Lewis Humphrey Pounds (April 9, 1860 in

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, Lorain County, Ohio – December 16, 1947 in

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) was an American businessman and politician.

Life

He graduated from

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and

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. About 1893 he moved to Brooklyn, New York where he became a real estate broker and developer. He married Carrie Stilson (d. 1940). He was Brooklyn Commissioner of Public Works when he was elected Borough President of

on July 3, 1913. He stayed in office until 1917, the only Republican Borough President of Brooklyn in history. On April 30, 1921, he was appointed one of the original six commissioners of the

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, and later became its president. He was the last

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, elected in

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defeating the incumbent Democrat

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. Governor

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undertook a major re-organisation of the State government during his four terms in office, and the State Treasury was merged on January 1, 1927, into the Department of Audit and Control headed by the

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. In 1932, after the resignation of Jimmy Walker, Pounds ran for

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, but was defeated by Democrat

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. He was a delegate to the

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and

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s. He died at his home at 317, East Seventeenth Street, in Brooklyn, and was buried at the Northport Rural Cemetery in

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in NYT on July 4, 1913
Appointed port commissioner
in NYT on May 1, 1921
Pres of Port Authority
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