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|name=Irving McNeil Ives
|nationality=[[United States|American]]
|image=Irving Ives of NY.jpg
|office=[[United States Senator]] for [[New York]]
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|term_start=January 3, 1947
|term_end=January 3, 1959
|preceded=James Michael Mead
|succeeded=[[Kenneth B. Keating]]
|office2=[[Speaker]] of the New York State Assembly
|term_start2=January 1, 1936
|term_end2=December 31, 1936
|preceded2=Irwin Steingut
|succeeded2=Oswald David Heck
|office3=State Representative for Chenango County, New York
|term_start3=February 11, 1930
|term_end3=December 31, 1946
|preceded3=Bert Lord
|succeeded3=Janet Hill Gordon
|birth_date=January 24, 1896
|birth_place=Bainbridge, New York
|death_date=February 24, 1962
|death_place=Norwich, New York
|resting_place=Greenlawn Cemetery in Bainbridge, New York
|occupation=[[Politician]], banker, [[insurance]] agent<ref name=findagrave/>
|spouse=(1) Elizabeth Minette Skinner Ives (married 1920-1947, her death)
(2) Marion Mead Crain Ives (married 1948-1962, his death)
|children=George Ives
'''Parents''':<br>
George Albert and Lucie Hough Keeler Ives
|alma_mater=Oneonta High School<br>
Hamilton College<br> (Clinton, New York)
|branch=[[United States Army]]
|rank=First Lieutenant
|serviceyears=1917-1918
|battles=Meuse-Argonne and<br>Saint-Mihiel in [[World War I]]
}}
'''Irving McNeil Ives''' (January 24, 1896 – February 24, 1962) was a [[Moderate Republican]] [[United States Senator]] for his native [[New York]],with service for two terms from 1947 to 1959.
From 1930 to 1946, Ives was a state representative. In this capacity, he was the minority leader in 1935 and the [[Speaker]] in 1936, and Majority Leader from 1937 to 1946, when he was elected in a strongly [[Republican Party|Republican]] year to the U.S. Senate. He focused on [[organized labor|labor]] and [[civil rights]] issues.<ref name=nytimes>{{cite web|date=February 25, 1962|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|title=Irving Ives Dead. Ex-U.S. Senator, 66|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/02/25/archives/irving-ives-dead-exus-senator-66-new-york-republican-was-a.html|accessdaate=August 5, 2021}}</ref> Ives supported the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which established the [[Civil Rights Commission]]. However, he was no longer in office for the votes on the 1960, 1964, and 1968 civil rights acts, which were signed into law by [[U.S. President]]s [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] and [[Lyndon B. Johnson]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/85-1957/s75|title=HR. 6127. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957.|publisher=GovTrack.us|accessdate=August 4, 2021}}</ref>
==Background==
Irving Ives was born in Bainbridge in Chenango County in south central New York, halfway between Binghamton and Oneonta. He was the son of George Albert Ives (1857-1942), who worked in the coal and feed businesses, and the former Lucie Hough Keeler (1860-1941).<ref name=biography>{{cite book|title=''Encyclopedia of American Biography''|volume=34|year=1965|publisher=American Historical Company}}</ref> His ancestors came from [[England]] and settled in 1635 in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]. They were involved in the establishment of the Quinnipiac Colony in 1638.<ref name=yearbook>{{cite book|title=''Current Biography Biography Yearbook|volume=10|year=1949|publisher=H.W. Wilson Company}}</ref> name=biography/>
After graduation from Oneonta High School in 1914,<ref name=nytimes/>he enrolled at the private liberal arts institution, Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, named for [[founding fathers|founding father]] and [[United Secretary of the Treasury|Secretary of the Treasury]] [[Alexander Hamilton]]. After two years he left Hamilton to enlist in the [[United States Army]] Infantry following the entry of the [[United States|American]] ]] into [[World War I]] in 1917 under the leadership of [[U.S. President]] [[Woodrow Wilson]].<ref name=congress>{{cite web|publisher=''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress''|title=IVES, Irving McNeil, (1896-1962)|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=I000050}}</ref> During the war, he served with the [[American Expeditionary Force]]s in [[France]] and [[Germany]]. He fought in the battles of the Meuse-Argonne and Saint-Mihiel.<ref name=yearbook/> He was honorably discharged as a first lieutenant, when the war ended in 1919.<ref name=congress/> He then resumed his studies at Hamilton, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1920 with membership in Phi Beta Kappa Society.<ref name=nytimes/>
==Career==
From 1920 to 1923, Ives earned $25 per week as a clerk for [[J. P. Morgan|J. P. Morgan & Company]] in [[New York City]].<ref name=biography/> In 1923, he joined Manufacturers Hanover Corporation, with prompted his move to Norwich, also in Chenango.<ref name=yearbook/> He remained with Manufacturers Trust for seven years until 1930, when he entered the general [[insurance]] business in Norwich.<ref name=biography/><ref name=findagrave/>
On February 18, 1930, Ives won a [[special election]] for the Chenango County seat in the New York Assembly to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Bert Lord (1869-1939). He was reelected many times and remained in the Assembly until 1946. His speakership extended for only one year because his fellow liberal Republicans disagreed with Ives' opposition to a social welfare program advanced by [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[Governor]] Herbert Henry Lehman (1878-1963).<ref name=battle>{{cite web|date=December 20, 1936|publisher=''The New York Times''|title=Albany Battle Lines Form}}</ref> Ives stepped aside in favor of Oswald David Heck (1902-1959), who subsequently named Ive sas the Republican Majority Leader.<ref name=speaker>"Heck Is Speaker; Ives Quits Race," ''The New York Times,'' January 13, 1937.</ref>
The year before he left the Assembly, Ives, as the chairman of the Joint Legislative Committee on Industrial and Labor Conditions, received nationwide attention for his Ives-Quinn Act of 1945, the first state law to prohibit discrimination in employment on the basis of race or national origin.<ref name=wnyc>{{cite web|date=March 12, 2011|work=WNYC|title=Freedom's Ladder: WNYC and New York's Anti-Discrimination Law|url=http://www.wnyc.org/story/117609-freedoms-ladder|author=Haley Richardson|accessdate=August 4, 2021}}</ref> Ives also introduced legislation to create the state Department of Commerce and the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at [[Cornell University]] in Ithaca, at which Ives was a trustee and a dean from 1945 to 1947.<ref name=congress/>
===U.S. Senator===
In 1946, Democratic Senator James Michael Mead (1885-1964) announced that he would run for governor but was defeated by Moderate Republican [[Thomas E. Dewey]], who won the second of his three terms. In his bid to succeed Senator Mead. In the [[general election]], with 52 percent of the vote, defeated former Governor Lehman in the general election, during which he became the first Republican to be endorsed by the [[American Federation of Labor]], precursor of the [[AFL-CIO.<ref name=nytimes/> Ives was the first Republican to represent New York in the Senate since James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr. (1877-1952), who was defeated for reelection in 1926.<ref>Senator Wadsworth was a nephew of the [[Texas]] rancher [[Cornelia Adair]], who persuaded him for a few years to take over the management of her [[JA Ranch]] near [[Amarillo]].</ref>
Despite his moderate reputation, Ives supported the [[Taft–Hartley Act]] in 1947 and voted to override President [[Harry Truman]]'s [[veto]] of the landmark legislation, which allows states to enact [[right-to-work]] laws strongly opposed by organized labor. This cost Ives the support of organized labor.<ref name=nytimes/> Senator Ives was a delegate to the 1948 [[Republican National Convention]] in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], which nominated his friend Thomas Dewey, who lost his second bid to President Truman, Ives' His first wife, Elizabeth Minette Skinner (1898-1947), the mother of their son, George Ives, died after an illness of two years. The next year in 1948, Ives wed his longtime secretary, Marion Mead Crain (1902-1996).<ref name=yearbook/>
Ives was reelected to the Senate 1952; he defeated, 55 to 37 percent, John Cashmore (1895-1961), the [[Brooklyn]] borough president from 1940 until his death in office.<ref name=results>{{cite web|publisher=Clerk of the [[United States House of Representatives]]|title=Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 4, 1952|url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1952election.pdf}}</ref> Ives received the largest number of votes hitherto ever won by a candidate in New York, carrying all but three of the sixty-two counties.<ref name=nytimes/> A strong supporter of General Eisenhower, he served as a delegate to the 1952 Republican National Convention in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], at which Eisenhower defeated the more conservative U.S. Senator [[Robert A. Taft]] of [[Ohio]] and with his running mate, [[Richard M. Nixon]] of [[California]] and went on to win the general election against Illinois Governor [[Adlai Stevenson]] and U.S. Senator [[John Sparkman]] of [[Alabama]].
In 1954, Ives ran unsuccessfully in a bid to succeed Dewey as governor of New York. In one of the closest elections in state history, he lost to Democrat William Averell Harriman (1891-1986) by 11,125 votes.<ref name=nytimes/> Ives was a delegate to the 1956 Republican National Convention in [[San Francisco]], [California]]. In 1958, he co-sponsored a bill with then Senator [[John F. Kennedy]] of [[Massachusetts]] to correct abuses within organized labor.<ref name=nytimes/>
In 1958, Ives declined to seek a third term in the Senate and was succeeded by another Moderate Republican, [[Kenneth B. Keating]], who was elected along with still another Moderate Republican, [[Nelson Rockefeller]], who unseated Governor Harriman and won the first of four terms as governor. Then in 1964, Keating lost his bid for reelection to Democrat [[Robert F. Kennedy]], younger brother of President Kennedy, with whom Ives had collaborated on the labor legislation.<ref name=congress/>
Ives died in Norwich, New York at the age of sixty-six.<ref name=nytimes/> He and his first wife are interred at Greenlawn Cemetery in his native Bainbridge, New York.<ref name=findagrave>Irving McNeil Ives (1896-1962) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed August 5, 2021.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ives, Irving}}
[[Category:New York]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Former United States Senators]]
[[Category:State Representatives]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Moderate Republicans]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
[[Category:World War I]]
|name=Irving McNeil Ives
|nationality=[[United States|American]]
|image=Irving Ives of NY.jpg
|office=[[United States Senator]] for [[New York]]
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|term_start=January 3, 1947
|term_end=January 3, 1959
|preceded=James Michael Mead
|succeeded=[[Kenneth B. Keating]]
|office2=[[Speaker]] of the New York State Assembly
|term_start2=January 1, 1936
|term_end2=December 31, 1936
|preceded2=Irwin Steingut
|succeeded2=Oswald David Heck
|office3=State Representative for Chenango County, New York
|term_start3=February 11, 1930
|term_end3=December 31, 1946
|preceded3=Bert Lord
|succeeded3=Janet Hill Gordon
|birth_date=January 24, 1896
|birth_place=Bainbridge, New York
|death_date=February 24, 1962
|death_place=Norwich, New York
|resting_place=Greenlawn Cemetery in Bainbridge, New York
|occupation=[[Politician]], banker, [[insurance]] agent<ref name=findagrave/>
|spouse=(1) Elizabeth Minette Skinner Ives (married 1920-1947, her death)
(2) Marion Mead Crain Ives (married 1948-1962, his death)
|children=George Ives
'''Parents''':<br>
George Albert and Lucie Hough Keeler Ives
|alma_mater=Oneonta High School<br>
Hamilton College<br> (Clinton, New York)
|branch=[[United States Army]]
|rank=First Lieutenant
|serviceyears=1917-1918
|battles=Meuse-Argonne and<br>Saint-Mihiel in [[World War I]]
}}
'''Irving McNeil Ives''' (January 24, 1896 – February 24, 1962) was a [[Moderate Republican]] [[United States Senator]] for his native [[New York]],with service for two terms from 1947 to 1959.
From 1930 to 1946, Ives was a state representative. In this capacity, he was the minority leader in 1935 and the [[Speaker]] in 1936, and Majority Leader from 1937 to 1946, when he was elected in a strongly [[Republican Party|Republican]] year to the U.S. Senate. He focused on [[organized labor|labor]] and [[civil rights]] issues.<ref name=nytimes>{{cite web|date=February 25, 1962|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|title=Irving Ives Dead. Ex-U.S. Senator, 66|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/02/25/archives/irving-ives-dead-exus-senator-66-new-york-republican-was-a.html|accessdaate=August 5, 2021}}</ref> Ives supported the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which established the [[Civil Rights Commission]]. However, he was no longer in office for the votes on the 1960, 1964, and 1968 civil rights acts, which were signed into law by [[U.S. President]]s [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] and [[Lyndon B. Johnson]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/85-1957/s75|title=HR. 6127. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957.|publisher=GovTrack.us|accessdate=August 4, 2021}}</ref>
==Background==
Irving Ives was born in Bainbridge in Chenango County in south central New York, halfway between Binghamton and Oneonta. He was the son of George Albert Ives (1857-1942), who worked in the coal and feed businesses, and the former Lucie Hough Keeler (1860-1941).<ref name=biography>{{cite book|title=''Encyclopedia of American Biography''|volume=34|year=1965|publisher=American Historical Company}}</ref> His ancestors came from [[England]] and settled in 1635 in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]. They were involved in the establishment of the Quinnipiac Colony in 1638.<ref name=yearbook>{{cite book|title=''Current Biography Biography Yearbook|volume=10|year=1949|publisher=H.W. Wilson Company}}</ref> name=biography/>
After graduation from Oneonta High School in 1914,<ref name=nytimes/>he enrolled at the private liberal arts institution, Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, named for [[founding fathers|founding father]] and [[United Secretary of the Treasury|Secretary of the Treasury]] [[Alexander Hamilton]]. After two years he left Hamilton to enlist in the [[United States Army]] Infantry following the entry of the [[United States|American]] ]] into [[World War I]] in 1917 under the leadership of [[U.S. President]] [[Woodrow Wilson]].<ref name=congress>{{cite web|publisher=''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress''|title=IVES, Irving McNeil, (1896-1962)|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=I000050}}</ref> During the war, he served with the [[American Expeditionary Force]]s in [[France]] and [[Germany]]. He fought in the battles of the Meuse-Argonne and Saint-Mihiel.<ref name=yearbook/> He was honorably discharged as a first lieutenant, when the war ended in 1919.<ref name=congress/> He then resumed his studies at Hamilton, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1920 with membership in Phi Beta Kappa Society.<ref name=nytimes/>
==Career==
From 1920 to 1923, Ives earned $25 per week as a clerk for [[J. P. Morgan|J. P. Morgan & Company]] in [[New York City]].<ref name=biography/> In 1923, he joined Manufacturers Hanover Corporation, with prompted his move to Norwich, also in Chenango.<ref name=yearbook/> He remained with Manufacturers Trust for seven years until 1930, when he entered the general [[insurance]] business in Norwich.<ref name=biography/><ref name=findagrave/>
On February 18, 1930, Ives won a [[special election]] for the Chenango County seat in the New York Assembly to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Bert Lord (1869-1939). He was reelected many times and remained in the Assembly until 1946. His speakership extended for only one year because his fellow liberal Republicans disagreed with Ives' opposition to a social welfare program advanced by [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[Governor]] Herbert Henry Lehman (1878-1963).<ref name=battle>{{cite web|date=December 20, 1936|publisher=''The New York Times''|title=Albany Battle Lines Form}}</ref> Ives stepped aside in favor of Oswald David Heck (1902-1959), who subsequently named Ive sas the Republican Majority Leader.<ref name=speaker>"Heck Is Speaker; Ives Quits Race," ''The New York Times,'' January 13, 1937.</ref>
The year before he left the Assembly, Ives, as the chairman of the Joint Legislative Committee on Industrial and Labor Conditions, received nationwide attention for his Ives-Quinn Act of 1945, the first state law to prohibit discrimination in employment on the basis of race or national origin.<ref name=wnyc>{{cite web|date=March 12, 2011|work=WNYC|title=Freedom's Ladder: WNYC and New York's Anti-Discrimination Law|url=http://www.wnyc.org/story/117609-freedoms-ladder|author=Haley Richardson|accessdate=August 4, 2021}}</ref> Ives also introduced legislation to create the state Department of Commerce and the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at [[Cornell University]] in Ithaca, at which Ives was a trustee and a dean from 1945 to 1947.<ref name=congress/>
===U.S. Senator===
In 1946, Democratic Senator James Michael Mead (1885-1964) announced that he would run for governor but was defeated by Moderate Republican [[Thomas E. Dewey]], who won the second of his three terms. In his bid to succeed Senator Mead. In the [[general election]], with 52 percent of the vote, defeated former Governor Lehman in the general election, during which he became the first Republican to be endorsed by the [[American Federation of Labor]], precursor of the [[AFL-CIO.<ref name=nytimes/> Ives was the first Republican to represent New York in the Senate since James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr. (1877-1952), who was defeated for reelection in 1926.<ref>Senator Wadsworth was a nephew of the [[Texas]] rancher [[Cornelia Adair]], who persuaded him for a few years to take over the management of her [[JA Ranch]] near [[Amarillo]].</ref>
Despite his moderate reputation, Ives supported the [[Taft–Hartley Act]] in 1947 and voted to override President [[Harry Truman]]'s [[veto]] of the landmark legislation, which allows states to enact [[right-to-work]] laws strongly opposed by organized labor. This cost Ives the support of organized labor.<ref name=nytimes/> Senator Ives was a delegate to the 1948 [[Republican National Convention]] in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], which nominated his friend Thomas Dewey, who lost his second bid to President Truman, Ives' His first wife, Elizabeth Minette Skinner (1898-1947), the mother of their son, George Ives, died after an illness of two years. The next year in 1948, Ives wed his longtime secretary, Marion Mead Crain (1902-1996).<ref name=yearbook/>
Ives was reelected to the Senate 1952; he defeated, 55 to 37 percent, John Cashmore (1895-1961), the [[Brooklyn]] borough president from 1940 until his death in office.<ref name=results>{{cite web|publisher=Clerk of the [[United States House of Representatives]]|title=Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 4, 1952|url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1952election.pdf}}</ref> Ives received the largest number of votes hitherto ever won by a candidate in New York, carrying all but three of the sixty-two counties.<ref name=nytimes/> A strong supporter of General Eisenhower, he served as a delegate to the 1952 Republican National Convention in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], at which Eisenhower defeated the more conservative U.S. Senator [[Robert A. Taft]] of [[Ohio]] and with his running mate, [[Richard M. Nixon]] of [[California]] and went on to win the general election against Illinois Governor [[Adlai Stevenson]] and U.S. Senator [[John Sparkman]] of [[Alabama]].
In 1954, Ives ran unsuccessfully in a bid to succeed Dewey as governor of New York. In one of the closest elections in state history, he lost to Democrat William Averell Harriman (1891-1986) by 11,125 votes.<ref name=nytimes/> Ives was a delegate to the 1956 Republican National Convention in [[San Francisco]], [California]]. In 1958, he co-sponsored a bill with then Senator [[John F. Kennedy]] of [[Massachusetts]] to correct abuses within organized labor.<ref name=nytimes/>
In 1958, Ives declined to seek a third term in the Senate and was succeeded by another Moderate Republican, [[Kenneth B. Keating]], who was elected along with still another Moderate Republican, [[Nelson Rockefeller]], who unseated Governor Harriman and won the first of four terms as governor. Then in 1964, Keating lost his bid for reelection to Democrat [[Robert F. Kennedy]], younger brother of President Kennedy, with whom Ives had collaborated on the labor legislation.<ref name=congress/>
Ives died in Norwich, New York at the age of sixty-six.<ref name=nytimes/> He and his first wife are interred at Greenlawn Cemetery in his native Bainbridge, New York.<ref name=findagrave>Irving McNeil Ives (1896-1962) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed August 5, 2021.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ives, Irving}}
[[Category:New York]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Former United States Senators]]
[[Category:State Representatives]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Moderate Republicans]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
[[Category:World War I]]