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Alonzo Barton Cornell (22 January 1832-15 October 1904) was the Republican Governor of New York from 1 January 1880 to 31 December 1882, succeeding Lucius Robinson and preceding Grover Cleveland.

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Alonzo Barton Cornell was born in Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York in 1832, the son of philanthropist Ezra Cornell. He worked as a telegrapher in Cleveland, Ohio before owning steamboats on Cayuga Lake from 1862 to 1863, as a bank vice-president from 1864 to 1869, as director of the Western Union Telegraph Company from 1868 to 1876, as Ithaca town supervisor from 1864 to 1865, as chairman of the New York Republican Party from 1870 to 1878, in the State Assembly in 1873, and as Governor from 1880 to 1882, creating a state board of health and a state railroad commission, made women eligible to serve as school officers, established a reformatory for women, and modified usury laws. After leaving office in 1882, he built a mansion in New York City, and he died in 1904.

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