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John Francis Quayle (1868-1930) —
also known as John F. Quayle —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
1, 1868.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1920
(alternate), 1924;
U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1923-30; died in
office 1930.
Member, Elks; Knights
of Columbus.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
27, 1930 (age 61 years, 361
days).
Interment at St.
John's Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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John J. Rafferty (b. 1896) —
of New Brunswick, Middlesex
County, N.J.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
17, 1896.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Middlesex County, 1931-35; mayor
of Middlesex, N.J., 1933; chair of
Middlesex County Democratic Party, 1934; Judge, New Jersey Court
of Errors and Appeals, 1935-47; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Middlesex
County, 1947; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New Jersey, 1948.
Member, Elks; Knights
of Columbus.
Burial location unknown.
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David Henry Ralston (1863-1930) —
also known as D. Harry Ralston —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., January
22, 1863.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1904
(alternate), 1908
(alternate), 1924;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 1st District, 1907.
Member, Elks.
Died, from a heart
ailment and a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April 4,
1930 (age 67 years, 72
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Samuel J. Ramsperger (b. 1862) —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., April
25, 1862.
Democrat. Bookkeeper
and cashier, William Simon Brewery;
member of New York
state senate, 1899-1904, 1907-20 (48th District 1899-1904, 49th
District 1907-20); delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1912.
Catholic.
Member, Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Conrad Ramsperger and Anna Maria (Reppert) Ramsperger; married, November
20, 1889, to Anna Seibert. |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1907 |
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Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) —
also known as A. Philip Randolph —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Crescent City, Putnam
County, Fla., April
15, 1889.
Socialist. Candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 19th District, 1919;
candidate for New York
state comptroller, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 21st District, 1924; organizer,
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; vice-president,
AFL-CIO, 1957; candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1937.
Methodist.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Elks; American Civil
Liberties Union; United
World Federalists.
Recipient of the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on September 14, 1964.
Died May 16,
1979 (age 90 years, 31
days).
Cremated.
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Fred J. Rath (b. 1888) —
of Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y.
Born in Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y., 1888.
Republican. Mayor of
Utica, N.Y., 1928-29; candidate for New York
state assembly from Oneida County 1st District, 1933; member of
New
York state senate, 1951-64 (41st District 1951-54, 42nd District
1955-64).
Member, Elks; Humane
Society.
Burial location unknown.
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John E. Redwood (b. 1864) —
of Bay Pond, Franklin
County, N.Y.
Born in Brighton town, Franklin
County, N.Y., 1864.
Republican. Manager of game preserve at Bay Pond, N.Y., for William
Rockefeller; assistant manager of Bay Pond, Incorporated; member of
New
York state assembly from Franklin County, 1926-29.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Daniel Alden Reed (1875-1959) —
also known as Daniel A. Reed —
of Dunkirk, Chautauqua
County, N.Y.
Born in Sheridan, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., September
15, 1875.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1919-59 (43rd District 1919-45,
45th District 1945-53, 43rd District 1953-59); died in office 1959.
Unitarian.
Member, Freemasons;
Delta
Chi; Elks.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Walter
Reed Army Medical Center, Washington,
D.C., February
19, 1959 (age 83 years, 157
days).
Interment at Sheridan
Cemetery, Sheridan, N.Y.
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Joseph Reich (born c.1894) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born about 1894.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; jeweler;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 6th District, 1923-25; member of
New York
Democratic State Committee, 1936.
Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Order of the
Eastern Star; Freemasons;
Grotto;
Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Michael Kieran Reilly (1869-1944) —
also known as Michael K. Reilly —
of Fond du Lac, Fond du
Lac County, Wis.
Born in Empire, Fond du Lac
County, Wis., July 15,
1869.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Wisconsin, 1908,
1924;
U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 6th District, 1913-17, 1930-39;
defeated, 1924.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; Knights
of Columbus; Foresters;
Elks; Moose.
Died October
14, 1944 (age 75 years, 91
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Valentine Rettig (1846-1917) —
of Corning, Steuben
County, N.Y.
Born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany,
June
11, 1846.
Republican. Grocer; meat dealer;
hotelier;
beer
bottler; mayor
of Corning, N.Y., 1905-07.
German
ancestry. Member, Elks; Odd
Fellows; Maccabees.
Died, from pancreatic
cancer, in Corning Hospital,
Corning, Steuben
County, N.Y., March
17, 1917 (age 70 years, 279
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Valentine Rettig and Anna (Olenslager) Rettig; married 1870 to Mary
Kriger. |
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William H. Reynolds (1868-1931) —
of Long Beach, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
29, 1868.
Republican. Builder;
real
estate developer; member of New York
state senate 3rd District, 1894-95; indicted
by a grand jury in August 1917 for perjury,
over his 1912 expert testimony on the value of land sought by the
city for a park; the grand jury alleged that he falsely
denied any personal
interest in the realty company which owned the property; also indicted
in October 1917, with three others, for conspiracy defraud
the city of $500,000 by inflating the appraisal; the indictments were
dismissed in May 1920 over the prosecutor's delay of the trial; village
president of Long Beach, New York, 1921-22; mayor
of Long Beach, N.Y., 1922-24; removed 1924; defeated, 1925; indicted
on May 1, 1924, along with the Long Beach city treasurer, for misappropriating
city funds in connection with a bond issue; tried in
June 1924, convicted,
sentenced
to six months in the county
jail, and automatically removed from
office as mayor; released pending appeal; the Appellate Division
reversed the conviction in June 1925 and ordered a new trial; the
indictment was dismissed in June 1927.
English
and Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Elks; Freemasons.
Died, from heart
disease, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
13, 1931 (age 63 years, 0
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of William Reynolds and Margaret (McChesney) Reynolds; married to
Elise Guerrier. |
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Rufus Richtmyer —
of Fultonville, Montgomery
County, N.Y.
Born in Cobleskill, Schoharie
County, N.Y.
Republican. Farmer; merchant;
hardware
business; coal
dealer; member of New York
state assembly from Montgomery County, 1927-32; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1932.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Donald Lawrence Ritter (b. 1940) —
also known as Don Ritter —
of Coopersburg, Lehigh
County, Pa.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
21, 1940.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 15th District, 1979-93;
defeated, 1992.
Member, Order of
Ahepa; Elks; Freemasons.
Still living as of 2014.
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Fred B. Robertson (1871-1959) —
also known as Fred Robertson —
of Atwood, Rawlins
County, Kan.; Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan.
Born in Craigville, Orange
County, N.Y., July 2,
1871.
Democrat. Lawyer; Rawlins
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1899-03; member of Kansas
state senate 39th District, 1909-13; U.S.
Attorney for Kansas, 1913-21; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Kansas, 1924;
Kansas
Democratic state chair, 1924-28.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Died in Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan., November
1, 1959 (age 88 years, 122
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John M. Robertson and Nancy J. (Haley) Robertson; married, May 15,
1900, to Luella Jane Hotchkiss. |
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James R. Robinson (b. 1885) —
of Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.
Born in Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y., June 27,
1885.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Tompkins County, 1923-36.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Eagles;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. James R. Robinson; married to Elsie L.
Williams. |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1936 |
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John J. Robinson (b. 1888) —
of Centerport, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 10,
1888.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Suffolk County 2nd District, 1913.
Catholic.
Member, Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Lewis Kirby Rockefeller (1875-1948) —
also known as Lewis K. Rockefeller —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.; Chatham, Columbia
County, N.Y.
Born in Schenectady, Schenectady
County, N.Y., November
25, 1875.
Republican. Accountant;
Deputy New York State Tax Commissioner, 1915-21; Deputy New York
State Commissioner of Taxation and Finance, 1921-33; chair of
Columbia County Republican Party, 1933-40; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1936;
U.S.
Representative from New York 27th District, 1937-43.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Died in Canaan, Columbia
County, N.Y., September
18, 1948 (age 72 years, 298
days).
Interment at Kinderhook
Cemetery, Kinderhook, N.Y.
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Angelo Dominic Roncallo (1927-2010) —
also known as Angelo D. Roncallo —
of Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Massapequa, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Port Chester, Westchester
County, N.Y., May 28,
1927.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; Nassau
County Controller, 1968-72; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1972;
U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1973-75; defeated,
1974; Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1977-95.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry. Member, Delta
Theta Phi; Sons of
Italy; Elks.
Died in Massapequa, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., May 4,
2010 (age 82 years, 341
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John James Rooney (1903-1975) —
also known as John J. Rooney —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
29, 1903.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1944,
1952
(alternate), 1964;
U.S.
Representative from New York, 1944-74 (4th District 1944-45, 12th
District 1945-53, 14th District 1953-74).
Catholic.
Member, Elks; Ancient
Order of Hibernians; Knights
of Columbus.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
26, 1975 (age 71 years, 331
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) —
also known as Franklin D. Roosevelt;
"F.D.R." —
of Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y., January
30, 1882.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 26th District, 1911-13; resigned 1913; U.S.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913-20; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1920; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1920,
1924,
1928;
speaker, 1944;
contracted polio in the early 1920s; as a result, his legs were
paralyzed for the rest of his life; Governor of
New York, 1929-33; President
of the United States, 1933-45; died in office 1945; on February
15, 1933, in Miami, Fla., he and Chicago mayor Anton
J. Cermak were shot
at by Guiseppe Zangara; Cermak was hit and mortally wounded.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa; Elks; Grange;
Knights
of Pythias.
Led the nation through the Depression and World War II.
Died of a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Warm Springs, Meriwether
County, Ga., April
12, 1945 (age 63 years, 72
days).
Interment at Roosevelt
Home, Hyde Park, N.Y.; memorial monument at Federal Triangle, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at West
Potomac Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of James Roosevelt (1828-1900) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt; married,
March
17, 1905, to Eleanor
Roosevelt (niece of Theodore
Roosevelt (1858-1919); first cousin of Corinne
Douglas Robinson); father of James
Roosevelt (1907-1991), Elliott
Roosevelt and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt Jr.; half-uncle of Helen
Roosevelt Robinson; second great-grandson of Edward
Hutchinson Robbins; first cousin of Warren
Delano Robbins and Katharine
Price Collier St. George; first cousin once removed of Helen
Lloyd Aspinwall (who married Francis
Emanuel Shober); first cousin twice removed of Elizabeth
Kortright; first cousin four times removed of Ebenezer
Huntington; first cousin six times removed of Benjamin
Huntington; second cousin of Caroline Astor Drayton (who married
William
Phillips); second cousin once removed of Samuel
Laurence Gouverneur; second cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Roosevelt Jr. and Jabez
Williams Huntington; second cousin five times removed of Samuel
Huntington, George
Washington, Joshua
Coit, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington and Samuel
Gager; third cousin twice removed of Philip
DePeyster and James
I. Roosevelt; third cousin thrice removed of Sulifand
Sutherland Ross; fourth cousin once removed of Ulysses
Simpson Grant, Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt, Roger
Wolcott and Theodore
Roosevelt (1858-1919). |
| | | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Ross
T. McIntire — Milton
Lipson — W.
W. Howes — Bruce
Barton — Hamilton
Fish, Jr. — Joseph
W. Martin, Jr. — Samuel
I. Rosenman — Rexford
G. Tugwell — Raymond
Moley — Adolf
A. Berle — George
E. Allen — Lorence
E. Asman — Grenville
T. Emmet — Eliot
Janeway — Jonathan
Daniels — Ralph
Bellamy — Wythe
Leigh Kinsolving |
| | | The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Bridge
(opened 1962), over Lubec Narrows, between Lubec,
Maine and Campobello
Island, New Brunswick, Canada, is named for
him. — The borough
of Roosevelt,
New Jersey (originally Jersey Homesteads; renamed 1945), is named for
him. — F. D. Roosevelt Airport,
on the Caribbean island of Sint
Eustatius, is named for
him. — The F. D. Roosevelt Teaching
Hospital, in Banská
Bystrica, Slovakia, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Frank
Garrison
— Franklin
D. Roosevelt Keesee
|
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. dime (ten cent coin). |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Franklin D. Roosevelt:
James MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, The
Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed
America — Doris Kearns Goodwin, No
Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in
World War II — Joseph Alsop & Roland Gelatt, FDR
: 1882-1945 — Bernard Bellush, Franklin
Roosevelt as Governor of New York — Robert H. Jackson,
That
Man : An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt —
Jonas Klein, Beloved
Island : Franklin & Eleanor and the Legacy of
Campobello — Conrad Black, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt : Champion of Freedom — Charles
Peters, Five
Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of
1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World —
Steven Neal, Happy
Days Are Here Again : The 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence
of FDR--and How America Was Changed Forever — H. W.
Brands, Traitor
to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt — Hazel Rowley, Franklin
and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage — Alan
Brinkley, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt — Stanley Weintraub, Young
Mr. Roosevelt: FDR's Introduction to War, Politics, and
Life — Karen Bornemann Spies, Franklin
D. Roosevelt (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Franklin D.
Roosevelt: Jim Powell, FDR's
Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great
Depression — John T. Flynn, The
Roosevelt Myth — Burton W. Folsom, New
Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged
America |
| | | Fiction about Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Philip Roth, The
Plot Against America: A Novel |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1936 |
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S. William Rosenberg (b. 1916) —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.; Brighton, Franklin
County, N.Y.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., March
16, 1916.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1961-72 (Monroe County 2nd District 1961-65,
145th District 1966, 132nd District 1967-72).
Jewish.
Member, American
Legion; Jewish
War Veterans; Elks.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Helen Daitz. |
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Frank G. Rossetti —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly, 1943-44, 1955-72 (New York County 20th District
1943-44, New York County 16th District 1955-65, 76th District 1966,
68th District 1967-72); defeated, 1944; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1948,
1956,
1960,
1964;
vice-president,
Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons International Association.
Member, Holy
Name Society; Knights
of Columbus; Elks.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Samuel Rothschild (b. 1879) —
of Gloversville, Fulton
County, N.Y.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., December
12, 1879.
Republican. Vice-president, Gloversville Knitting
Co.; vice-president, Gloversville Hotel
Assoc.; director, Johnstown and Gloversville Railroad;
director, National Bank of
Gloversville; director, Glen Telephone
Co.; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1920
(alternate), 1936.
Jewish.
Member, Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Abraham Rothschild and Babette (Barnet) Rothschild; married, December
27, 1906, to Grace Levor. |
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Rudolph I. Roulier (d. 1960) —
of Cohoes, Albany
County, N.Y.
Democrat. Furniture
business; soft drink
bottler; member of New York
state assembly from Albany County 3rd District, 1927-32;
defeated, 1925; mayor of
Cohoes, N.Y., 1940-59.
Member, Modern
Woodmen of America; Elks.
Died December
17, 1960.
Interment at St.
Joseph's Cemetery, Waterford, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Married to Frances 'Fannie' Laware. |
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Jeremiah F. Ryan (1882-1948) —
also known as Jere F. Ryan —
of Bayside, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Auburndale, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1882.
Democrat. Engineer;
building
contractor; automobile
dealer; member of New York
state assembly from Queens County 4th District, 1926-28;
defeated, 1928; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New York, 1932;
New York City Commissioner of Markets, 1933-34.
Catholic.
Member, Tammany
Hall; Moose;
Elks; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died, in Flushing Hospital,
Flushing, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., April 2,
1948 (age about 65
years).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Jeremiah Ryan and Catherine (Kane) Ryan. |
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