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

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Life

Cornell was born in 1896, in

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(before it became a county of

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), the son of George W. Cornell and Minnie C. (née White) Cornell. Cornell attended Bushwick High School, later graduating from

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in 1918, and from

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in 1921. He practiced law in

. Eight generations of Cornells served as elected town officials in

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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; and a member of the

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(31st D.) from 1959–64, sitting in the 172nd, 173rd and

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s. He was a delegate to the

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of 1967. In 1970, he moved to

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, and practiced law there.

Death

He died on March 24, 1988, at his home in

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'', March 29, 1988.

Sources

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