{{Short description|American politician and businessman (1834–1920)}} {{Use American English|date=November 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2025}} right|thumb|Francis Hendricks (1900) '''Francis Hendricks''' (November 23, 1834 – June 9, 1920) was an American merchant, banker and politician from New York.
==Life== Hendricks was born on November 23, 1834, in Kingston, Ulster County, New York.<ref name=":0">{{cite news|date=June 10, 1920|title=Francis Hendricks, Politician, dies at 86|language=en|work=New York Times|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1920/06/10/98297465.pdf|access-date=1 January 2022}}</ref>
He attended the common schools and The Albany Academy. Then he engaged in the sale of photographic supplies in Syracuse from 1860 to 1916.<ref name=case>{{cite news|last=Case|first=Dick|title=Hendricks Photo Supply Downtown To Close|url=http://blog.syracuse.com/opinion/2009/09/hendricks_photo_supply_downtow.html|accessdate=16 March 2013|newspaper=The Post-Standard|date=5 Sep 2009}}</ref>
He served as a member of the Board of Fire Commissioners of Syracuse from 1877 to 1878; and was Mayor of Syracuse from 1880 to 1881.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Onondaga Co., 2nd D.) in 1884 and 1885. He was a member of the New York State Senate (25th D.) from 1886 to 1891, sitting in the 109th, 110th, 111th, 112th, 113th and 114th New York State Legislatures.
From September 28, 1891, to July 1893, Hendricks held the office of Collector of the Port of New York. He was also President of the State Bank of Syracuse. Governor Theodore Roosevelt appointed him as Superintendent of Insurance in February 1900, a post he held until May 1906.
In 1918, the veteran Hendricks lost the support of his ward and town leaders in the midst of the prohibition debate. After his defeat, Hendricks said he had "no desire to lead an organisation which has become the tool of the saloons."
He died on June 9, 1920, "after an illness of several weeks" in Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York.<ref name=":0" /> thumb|left|Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse University, 2012
== Legacy == {{main|Hendricks Chapel}} Childless, in his will Hendricks left $500,000 to Syracuse University to build a chapel in memory of his wife, Eliza Jane. Today, '''Hendricks Memorial Chapel''' is a registered historic landmark on the university's campus.<ref name=case /><ref>{{cite book |last1=Phillips |first1=Richard L. |last2=Wright |first2=Donald G. |title=Hendricks Chapel: Seventy-five Years of Service to Syracuse University |date=5 July 2005 |page=1 |publisher=Syracuse University Press |location=Syracuse, N.Y. |isbn=978-0-8156-0827-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FoQ41gtG9VQC <!--https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/1061/hendricks-chapel/ --> |oclc=58729694 |language=en}}</ref> {{Clear}}
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==Sources== * [https://archive.org/stream/newyorkredbook00unkngoog#page/n469/mode/1up ''The New York Red Book''] compiled by Edgar L. Murlin (published by James B. Lyon, Albany NY, 1897; pg. 403 and 503f) * [http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/sons-of-the-american-revolution-district-of-colum/the-evening-journal--almanac-volume-1887-nsl/page-37-the-evening-journal--almanac-volume-1887-nsl.shtml Biographical sketches of the members of the Legislature] in ''The Evening Journal Almanac''] (1887)
{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{succession box | before = Irving G. Vann | title = Mayor of Syracuse, New York | years = 1880–1881 | after = John Demong}} {{s-par|us-ny-hs}} {{succession box | before = Elbert O. Farrar | title = New York State Assembly <br>Onondaga County, 2nd District | years = 1884–1885 | after = Alfred E. Stacey}} {{s-par|us-ny-sen}} {{succession box | before = Dennis McCarthy | title = New York State Senate <br>25th District | years = 1886–1891 | after = John A. Nichols}} {{s-gov}} {{succession box | before = Jacob Sloat Fassett | title = Collector of the Port of New York | years = 1891–1893 | after = James T. Kilbreth}} {{succession box | before = Louis F. Payn | title = Superintendent of Insurance | years = 1900–1906 | after = Otto Kelsey}} {{s-end}}
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