Background
His mother was Mary (Parker) Corning, the daughter of Amasa J. Parker.
His mother was Mary (Parker) Corning, the daughter of Amasa J. Parker.
He was educated at The Albany Academy and the Groton School, and graduated from Yale University in 1906.
He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1927 to 1928. He was an executive at the Ludlum Steel Company in Watervliet, New York, and became its President in 1910. He was Chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee from 1926 to 1928.
He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1927 to 1928, elected on the Democratic ticket with Governor Alfred East. Smith in 1926.
In 1928, when Smith planned to run for President, Corning considered a run for Governor, but declined because of ill health. After his term he retired from his business and political interests.
He died on the operating table in Bar Harbor, Maine during a second leg amputation, which was necessary because of gangrene derived from diabetes. He was buried at the Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, New New York
Erastus Corning 2nd served as Mayor of Albany for over 40 years.
Edwin Corning, Junior. was serving in the New York State Assembly when he was involved in a 1959 car accident. He resigned his Assembly seat, and died without recovering fully.
Edwin Corning"s brother Parker Corning served as a member of the United States House of Representatives.
