Joseph Aspinall

American politician
  • 1891
  • 1888–1889
Personal detailsBorn1854 (1854)
Brooklyn, Kings County, New YorkDiedMay 7, 1939(1939-05-07) (aged 84–85)
Brooklyn, New York City

Joseph Aspinall (1854 – May 7, 1939) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life

He graduated from Columbia Law School in 1875. He was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Brooklyn.

He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Kings Co., 11th D.) in 1888, 1889 and 1891.

He was a member of the New York State Senate (3rd D.) in 1892 and 1893.

He was a Kings County Judge from 1896 to 1906; and a justice of the New York Supreme Court (2nd D.) from 1907 to 1924.

He died on May 7, 1939, at the Bushwick Hospital in Brooklyn.

Sources

  • The New York Red Book compiled by Edgar L. Murlin (published by James B. Lyon, Albany NY, 1897; pg. 404 and 506ff)
  • New York State Legislative Souvenir for 1893 with Portraits of the Members of Both Houses by Henry P. Phelps (pg. 8) [with portrait]
  • Biographical sketches of the members of the Legislature in The Evening Journal Almanac (1892)
  • KINGS COUNTY'S JUDGES-ELECT in NYT on December 10, 1895
  • JOSEPH ASPINALL, EX-JUSTICE, DEAD in NYT on May 9, 1939 (subscription required)
New York State Assembly
Preceded by
James P. Graham
New York State Assembly
Kings County, 11th District

1888–1889
Succeeded by
George L. Weed
Preceded by
George L. Weed
New York State Assembly
Kings County, 11th District

1891
Succeeded by
George L. Weed
New York State Senate
Preceded by
James W. Birkett
New York State Senate
3rd District

1892–1893
Succeeded by
William H. Reynolds