NEW YORK
US STATE OF NEW YORK
The Dutch Colony of Nieuw Nederland (New Netherland), established in 1623, became an English possession - renamed New York - in 1674. It declared its independence in 1776 and became an original state of the Union. (1) (1) Fearing that a war between the US and the secessionist South would harm the economic interests of the city of New York, mayor Ferando Wood (1812 - 1881, in off. 1860 - 1862) proposed in 1861 the secession from the US and the creation of the sovereign state of the Free City of Tri-Insula (covering the three islands of Manhattan, Long Island and Staten Island) which then would be able to continue its lucrative business with the South. The idea had however little support and was soon abandoned. But agitation - culminating in the "New York City Draft Riots" of 1863 - continued for some time. __________________________________________________________________________________STATE OFFICERS
Governors 1847 - 1849 John Young 1802 - 1852 1849 - 1851 Hamilton Fish 1808 - 1893 1851 - 1853 Washington Hunt 1811 - 1867 1853 - 1855 Horatio Seymour 1810 - 1886 1855 - 1857 Myron Holley Clark 1806 - 1892 1857 - 1859 John Alssop King 1788 - 1867 1859 - 1863 Edwin Denison Morgan 1811 - 1883 1863 - 1865 Horatio Seymour (2x) 1865 - 1869 Reuben Eaton Fenton 1819 - 1885 1869 - 1873 John Thompson Hoffman 1828 - 1888 1873 - 1875 John Adams Dix 1798 - 1879 1875 - 1877 Samuel Jones Tilden 1814 - 1886 1877 - 1880 Lucius Robinson 1810 - 1886 1880 - 1883 Alonzo B. Cornell 1832 - 1904 1883 - 1885 Stephen Grover Cleveland 1837 - 1908 1885 - 1892 David Bennett Hill 1843 - 1910 1892 - 1895 Roswell Pettibone Flower 1835 - 1899 1895 - 1897 Levi Parsons Morton 1824 - 1920 1897 - 1899 Frank Swett Black 1853 - 1913 1899 - 1901 Theodore Roosevelt 1858 - 1919 1901 - 1905 Benjamin Barker Odell Jr. 1854 - 1926 1905 - 1907 Frank Wayland Higgins 1856 - 1907 1907 - 1910 Charles Evans Hughes 1862 - 1948 1910 - 1911 Horace White* 1865 - 1943 1911 - 1913 John Alden Dix 1860 - 1928 1913 William Sulzer 1863 - 1941 1913 - 1915 Martin Henry Glynn* 1871 - 1924 1915 - 1919 Charles Seymour Whitman 1868 - 1947 1919 - 1921 Alfred Emanuel Smith 1873 - 1944 1921 - 1923 Nathan Lewis Miller 1868 - 1953 1923 - 1929 Alfred Emanuel Smith (2x) 1929 - 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 - 1945 1933 - 1942 Herbert Henry Lehman 1878 - 1963 1942 - 1943 Charles Poletti* 1903 - 2002 1943 - 1955 Thomas Edmund Dewey 1902 - 1971
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