Henry (Hendrick) Isaac Bogart was born October 1729 in Albany, New York and died in 1821. He was the eldest son of Albany residents Isaac and Hendrickie Oothout Bogert. He signed the Sons of Liberty Constitution in 1766. Henry Bogart was elected in 1775 to represent the first ward on the Albany Committee of Correspondence and served on that board throughout its existence. In 1776, he signed the "General Association".
He served as a constable and in 1761 he was first elected assistant alderman for the first ward section of the city of Albany. Several months after being sworn in as Albany's first official surveyor in 1766, he was elected alderman a post he served for several years. Bogart skippered a sloop called the Magdeline in 1776. By that time, he was drawing maps for the city of Albany and private clients. On March 21, 1791 Henry Bogart was appointed by George Washington to the post of Inspector of the revenue of the Port of Albany.
Philip Livingston was an American merchant and statesman from New York City. He represented New York at the October 1774 First Continental Congress, where he favored imposing economic sanctions upon Great Britain as a way of pressuring the British Parliament to repeal the Intolerable Acts. He was also a delegate to the Second Continental Congress from 1775 to 1778, and signed the Declaration of Independence.
Robert Yates was an American politician and judge best known for his Anti-Federalist stances. He is also known as the presumed author of political essays published in 1787 and 1788 under the pseudonyms "Brutus" and "Sydney". The essays opposed the introduction of the Constitution of the United States.
Henry Rutgers was a United States Revolutionary War hero and philanthropist from New York City. Rutgers University was named after him, and he donated a bond which placed the college on sound financial footing. He also gave a bell that is still in use today.
John Cruger was an immigrant to colonial New York with an uncertain place of birth, but his family was originally Danish. In New York from at least 1696, he became a prosperous merchant and established a successful family. He served as an alderman for twenty-two years and as 38th Mayor of New York City from 1739 until his death in 1744.
Henry Cruger Jr. was an American and British merchant at the time of the American Revolution. He has a unique distinction of having been elected to both the Parliament of Great Britain and the New York State Senate (1792–1796).
Margaret Laurino Barnette is a former alderman of the 39th Ward of the City of Chicago. She is the daughter of former Alderman Anthony C. Laurino, the sister of former state Representative William Laurino, and the wife of former 39th Ward Democratic Committeeman Randy Barnette.
Howard Hendrick is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Hendrick was serving as the Oklahoma Secretary of Human Services, having been appointed by Democratic Governor of Oklahoma Brad Henry in 2003.
Major-General Oliver De Lancey was a merchant and Loyalist politician and soldier during the American Revolutionary War. His surname is also sometimes written as de Lancey or Delancey.
Jacobus "James" Roosevelt III was an American businessman and politician from New York City and a member of the Roosevelt family.
Evert Bancker was an American trader and politician who was Mayor of Albany from 1695 to 1696 and from 1707 to 1709.
Stephen De Lancey was a lawyer and political figure in New York state and Nova Scotia. He represented Annapolis township in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1784 to 1786.
Sir Hercules Langrishe, 1st Baronet of Langrishe was an Irish politician.
Johannes de Peyster or Johannes de Peyster II was the 23rd Mayor of New York City between 1698 and 1699.
The Ten Eyck family came from the Netherlands to New Amsterdam in the 1630s. The patriarch of the American branch of the family was Coenraedt Ten Eyck. His son Jacob moved to Albany where he was a silversmith. Several family members gained land, wealth and positions of power in Albany, New York City and New Jersey. Their descendants served as Albany Mayor, New York State Senator, U.S. Representatives from New York and U.S. Senator from New Jersey. The Ten Eycks also formed several businesses, including the Ten Eyck hotel and the Ten Eyck insurance group.
Abraham Cornelius Cuyler was a businessman and the last mayor of colonial Albany, New York, the third generation in a row to serve in that office.
Johannes de Peyster or Johannes de Peyster III was the Mayor of Albany, New York three times between 1729 and 1742.
Cornelis Cuyler or Cornelius Cuyler was a prominent American of Dutch ancestry who served as the Mayor of Albany, New York from 1742 to 1746.
Johannes Cuyler was a prominent American merchant of Dutch ancestry who served as the Mayor of Albany, New York from 1725 to 1726.
Hendrick Hansen was the fifth Mayor of Albany, New York.
