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{{Short description|American politician (1850–1906)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Elliot Danforth
| image = ElliotDanforth.jpg
| alt =
| caption =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1850|03|06}}
| birth_place = [[Middleburgh (town), New York|Middleburgh]], New York, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1906|01|07|1850|03|06}}
| death_place = [[New York City|New York]], New York, U.S.
| resting_place = [[Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)|Woodlawn Cemetery]]
| other_names =
| occupation = Lawyer, politician
| spouse = {{Marriage|Ida Prince|December 17, 1874}}
| children = 2
| awards =
| education =
| party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| signature = Signature of Elliot Danforth (1850–1906).png
| office = [[New York State Treasurer]]
| term_start = 1890
| term_end = 1893
}}
'''Elliot Danforth''' (March 6, 1850 – January 7, 1906) was an American lawyer and politician.

==Life==
He was born on March 6, 1850, in [[Middleburgh (town), New York|Middleburgh]], [[Schoharie County, New York]], the son of Peter S. Danforth, a justice of the [[New York Supreme Court]].<ref name=NYTObit>{{Cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1906/01/08/101425583.pdf |title=Elliot Danforth Dead; One Power in Politics |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=7 |date=1906-01-08 |access-date=2021-04-19}}</ref><ref name=Cyclopaedia>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lcVKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA364 |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |volume=I |publisher=James T. White & Company |pages=364–365 |year=1893 |access-date=2021-04-19 |via=Google Books}}</ref> He studied law with his father and was admitted to the bar in 1872.<ref name=Bainbridge>{{Cite web |url=http://www.terrariums.org/jerichoarts/early.html |title=The Early History of Bainbridge |publisher=Jericho Arts Council |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090530192537/http://www.terrariums.org/jerichoarts/early.html |archive-date=2009-05-30 |url-status=dead |access-date=2021-04-19}}</ref> On December 17, 1874, he married Ida Prince, and they had a son, Edward Danforth, and a daughter.<ref name=NYTObit/> In 1878, he removed to [[Bainbridge (town), New York|Bainbridge, N.Y.]], where his father-in-law was President of the First National Bank. There, Danforth practiced law in partnership with George H. Winsor, and was President of the Corporation of Bainbridge.<ref name=Bainbridge/>

He was a delegate to the [[1880 Democratic National Convention|1880]] and [[1884 Democratic National Convention|1884]], [[1888 Democratic National Convention|1888]], [[1892 Democratic National Convention|1892]], [[1896 Democratic National Convention|1896]], [[1900 Democratic National Convention|1900]] and [[1904 Democratic National Convention]]s.<ref name=Cyclopaedia/>

He was Deputy Treasurer under [[Lawrence J. Fitzgerald]] from 1885 to 1889, and was [[New York State Treasurer]] from 1890 to 1893, elected in [[New York state election, 1889|1889]] and [[New York state election, 1891|1891]].<ref name=Cyclopaedia/>

In November 1891, he was a member of the State Board of Canvassers (made up by the [[Secretary of State of New York|Secretary of State]], [[New York State Treasurer|Treasurer]], [[New York State Comptroller|Comptroller]], [[New York State Attorney General|Attorney General]] and [[New York State Engineer and Surveyor|State Engineer]]), when the [[electoral fraud]] in the [[Dutchess County, New York|Dutchess County]] senatorial election happened by which Governor [[David B. Hill]] gained control of the [[New York State Senate]]. The Republican candidate [[Gilbert A. Deane]] had received 78 votes more than Democrat [[Edward B. Osborne]], but the Board changed 92 votes and declared Osborne elected by a plurality of 14. The [[New York Supreme Court]] issued a [[writ]] to Danforth, ordering him to certify the election of Deane, but Danforth refused to obey. For this he and the other members of the Board were fined $500 by Justice [[D. Cady Herrick]]. The sentence was later upheld by the [[New York Court of Appeals]].

In August 1893, it became known that Danforth had received a loan of $50,000 (about seven times the annual salary of the Treasurer) from the Madison Square Bank in New York City in exchange for keeping a large amount of State monies in that bank. Danforth managed to withdraw the State's $250,000 from the bank in the early hours of August 9, the day the bank (of which Fitzgerald was a director) [[Bankruptcy|closed]].

After leaving the Treasury, he resumed the practice of law at New York City. From 1896 to 1898, he was Chairman of the [[New York State Democratic Committee]], and in 1897 campaigned successfully for the election of [[Alton B. Parker]] as Chief Judge of the [[New York Court of Appeals]]. In [[New York state election, 1898|1898]], he ran for [[Lieutenant Governor of New York]] with [[Augustus Van Wyck]] but they were narrowly defeated by [[Theodore Roosevelt]] and [[Timothy L. Woodruff]].

He died on January 7, 1906, at his home at 51, East 58th Street in [[Manhattan]], of [[pneumonia]], and was buried at [[Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)|Woodlawn Cemetery]] in [[The Bronx]].<ref name=NYTObit/>

==References==
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==External links==
{{commons category|Elliot Danforth}}
* {{Find a Grave|126502054}}

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