Background
Lockwood, Charles Clapp was born on September 2, 1877 in Brooklyn. Son of James Knox Polk and Katharine (Marshall) Lockwood.
Lockwood, Charles Clapp was born on September 2, 1877 in Brooklyn. Son of James Knox Polk and Katharine (Marshall) Lockwood.
Bachelor of Laws, New York Law School, 1900.
Clerk to ex-Supreme Court Justice Jasper W. Gilbert until his death, 1898, and to Honorary Henry D. Hotchkiss, late justice Supreme Court. Admitted to New York bar, 1903, and practiced with late William Seward Maddox and William Thurston Gilbert. Practiced alone, since 1908.
Member of New York Assembly, 1914, Senate 4 terms, 1915-1922. Republican and Coalition candidate for comptroller City of New York, 1921. Chairman for 4 years of Senate commission to Investigate rents, housing and combinations in restraint of trade, member commission to investigate finance, City of New York.
8 years chairman Senate Committee Public Education. Member of New York Transit Commission (now Metropolitan Division of Public Service Commission), under appointment of Governor Alfred E. Smith, term 1926-1929. Reapptd. by Governor Roosevelt.
Elected justice Supreme Court of the New York, 1931, reelected 1946. Appointed official referee of Supreme Court, 1948. Republican nominee for lieutenant governor State of New York, 1928.
Member of New York Assembly, 1914, Senate 4 terms, 1915-1922. Member of New York Transit Commission (now Metropolitan Division of Public Service Commission), under appointment of Governor Alfred E. Smith, term 1926-1929. Member American, New York State, Brooklyn bar associations.
Mason.; Clubs: National.
Married Patricia M. Bleiler, April.