George W. Cornell

George W. Cornell (September 29, 1896 – March 24, 1988) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life[]

Cornell was born in 1896,^[1] in Brooklyn (before it became a county of New York City), the son of George W. Cornell and Minnie C. (née White) Cornell.^[2] Cornell attended Bushwick High School, later graduating from Amherst College in 1918, and from Columbia Law School in 1921. He practiced law in New York City.^{[citation needed]}

Eight generations of Cornells served as elected town officials in Scarsdale, New York since the arrival in 1713 of Richard Cornell, a grandson of a 1636 Boston settler, Thomas Cornell. George W. Cornell was a Trustee of the Village of Scarsdale from 1943–46; Supervisor of the Town of Scarsdale from 1947–58;^[3] and a member of the New York State Senate (31st D.) from 1959–64, sitting in the 172nd, 173rd and 174th New York State Legislatures.^{[citation needed]}

He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1967. In 1970, he moved to Boca Raton, Florida, and practiced law there.^{[citation needed]}

Death[]

He died on March 24, 1988, at his home in Boca Raton, Florida, aged 91.^[4]

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