Maurice Featherson

Maurice Featherson (November 1862 – December 12, 1953) was an American politician from New York.

Maurice Featherson (1897)

Life

He was born in November 1862 in New York City.

He attended the public schools, and then became a machinist, and later a master machinist, of the New York City Fire Department. He joined Tammany Hall, and became President of the New York Sand and Gravel Company, and was connected with the Uvalde Asphalt Paving Company. Both companies took part in public works in New York City.

Featherson was a member of the New York State Senate (18th D.) from 1896 to 1900, sitting in the 119th, 120th, 121st, 122nd, 123rd New York State Legislatures.

In 1904, he was appointed by Mayor George B. McClellan as Commissioner of Docks and Ferries, and remained in office until the end of 1905.

He died on December 12, 1953 in New York City.[1]

gollark: (this isn't about a single actual physical molecule or something changing, but the genes for it changing slightly over time and producing different verisons)

gollark: I guess so. If you need, say, ten changes to an enzyme to bring it from one state to a much better one, but it works much worse/totally breaks while it's in the middle of both, it's hard for it to evolve to the better version.

gollark: If one what is stuck?

gollark: I was going to say, though: with human eyes - the light-sensitive bit is behind some other stuff, and while a goal-directed human engineer would probably go "I'll just rotate this thing then", if you don't have a convenient series of changes which still leave everything working in each intermediate state, you can't really get it evolving into the new version.

gollark: I... don't really know a massive amount about this, to be honest.

References

"Featherson Dead, Figure In Tammany. Ex-Leader of 20th Assembly District, 91, Was a Protege of Croker, Foe of Murphy". New York Times. December 14, 1953. Retrieved 2013-12-23.

The New York Red Book compiled by Edgar L. Murlin (published by James B. Lyon, Albany NY, 1897; pg. 144 and 404)
M'ADOO POLICE HEAD in the New York Times on December 24, 1903

New York State Senate
Preceded by Michael F. Collins	New York State Senate 18th District 1896–1900	Succeeded by Victor J. Dowling

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[1] "Featherson Dead, Figure In Tammany. Ex-Leader of 20th Assembly District, 91, Was a Protege of Croker, Foe of Murphy". New York Times. December 14, 1953. Retrieved 2013-12-23.