Lewis H. Pounds

Lewis H. Pounds

Lewis Humphrey Pounds (born April 9, 1860 in Eaton , Ohio , † December 16, 1947 in New York City ) was an American businessman and politician . He was Treasurer of State of New York from 1925 to 1927 and the last person to hold this office.

Career

Lewis Pounds' childhood was overshadowed by the Civil War . He graduated from Oberlin College and then from Boston University . Around 1893 he moved to the then still independent city of Brooklyn , where he worked as a real estate agent and building contractor. In the following years he married Carrie Stilson († 1940).

Pounds was a public works commissioner in Brooklyn when he was elected borough president of Brooklyn on July 3, 1913 . He held the post until 1917. To date, he is the only Republican borough president of Brooklyn in history. On April 30, 1921, he was appointed one of the first six commissioners of the Port of New York Authority and later its president.

He was elected Treasurer of State of New York in 1924. In the election he defeated the incumbent George K. Shuler of the Democratic Party . Governor Al Smith undertook an important reorganization of the state government during his fourth term. The office of Treasurer of State was merged on January 1, 1927 with the Department of Audit and Control under the New York State Comptroller .

After Jimmy Walker's resignation , Pounds ran for the post of Mayor of New York City. In the election he suffered a defeat against the Democrat John P. O'Brien .

Pounds attended the Republican National Conventions as a delegate in 1908, 1936, and 1940 .

He died at his home at 317 East Seventeenth Street, Brooklyn, and was then buried in the Northport Rural Cemetery in Northport, New York.

literature

• LH Pounds Borough Head , The New York Times, July 4, 1913
• Port Treaty Signed Hylan Stays Away , The New York Times, May 1, 1921
• Lewis H. Pounds Taken To Hospital , The New York Times, June 17, 1922

Web links

• Lewis H. Pounds on The Political Graveyard website