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词条 George A. Slater
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  1. Early life

  2. Public service

  3. Sources

  4. External links

George Atwood Slater (September 2, 1867 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut – February 23, 1937 in Pinehurst, Moore County, North Carolina) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Early life

He was the son of Atwood Slater and Julia E. (Scott) Slater. He attended the public schools and Greenwich Academy. Then he studied law, was admitted to the bar in Connecticut in 1888, but enrolled in Columbia Law School the same year. He was admitted to the bar in New York in 1889, and practised in New York City. He finished his law course at Columbia in 1890, but was among 33 alumni of the class of 1890 who received their LL.B. degrees only in 1934.

Public service

On June 2, 1891, Slater married Eva Elizabeth Sours (died 1950), and continued the practice of law in Port Chester, his wife's hometown. He was Counsel of the Town of Rye from 1900 to 1906, and a Trustee of the Village of Port Chester from 1902 to 1908.

He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Westchester Co., 4th D.) in 1912. In the Assembly, he was first to make a speech advocating suffrage for women.

He was a member of the New York State Senate (24th D.) from 1915 to 1918, sitting in the 138th, 139th, 140th and 141st New York State Legislatures.

In November 1918, he was elected Surrogate of Westchester County, and was re-elected in 1924, 1930 and 1936; remaining in office from 1919 until his death in 1937.

Slater died on February 23, 1937, in Moore County Hospital in Pinehurst, North Carolina, of appendicitis; and was buried in Rye, New York. Democrat William J. Sheils, whom he had defeated at the election in November 1936, was appointed by Gov. Herbert H. Lehman to fill the vacancy until the end of the year.

Sources

  • [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/11/06/97041260.pdf WESTCHESTER REPUBLICAN] in NYT on November 6, 1918
  • [https://www.nytimes.com/1933/06/22/archives/home-of-surrogate-listed-for-tax-sale-slater-westchester-official.html HOME OF SURROGATE LISTED FOR TAX SALE] in NYT on June 22, 1933 (subscription required)
  • [https://www.nytimes.com/1937/02/24/archives/george-a-slater-surrogate-dead-westchester-jurist-69-victim-of.html GEORGE. A. SLATER, SURROGATE, DEAD] in NYT on February 24, 1937 (subscription required)
  • [https://www.nytimes.com/1937/02/28/archives/sheils-is-named-for-slaters-post-lehman-selects-defeated-rival-of.html SHEILS IS NAMED FOR SLATER'S POST] in NYT on February 28, 1937 (subscription required)
  • [https://www.nytimes.com/1950/02/09/archives/mrs-george-a-slater.html MRS. GEORGE A. SLATER] in NYT on February 9, 1950 (subscription required)

External links

  • The George A. Slater papers at the New York State Library
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