William J. Graney
William J. Graney (May 5, 1858 – May 26, 1913) was an American politician from New York.
Life
[edit]He was born on May 5, 1858, in Dobbs Ferry, Westchester County, New York. He attended the public schools, and graduated from Dobbs Ferry High School. Then he became a bookkeeper. Later he managed the Hatch Lithographing Company. He entered politics as a Democrat.[1]
He was Register of Westchester County from 1893[2] to 1895.[3] In 1893, he married Mary Louise Maher (died 1897).
Graney was a member of the New York State Assembly (Westchester Co., 2nd D.) in 1898; and a member of the New York State Senate (22nd D.) in 1899 and 1900.
He was again Register of Westchester County at the time of his death.[4] He died on May 26, 1913, at his home at 33 Radford Street in Yonkers, New York, from "a complication of diseases".[5]
Sources
[edit]- ^ New York Red Book (1900; pg. 74f)
- ^ Westchester's New Register in the New York Times on January 4, 1893
- ^ CORRECT VOTE OF WESTCHESTER in the New York Times on November 8, 1895
- ^ Register of Westchester Dead in the New York Times on May 27, 1913
- ^ OBITUARY; William J. Graney in the Dobbs Ferry Register, of Dobbs Ferry