Edwin Joseph O'Malley (August 22, 1881 – April 10, 1953) was the
Commissioner of Public Markets
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for
New York City
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Biography
Edwin O'Malley was born on August 22, 1881, in Manhattan
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, New York City,[His birth certificate is dated August 22, 1881 in Manhattan and is certificate 318892. He used the date of August 23, 1882 in 1941 for the WWII draft and August 23, 1881 in the WWI draft. His obituary said he was 69 years old which would have him born in 1883. The birth certificate is considered canonical.] to Thomas Francis O'Malley (1854–1918) and Georgiana Reynolds (1855–1941). He married Alma Feltner (1883–1940) on January 16, 1902, and had one child, a son, Walter Francis O'Malley (1903–1979), who would become the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers
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from 1950 to 1979, and who would oversee their controversial move from Brooklyn
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to Los Angeles
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.
In 1910, O'Malley was living in the Bronx, New York
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, and working as a cotton goods salesman. Around 1911 he moved the family from the Bronx to Hollis, Queens
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. He registered for the draft on September 12, 1918, but did not serve in World War I
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. He became a Democratic party ward heeler for Tammany Hall
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, and was appointed as the Commissioner of Public Markets
The Commissioner of Public Markets, Weights, and Measures of the City of New York was a cabinet-level post appointed by the List of mayors of New York City, mayor of New York City during World War I, when foodstuffs were in short supply and people ...
for New York City
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by mayor John F. Hylan. He testified on August 18, 1922, before the Kings County, New York
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Grand Jury, which was investigating the mishandling of the fees paid by vendors to the Public Markets office. No charges were filed.
He died of a heart attack
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in Amityville, New York
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, on April 10, 1953, at age 71.
Further reading
*Roger Kahn; The Era 1947-1957: When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World.
*Burton Alan Boxerman; Ebbets to Veeck to Busch: Eight Owners Who Shaped Baseball.
*Henry D. Fetter; Taking on the Yankees: Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball, 1903-2003. .
Court cases
*''Schumaker v. O'Malley'', May 1, 1920
*''Matter of Joerger v. O'Malley'', December 1, 1923
References
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1881 births
1955 deaths
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Politicians from the Bronx
People from Long Island
Commissioners of public markets
People from Hollis, Queens
New York (state) Democrats