Edwin Corning

Edwin Corning ( born September 30, 1883 in Albany, New York; † August 7, 1934 in Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine) was an American businessman and politician of the Democratic Party.

Career

Edwin Corning attended the Albany Academy and Groton School. He then graduated in 1906 with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University. Then he began at the Ludlum Steel Company in Watervliet at work, where he became president in 1910.

Corning also decided to pursue a political career when he was a presidential elector in 1924. Then he had 1926-1928 presided over the New York State Democratic Committee. During this time he was 1927-1928 Vice- governor of New York. When Alfred E. Smith in 1928 opened the door to run for the office of U.S. President, asked the Democrats Corning for the office of governor of New York to stand, but he refused because of his poor health from.

Corning 1934 died on the operating table during a second leg amputation, which was the result of gangrene caused by diabetes. He was buried in Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands the (New York).

Family

Edwin Corning was the grandson of U.S. Representative Erastus Corning (1794-1872) and Amasa J. Parker. He married on November 25, 1908 Louise Maxwell. The couple had four children together: Erastus Corning III. (1909-1983), Louise Corning, Corning Harriet and Edwin Corning, Jr. ( born 1919 ).