Francis Dawson Gallatin (1870 - December 23, 1933) was theNew York City Parks Commissioner forManhattan and theBronx inNew York City from 1919 to 1927. A graduate ofColumbia College (now University) andColumbia Law School, Gallatin established as career as an attorney in New York City. Gallatin, was the son of Elizabeth Dawson Gallatin and James Gallatin, the President of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Poor and the Tenement House Commission. He was the great-grandson ofAlbert Gallatin, who served as theSecretary of the Treasury in the presidential administrations ofThomas Jefferson andJames Madison and founder ofNew York University. In 1917 he was the Democratic Party candidate for municipal judge in New York City's municipal court's ninth district. On February 8, 1919, he was appointedParks Commissioner for the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx by MayorJohn F. Hylan, and focused on restoring trees in city parks and the preservation of historic buildings and monuments.[1]
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