Tuesday, November 4, 1919

Fair cool autumn day. Up 8:30 A.M. Election day. No college. Up to Ed & Leila's to dinner. Took Uncle John & Aunt Gertie along. Helped husk corn. Fine time. Home 5:30 P.M. Candled eggs. Bowled with Church League 142-123-165. LUNN elected.

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Lunn was Dr. George R. Lunn, a Presbyterian (also Dutch Reformed) minister who served in various public offices over the course of his life. In 1919 he was elected Mayor of Schenectady for the third time (the first was from 1911-13; second from 1915-17) after a two-year stint as a U.S. Congressman. Following his final term as mayor, in 1923 Dr. Lunn was elected Lieutenant Governor of New York, serving one year.

He was also a war veteran, a socialist, and an advocate for workers' rights. Dr. Lunn figured prominently in works by Kenneth E. Hendrickson, a historian who wrote about socialism in Schenectady.

Below is Dr. Lunn's picture. I think he was an interesting and handsome man. I wonder what Stanford thought of him?

George R. Lunn, D. Div, 1873-1948

I took the above information and picture from the Wikepedia article about him at this address:  George R. Lunn.