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WILLIAM JAY GAYNOR MEMORIAL
William Jay Gaynor MemorialHistoryThis monument, loted on the northern part of Cadman Plaza near the Brooklyn Bridge approach, honors William Jay Gaynor (1851–1913), journalist, lawyer, state supreme urt jtice, Brooklyn rint, and mayor of New York om 1910 to 1913. The Gaynor Memorial Commtee missned German-born sculptor Adolph Alexanr Weman (1870–1952) to create the bt of Gaynor flanked by a pair of allegoril bas-reliefs reprentg law and strength on one si and knowledge and ease on the other. The scriptn, “Ours is a ernment of laws not men, ” scrib Gaynor’s anti-rptn, pro-reform style.
Although helped to office by Tammany Hall, which was known for s patronage polics, Gaynor chose not to pay back the polil mache wh veted polil appotments; stead he assembled a pro-reform ernment that worked to streamle New York’s bloated civil service system.
This st Gaynor polilly; he was the target of an assassatn attempt 1910 and lost the support of Tammany Hall.
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Wh the support of a aln of pro-reform terts, Gaynor phed for re-electn.