Irving Ives
Irving Ives | |
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Speaker of the New York State Assembly | |
| In office January 1, 1936 – December 31, 1936 | |
| Preceded by | Irwin Steingut |
| Succeeded by | Oswald D. Heck |
| Member of the New York State Assembly from Chenango County | |
| In office February 11, 1930 – December 31, 1946 | |
| Preceded by | Bert Lord |
| Succeeded by | Janet Hill Gordon |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Irving McNeil Ives January 24, 1896 Norwich, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouses | Elizabeth Skinner
(m. 1920; died 1947)Marion Crain (m. 1948) |
| Children | George Ives |
First Lieutenant | |
| Unit | 5th Division |
| Battles/wars | World War I |
Irving McNeil Ives (January 24, 1896 – February 24, 1962) was an American politician and founding dean of the
Early life and education
Irving Ives was born in Bainbridge, New York, to George Albert and Lucie Hough (née Keeler) Ives.[3] His ancestors came from England to the United States, where they settled in Boston, Massachusetts in 1635; they later helped found Quinnipiac Colony in 1638, and lived in Vermont before moving to New York in 1795.[4] His father worked in the coal and feed business.[3] He received his early education at public schools in Bainbridge and Oneonta, graduating from Oneonta High School in 1914.[1]
Ives attended
Early career
Ives worked as a bank clerk for
On February 18, 1930, Ives was elected to the New York State Assembly (Chenango Co.) to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Bert Lord. He was reelected many times and remained in the Assembly until 1946, sitting in the 153rd, 154th, 155th, 156th, 157th, 158th, 159th, 160th, 161st, 162nd, 163rd, 164th and 165th New York State Legislatures.
Ives was Minority Leader in 1935 and
From 1938 to 1946, Ives was chairman of the State Joint Legislative Committee on Industrial and Labor Conditions.
U.S. Senate
In 1946, when
Despite his moderate reputation, Ives supported the Taft–Hartley Act in 1947 and voted to override President Harry S. Truman's veto of it; he subsequently lost his longstanding support from labor unions.[1] He served as a delegate to the 1948 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which nominated his friend and fellow liberal New Yorker Thomas E. Dewey. That same year he married his longtime secretary, Marion Mead Crain.[4]
Ives was elected to a second term in 1952, defeating Brooklyn borough president John Cashmore by 55% to 36%.[11] He received the largest number of votes hitherto ever won by a candidate in New York, carrying all but three of the state's 62 counties.[1] A strong supporter of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, he served as a delegate to the 1952 Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
In 1954, Ives unsuccessfully ran to succeed Dewey as governor of New York. In one of the closest gubernatorial elections in state history, he lost to Democrat W. Averell Harriman by 11,125 votes.[1] Ives was a delegate to the 1956 Republican National Convention in San Francisco, California. In 1958, he co-sponsored a bill with Senator John F. Kennedy to correct abuses within organized labor as disclosed in hearings before the Rackets Committee.[1]
Later life and death
In 1958, Ives declined to seek a third term in the Senate.
Legacy
Ives is remembered with his desk in the permanent collections of the Chenango County Historical Society. Ives Hall at Cornell University is named for him.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Irving Ives Dead. Ex-U.S. Senator, 66". The New York Times. Associated Press. February 25, 1962.
New York Republican Was a Specialist in Civil Rights and Labor Legislation. Defeated Lehman In '46. Co-Author of State's Fair Employment Practices Act. Former Cornell Dean. State Legislator 16 Years. Was Educated at Hamilton. Opposed Lehman Early Eisenhower. Backer Bill Became Campaign Issue. Former United States Senator Irving M. Ives, a specialist in labor and civil rights legislation and co-author of New York's Fair Employment Practices Act, died today after a long illness. He was 66 years old. ...
- ^ "HR. 6127. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957". GovTrack.us.
- ^ a b c d e Encyclopedia of American Biography. Vol. 34. American Historical Company. 1965.
- ^ H.W. Wilson Company. 1949.
- ^ a b c d e f "IVES, Irving McNeil, (1896 - 1962)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- ^ "New York, Abstracts of World War I Military Service, 1917-1919, Entry for Irving McNeil Ives". Ancestry.com. Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com LLC. Retrieved September 13, 2021.
- ^ "ALBANY BATTLE LINES FORM". The New York Times. 1936-12-20.
- ^ "HECK IS SPEAKER; IVES QUITS RACE". The New York Times. 1937-01-13.
- ^ Richardson, Haley (2011-03-12). "Freedom's Ladder: WNYC and New York's Anti-Discrimination Law". WNYC.
- ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 5, 1946" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 4, 1952" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
External links
Media related to Irving Ives at Wikimedia Commons- A film clip "Longines Chronoscope with Sen. Irving M. Ives (October 31, 1952)" is available for viewing at the Internet Archive
- Guide to Irving Ives. Publications, 1943-1944, 1962. 5109m. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.
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