Oswald D. “Ozzie” Heck was Speaker of the New York State Assembly for 22 years, longer than anyone else.
For everyone but the very few who find the state legislature a topic of passing interest, though, he is best known as the eponym of the of the state-owned day-use island off Assembly Point on Lake George, which for most of its history was known as South Island. [Read more…] about Speaker Heck: A Republican’s Long NYS Assembly Tenure