George B. Agnew

George Bliss Agnew (1868 – June 21, 1941) was an American politician from New York.

Life

He graduated from Princeton University in 1891.

Agnew was a member of the New York State Assembly (New York Co., 27th D.) in 1903, 1904, 1905 and 1906.

He was a member of the New York State Senate (17th D.) from 1907 to 1910, sitting in the 130th, 131st, 132nd and 133rd New York State Legislatures.

In 1908, he co-sponsored, with Assemblyman Merwin K. Hart, the Hart–Agnew Law, an anti-horse-race-track-gambling bill which led to a total shutdown of horse-racing in the State of New York.

Agnew was defeated by John G. Saxe II in the November 8, 1910, election in a district that was Republican by a great majority.^[1]

References

• Official New York from Cleveland to Hughes by Charles Elliott Fitch (Hurd Publishing Co., New York and Buffalo, 1911, Vol. IV; pg. 347, 349f, 352 and 366f)
• The New York Red Book by Edgar L. Murlin (1903; pg. 105f)

External links

• The George Bliss Agnew papers at the New York Public Library