Sentences with phrase «york city alderman»

Cooper also devoted decades to public service, becoming a New York City alderman, supporting the antislavery and Native American reform movements, and at 85 serving as the presidential nominee of the populist Greenback Party.

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Our alderman was ex officio the epicure of the party, half of his duties as a New York city father having been to study carefully all known flavors.

(Though they are paid similarly, each of those 50 aldermen are responsible for far fewer constituents than New York's 51 City Council members, given population differences.)

Cooper's social views were farsighted; as a member of the Board of Aldermen of New York City, he advocated paid police and firemen, public schools, and improved public sanitation.