Edwin Corning

Edwin Corning

Edwin Corning (born September 30, 1883 in Albany , New York , † August 7, 1934 in Bar Harbor , Hancock County , Maine ) was an American businessman and politician of the Democratic Party .

Career

Edwin Corning attended the Albany Academy and Groton School . He then graduated in 1906 with a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University . He then started working for the Ludlum Steel Company in Watervliet , where he became president in 1910.

Corning also chose to pursue a political career while serving as a presidential elector in 1924. He then chaired the New York State Democratic Committee between 1926 and 1928 . During this time he was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1927 to 1928 . When Alfred E. Smith set out to run for president in 1928 , the Democrats asked Corning to run for governor of New York, but he declined because of his poor health.

Corning died on the operating table in 1934 during a second leg amputation, the result of gangrene caused by diabetes . He was buried in the Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, New York.

family

Edwin Corning was the grandson of US MPs Erastus Corning (1794–1872) and Amasa J. Parker . He married Louise Maxwell on November 25, 1908. The couple had four children together: Erastus Corning III. (1909-1983), Louise Corning, Harriet Corning and Edwin Corning, Jr. (* 1919).

Web links

• Biography on the New York History page
• The Political Graveyard