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Samuel Seabury was a lawyer who had been elected a city court judge at the age of twenty-eight. He eventually rose to the office of a state supreme (district) court judge before resigning in 1916 to launch an unsuccessful bid for the governorship. A serious man with a courtly demeanor, Seabury was a devoted progressive and a firm believer in the integrity of public office. Following his appointment by the appellate division in 1930, Seabury received two additional commissions: the first, assigned to him by the governor, was to investigate charges of corruption and malfeasance made against the city's district attorney; the second, under the authority granted him by the state legislature in his newly assigned role as counsel for the Hofstadter Joint Legislative Committee, was to undertake an investigation of the city's government. Seabury's probe continued for two years and resulted in disclosures that were...
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