Signed 1937 retail Brooklyn Borough President Ingersoll President Roosevelt & Dodgers

Product Name: Signed 1937 retail Brooklyn Borough President Ingersoll President Roosevelt & Dodgers
retail INVREF#CL4-51 RAYMOND VAIL INGERSOLL (1875 – 1940) PRESIDENT OF THE BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK 1934-1940, COMMISSIONER OF PARKS IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 1914-1917, DELEGATE TO DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION FROM NEW YORK IN 1928 & PROMINENT BROOKLYN LAWYER 1902-1909. Ingersoll and Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia were friends and political allies. Ingersoll was a fervent supporter of Mayor La Guardia and backed to the limit many of the Mayor's proposals, one of which was the proposed site for Brooklyn College. Raymond Ingersoll was very civic-minded. Some projects for which Ingersoll worked hard while Brooklyn Borough President were advocating for low-rent housing, construction of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, and improving Brooklyn's highways and bridges. He was also a fervent advocate for the completion of the Brooklyn Central Public Library which had stalled due to funding issues. “It is a great lack in the borough's educational and cultural equipment.