The story of William Gaynor, the only New York mayor ever gunned down office

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• J. WILLIAM GAYNOR, MD
• THE STORY OF WILLIAM GAYNOR, THE ONLY NEW YORK MAYOR EVER GUNNED DOWN OFFICE
• TRIBUT POUR FOR MILFORD -FOUNR, BSMAN BRIAN GAYNOR
• MILFORD -FOUNR, BSMAN BRIAN GAYNOR DI FOLLOWG BRIEF ILLNS

J. WILLIAM GAYNOR, MD

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THE STORY OF WILLIAM GAYNOR, THE ONLY NEW YORK MAYOR EVER GUNNED DOWN OFFICE

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TRIBUT POUR FOR MILFORD -FOUNR, BSMAN BRIAN GAYNOR

Prickly, gmpy, srnful of even the small pretens toward social and polil niceti this was William Gaynor, and even wh the full weight of Boss Murphy's Tammany Hall behd him, was hard to see how this man uld possibly have been elected mayor of the Cy of New the mpaign trail, he treated voters like imbecil; on the dais, he heaped sults on fellow dignari. "A worse man than Judge Gaynor might have been chosen, " med the Sun, "but would have entailed a good al of trouble to fd him.

Instead, was William Gaynor's sty one summer morng 1910 to cross paths wh a disgntled cy employee and to take his place history as the only New York mayor ever gunned down had e to such a pass the cy by the fall of 1909 that Silent Charlie Murphy emed necsary to field an hont man for mayor.

Th did Tammany reach out for Judge Gaynor, who had been stg irreproachably, if unremarkably, on the state Supreme Court bench sce 1893 and agast whom no man uld realistilly utter a word. Gaynor was a good Democrat, but certaly no Tammany bootlick.

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