Martin W. Deyo Explained

Martin W. Deyo
State Senate:New York
District:40th
Term Start:1935
Term End:1936
State Assembly2:New York
District2:Broome County, 2nd
Term Start2:1933
Term End2:1934
Birth Name:Martin Weld Deyo
Birth Date:12 December 1902
Birth Place:Binghamton, New York, U.S.
Resting Place:Floral Park Cemetery
Johnson City, New York, U.S.

Martin Weld Deyo (December 12, 1902 – October 20, 1951) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life

He was born on December 12, 1902, in Binghamton, Broome County, New York, the son of Assemblyman Israel T. Deyo (1854–1953)[1] and Edith Austin (Weld) Deyo (1863–1944). He attended Binghamton Central High School, and graduated from Amherst College in 1925.[2] In 1928, he married Amy G. Sleeper (1902–1975). He graduated from Columbia Law School, was admitted to the bar in 1931, and practiced in Binghamton.

Deyo was a member of the New York State Assembly (Broome Co., 2nd D.) in 1933 and 1934; and a member of the New York State Senate (40th D.) in 1935 and 1936. In 1935, he introduced a bill in the Legislature to sterilize mentally defective people.[3]

He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1938.

He was a justice of the New York Supreme Court (6th D.) from 1940 until his death in 1951, and sat on the Appellate Division (3rd Dept.) from 1947 on.

He died on October 20, 1951;[4] and was buried at the Floral Park Cemetery in Johnson City.

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Notes and References

  1. https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0B14F93B5D177B93C5A9178BD95F478585F9 DEYO, AMHERST '79, DIES
  2. http://acbiorecord.yanco.com/1925.html#deyo-mw Amherst College, Class of 1925
  3. https://www.nytimes.com/1935/02/20/archives/sterilization-bill-offered-at-albany-end-of-race-degeneration-is.html STERILIZATION BILL OFFERED AT ALBANY
  4. https://www.nytimes.com/1951/12/29/archives/two-justices-named-to-appellate-posts.html TWO JUSTICES NAMED TO APPELLATE POSTS