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New York (state) state senators

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Martin Van Buren

president of the United States from 1837 to 1841

William H. Seward

American lawyer and politician (1801-1872)

Lewis H. Morgan

American anthropologist (1818–1881)

William A. Wheeler

vice president of the United States from 1877 to 1881

Eric Leroy Adams is an American politician and former police officer who served as the 111th mayor of New York City from 2022 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, Adams was an officer in the New York City Transit Police and then the New York City Police Department (NYPD) for more than 20 years, retiring at the rank of captain. He served in the New York State Senate from 2006 to 2013, representing the 20th district in Brooklyn. In 2013, Adams became the first black American to be elected Brooklyn Borough President; he was re-elected in 2017.

American politician (1769–1828)

New York State Senate

Upper state chamber of New York State

Philip Schuyler

American politician and general (1733–1804)

John C. Spencer

American politician (1788-1855)

American Founding Father and politician (1734–1821)

Edwin D. Morgan

Union Army general and politician (1811–1883)

American politician (1742-1829)

American landowner and developer from Morrisania, New York (1726-1798), Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Philip Livingston

American politician, signer of the Declaration of Independence (1716-1778)

American politician (1802-1875)

Stephen Van Rensselaer

New York landowner, businessman, militia officer, and politician (1764-1839)

American lawyer, politician and military commander (1754–1844)

American politician (1777-1838)

United States federal judge (1733–1797)

American politician (1784-1854)

American statesman (1750-1810)

American Postmaster General (1767-1822)

Nathaniel P. Tallmadge

American politician (1795-1864)

Myron Holley Clark

American politician (1806-1892)

American politician (1822-1875)

Pierre Van Cortlandt

American politician (1721–1814); first Lieutenant Governor of the State of New York

Daniel Fawcett Tiemann

American politician (1805-1899)

American politician, New York

United States Senator representing the state of New York (1750-1806)

Charles E. Dudley

American politician, New York

United States lawyer, politician and businessman (1743-1799)

Isaac Leggett Varian

American politician (1793-1864)

William H. Robertson

American politician (1823–1898)

American politician (1770-1846)

L. Bradford Prince

American politician (1840-1922)

American politician

Isaac Roosevelt

American merchant and politician; great-great-grandfather of the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1726-1794)

American politician (1738-1810)

John Morin Scott

American politician, New York (1730-1784)

American politician (1749-1825)

Alexander McDougall

politician, privateer and Continental Army general (1731-1786)

Cadwallader David Colden

American politician (1769-1834)

American politician

Gulian C. Verplanck

American politician (1786–1870)

American lawyer and politician (1792-1877)

Philo C. Fuller

American politician

American politician

American politician (1769-1834)

Abel Huntington

American politician (1777-1858)

American politician (1773-1846)

Thomas Tredwell

American statesman (1743-1831)

American politician (1764-1819)

Irish-born American merchant, soldier, and politician (1739-1810)

Irish-born American congressman for New York (1841-1907)

Martin T. McMahon

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient

Philip Van Cortlandt

American politician 1749-1831

Abraham Van Vechten

American politician

George W. Plunkitt

New York State Senator

American politician (1778–1848)

Continental Congressman