George Wagener was an American politician from
New York
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Life
From 1831 to 1849, he lived on the Bluff Point, the peninsula between the two northern branches of
Keuka Lake in Jerusalem, New York. He was Supervisor of the
Town of Jerusalem in 1843, and a
Justice of the Peace
A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower or ''puisne'' court, elected or appointed by means of a commission ( letters patent) to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with the sa ...
in 1844. He was Sheriff of Yates County from 1850 to 1852, and from 1868 to 1870.
In
1874
Events
January–March
* January 1 – New York City annexes The Bronx.
* January 2 – Ignacio María González becomes head of state of the Dominican Republic for the first time.
* January 3 – Third Carlist War &ndas ...
, he was elected on the
Democratic ticket an
Inspector of State Prisons, and was in office from January 1875 to February 1877. The office was abolished by a constitutional amendment in 1876, and the three last Inspectors of State Prisons - Wagener,
Rodney R. Crowley
Rodney Rufus Crowley (November 12, 1836 – 1913) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was a New York Inspector of State Prisons from 1876 to 1877.
Life
He was born on November 12, 1836, in Mount Holly, Vermont, to Parmelia and ...
and
Robert H. Anderson
Robert Houstoun Anderson (October 1, 1835 – February 8, 1888) was a West Point graduate, an infantry officer in the United States Army and served as a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. After the ...
- left office upon the appointment of
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as
Superintendent of State Prisons The Inspector of State Prisons was a statewide elective office created by the New York State Constitution of 1846. At the 1847 New York state election, three Inspectors were elected and then, upon taking office, so classified that henceforth every ...
.
Sources
''The New York Civil List''compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 45 and 410; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
Jerusalem, NY, history, at USGenNet
List of Sheriffs of Yates County, at official site
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
People from Jerusalem, New York
New York State Prison Inspectors
Town supervisors in New York (state)
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