gaynor

LOC -- your date is wrong, should be 1913.

Wystan, Thanks for the heads up on the date. We will get that corrected when we update the record.

William Jay Gaynor had served a term as reform mayor of New York. Because the incorruptible Gaynor would not cooperate with the Tammany machine, Tammany refused to nominate him for a second term. So Gaynor was renominated by an independent group, and accepted their nomination. In this photo, the independents notify Gaynor of the nomination, just before he sailed to Europe on a vacation voyage. On September 10, exactly a week after this photo was taken, Gaynor died of a heart attack, in his deck chair aboard the steamship Baltic, 400 miles off the coast of Ireland.

New York City Mayor William Jay Gaynor died on September 10, 1913.

whyaduck: Thanks for the tip! We'll update the source data to reflect Gaynor's full name and a more accurate date. The negative indicates the date of this photograph was March 20, 1913.

Norman Gaynor was the son of the late mayor William Gaynor of New York City; he married in April 1914, to Betsy Page.

Another Bain/LOC photo of Norman Gaynor with his late father's law library.

"Norman J. Gaynor weds Betsy Page"--------- New York Times story, April 17, 1914: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F50915F93D5E13...

pennylrichardsca & Wystan: Thanks for the additional information on Mr. Gaynor, including the date of this photograph. We will update the record.

The Gaynor wedding party returns to New York City, 4/21/14: