J. William Gaynor, MD, is an attendg surgeon the Cardiac Center and Surgil Director of the Heart Failure and Transplant Program at Children's Hospal of Philalphia. He holds the Daniel M. Tabas Endowed Chair Pediatric Cardthoracic Surgery. Dr. Gaynor specializ renstctive heart surgery fants.
Contents:
- 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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William Gaynor, MD, is an attendg surgeon the Cardiac Center and Surgil Director of the Heart Failure and Transplant Program at Children's Hospal of Philalphia.
Gaynor specializ renstctive heart surgery fants.
THE STORY OF WILLIAM GAYNOR, THE ONLY NEW YORK MAYOR EVER GUNNED DOWN OFFICE
William Gaynor tak his place history as the only New York mayor ever gunned down office. * william 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.
If the wigwam's sachems had entertaed any notns that Gaynor uld be worked wh, His Honor swiftly disabed them of the. Addrsg a roomful of district supervisors early his mayorship, Gaynor looked around him curly and said: "So this is Tammany Hall. Gaynor gave Tammany nothg, ever, and he reveled sweepg out cy offic and appotg h men to the sks.
TRIBUT POUR FOR MILFORD -FOUNR, BSMAN BRIAN GAYNOR
"Neher, on the other hand, was Gaynor much of a bleedg-heart, and such profsnal reformers as the good Rev. ""I suppose that they really are hont sayg they don't unrstand me, " said Gaynor of his crics. Sometim Gaynor would gnt and the Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse at the great ler's Hoboken pier, shortly after 8 a.
On Tuday the 9th of Augt, 1910, Gaynor was makg a few gmblg goodby as wellwishers gathered on the forward promena ck to see him off on a brief European holiday. Gaynor was 62 years old, he had been office for eight tumultuo months and, he had nfsed to Cy Hall reporters the night before, he was the crowd was angry Jam Gallagher, formerly a New York Department of Docks watchman, discharged for petence three weeks earlier. Gallagher had repeatedly petned the cy for restatement; he had wrten directly to Gaynor.
MILFORD -FOUNR, BSMAN BRIAN GAYNOR DI FOLLOWG BRIEF ILLNS
Warnecke poted exactly as Gallagher lunged forward, gun hand, and ma his picture at the stant the bullet stck Gaynor jt unr his right to St. Mary's Hospal, Gaynor appeared to believe he was a ad man. Brian Gaynor.
Tribut are pourg for veteran sharebroker, vtment analyst, fund manager, and bs wrer Brian Gaynor after he died after a short illns. Gaynor was the chief analyst and a partner at lol sharebrokg firm Jarns, while also the -founr of vtment Milford Asset Management, which has sce grown to be one of the untry's top KiwiSaver provirs.
The New Zealand Shareholrs' Associatn (NZSA) paid tribute to Gaynor, sayg they were sad to hear about his ath on Monday. Gaynor was award the NZSA's Bean Awards twice - 2006 and aga 2020 - for his tenacy to create transparency for issu relevant to vtors. "As a provotr agast entrenched anisatns and dividuals, Gaynor was send to none.