Mayor William Jay Gaynor

William Jay Gaynor was an American politician from New York City, associated with the Tammany Hall political machine. He served as mayor of the City of New York from 1910 to 1913, as well as stints as a New York Supreme Court Justice from 1893 to 1909.

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NY Times Obituary: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=980CEED7113B...

Nock, Albert Jay, Memoirs of a Su­perfluous Man. New York: Harper and Bros., 1943, Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1965. A Journal of These Days. New York: William Morrow and Co., 1934. "Notes on a Great American"—American Mer­cury, December, 1932.

Pink, Louis Heaton, Gaynor—The Tammany Mayor Who Swallowed the Tiger. New York: The Inter­national Press, 1931.

Smith, Mortimer, William Jay Gay­nor: Mayor of New York. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1951.

Thomas, Lately, The Mayor Who Mastered New York. New York: William Morrow and Co., 1969.