Alfred R. Page
{{short description|American politician}}
Alfred Rider Page (October 7, 1859 – February 3, 1931) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician from New York.
Page was born in Carlinville, Illinois, and relocated with his family to Brooklyn in 1874.{{cite web |title=Appellate Division – First Judicial Department |url=https://www.nycourts.gov/courts/AD1/centennial/Bios/arpage2.shtml |website=nycourts.gov |accessdate=10 March 2019}} He graduated from New York University School of Law in 1880, was admitted to the bar, and practiced in New York City. In 1886, he married Elizabeth M. Roe, and they had three children including the novelist Elizabeth Page.{{cite web |title=Collection: Page family papers (MS 772) |url=https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/12/resources/3856 |website=Archives at Yale |publisher=Yale University Library |access-date=6 April 2021}} Page was a member of the New York State Senate (19th district) from 1905 to 1908, sitting in the 128th, 129th, 130th and 131st New York State Legislatures. He was a justice of the New York Supreme Court from 1910 to 1923. In 1915, he presided over the trial of Harry K. Thaw for conspiring to escape from the Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. He sat on the Appellate Division (First Dept.) from 1916 to 1923. He died on February 3, 1931, in Southampton, New York, from pneumonia.
Sources
- [https://archive.org/stream/officialnewyorkf04fitc#page/366/mode/1up Official New York from Cleveland to Hughes] by Charles Elliott Fitch (Hurd Publishing Co., New York and Buffalo, 1911, Vol. IV; pg. 366)
- [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1915/03/08/104642213.pdf THAW TRIAL TODAY, HE MAY TAKE STAND] in NYT on March 8, 1915
- [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1915/03/17/106730590.pdf THAW DEFEATED, GETS A NEW WRIT] in NYT on March 17, 1915
- [https://www.nytimes.com/1931/02/04/archives/alfred-rider-page-exjustice-is-dead-led-in-fight-for-80cent-gas-and.html ALFRED RIDER PAGE, EX-JUSTICE, IS DEAD; Former Supreme Court Justice Alfred Rider Page of 2,202 Loring Place, the Bronx, a distinguished...] in NYT on February 4, 1931 (subscription required)
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External links
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- [http://www.courts.state.ny.us/courts/ad1/centennial/Bios/arpage2.shtml Bio] at New York State Court System
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Category:Republican Party New York (state) state senators
Category:Deaths from pneumonia in New York (state)
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