williamsulzer

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sulzer William Sulzer (1863-1941), briefly governor of New York, was impeached within months of taking office in 1913.

A previous Bain/LOC photo shows Sulzer beginning his climb up the New York State Capitol's mountain of steps: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3931852406/

William Sulzer was the Governor of New York. The only governor from that state to be impeached & removed from office. He kinda looks like Lon Chaney in "The Phantom of the Opera" in this picture: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sulzer Philander C. Knox was Secretary of State under Teddy Roosevelt: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philander_C._Knox

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Thanks captainslack for filling in the identity of these two men. Any idea when the photograph was taken?

The building behind them is the State, War and Navy building -- nowadays called the Executive Office Building, next to the White House. But of course, folks at the LOC know that already . . . .

Captainslack is incorrect about Knox: he was Secretary of State under Taft (1909-1913), not Roosevelt. Sulzer was Governor of New York for only a part of the year 1913, but he was in Congress for several years before that. This picture could have been taken while he was in Washington as a Congress Person.

John Cardinal Murphy Farley (April 20, 1842 - September 17, 1918) was an Irish-American prelate, the seventh bishop (fourth archbishop) of the Roman Catholic diocese of New York. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cardinal_Farley

Top of plate says (St. Pat Day '13) so I assume this was 1913.

John D. Crimmins - Contractor, Catholic layman and philanthropist. ( ref. obit query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F06EFD6123FE433A... ref. photograph digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1218718 ) Governor William Sulzer (soon to be impeached) (ref. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/william-sulzer/ ) Here's the New York Times report dated March 18, 1913: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D0CE2DE173FE633A... Which contains this quote: " Cardinal Farley occupied the place of honor in the middle of the second row in the reviewing stand. Seated at his left were Gov. Sulzer and Mayor Gaynor On his right were Adjt Gen Hamilton and Mgr Lavelle. Seated in the front row were Mgr. McGean, Commissioner Edwards of the Department of Street Cleaning, Police Commissioner Waldo and Mgr. James Mooney." Although this particular photograph does not precisely reflect the seating order in that reporter's account.

Deerbourne: Thanks. We'll fix the date in the source data and reload the description.

lifeasdaddy: Thanks. We'll look into adding these additional names to our source catalog!