- Edwin Corning
Edwin Corning (
September 30 ,1883 Albany, New York -August 7 ,1934 Bar Harbor,Hancock County, Maine ) was an American businessman andpolitician fromNew York . He wasLieutenant Governor of New York from 1927 to 1928.Life
He was the son of Erastus Corning (1827-1897, son of
Erastus Corning ) and Mary (Parker) Corning (daughter ofAmasa J. Parker ). He was educated atThe Albany Academy andGroton School , and graduatedB.A. fromYale University in 1906. Then he began work for the Ludlum Steel Company inWatervliet, New York , and became its President in 1910.On November 25, 1908, he married Louise Maxwell, and their children were
Erastus Corning 2nd , Louise Corning, Harriet Corning and Edwin Corning, Jr. (b. 1919).He was a
presidential elector in 1924. He was Chairman of theNew York State Democratic Committee from 1926 to 1928. He was lieutenant Govrernor of New York from 1927 to 1928, elected on the Democratic ticket with GovernorAl Smith . In 1928, when Al Smith planned to run for President, the Democrats asked Corning to run for Governor, but he declined because of ill health.He died on the operating table during a second leg amputation which was due to
gangrene derived fromdiabetes . He was buried at theAlbany Rural Cemetery inMenands, New York .ources
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