- Azariah Cutting Flagg
Azariah Cutting Flagg (
November 28 ,1790 Orwell,Addison County, Vermont -November 24 ,1873 New York City ) was an American newspaper editor and politician.Life
He was the son of Ebenezer Flagg (1756-1828) and Elizabeth Cutting Flagg (d. 1838). He fought in the
War of 1812 . From 1813 to 1826, he was the publisher of the "Plattsburgh Republican" atPlattsburgh, New York .He was a member from Clinton County of the
New York State Assembly in 1823 and 1824.He was elected
Secretary of State of New York in 1826, and re-elected in 1829 and 1832. He was electedNew York State Comptroller in 1833, and re-elected in 1836, 1842 and 1845. He was one of the leading members of theAlbany Regency . His final political office wasNew York City Comptroller , a post he held from 1853 to 1859.Flagg began as a member of the
Bucktails faction of theDemocratic-Republican Party , then became aJacksonian , a Democrat and Barnburner, then joined the Free Soilers in the late 1840s, and finally the nascent Republican Party in the mid-1850s.He was buried at the
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn .ources
* [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E06E6D81339EF34BC4E51DFB7678388669FDE] Obit in NYT on November 26, 1873 (giving wrong birthplace)
* [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9B07E2D71F38E333A2575AC2A9679D946290D7CF] His funeral, in NYT on November 29, 1873
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA34 Google Book] "The New York Civil List" compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 33, 34 and 273; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
* [http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/f_7a5.htm] Flagg genealogy
* [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyclinto/gazetteer/notes.html] Clinton County newspapers, at rootsweb
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