Charles F. Tabor

Charles Franklin Tabor (born June 21, 1841 in St. Joseph County , Michigan , † August 6, 1900 in Keeseville , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician ( Democratic Party ).

Career

Charles Franklin Tabor, son of Betsey E. Russell and Silas Tabor (around 1820–1863), was born in St. Joseph County during the economic crisis of 1837 . The family moved to Newstead, New York in 1843 . He attended the academies in Clarence and Williamsville , both suburbs of Buffalo, New York, and the seminary in Lima, New York. In 1861 he moved to Buffalo, New York, to study law at the Humphrey & Parsons law firm . The following years were overshadowed by the civil war. He was admitted to the bar in 1863.

On December 24, 1863, he married Phebe S. Andrews. The couple had a daughter named Georgia E. Tabor.

Tabor founded a law firm with Judge Thomas Corlett in 1868. Six years later Corlett retired. Then Tabor became a partner of William F. Sheehan. Tabor served in the New York State Assembly for the 4th District ( Erie County ) in 1876 ​​and 1877 . In 1888, he and Sheehan added two new partners to the firm: John Cunneen and Edward E. Coatsworth. The firm was then renamed Tabor, Sheehan, Cunneen & Coatsworth . In 1895 Tabor became a senior partner in the Tabor & Wilkie law firm .

Tabor was a supervisor in Lancaster, New York , in 1881 and 1882 , where he lived from 1867 to 1883 before moving to Buffalo, New York. He was Erie County's Consumer Commissioner for three years.

He was elected Attorney General of New York in the 1887 election and re-elected in 1889. Tabor held the post from 1888 to 1891. During his tenure, he declared the Charter of the Sugar Trust of New York null and void because it was a monopoly . He was also in charge of the litigation regarding the constitutionality of the Electricity Act. In this regard, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the law was constitutional and valid. He also received from the court confirmation of a ruling by the New York Court of Appeals in the case relating to the Home Insurance Company, according to which the company was taxable on its capital even though the portfolio consisted of government bonds, which were exempt from tax.

In 1899 he ran for judge's post at the New York Supreme Court , but suffered defeat.

literature

• White, Truman C .: Our County and It's People - a descriptive work on Erie County, New York , The Boston History Company, 1898
• Board Of Canvassers Meets , The New York Times, December 29, 1899