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Francis J. Pordum
Francis J. Pordum (born December 4, 1945) is an American politician from Lake View, New York. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a New York State Assemblyman and represented the 1st District in the Erie County Legislature from 1980 to 1982. Pordum was born in Lackawanna, New York, and graduated in 1968 from Colgate University with a BA in Geology and with an MS in Education from the University at Buffalo in 1973. He worked as a teacher and coach for Lackawanna Public Schools from 1973 to 1980. Pordum represented District 136 in the New York State Assembly from 1983 to 1996. While serving in the assembly, introduced legislation prohibiting the use of lawn pesticides in rain or high winds, and forcing lawn-care companies to post signs on properties where pesticides have been applied. In 1996, Pordum lost against incumbent Jack Quinn for the US House of Representative District 30 seat. In 2004, he ran against Quinn's son, Jack Quinn III, for his old assembly seat and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake View, New York
Lake View is a hamlet in Erie County, New York, United States. Lake View is in the town of Hamburg. Geography Lake View is south of Buffalo along Lake Erie. It is bounded by Eighteen Mile Creek on the south, Pleasant Avenue on the north, Lake Erie on the west and the village of Hamburg on the east. History Early settlers were Ebenezer Ames, Jacob F. Schoellkopf, a successful entrepreneur in western New York, and Ebenezer Walden, a prominent Buffalo attorney and mayor whose family built the Lake View Hotel in 1880 to serve the many traveling salesmen who arrived on the seven daily trains on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway (later part of New York Central Railroad) to sell their wares in the surrounding countryside. The salesmen (called "drummers") would rent a horse and buggy from the livery stable behind the six-room hotel to make their rounds. By 1890, two more railroads ran through Lake View - the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (the Nickel Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Legislators In New York (state)
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesChambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoting a jurisdiction under the sovereignty of a count (earl) or a viscount.The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, C. W. Onions (Ed.), 1966, Oxford University Press Literal equivalents in other languages, derived from the equivalent of "count", are now seldom used officially, including , , , , , , , and ''zhupa'' in Slavic languages; terms equivalent to commune/community are now often instead used. When the Normans conquered England, they brought the term with them. The Saxons had already established the districts that became the historic counties of England, calling them shires;Vision of Britai– Type details for ancient county. Retrieved 31 March 2012 many county names derive from the name of the county town (county seat) with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
