
John Purroy Mitchel on November 5, 1913. Mitchel, one term mayor of New York City, failed in his bid for reelection four years later, and fell to his death in 1918 while flying with the Army Aviation Corps in Louisiana. Photo from the George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
op. cit., p. 233
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