Charles H. Gaus

Charles H. Gaus

Charles Henry Gaus (born September 1, 1840 in Zanesville , Ohio , † October 31, 1909 in the Laurentine Mountains , Canada ) was an American businessman and politician .

Career

Charles Henry Gaus, son of German immigrants, was born in Muskingum County during the economic crisis of 1837 . The Gaus family moved to New York when he was two years old. She settled in the then still independent city of Brooklyn . His childhood was overshadowed by the Mexican-American War . In 1857 he moved to Albany, New York, where he worked in his uncle's drugstore. He then fought in the civil war . In 1874 he opened his own drugstore on the corner of Washington Avenue and Lark Street in Albany.

Gaus was an excellent sniper . In this regard, he won the Wimbledon Cup in 1889, 1890, 1891 and 1892 .

In Albany, he served as a supervisor, school commissioner, city street commissioner and city assessor for a while. From 1902 to 1908 he held the post of Mayor of Albany. He belonged to the Republican Party . In the elections in 1908 he was elected New York State Comptroller . He held the post from January 1, 1909 until his death. Most of the time he was sick, so that his First Deputy Comptroller Otto Kelsey ran the official business.

Gaus died of complications from pneumonia while staying in a hunting lodge where he ran the Bourbinnais-Kiamika Club on Long Lake in the Laurentine Mountains. He was then buried in the Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands .

literature

• Controller Gaus Died Far In Woods , The New York Times, November 1, 1909

Web links

• Charles H. Gaus on The Political Graveyard website
• Charles H. Gaus in the database of Find a Grave (English)