Smith Ely, Jr.
U.S. Congressperson
1825 – 1911
Who was Smith Ely, Jr.?
Smith Ely, Jr. was the 82nd Mayor of New York City and member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
Born in Hanover Township, Morris County, New Jersey in 1825, he completed preparatory studies and was graduated from the University of the City of New York and, in 1845, from New York University School of Law. He was admitted to the bar the same year, but never practiced law. Instead, he engaged in mercantile pursuits in New York.
He was active in various public offices:
⁕school commissioner, 1856–1860;
⁕state senator, 1858 and 1859;
⁕county supervisor, 1860–1870;
⁕commissioner of public instruction, 1867;
⁕Democratic Representative to the Forty-second Congress, March 4, 1871 - March 4, 1873; 'not' a candidate for renomination in 1872;
⁕Representative to the Forty-fourth Congress, March 4, 1875, to the date of his resignation, December 11, 1876; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury; and
⁕mayor of New York in 1877 and 1878.
In 1895, he was appointed commissioner of parks and served until 1897, when he retired from public life. In 1911, he died in Livingston, Essex County, New Jersey, where he was interred in a private cemetery on his farm.
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- Born
- Apr 17, 1825
Hanover - Profession
- Died
- Jul 1, 1911
Livingston
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on July 23, 2013
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