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Title: New York at the Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Virginia, April 26 to December 1, 1907
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Commission, Jamestown Exposition, 1907
Subjects: Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907) New York (State)--Exhibitions
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : J.B. Lyon Co.
Contributing Library: Virginia Beach Public Library
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ession, especially insurance reform laws, improve-ment of State roads, substituting a recording tax on mortgages,increase of rapid transit facilities, and requiring publicity in campaignexpenses. He was renominated for the Assembly in 1906, and received4,917 votes to 3,169 votes cast for his Democratic opponent; followingwhich resumption of his office in the Assembly he was again madeSpeaker, this time receiving the compliment of renomination withoutopposition by the Republican caucus. He was re-elected to theAssembly in the fall of 1907, receiving 3,254 votes to 1,8.52 votescast for his opponent, and in January, 1908, was chosen Speaker athird time. He is a stickler for clean and fair politics. In the summer of 1908 he was suggested in various parts of theState for the nomination of Governor; but the weight of delegates atthe convention favored the renomination of Governor Hughes. Mr. Wadsworth married the daughter of the late John Hay,Secretary of State under McKinley and Roosevelt.
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THOMAS B. DUNNPresident Thomas B. DunnPresident HON. Thomas B. Dunn was born in Providence, R. I., in 1857,and when young removed with his parents to Rochester, wherehe has lived ever since. After receiving his education in theschools of that city, he entered upon a business career which provedmost successful, that of the manufacture of perfumery. For morethan ten years his concern has had its own agency in London, andthey have been opened in Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Madrid, Mexico,Buenos Ayres and other world centers. For many years he wasdetermined to continue his business independent of combinations. For two years he was President of the Rochester Chamber ofCommerce, and was active in its affairs, meanwhile looking out forthe wider interests of that city. He was appointed a member of theboard of managers of the State Industrial School, and of the boardof trustees of the Rochester Orphan Asylum, an institution which hasdeeply concerned him in the conduct of its welfare. He allied hims

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