mayorgaynor

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.

His home was 20 Eighth Avenue, Brooklyn. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jay_Gaynor

swanq and JE Piper Photography: Thanks for the address and confirmation. We'll add this and the date to the record next time we update.

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LOC -- date is wrong -- should read "1913"

Wystan, Thanks for the heads up on the date. We will correct it 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 are on their way to 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.