Ashbel P. Fitch
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Ashbel Parmelee Fitch was an American lawyer, financier, and politician. He was a four-term Congressman, and a one-term Comptroller of New York City.
Ashbel Parmelee Fitch
William Lafayette Strong
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William Lafayette Strong was the 91st Mayor of New York City from 1895 to 1897. He was the last mayor of New York City before the consolidation of the City of Greater New York on January 1, 1898.
Ashbel P. Fitch
…Fitch "oversaw the city's finances during a time of terrible economic distress, withstanding threats from Tammany Hall on one side and from Mayor William L. Strong's misguided reform administration on the other." In 1897, Tammany refused to renominate him. Chauncey Depew placed his name in nomination at the…
William L. Strong
Putnam Bradlee Strong