The question was posed on the HOTLINE today about whether anyone from the North Country had become Governor....Well I said Roswell Flower was born in Theresa and went on to success in NYC where he was elected to Congress and later became governor in 1892 He died downstate and is buried at Watertown's Brookside Cemetery....
Assembly house husband Ron McDougall called and mentioned Silas Wright who was the state's 13th governor.....But Governor Wright was born in Amherst MA and later moved to Canton NY where he did become Governor before his death and burial in the St. Lawrence county seat. Governor Flower was a native, but Governor Wright was not. So Ron is half right.
Weybridge, Vermont
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Good God...doesn't "Dooger" have anything else to do with his "semi-retired" time? Mr. Mayor, should he call in tomorrow, tell him we'll be in Detroit tomorrow at the Wings game. He can look for us on Sports Center. Additionally, we still have three tickets up for grabs to rounds one and two of the NCAA West Regional should the fellas from Syracuse come West next month. Lastly, please tell him that nepotism is alive and well given the recent revelation that "son-in-law" is a delegate on the labor council. Thanks for passing this vital info along for me.
We need a farmer to run for the post.So we can read some good tabloid junk like, Governor of New York found alone in his bedroom with 400 pound pig..
The above two comments pretty well sum up the status of North Country political thinking. No wonder we re in this mess.
Interesting post, Mayor. Wikipedia has a comprehensive list of Governors and their birthplaces.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_New_York
A surprising (to me) number are from Central and Western NY and very few were from NYC.
Over the span of a few decades, there were two governors from Glens Falls and one from Elizabethtown in the Adirondacks, but none closer to us than that.
From about the time of Al Smith, power shifted noticeably south, with nearly every Governor from NYC and environs, and Upstate became increasingly irrelevant in matters of state and politics.
The loss of the Upstate-dominated Republican Senate in Albany would seem to nail shut that legacy for good.
I was just joking around with that post..I asked the question becouse I would love to see someone from up north run and win the seat.I believe it would be good for all New York
AJR would like it, that way she can have Al fill her unexpired term in the assembly.
Hey what about Tom's latest venture in beer making, sounds like time to buy some stock in the new Company. We've been Scozzafaved"
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