George Atwood Slater (September 2, 1867 – February 23, 1937) was an American lawyer and politician from

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Early life

He was born in

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, to Atwood Slater and Julia E. (Scott) Slater. He attended the public schools and Greenwich Academy. Then he studied law, was admitted to the bar in Connecticut in 1888, but enrolled in Columbia Law School the same year. He was admitted to the bar in New York in 1889, and practised in

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. He finished his law course at Columbia in 1890, but was among 33 alumni of the class of 1890 who received their LL.B. degrees only in 1934.

Public service

On June 2, 1891, Slater married Eva Elizabeth Sours (died 1950), and continued the practice of law in Port Chester, his wife's hometown. He was Counsel of the Town of Rye from 1900 to 1906, and a Trustee of the Village of Port Chester from 1902 to 1908. He was a member of the

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(Westchester Co., 4th D.) in

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. In the Assembly, he was first to make a speech advocating suffrage for women. He was a member of the

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(24th D.) from 1915 to 1918, sitting in the 138th, 139th, 140th and

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s. In November 1918, he was elected Surrogate of Westchester County, and was re-elected in 1924, 1930 and 1936; remaining in office from 1919 until his death in 1937. Slater died on February 23, 1937, in Moore County Hospital in

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, of

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; and was buried in Rye, New York. Democrat William J. Sheils, whom he had defeated at the election in November 1936, was appointed by Gov.

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to fill the vacancy until the end of the year.

Sources

''WESTCHESTER REPUBLICAN''
in NYT on November 6, 1918

in NYT on June 22, 1933 (subscription required)

in NYT on February 24, 1937 (subscription required)

in NYT on February 28, 1937 (subscription required)

in NYT on February 9, 1950 (subscription required)

External links

at the

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