Richard Varick

Richard Varick: AG, Recorder of NYC, Assembly Speaker and NYC Mayor

January 30, 2025 by Historical Society of the New York Courts Leave a Comment

Richard Varick (1753-1831) served as New York’s second Attorney General from 1788 to 1790 and is often regarded as a “forgotten founding father” due to his significant yet overlooked contributions during the American Revolution.

Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, he studied law in the offices of John Morin Scott during the years 1771 to 1774 and was admitted to the bar in the city of New York on October 22, 1774. [Read more…] about Richard Varick: AG, Recorder of NYC, Assembly Speaker and NYC Mayor

US, NYS Continues To Honor Slavers, Racists, Traitors and Scoundrels

January 10, 2023 by Alan J. Singer Leave a Comment

In 2023, the United States Military Academy will remove 13 Confederate symbols on its West Point campus. They include a portrait of Robert E. Lee dressed in a Confederate uniform, a stone bust of Lee, who was superintendent of West Point before the Civil War, and a bronze plaque with an image of a hooded figure and the words “Ku Klux Klan.”

Art displayed in the United States Capitol building in Washington, DC, still includes images of 141 enslavers and 13 Confederates who went to war against the country. A study by the Washington Post found that more than one-third of the statues and portraits in the Capitol building honor enslavers or Confederates and at least six more honor possible enslavers where evidence is disputed. [Read more…] about US, NYS Continues To Honor Slavers, Racists, Traitors and Scoundrels

Richard Varick

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