Hugh J. Grant

Hugh J. Grant served as the 88th mayor of New York City for two terms from 1889 to 1892. He remains the youngest mayor in the citys history. He is also one of the youngest mayors of a major United States city and one of the earliest Roman Catholic mayors of New York City.

Hugh Grant, whose father John Grant had grown rich in politics and real estate, was born on West 27th Street in New York City, on September 10, 1858. He was orphaned young and raised by his guardian, a man named McAleer. He attended both public and private schools, spent two years at Manhattan College, another year studying in Germany, and two more at Columbia Law School. Though the earliest data, including the United States census of 1860 and 1870 and Grants 1878 passport application, establish his birth year as 1858, early in his political career he began to present himself as born several years earlier in 1852 or 1853, perhaps to avoid calling attention to his youth. A Tammany Hall Democrat, he began his political career as a city alderman from 18831884, where he was one of only two alderman not caught up in a financial scandal related to the Broadway Surface Railroad. For the remainder of his public career, however, he was a compliant member of Tammany under the patronage and contr

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