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Martin Henry Glynn was born on September 27, 1871, of humble Irish parents, Martin and Anne (Scanlon) Glynn, in the village that is remembered as the birthplace of Martin Van Buren, Kinderhook, Columbia County, New York.
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Martin Henry Glynn was born on September 27, 1871, of humble Irish parents, Martin and Anne (Scanlon) Glynn, in the village that is remembered as the birthplace of Martin Van Buren, Kinderhook, Columbia County, New York.
Glynn was educated in the public schools of his native town and subsequently at St. John’s College, Fordham University, where he was graduated in 1894, the honor man of his class.
He also took up the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1897, but journalism and politics left him little time to devote to his legal practice.
After serving for a time on the reportorial staff of the Albany Times-Union, Glynn became its managing editor in 1895, and later editor and publisher.
Glynn’s entry into politics took place in 1898, when, at the age of twenty-seven he was elected to represent the Albany district in Congress. Although he served but a single term and was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1900, he attracted considerable notice by his assiduous sponsorship of labor legislation.
President McKinley appointed him on the National Commission of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis, and he served as vice-president of that body from 1901 to 1905.
As comptroller of the State of New York, to which office he was elected in 1906 as the nominee of the Democratic party and the Independence League, Glynn first attracted statewide attention and gained a distinguished reputation as an administrator and a practical economist.
His election in 1912 as lieutenant-governor was his reward for his two years of competent service as comptroller. He became governor on the removal of William Sulzer from office, October 17, 1913, and served until December 31, 1914.
In his brief administration, he secured the passage of the workmen’s compensation law and the act of abolishing party conventions and substituting statewide primaries. He continued Gov. Sulzer’s investigation of the state departments, which brought forth further revelations of corruption and mismanagement.
Glynn’s astute financial ability was evidenced by the substantial reduction of state taxes under his administration and the establishment of a land-bank system to finance farm operations.
Notwithstanding this record, he was defeated in 1914 by the Republican candidate, Charles S. Whitman, and ran behind his ticket.
Without holding any elective office, Glynn, in the last decade of his life, rendered distinguished service in state, federal and international affairs.
He was appointed by Gov. Smith in 1919 one of the two special commissioners to investigate and report on certain phases of the high cost of living.
In a notable report, the commissioners urged that the dairy industry be regulated as a public utility. While abroad in 1921, Glynn performed important services in aid of peace between Ireland and England.
It was through his efforts that Lloyd George invited De Valera to come to London to settle the Irish question without “exacting promises or making conditions”.
According to the testimony of Lloyd George, it was Glynn who took the British premier’s views to the Irish leaders, and it was this exchange that made possible the Irish Free State.
Throughout his last years of illness, he patiently supervised the publication of his newspaper. He died in Albany.
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In 1899, Glynn was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth Congress, serving until 1901. His prudent requirement that all state depository banks give surety company bonds instead of personal bonds to protect state funds, proved most effective during the panic of 1907 when the state did not lose a single dollar.
Quotations: “The United States was constrained by the tradition of its past, by the logic of its present and by the promise of its future to hold itself apart from European warfare. ”
Glynn served as a member of President Wilson’s Federal Industrial Commission, 1919-20.
Glynn’s reputation as an orator was national. His voice was unusually rich in quality and his thoughts were clothed in felicitous diction. Glynn's supreme oratorical effort was his speech as temporary chairman of the Democratic Convention at St. Louis in 1916.
He was a man of culture, an indefatigable student, a conversationalist of rare charm, possessed of a sympathetic and companionable nature.
Glynn was married January 2, 1901, to Mary C. Magrane, daughter of P. B. Magrane of Lynn, Massachusets.