George Cromwell (July 3, 1860 – September 17, 1934) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life

He was the son of Henry Bowman Cromwell, founder of the Cromwell Shipping Line, and Sarah (Seaman) Cromwell. He attended

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, and graduated from

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in 1883. He graduated from

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in 1886, and practiced law with the firm of Elihu Root until 1889. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Richmond County) in

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. From 1889 to 1897, he practiced law with the firm of Butler, Stillman & Hubbard, and was in charge of the admiralty law branch. In 1897, he opened his own law office on

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. After the consolidation of

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, he was elected the first Borough President of Richmond in a very close and contested election, with a margin of only six votes, that was decided by the New York State Court of Appeals. He was elected three times, and served from 1898 to 1913. He was a member of the New York State Senate (23rd D.) from 1915 to 1918, sitting in the 138th, 139th, 140th and 141st New York State Legislatures. He declined to run for re-election in 1918. On June 1, 1915, in his first senate term, he married Hermine de Rouville, a member of the noted Hertel de Rouville family of

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. They had no children. On September 11, 1934, he suffered a stroke, and died six days later in Dongan Hills, Staten Island. He was buried at the Moravian Cemetery in New Dorp, Staten Island.

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''Official New York from Cleveland to Hughes''
by Charles Elliott Fitch (Hurd Publishing Co., New York and Buffalo, 1911, vol. IV, p. 324)
Cromwell Put on the Fusion Slate
in The New York Times on September 29, 1909 {{DEFAULTSORT:Cromwell, George 1860 births 1934 deaths Republican Party New York (state) state senators Staten Island borough presidents Republican Party members of the New York State Assembly Yale College alumni Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni Columbia Law School alumni Politicians from Staten Island Burials at Moravian Cemetery