David P. Forrest

American politician

David P. Forrest was an American politician from New York.

Life

He was Clerk of Schenectady County from 1850 to 1852. He was Mayor of Schenectady in 1859.

He was an Inspector of State Prisons from 1860 to 1862, elected in 1859 on the Republican ticket; and from 1865 to 1867, elected in 1864 on the Union ticket. In 1868, he was Warden of Sing Sing State Prison.

Sources

The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 46 and 393; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; pages 411 and 536)
[1] Schenectady history [name given as "David P. Forest" and giving wrong party affiliation]
THE SING SING PRISON in NYT on December 21, 1868
THE SING SING MURDER in NYT on December 4, 1868

Inspectors of New York State Prisons

Gedney
Comstock
Spencer
Wells
D Clark
Angel
Storms
Kirkpatrick
Bowne
Russell
Bailey
Rhodes
Everest
Forrest
Bates
Tappen
Clarke
Barnum
Hammond
Scheu
McNeil
Laflin
Graves
Platt
Wagener
Crowley
B Clark
Anderson

v t e Wardens of Sing Sing prison
Lynds Wiltse Seymour Peck Rowell (1845–1848) Smith (1848–1849) Potter (January, 1849) Booth (July, 1849) Lockwood (1850–1855) Batterman (1855–1856) Beardsley (1856–1862) Hubbell (1862-1864) Sutton (1864-1865) Johnson (1865–1868) Forrest (1868–1869) Henry C. Nelson (1869–1870) E. M. Russell (1870–1872) Henry C. Nelson (1872–1873) Gaylord B. Hubbell (1873–1874) James Williamson (September 1874) Alfred Walker (October 1874) George R. Youngs (1876–1877) Charles Davis (February 1877) Benjamin S. W. Clark (March 1877) Charles Davis (1877–1880) Augustus A. Brush (1880–1891) W. R. Brown (1891–1893) Charles F. Durston (1893–1894) Omar Van Leuven Sage (1894-1899) Addison Johnson (1899–1907) Jesse D. Frost (1907–1911) John S. Kennedy (1911–1913) James Connaughton (June 1913) acting warden James M. Clancy (1913–1914) Thomas McCormick (June 1914) George S. Weed (October 1914) acting warden Thomas Mott Osborne (1914–1915) George W. Kirchwey (1915) Thomas Mott Osborne (July 1916) Calvin Derrick (October 1916) William H. Moyer (1916–1919) Edward V. Brophy (April 1919) Daniel J. Grant (1919–1920) acting warden Lewis E. Lawes (1920–1941) Robert J. Kirby (1941–1944) William F. Snyder (1944–1950) Wilfred L. Denno (1950–1967) John T. Deegan (1967–1969) James L. Casscles (1969–1972) Theodore Schubin (1972–1975) Joseph Higgins (July 1975) acting warden Harold Butler (October 1975) William G. Gard (1975–1977) Walter Fogg (August 1977) acting warden Stephen Dalsheim (1977–1980) Wilson E.J. Walters (1980–1983) James E. Sullivan (1983–1988) John P. Keane (1988–1997) Charles Greiner (1997–2000) Brian S. Fischer (2000–2007) Louis Marshall (2007-)

Wardens of Sing Sing prison