Erastus Corning II was a mayor of Albany, New York. He served for more than 40 years between 1942 and 1983, when Albany County was one of the last two classic urban political machines in the U.S. He died in office in 1983. His great-grandfather, Erastus Corning, was an industrialist and founder of the New York Central Railroad and served as its mayor from 1834 to 1837.
Corning is served by the Erie, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, and the New York Central and Hudson River railways.
Corning is one of the principal markets in New York state for tobacco, which is extensively produced in the surrounding country.
There were settlers on the site of Corning as early as 1789, but it was not until 1848 that it was incorporated as a village under its present name, given in honour of ErastusCorning, the railway builder.
Corning's loyal aide, Bill Keefe, had told Amore on short notice that there was room in the mayor's official car, the Buick with the "A" license plate.
Corning had been hospitalized for the past seven months, spending much of that time in the intensive care unit, breathing with the aid of a respirator because of complications from emphysema and chronic lung ailments, as well as intestinal and coronary disease.
As a result, since boyhood, ErastusCorning 2nd felt obliged to wear the uniform his father had tailored for him, and he spent a lifetime struggling to honor the suit of his father's memory and, at the same time, trying to shed its confining shape.
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