Martin H. Glynn: Forgotten Hero

by Dominick C. Lizzi

"Illuminates the political milieu of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century New York State."

Author, Valatie Village historian Lizzi who lives in Valatie himself, articulates Glynn’s life as a classic 'rags-to-riches' tale, detailing how the son of immigrants in a rural upstate NY village grew up to be an important American political figure.

“The Horatio Alger story of a rapid rise from a room above a saloon to the executive chamber was completed."

"Glynn was 41 years old when he assumed the Governorship,” writes Lizzi. Follows the rise of the New York governor from his childhood in the village of Valatie to his sudden death in 1924. The story of New York state's first Roman Catholic governor.

122 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994