Frank L. Dowling

Dowling was first elected on November 7, 1916, as the 7th President of the New York City Board of Aldermen with 308,687 votes or 48.76% in a four-person race, with his closest opponent Republican candidate Henry H. Curran receiving 274,945 votes or 43.43%, thereby gaining Democratic control over the presidency. Dowling was sworn in on January 1, 1917, and held the position for a year before being elected Manhattan Borough President on November 6, 1917, with 110,179 votes or 47% in a six-person race, defeating incumbent Republican Borough President Marcus M. Marks by 23,845 votes or 10.17%. Dowling served as Borough President from January 1, 1918, until his death in office of pneumonia on September 27, 1919, in New York City.^[2][3]

Dowling was buried on October 1, 1919, in Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York.^[4] A monument was erected in Dowling's memory in Chelsea Park, Manhattan in 1926.^[5]