History of the state of New York, political and governmental; . Benjamin Barker Odell, Jr. Benjamin Barker Odell, Jr., 37th governor (1901-1904);born at Newburgh, N. Y., January 14, 1854; student, Bethanycollege, W. Va., 1873 and Columbia university, 1873-1875;engaged in banking, electric lighting and commercial enter-prises at Newburgh; treasurer and director of the Central-Hudson steamboat company, New York; member republicanstate committee, 1884-1896; chairman republican state execu-tive committee, 1898-1900; member of congress, 1S95-1899;declined renomination; governor of New York for two
History of the state of New York, political and governmental; . Benjamin Barker Odell, Jr. Benjamin Barker Odell, Jr., 37th governor (1901-1904);born at Newburgh, N. Y., January 14, 1854; student, Bethanycollege, W. Va., 1873 and Columbia university, 1873-1875;engaged in banking, electric lighting and commercial enter-prises at Newburgh; treasurer and director of the Central-Hudson steamboat company, New York; member republicanstate committee, 1884-1896; chairman republican state execu-tive committee, 1898-1900; member of congress, 1S95-1899;declined renomination; governor of New York for two terms, Seth Low Seth Low, college president; born Brooklyn, January 18,1850; graduated from Columbia university, 1870; nominatedindependent candidate for mayor of Brooklyn and elected 1881,re-elected, 1883; became prominent through endeavors to purifycity government by introducing civil service reforms; delegateto the peace conference at The Hague, 1889; elected mayor ofGreater New York, 1901 ; delegate to constitutional conventionof 1915; died New York Citv, September 17, 1916. 1901-2] PLATTS POWER WANING 81 Democratic ticket before the same constituency,was defeated. He retired to Paris, where he liveduntil his death in 1918. No State officers or Senatorswere elected. The Republicans gained one vote inthe Assembly, while the regular Democrats lost Assembly stood: Republicans, 106; Democrats,42; Independent-Democrats, 2. Nixon was electedSpeaker for his fourth term. Odell in his second year continued the policy ofenforcing economies by establishing the office of FiscalSupervisor o
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