Alfred Rider Page (October 7, 1859 – February 3, 1931) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician from

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. Page was born in

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, Illinois, and relocated with his family to

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in 1874. He graduated from

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in 1880, was admitted to the bar, and practiced in

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. In 1886, he married Elizabeth M. Roe, and they had three children including the novelist Elizabeth Page. Page was a member of the

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(19th district) from 1905 to 1908, sitting in the 128th, 129th, 130th and

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s. He was a justice of the

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from 1910 to 1923. In 1915, he presided over the trial of

Harry K. Thaw Harry Kendall Thaw (February 12, 1871 – February 22, 1947) was the son of American coal and railroad baron William Thaw Sr.. Heir to a multimillion-dollar fortune, the younger Thaw is most notable for murdering the renowned architect Sta ...

for conspiring to escape from the

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. He sat on the Appellate Division (First Dept.) from 1916 to 1923. He died on February 3, 1931, in Southampton, New York, from pneumonia.

Sources

''Official New York from Cleveland to Hughes''
by Charles Elliott Fitch (Hurd Publishing Co., New York and Buffalo, 1911, Vol. IV; pg. 366)
''THAW TRIAL TODAY, HE MAY TAKE STAND''
in NYT on March 8, 1915
''THAW DEFEATED, GETS A NEW WRIT''
in NYT on March 17, 1915

in NYT on February 4, 1931 (subscription required)

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