Joseph McGoldrick

{{Short description|American politician and lawyer (1901–1978)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Joseph D. McGoldrick | native_name =  | native_name_lang =  | image = Joseph McGoldrick 1941 Edit Crop.jpg | image_upright = | alt = | caption = McGoldrick {{circa|1941}} | office = 31st and 33rd New York City Comptroller | term = 1935 | predecessor = W. Arthur Cunningham | successor = Frank J. Taylor | term_start1 = 1938 | term_end1 = 1945 | predecessor1 = Frank J. Taylor | successor1 = Lazarus Joseph | pronunciation = | birth_date = {{birth date|1901|6|5}} | birth_place = Brooklyn, New York | death_date = {{Death date and age|1978|4|5|1901|6|5}} | death_place = Savannah, Georgia | death_cause = Cancer | citizenship = | party = Republican | education = Erasmus Hall High School | alma_mater = Columbia University<br>Fordham University School of Law | occupation = | profession = lawyer and political science professor | known_for = | salary = | net_worth =  | committees = | signature = | signature_alt =  | module = | module2 = | module3 = | module4 = | module5 = | footnotes = }} '''Joseph Daniel McGoldrick''' (June 5, 1901 – April 5, 1978) was an American lawyer, politician, and public official. He was Comptroller of New York City for nearly nine years. He subsequently was New York State Residential Rent Control Commissioner, founded a law firm, and was chairman of the Department of Political Science at Queens College for a decade.

==Early life== McGoldrick was born in Brooklyn, New York.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/04/06/archives/joseph-mcgoldrick-la-guardia-aide-an-instructor-at-columbia-author.html|title=Joseph McGoldrick, La Guardia Aide|first=Joseph B.|last=Treaster|date=April 6, 1978|work=The New York Times}}</ref> He had three younger siblings, and his parents were Loretta and Daniel McGoldrick, an accountant.<ref name="auto"/>

He graduated from Erasmus Hall High School. McGoldrick then attended Columbia University, graduating in 1922 with an A.B. with honors in History and Greek.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=27_OAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Joseph+D.+McGoldrick%22&pg=PR13 "Officers of Instruction"], ''Columbia University Bulletin'', Columbia University, 1923.</ref><ref name="auto"/> He was then an instructor in government at Columbia.<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19360205-01.2.6|title= 5 February 1936 |website=Columbia Daily Spectator}}</ref> He received a law degree from Fordham University in 1929.<ref name="auto"/> He was granted a Ph.D. from Columbia in 1931.<ref name="auto"/>

==Career== McGoldrick in 1934 became deputy to Comptroller of New York City W. Arthur Cunningham.<ref name="auto"/> Cunningham died, and McGoldrick was appointed by Mayor La Guardia to take his place.<ref name="auto"/> McGoldrick later ran in a special election, and lost.<ref name="auto"/> But when La Guardia ran for a second term in 1937, McGoldrick joined him in office as Comptroller, and the same happened four years later.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,884205,00.html|title=TAXES: Mr. Tugwell's Idea|date=November 25, 1940|magazine=Time}}</ref><ref name="auto"/><ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/23403975|author=McGoldrick, Joseph D.|title=Tax Problems of a Great City|year=1940|journal=Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Taxation Under the Auspices of the National Tax Association|volume=33|pages=6–12|jstor=23403975}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,788777,00.html|title=RELIEF: Shoddy|date=September 26, 1938|magazine=Time}}</ref>

After serving as comptroller, he became the New York State Residential Rent Control Commissioner in 1946.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=ha010658750|date=1950|author=New York (State). Temporary State Housing Rent Commission|title=Survey of residential rents and rental conditions in the State of New York. Joseph D. McGoldrick, State rent administrator. Prepared and issued pursuant to the New York State emergency housing rent control law, chap. 250, Laws of 1950., by New York (State). Temporary State Housing Rent Commission|website=library.upenn.edu}}</ref><ref name="auto"/> In 1948, he founded the law firm of McGoldrick, Dannett, Horowitz & Golub.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibit/joseph-d-mcgoldrick-1901-1980|title= Joseph D. McGoldrick (1901–1980)|website=New-York Historical Society}}</ref><ref name="auto"/> In 1958, he joined the Queens College faculty, where he spent a decade as chairman of the Department of Political Science.<ref name="auto"/>

McGoldrick was the author of ''The Law and Practice of Municipal Home Rule 1916‐1930'' and ''Building Regulation in New York City'', and co‐author with R. E. and M. P. Keohane of ''Government in Action''.<ref name="auto"/><ref name="auto1"/><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/abs/law-and-practice-of-municipal-home-rule-19161930-by-joseph-d-mcgoldrick-new-york-columbia-university-press-1933-pp-xiv-431/A279400BBAE80BEBE606B0F05E0B16DE|title=Law and Practice of Municipal Home Rule, 1916–1930. By Joseph D. McGoldrick. (New York: Columbia University Press. 1933. Pp. xiv, 431.)|first=Frank E.|last=Horack|date=December 4, 1933|journal=American Political Science Review|volume=27|issue=6|pages=988–989|publisher=Cambridge University Press|doi=10.2307/1947296|jstor=1947296|s2cid=148191787 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

He died of cancer on April 5, 1978, in Savannah, Georgia.<ref name="auto"/> As of {{CURRENTYEAR}}, he is the last Republican to have served as Comptroller of New York City.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://citylimits.org/2019/08/15/republicans-have-hit-rock-bottom-in-nyc-time-to-rebuild-or-start-drilling/|title=Republicans Have Hit Rock Bottom in NYC. Time to Rebuild, or Start Drilling?|first=Jarrett|last=Murphy|date=August 15, 2019|website=City Limits}}</ref>

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==External links== *Joseph D. McGoldrick (November 1, 1945). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/000271624524200112 "City Building and Renewal"], AAPSS, Volume 242, issue 1, pp. 96–100.

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