Governor of New York

head of state and of government of the U.S. state of New York

10 dated entries naming Governor of New York, drawn from 9 separate years between 1769 CE and 1961 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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18th century

  • 1769March 2 – DeWitt Clinton, American politician and naturalist, 6th Governor of New York (d. 1828)source

19th century

  • 1810May 31 – Horatio Seymour, 18th Governor of New York, 1868 Democratic Party Presidential Nominee (d. 1886)source
  • 1814February 9 – Samuel J. Tilden, 25th Governor of New York, 1876 Democratic Party Presidential Nominee (d. 1886)source
  • 1828February 11 – DeWitt Clinton, 6th Governor of New York, United States Senator (b. 1769)source
  • 1865April 27 – Governor of New York Reuben Fenton signs a bill formally creating Cornell University.source
  • 1886August 4 – Samuel J. Tilden, 25th Governor of New York, 1876 Democratic Party presidential nominee (b. 1814)source
  • 1886February 12 – Horatio Seymour, 18th Governor of New York, 1868 Democratic Party presidential nominee (b. 1810)source

20th century

  • 1928June 29 – At the 1928 Democratic National Convention in Houston, Governor of New York Al Smith becomes the first Catholic nominated by a major political party for President of the United States.source
  • 1954May 20 – David Paterson, American politician, 55th Governor of New Yorksource
  • 1961November 17 – Michael Rockefeller, son of Governor of New York and later Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, disappears in the jungles of New Guinea.source

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