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George Lunn, standing farthest to the right on the platform, posed for this picture while serving as editor of The Citizen during the summer of 1911, before announcing he would run for mayor as a Socialist.
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George Lunn -- Schenectady's Socialist mayor
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Posted: November 7, 2011
On a Monday night exactly 100 years ago this week, two men knocked on the front door of 17 Jay St. in Schenectady. They wanted to see George Lunn.
A former minister at the First Reformed Church, Lunn was running for political office, and the next day he would be elected the city’s first and only Socialist mayor. First, however, he had to play ball with the bosses of his newly adopted political party, and that meant signing an agreement the night before the election assuring Socialists everywhere, but particularly those in New York state, that he would follow the dictates of the party leaders or give up the mayor’s office.
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