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| | Graves Family Association: Notable Family Members |
 | | He was descended from Thomas Graves of Hartford, CT and Hatfield, MA (Gen. 168), and is listed as #3646 in the 1985 book on that family. |
 | | He clerked in Clinton and Buffalo, NY; taught at the N.Y. City Institution for the Blind; was admitted to the bar in Buffalo, 1859; became assistant district attorney, 1863; sheriff, 1871; mayor, 1881; governor of New York, 1882. |
 | | He served as mayor of Rye, New York, and was appointed by President Herbert Hoover as envoy and minister to Sweden from 1930 to 1933. |
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