CHAUNCEY DEPEW DEAD
SENATOR, ORATOR, LAWYER
A DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 9.5 a.m. NEW YORK, Fri. The death has occurred of Mr. Chauncey M. Depew, aged 94.—A. and N.Z.-Sun. Chauncey Mitchell Depew, ex-senator, lawyer and orator, was born at Peekskill, New York, in 1834, and after graduating at Yale in 1856 was called to the Bar. A member of the State Assembly, IS6I-62, he was secretary of the State of New York from 1863 to 1865. ITe - was, from 1866 to 1898, attorney to numerous railways. From IS9B he was chairman of the whole Vanderbilt system. He represented New York in the Senate for a number of years. He was the chosen orator on many national occasions, notably on the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour in 1886, at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1892, and at the centennial celebration of the inauguration of George Washington.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 323, 7 April 1928, Page 7
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154CHAUNCEY DEPEW DEAD Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 323, 7 April 1928, Page 7
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