker - Adrian Bancker - Paul Micheau - Paul I. Micheau - Gozen Ryerss - John P. Ryerss - Lewis Ryerss
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1800-1809: Abraham Bancker - Richard Connor - John Dunn - John Garretson - John Houseman - David Mersereau - Paul I. Micheau - John P. Ryerss
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1810-1819: Richard Connor - Richard C. Corson - Hermanus Guyon - James Guyon, Jr. - Jesse Oakley - Joseph Perine
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1820-1829: Samuel Barton - Abraham Cole - Harmanus Garretson - Hermanus Guyon - Henry Perine - Daniel D. Tompkins - Jacob Tyson - John Vanderbilt
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1830-1839: Jacob Crocheron - Harmon B. Cropsey - John Garritson, Jr. - John T. Harrison - Lawrence Hillyer - Jacob Mersereau - Paul Mersereau - Israel Oakley
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1840-1849: George H. Cole - Henry Cole - James M. Cross - Peter Mersereau - William Nickles - Israel Oakley - Henry J. Seaman - John C. Thompson - Minthorne Tompkins - Bornt P. Winant
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1850-1859: William H. Anthon - Robert Christie, Jr. - L. H. Cortelyou - Nicholas Crocheron - Henry De Hart - Eben W. Hubbard - Joshua Mersereau - Benjamin P. Prall - John F. Raymond - William J. Shea - Minthorne Tompkins
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1860-1869: Obadiah Bowne - Thomas Child, Jr. - John Decker - N. Dane Ellingwood - Theodore Frean - Nicholas B. La Bau - James Ridgway - William H. Rutan - Theodore C. Vermilye - Nathaniel J. Wyeth
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1870-1879: Samuel R. Brick - Erastus Brooks - John Decker - John Blake Hillyer - David W. Judd - Kneeland S. Townsend
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1880-1889: Erastus Brooks - Edward P. Doyle - Oliver Fiske - Edward A. Moore - Michael S. Tynan
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1890-1899: Michael Conklin - Daniel T. Cornell - John Cronk - John L. Feeney - Charles J. Kullman - Michael McGuire
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1900-1909: Nathaniel Marsh - George Metcalfe
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1910-1919: John Anderson - William W. Bryan - Thomas F. Curley - Walter H. Dearing - Hiram C. Horton - Charles Mauer - Stewart L. Ritz - Stephen D. Stephens - G. L. Whistler
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1920-1929: Meedie Antonsen - Eleanor Byrns - Matthew J. Cahill - Anton Christensen - Walter H. Dearing - Rae L. Egbert - Otto Eichele - Frank S. Gannon - George W. Gatz - W. Arthur Howden - Magnus Jacobsen - Otto Kalson - John F. Kavanagh - Lucy J. Kipper - Harry Kuhn - Hugh Leonard - Max Levy - Nicholas Reigi - Walter E. Sharrott - J. H. Tiernan - Stanley W. Tuttle - Lawrence H. Wagle
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1930-1939: Zekor Antonsen - Horatio Bamber - Richard Carfoot - David Cassidy - Anton Christensen - Hugh T. Cuff - Walter H. Dearing - Charles H. Dreyfus - Rae L. Egbert - William T. Fetherston - Sadie A. Hall - Sidney Jacobi - Vincent B. Kearns - Harold Kerthlin - Richmond E. Lawlor - W. Irving Lewis - Eileen McGowen - Herman Methfessel - Adolfina Muurahainen - E. B. Newbranch - William E. O'Donnell - Charles F. Pallister - Joseph A. Palma - John J. Richards - Myron Rider - Charles Harry Robillard - Thomas Siracusa - C. T. Vreeland
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1940-1949: Arthur T. Berge - John M. Braisted, Jr. - Ellsworth B. Buck - Harry Cassidy - James J. Fahy - William T. Fetherston - Vincent R. Fitzpatrick - Anthony Fusco - Cornelius A. Hall - Robert E. Johnson - James J. Murphy - Stephen J. O'Halek - Joseph A. Palma - William N. Reidy - Sydney Rose - Anthony F. Russo - Philip Weiss
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1950-1959: Edward J. Amann, Jr. - Edward G. Baker - Sylvia Bear - John M. Braisted, Jr. - Ellsworth B. Buck - Eugene A. Burke - Edward D. Caiazzo - Harry Cassidy - Ralph Di Iorio - Vincent R. Fitzpatrick - Cornelius A. Hall - Robert L. Johnson - John F. Kearney - Edward A. Love - John G. MacDonald - George Maki - Albert V. Maniscalco - John J. Marchi - E. J. McCormick - Harold A. McCormick - S. R. Molinari - Edmund J. Murphy - Frank X. Murphy - Hans Nielsen - James W. Nugent - Thomas Nunley - Royal S. Radin - John H. Ray - William N. Reidy - Lucio F. Russo - Frederick Schick - Frank B. Sterner, Jr. - P. Vincent Sullivan - Gilbert Wasserman
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1960-1969: Edward J. Amann, Jr. - Aldo R. Benedetto - Ellsworth B. Buck - Robert T. Connor - James C. Crane - James A. Flood - John A. Garbarino - Edward Grabowski - Charles E. Griffith - John F. Kearney - Robert G. Lindsay - Marie Lund - Albert V. Maniscalco - John J. Marchi - Joseph A. McKinney - John M. Murphy - John H. Ray - Lucio F. Russo - Kevin Sullivan
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1970-1979: Lillian C. Arrindell - Richard H. Bolton - Elizabeth A. Connelly - Robert T. Connor - Anthony R. Gaeta - Mark B. Herman - Guy V. Molinari - Edward Murphy - Lucio F. Russo - Elizabeth Sapia - Joseph R. Sciacca - John L. Soldini
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1980-1989: Carol L. Angellino - Michael Califra - Allen P. Cappelli - Mary T. Codd - Elizabeth A. Connelly - Jeannette DiLorenzo - Anthony R. Gaeta - Salvatore Grasso - Margaret M. Hornblower - Lucy Genevieve Iafe - Ralph J. Lamberti - Guy V. Molinari - Joseph Shannon - Robert A. Straniere - Dorothy Toye - Eric N. Vitaliano
  • Lived in Staten Island, 1990-1999: Elizabeth A. Connelly - Guy V. Molinari - Robert A. Straniere - Eric N. Vitaliano
  • Lived in Staten Island, 2000-2009: David Camacho - Elizabeth A. Connelly - Belinda A. Dixon - Vito Fossella - Nanne Goldman - John Lavelle - Guy V. Molinari - James P. Molinaro - Robert A. Straniere - Eric N. Vitaliano - Janet Wilson
• Tompkinsville, Staten Island: Thomas A. Braniff - Lester W. Clark - Ernest B. Frerichs - Edward J. Malloy - Ralph R. McKee - Hugh McRoberts - David S. Rendt - William A. Shortt - A. J. B. Wedemeyer
• Tottenville, Staten Island: Samuel H. Frost - James A. Simonson - William L. Vaughan - Hubbard R. Yetman
• West Brighton, Staten Island: Camille McSorley
• West New Brighton, Staten Island: Mark W. Allen - A. L. Breor - Thomas F. Cosgrove - George W. Curtis - Alfred De Groot - Albert C. Fach - Albert E. Fach - James C. Fernald - Frederick L. Hackenburg - Francis A. Hannigan - William S. Hart - Hilda Hirsch - Frederic W. Lahr - Edward L. Love - John A. Lynch - Harlow McMillan - John H. Moore - James A. O'Leary - Anning S. Prall - John W. Rhines - Peyton I. Royal - Edward A. Ruppell - Jeremiah A. Sullivan
• Westerleigh, Staten Island: Anning S. Prall
• See also N.Y. areas not assigned to counties.

Politicians who died in Richmond County

• Dongan Hills, Staten Island: George Cromwell 1934
• New Brighton, Staten Island: John Drake Sloat 1867 William Duer 1879 George Sutherland Bowman 1897 Nicholas Muller 1917 Lyman B. Frieze 1917
• New Dorp, Staten Island: Samuel Barton 1858
• New Springville, Staten Island: Henry Crocheron 1819
• Port Richmond, Staten Island: Aaron Burr 1836 Clinton J. Sharrett 1930
• Stapleton, Staten Island: Michael S. Tynan 1893
• Staten Island: Daniel D. Tompkins 1825 Jacob Crocheron 1849 Henry J. Seaman 1861 Obadiah Bowne 1874 Caleb Lyon 1875 James A. O'Leary 1944 Cornelius A. Hall 1953 James J. Murphy 1962 John H. Ray 1975 Mark A. Costantino 1990 Vincent R. Fitzpatrick 1992
• West Brighton, Staten Island: John M. Braisted, Jr. 1997
• West New Brighton, Staten Island: Frederick L. Hackenburg 1952
• See also N.Y. deathplaces not assigned to counties.

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Richmond County

• Staten Island Fairview Cemetery
• Staten Island Ocean View Cemetery
• Staten Island St. Andrew's Cemetery
• Staten Island United Hebrew Cemetery
• Grassmere, Staten Island St. Peter's Cemetery
• New Dorp, Staten Island Moravian Cemetery
• Port Richmond, Staten Island Dutch Reformed Churchyard
• Port Richmond, Staten Island Reformed Church Burial Ground
• Tompkinsville, Staten Island Silver Mount Cemetery

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Politicians buried here:

• Randolph Perkins (1871-1936) — of Westfield, Union County, N.J.; Woodcliff Lake, Bergen County, N.J. Born in Dunellen, Middlesex County, N.J., November 30, 1871. Son of James H. Perkins and Elizabeth (Kelly) Perkins; married 1909 to Louise Tuttle Morris. Republican. Lawyer; mayor of Westfield, N.J., 1905-06; member of New Jersey state house of assembly, 1905-07; chair of Bergen County Republican Party, 1911-16; U.S. Representative from New Jersey, 1921-36 (6th District 1921-33, 7th District 1933-36); died in office 1936. Member, Freemasons; Elks. Died in 1936. Interment at Fairview Cemetery.
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• Mitchell May (1870-1961) — of Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y. Born in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., July 10, 1870. Son of Nathan May and Matilda (Milheiser) May; married, October 20, 1900, to Pauline Joli. Democrat. U.S. Representative from New York 6th District, 1899-1901; secretary of state of New York, 1913-14; defeated, 1914; county judge in New York, 1916-21; Justice of New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1922-40. Jewish. Member, American Bar Association. Died in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., March 24, 1961. Interment at Ocean View Cemetery.
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• Henry Crocheron (1772-1819) — of New York. Born in Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., December 26, 1772. Brother of Jacob Crocheron. Democrat. U.S. Representative from New York 1st District, 1815-17. Died in New Springville, Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., November 8, 1819. Interment at St. Andrew's Cemetery.
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• Jacob Crocheron (1774-1849) — of Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y. Born in Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., August 23, 1774. Brother of Henry Crocheron. U.S. Representative from New York 2nd District, 1829-31; Presidential Elector for New York, 1836. Died in Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., December 27, 1849. Interment at St. Andrew's Cemetery.
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• Obadiah Bowne (1822-1874) — of Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y. Born in Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., May 19, 1822. Republican. U.S. Representative from New York 2nd District, 1851-53; Presidential Elector for New York, 1864. Died in Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., April 27, 1874. Interment at St. Andrew's Cemetery.
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• James Guyon, Jr. (1778-1846) — of Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y. Born in New York, 1778. Member of New York state assembly from Richmond County, 1810-14; U.S. Representative from New York 1st District, 1820-21. Died in 1846. Interment at St. Andrew's Cemetery.
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• Charles K. Krieger (c.1914-1982) — of Jersey City, Hudson County, N.J. Born in Vienna, Austria. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; mayor of Jersey City, N.J., 1971; defeated, 1971. Jewish. Died in Jersey City, Hudson County, N.J., June 17, 1982. Interment at United Hebrew Cemetery.
  
  

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• James Aloysius O'Leary (1889-1944) — also known as James A. O'Leary — of West New Brighton, Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y. Born in Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., April 23, 1889. Great-grandfather of Vito John Fossella. Democrat. Candidate for New York state senate, 1930; U.S. Representative from New York 11th District, 1935-44; died in office 1944. Died in Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., March 16, 1944. Interment at St. Peter's Cemetery.
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• James Joseph Murphy (1898-1962) — also known as James J. Murphy — of Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y. Born in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., November 3, 1898. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S. Representative from New York 16th District, 1949-53. Died in Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., October 19, 1962. Interment at St. Peter's Cemetery.
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• Cornelius A. Hall (d. 1953) — of Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y. Democrat. Borough president of Richmond, New York, 1946-53; retired 1953. Died in Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., March 3, 1953. Interment at St. Peter's Cemetery.
  
  
• Thomas F. Cosgrove (b. 1892) — of West New Brighton, Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., June 16, 1892. Democrat. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; wounded in battle at Argonne Forest, October 21, 1918, and lost a leg; member of New York state assembly from Richmond County 1st District, 1920-23. Interment at St. Peter's Cemetery.
  
  

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• Anning Smith Prall (1870-1937) — also known as Anning S. Prall — of West New Brighton, Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y.; Westerleigh, Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y. Born in Port Richmond, Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., September 17, 1870. Democrat. U.S. Representative from New York 11th District, 1923-35; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1924, 1928 (alternate), 1932 (alternate), 1936 (alternate); Honest Government candidate for borough president of Richmond, New York, 1933; member, Federal Communications Commission, 1935-37; died in office 1937; chair, Federal Communications Commission, 1935-37; died in office 1937. Christian Reformed. Died in Boothbay Harbor, Lincoln County, Maine, July 23, 1937. Interment at Moravian Cemetery.
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• John Louis O'Sullivan (1813-1895) — also known as John L. O'Sullivan — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born, of American parents, in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Gibraltar, November 15, 1813. Democrat. Member of New York state assembly, 1841-42; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1844; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Portugal, 1854; U.S. Minister to Portugal, 1854-58. Episcopalian; later Catholic. Cofounder and editor of The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, a journal that published the works of Emerson, Hawthorne and Whitman, as well as political essays on Jacksonian Democracy, 1837-46. Early advocate in 1840s for abolition of the death penalty. Invented the term "manifest destiny" to explain and justify the westward expansion of the United States. Took part in the failed expedition of Narcisco Lopez to take Cuba from Spanish rule; as a result, was charged in federal court in New York with violation of the Neutrality Act; tried and acquitted in March 1852. Died, of influenza and the effects of an earlier stroke, in a residential hotel in New York, New York County, N.Y., March 24, 1895. Interment at Moravian Cemetery.
  
  
• Elmer Scipio Dundy (1830-1896) — also known as Elmer S. Dundy — of Falls City, Richardson County, Neb. Born in Trumbull County, Ohio, March 5, 1830. Lawyer; member Nebraska territorial council, 1858-62; justice of Nebraska territorial supreme court, 1863-67; U.S. District Judge for Nebraska, 1868. Died October 28, 1896. Interment at Moravian Cemetery. Dundy County, Neb. is named for him.
  
  
• Samuel Barton (1785-1858) — of Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y. Born in New Dorp, Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., July 27, 1785. Member of New York state assembly from Richmond County, 1820-22; U.S. Representative from New York 2nd District, 1835-37. Died in New Dorp, Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., January 29, 1858. Interment at Moravian Cemetery.
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• Henry Bleecker Metcalfe (1805-1881) — of New York. Born in New York, 1805. Democrat. U.S. Representative from New York 1st District, 1875-77. Died in 1881. Interment at Moravian Cemetery.
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• Joseph Egbert (1807-1888) — of New York. Born in New York, 1807. Democrat. U.S. Representative from New York 2nd District, 1841-43. Died in 1888. Interment at Moravian Cemetery.
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• Frank Jacob LeFevre (1874-1941) — also known as Frank J. LeFevre — of New Paltz, Ulster County, N.Y. Born in New Paltz, Ulster County, N.Y., November 30, 1874. Son of Jacob LeFever. Republican. Banker; member of New York state senate 25th District, 1903-04; U.S. Representative from New York 24th District, 1905-07. French Huguenot ancestry. Died in Atlantic City, Atlantic County, N.J., April 29, 1941. Interment at Moravian Cemetery.
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• Allan Benny (1867-1942) — of Bayonne, Hudson County, N.J. Born in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., July 12, 1867. Democrat. Member of New Jersey state house of assembly, 1898-1900; U.S. Representative from New Jersey 9th District, 1903-05; defeated, 1904. Died in Bayonne, Hudson County, N.J., November 6, 1942. Interment at Moravian Cemetery.
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• Charles Powell Clinch (1797-1880) — also known as Charles P. Clinch — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born October 20, 1797. U.S. Collector of Customs for New York, N.Y., 1865-66. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., December 16, 1880. Interment at Moravian Cemetery.
  
  

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• Jacob Tyson (1773-1848) — of Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y. Born in New York, 1773. U.S. Representative from New York 2nd District, 1823-25; member of New York state senate 1st District, 1828. Died in 1848. Interment at Dutch Reformed Churchyard.
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• David Mersereau (c.1769-1835) — of Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y. Married to Cornelia Rolf and Maria Bennett. Member of New York state assembly from Richmond County, 1806-09; common pleas court judge in New York. Died in 1835. Interment at Reformed Church Burial Ground.
  
  

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• William Duer (1805-1879) — of New York, New York County, N.Y.; New Orleans, Orleans Parish, La.; Oswego, Oswego County, N.Y.; San Francisco, Calif. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., March 25, 1805. Grandson of William Duer (1747-1799). Lawyer; member of New York state assembly from Oswego County, 1840-41; defeated, 1832; U.S. Representative from New York 23rd District, 1847-51; U.S. Consul in Valparaiso, 1851-53. Died in New Brighton, Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., August 25, 1879. Interment at Silver Mount Cemetery.
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• David S. Rendt — of Tompkinsville, Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y. Democrat. Chair of Richmond County Democratic Party, 1927; member of New York Democratic State Committee, 1930; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1932. Interment at Silver Mount Cemetery.
  
  

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