New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . Republican leaderof the old Eighth District, was born in New York City, May20, 1855. He received his early education in the publicschools and from private teachers, and then went to Colum-bia Law School, graduating from that institution in theclass of 1876, receiving the degree He was admit-ted to the bar in July, 1876, and entered at once on the activepractice of law, in which he is still engaged, enjoying nowan extensive clientage. For five years he was a member ofthe firm of Johnston, Tilton <^ Brodsky, but since
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . Republican leaderof the old Eighth District, was born in New York City, May20, 1855. He received his early education in the publicschools and from private teachers, and then went to Colum-bia Law School, graduating from that institution in theclass of 1876, receiving the degree He was admit-ted to the bar in July, 1876, and entered at once on the activepractice of law, in which he is still engaged, enjoying nowan extensive clientage. For five years he was a member ofthe firm of Johnston, Tilton <^ Brodsky, but since the dis-solution of that copartnership in 1882, has practised on hisown account, devoting himself ex( lusively to cases in thecivil courts and real estate matters and litigations. entered into politics in 1873, before reaching hismajority, and labored with the late John J. OBrien, soonbecoming his reliable lieutenant and doing great service inthe Republican cause in the Eighth District, overcomingthe heavy Democratic majority there, and controlling the. JOHN i:. iiK<)i)M-;\. district for years. He was a candidate for the Assembly in1878 and defeated, but he made such a showing of strengthand personal poi)ularily that he was renominated in 1879and elected, and then re-elected in 1880, 1881 and again in1890. In 1882 he declined the Assembly to accept theSenatorial nomination, but in the larger Democratic field hefailed of election. In the Assembly he introduced andpassed a number of imjjortant bills, and was especiallystrong in the session of 1890, and active in the Legislatureregarding the consolidation of New York and Brooklyn,which bill he introduced, also regarding East River bridges,cable roads, botanical gardens and public improvements,although then a member of the minority in the legislativebody. He i)rove(l himself a man of considerable ability,and was very effective in debate. In manner and appear-ance he is much the superior of the ty])ical politician. He
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