Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence (February 28, 1791 – February 20, 1861) was a politician from New York. He became the first popularly elected mayor of New...

Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence (1791–1861), Mayor of New York City, and US Congressman Curly Lawrence (1883–1967), British model engineer Cyril Lawrence...

Staten Island. The first mayor of the expanded city was Robert Anderson Van Wyck. The longest-serving mayors have been Fiorello H. La Guardia (1934–1945)...

city's mayor to be elected by direct popular vote. Also in 1834, Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence, a pro-Tammany Democrat, would become the first mayor ever elected...

Representative from New York 1847–49. Brother of Samuel Lawrence. Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence (1791–1861), U.S. Representative from New York 1833–34,...

Free People of Color held. Park Avenue Tunnel (roadway) opens. Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence becomes mayor. 1835 December 16: New York Stock Exchange and...

to politicians, many of whom lived in Harlem. New York mayors Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence and Daniel Tiemann both lived in Harlem in this period. For many...

and the two had four children. In 1845, Collector of the Port Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence appointed Connolly as a clerk in the customs house. In 1849,...

was narrowly defeated (sources range from 181 to 213 votes) by Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence. Afterwards Verplanck kept his own counsel in politics and supported...

activist Daniel Tiemann – New York mayor Robert Van Wyck – New York mayor Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence – New York mayor Sholem Aleichem – writer, 110 Lenox...