Timothy L. Woodruff
Timothy Lester Woodruff ( August 4, 1858 * in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, † October 12, 1913 ) is an American politician ( Republican). He was the son of U.S. Rep. John Woodruff.
Private life
Timothy Lester Woodruff graduated in 1879 at Yale University.
Prior to his candidacy for the office of Lieutenant Governor of New York, he bought a hunting lodge on the Sumner Lake in the Adirondacks and named it according to his wife Cora. Over time, the name changed to Lake Kora. After the purchase of the area to a camp Woodruff decided to build around it there and called it Kamp Kill Kare, where he was an active fisherman. The site is located in Hamilton County in the vicinity of Long Lake.
Woordruff built at the Stewart Avenue in Garden City (New York) a house in the Dutch Colonial style.
Political action
Woodruff moved in 1881 to Brooklyn, where he started his political career. He led the party events in Brooklyn and was later chairman of the New York State Republican Committee. In January 1896 he was appointed Brooklyn Park Commissioner. In the same year, he asked the New York State Board of Regents a mixed college (English coeducational college) in Brooklyn to create.
Woodruff was three times, 1896, 1898 and 1900, was elected Vice- Governor of New York and has held that post 1897-1902 He was the only deputy governor in New York history, who served under three different governors. Frank S. Black, Theodore Roosevelt and Benjamin Barker Odell, Jr. as vice-governor took Woodruff a leading role in the Association of the Protection of the Adirondacks (founded in 1901) a, in which he helped the paragraph XIV, Section 1 of the Constitution of New York implement the New York's estimated natural landscape put under protection. Generally referred to as "forever wild clause" is known, the law attempts to protect the forest against deforestation and desertification through extensive dyke systems. The group included wealthy men, such as JP Morgan (1837-1913), who owned a lot of private property and wildlife parks in the Adirondacks.
Woodruff was 1896-1908, the first President of the Board of Trustees at the Adelphi College. He stepped back from this post in 1908, but remained an active member until 1913.