Preceded by John Cloughen Constituency City of New York Preceded by Ardolph Loges Kline Name George McAneny | Constituency City of New York Preceded by Charles W. Berry | |
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New york s forgotten master planner rediscovering the legacy of george mcaneny
George Francis McAneny (December 24, 1869 – July 29, 1953), a newspaperman and municipal reformer, was Manhattan Borough President from 1910 to 1913, President of the New York City Board of Aldermen from 1914 to 1916, and New York City Comptroller in 1933. He also served as executive secretary of the New York City Civil Service Commission, secretary of the New York Civil Service Reform League (1894-1902), and executive manager of The New York Times (1916-1921).
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McAneny was born on Christmas Eve, 1869, in Greenville, New Jersey, graduated from Jersey City High School and then reported for The New York World, supporting civil service, city planning and a Bureau of Municipal Research. At different times he was executive secretary of the New York Civil Service Commission and secretary of the New York Civil Service Reform League (1894–1902).
While president of the City Club of New York from 1906 to 1909, he served on the city's charter review commission (1908). He was elected on fusion tickets as Manhattan Borough President in 1909 and as President of the New York City Board of Aldermen in 1913, serving from that position for several months as acting mayor in place of John Purroy Mitchel.
From 1916 to 1921 he was the executive manager of The New York Times and from 1921 to 1926, he chaired the New York State Transit Commission. In 1933, he served briefly as New York City Comptroller before becoming President of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company (1934–1936). After 1920, McAneny was active in many other fields of interest, including city and regional planning (as the first President of the Regional Plan Association from 1930 until his death), sanitation (at one point as the City's Commissioner of Sanitation), landmarks preservation, and preparing the 1939 New York World's Fair as chairman of the World's Fair Commission, 1935–1936.
He died in Princeton, New Jersey on July 29, 1953.