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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Edward P. Larkin |
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, New York , United States |
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00, 1915
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| Died | August 30, 1986
(71 years)
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| Contributor | budgeteer |
| Last Modifed | David
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| Info | Edward Paul Larkin
He left the Senate to run for Presiding Supervisor of the Town of Hempstead. He was elected thereto in 1955, 1957, and 1959.
Edward Paul Larkin, the senior member of the state Public Service Commission in Albany, died yesterday of pulmonary distress in Albany Medical Center. He was 71 years old and lived in Hempstead, L.I., where he had served as the town's Presiding Supervisor in the late 1950's.
Mr. Larkin had served as a Public Service Commissioner since his appointment by Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller in 1961. According to Francis S. Rivett, a spokesman for the agency, that made him the longest-serving member of any regulatory commission in the country. Mr. Rivett said Mr. Larkin had fallen ill at a commission meeting on July 23 and had been hospitalized.
A product of the Nassau County Republican organization, Mr. Larkin was regarded as leaning toward the utilities in their quest for rate increases. Mr. Larkin's answer to that assertion was, ''We can't change the laws of economics; we must give a company what it needs to render service.''
His renomination by Governor Cuomo in 1983 ran into opposition from consumer groups who reminded the Governor of his earlier criticism of Mr. Larkin and his promise to reshape the agency to strengthen the hands of consumers. But Mr. Larkin, firmly backed by the Senate majority leader, Warren M. Anderson, won Senate confirmation for yet another six-year term. Quotes From Philosopher
A large man with a ready laugh and robust speech, Mr. Larkin rose from humble beginnings. He was a college dropout who quoted Nietzsche, read Jean Genet and liked to relax cooking beef Burgundy or going to the ballet.
He was born in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn and grew up on Long Island. After high school, he enrolled in a prelaw night course at St. John's University but quit after two years to support himself as a ditch digger, rod man and construction foreman in the 1930's.
He worked in public works programs of Nassau County and Hempstead and for 10 years from 1942 was the executive secretary of the Town of Hempstead Board of Zoning Trustees, with time out for service as an Army engineer in Europe during World War II.
On his return, he began to play an active role in Republican politics and was elected to the Assembly in 1952 and to the State Senate in 1954. In 1955, he made headlines heading a legislative panel that investigated Communist infiltration into philanthropies and children's summer camps but resigned to run for Presiding Supervisor of the Town of Hempstead.
A champion of expanded park and recreation programs, he was narrowly re-elected for a third term in 1959. But a restless Republican organization, fearing a Democratic upsurge, sought out a fresh slate of candidates two years later, and Governor Rockefeller appointed Mr. Larkin to the public service agency.
Mr. Larkin's first wife, the former Grace Marie Miller, died in 1983 and a son, William, a Marine, was killed in action in Vietnam in 1969. He is survived by his wife, the former Eleanor Isacsen; another son, Edward of Atlanta; four daughters, Judith Krauser of Los Angeles, Kate Larkin of Fresno, Calif., Deborah Larkin of Boston, and Carole Mastrianni of Morris Plains, N.J.; two sisters, Dorothea Miller of Floral Park, L.I., and Gertrude Donecker of Southampton, L.I.; and four grandchildren.
A funeral service will be held at 10 A.M. Tuesday at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Garden City.
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