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Robert Lurting
36th Mayor of New York City
In office
1726–1735
Preceded byJohannes Jansen
Succeeded byPaul Richard
Personal details
Died1735

Robert Lurting (died 3 July 1735)[1] was the 36th Mayor of New York City from 1726 to 1735 and the first mayor of the city to die while in office.[2]

Lurting Avenue in the Morris Park section of The Bronx is named after him.

References

  1. ^ Society, New-York Historical (1886). Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year ... Society. p. 127.
  2. ^ HERSHKOWITZ, LEO (2002). "Original Inventories of Early New York Jews (1682–1763) (Concluded)". American Jewish History. 90 (4): 385–448. ISSN 0164-0178. JSTOR 23887216.


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