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MITCH_171222_11.JPG: Mayor of the City of New York 1914 - 1918
Born July 19, 1879
Died in the Service of the United States July 6, 1918
In Memory of John Purroy Mitchel
John Purroy Mitchel
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John Purroy Mitchel (July 19, 1879 – July 6, 1918) was the 95th mayor of New York from 1914 to 1917. At age 34 he was the second-youngest ever; he is sometimes referred to as "The Boy Mayor of New York." Mayor Mitchel is remembered for his short career as leader of Reform politics in New York as well as for his early death as a US Army Air Service officer in the last months of World War I. Mitchel's staunchly Catholic New York family had been founded by his paternal grandfather and namesake John Mitchel, an Ulster Presbyterian Young Irelander who became a renowned writer and leader in the Irish independence movement, as well as a staunch supporter of the Confederate States of America.
Reformers praised him. Oswald Garrison Villard, the editor of The Nation, said he was "the ablest and best Mayor New York ever had." Former President Theodore Roosevelt, endorsing Mitchel's re-election bid in 1917, stated that he had "given us as nearly an ideal administration of the New York City government as I have seen in my lifetime." However, even his staunchest supporters admitted he was a poor politician who was too aloof from the ordinary voters and too concerned with "scientific" urban management. He still won in a landslide in 1913 but lost the Republican primary in 1917.
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Description of Subject Matter: John Purroy Mitchel
This granite and bronze monument is known well to runners and walkers who enter its terrace stairway to the Reservoir at Fifth Avenue and 90th Street. The monument honors John Purroy Mitchel, who became New York City's youngest mayor in 1913 and was credited for ferreting out Tammany Hall corruption. He presided over the opening of the first water tunnel in 1917, which is the reason his memorial is on the Reservoir site.
After his failed re-election bid, Mitchel enlisted in World War I to serve in the Army aviation corps in 1918. He was killed only months later when he fell 500 feet from his plane during a training flight. Dedicated in 1928, the memorial's expansive granite stele was designed by architects Thomas Hastings and Don Barber. German-born sculptor Adolph Alexander Weinman created the former mayor's gilded bronze portrait bust. The Conservancy conserved the monument in 1986 and regilded the sculpture in 1998.
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2017 photos: Overnight trips this year:
Civil War Trust conferences in Pensacola, FL, Chattanooga, TN (via sites in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee) and Fredericksburg, VA,
a family reunion in The Dells, Wisconsin (via sites in Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin),
New York City, and
my 12th consecutive San Diego Comic Con trip (including sites in Arizona).
Ego strokes: For some reason, several of my photos have been published in physical books this year which is pretty cool. Ones that I know about:
"Tarzan, Jungle King of Popular Culture" (David Lemmo),
"The Great Crusade: A Guide to World War I American Expeditionary Forces Battlefields and Sites" (Stephen T. Powers and Kevin Dennehy),
"The American Spirit" (David McCullough),
"Civil War Battlefields: Walking the Trails of History" (David T. Gilbert),
"The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956 — Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia" (Marvin Kalb), and
"The Judge: 26 Machiavellian Lessons" (Ron Collins and David Skover).
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