George L. Fox (politician)
George L. Fox (February 20, 1831 – December 5, 1910) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician from New York.
Life
[edit]Fox was born on February 20, 1831, in New York City. His father, John Oscar Fox, was a prominent banker in the city from 1828 to 1843, when he moved with his family to Williamsburg.[1]
In 1849, Fox began to study law under Harvey A. Weed in New York City, later continuing his studies in the law office of Brainerd & Rice. He was admitted to the bar in 1853. He then formed a partnership with George Thompson of Williamsburg, later a judge in the City Court of Brooklyn. The law firm ended in 1858, when Fox was elected Justice of the 4th District Court of Brooklyn[1] as a Democrat.[2]
In the 1868 presidential election, Fox was a presidential elector for Horatio Seymour and Francis Preston Blair, Jr.[3] In 1868 he ran for the New York State Assembly as a Democrat to represent the Kings County 7th District.[4] He won the election and served in the Assembly in 1869.[5]
In 1873, Mayor Samuel S. Powell appointed Fox commissioner of the proposed consolidation of Brooklyn with the county towns in Kings County. He was also elected supervisor-at-large of Kings County that year, and he presided over the board of supervisors in 1874 and 1875. In 1878, he was appointed a member of the board of education. In 1886, he was appointed a park commissioner.[1]
Fox served as counsel for the Kings County Savings Institution for many years. He was also a director of the Manufacturers National Bank and the Broadway Railroad Company. He was a member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick.[1]
Fox died at home on December 5, 1910.[1] He was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "George L. Fox is Dead". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Vol. 71, no. 337. 6 December 1910. p. 2.
- ^ "Regular Democratic Nominations". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Vol. 17, no. 78. 2 April 1858. p. 1.
- ^ Proceedings of the New York Electoral College, Held at the Capital in the City of Albany, on the First Day of December, 1868. Albany, N.Y.: The Argus Company. 1868. p. 22.
- ^ "Regular Democratic Nominations". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Vol. 28, no. 248. 22 October 1868. p. 1.
- ^ Malcolm, James (1923). The New York Red Book. Albany, N.Y.: J. B. Lyon Company. p. 464.
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- 1868 United States presidential electors
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- 19th-century American judges
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