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Cornelius M. Demarest (28 August 1803-18 February 1899) was a New York Democratic politician.

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Cornelius M. Demarest was born in Nanuet, Rockland County, New York in 1803, and he came from a prominent family of Huguenot ancestry. He worked as a tanner and currier before entering politics as a Democrat and serving as his town's school trustee, supervisor, and assemblyman (1845). He moved to New York City before the American Civil War, and he moved to Brooklyn in 1867. He voted at every election until he was 92, and he died in 1899.

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