Clarence Lexow

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Report and proceedings of the Senate committee appointed to investigate the police department of the city of New York. Volume III

Washington Post, June 09, 1910

Lexow gravesite, Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, Rockland County, New York

Clarence Lexow (September 16, 1852 – December 31, 1910), was a member of the New York State Senate from 1894 to 1898.

1 Biography
- 1.1 Lexow committee hearings
- 1.2 Death
2 Further reading
3 See also
4 External link
5 References

[edit] Biography

He was born on September 16, 1852, in Brooklyn, New York City. His father was Rudolph Lexow (1823-?) who was born in Germany. His mother was born in England and had died prior to 1880. His siblings include: Charles K. Lexow (1850-1928) who was a lawyer in 1880; Allen Lexow (1855-?) who was a banker in 1880; and Rudolf Grant Lexow (1865-?). ^[1] In 1880 Clarence was living in Clarkstown, Rockland County, New York with his parents, and he was already a lawyer. Rudolph Lexow, his father was working as an editor. Clarence and Charles also appear as living in Manhattan in the Benedict Building at 79 Washington Place in New York City.

[edit] Lexow committee hearings

In 1894, he headed a state legislative committee that documented how Tammany Hall leaders and the New York City Police extorted bribes from operators of gambling and prostitution houses. He was a Senator from the 16th District from 1894 to 1895; and the 23rd District from 1896 to 1898.

[edit] Death

He died in 1910 and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, New York.^[2]

[edit] Further reading

Clarence Lexow, Report and proceedings of the Senate Committee appointed to investigate the Police Department of the city of New York, 1895
Isabelle Keating Savell (1905-?), Politics in the Gilded Age in New York State and Rockland County; A Biography of Senator Clarence Lexow
Cops, Crooks, and Criminologists. An international biographical dictionary of law enforcement. By Alan Axelrod and Charles Phillips. New York: Facts on File, 1996
Dictionary of American Biography. Volumes 1-20. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928-1936
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Volume 5. New York: James T. White & Co., 1891. Use the Index to locate biographies
Who Was Who in America. A component volume of Who's Who in American History. Volume 1, 1897-1942. Chicago: A.N. Marquis Co., 1943