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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1996
Page
5
The newly inaugurated Mayor Alexander dances with his wife Elizabeth at the inaugural ball in January 1870. In the upper right, Thomas Young appears as the figure who would succeed Alexander as mayor in 1986.
Lee Alexander arrives in Rochester New York in October 1993 after serving a federal prison term in Minnesota. He spends a month at a halfway house in Rochester before returning to Syracuse.
Timeline tracks birth in Jersey City in 1927, Army service starting 1944, Syracuse Maxwell degrees in 1950 and 41855 law degree, multiple unsuccessful campaigns, and mayoral tenure from 1969 to 1977. Highlights include defeating Frank Gualtieri Sr. to become first Democratic mayor in 20 years, re elections, 1974 U.S. Senate primary loss to Ramsey Clark, 1977 mayoral victory over James Tormey, and 1978 separation from wife Elizabeth.
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