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  Brunner, William F.
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NameWilliam F. Brunner
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Rockaway Park, New York , United States
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Born September 15, 1887
Died April 23, 1965 (78 years)
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Jan 07, 2015 04:16pm
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InfoBRUNNER, William Frank, a Representative from New York; born in Woodhaven, Queens County, N.Y., September 15, 1887; attended the public schools, the high school at Far Rockaway, N.Y., and Packard Commercial School at New York City; moved to Rockaway Park, Queens County, N.Y., in 1901; engaged in the general insurance and real-estate business; served in the United States Navy as a yeoman first class 1917-1919; member of the State assembly 1922-1928; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-first and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1929, until his resignation on September 27, 1935, having been elected sheriff of Queens County, N.Y.; served as sheriff from 1935 until his resignation in 1936; president of the board of aldermen of New York City 1936-1938; resumed the insurance and real-estate business; commissioner of borough works, Queens County, N.Y., from July 1, to December 31, 1941; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination in 1942 and for election on the American Labor ticket to the Seventy-eighth Congress; president of Rockaway Beach Hospital (later named Peninsula General Hospital) 1946-1965; died in Far Rockaway, N.Y., April 23, 1965; interment in St. John�s Cemetery, Middle Village, N.Y.


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  11/03/1942 NY District 2 Lost 11.36% (-38.97%)
  08/11/1942 NY District 2 - D Primary Lost 31.79% (-36.41%)
  11/02/1937 Queens Borough President Lost 47.19% (-4.38%)
  11/03/1936 New York City Aldermanic President Special Won 64.81% (+34.22%)
  09/15/1936 NYC Aldermanic President Special - D Primary Won 52.51% (+5.03%)
  11/06/1934 NY District 2 Won 69.56% (+45.65%)
  11/08/1932 NY District 2 Won 68.63% (+41.37%)
  11/04/1930 NY District 02 Won 67.54% (+39.53%)
  09/17/1929 Queens Borough President- D Primary Lost 31.43% (-4.63%)
  11/06/1928 NY District 02 Won 62.39% (+26.68%)
  11/08/1927 NY Assembly - Queens 05 Won 59.82% (+21.20%)
  11/02/1926 NY Assembly - Queens 05 Won 62.19% (+25.87%)
  11/03/1925 NY Assembly - Queens 05 Won 61.54% (+24.50%)
  11/04/1924 NY Assembly - Queens 05 Won 54.54% (+11.55%)
  11/06/1923 NY Assembly - Queens 05 Won 62.24% (+27.51%)
  11/07/1922 NY Assembly - Queens 05 Won 57.85% (+18.64%)
  11/08/1921 NY Assembly - Queens 05 Won 53.45% (+6.90%)
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