George Bliss Agnew (1868 – June 21, 1941) was an American politician from

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Life

He graduated from

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in 1891. Agnew was a member of the

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(New York Co., 27th D.) in

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1905 As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony i ...

and

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. He was a member of the

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(17th D.) from 1907 to 1910, sitting in the 130th, 131st, 132nd and

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s. In 1908, he co-sponsored, with Assemblyman

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, the

Hart–Agnew Law The Hart–Agnew Law was an anti-gambling bill passed into law by the Legislature of the State of New York on June 11, 1908. It was an amalgam of bills enacted as Chapter 506 and 507 which were sponsored by conservative Assemblyman Merwin K. Hart ...

, an anti-horse-race-track-gambling bill which led to a total shutdown of horse-racing in the State of New York. Agnew was defeated by John G. Saxe II in the November 8, 1910, election in a district that was Republican by a great majority.

References

''Official New York from Cleveland to Hughes''
by Charles Elliott Fitch (Hurd Publishing Co., New York and Buffalo, 1911, Vol. IV; pg. 347, 349f, 352 and 366f)
''The New York Red Book''
by Edgar L. Murlin (1903; pg. 105f)

External links

The George Bliss Agnew papers
at the New York Public Library {{DEFAULTSORT:Agnew, George B. 1868 births 1941 deaths Republican Party New York (state) state senators Politicians from Manhattan Republican Party members of the New York State Assembly Princeton University alumni Deaths from pneumonia in New York (state) Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery