Erastus Corning 2nd (October 7 1909 – May 28 1983) was an American politician. He was Mayor of Albany New York for more than 40 years from 1942 to 1983 when Albany County was controlled by one of the last two classic urban political machines in the United States. Albany’s longest serving mayor the Democrat died in office in 1983. His great-grandfather Erastus Corning was an industrialist who founded the New York Central Railroad and served as Albany’s mayor from 1834 to 1837.
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