Editing Glens Falls, New York (section)

==Notable people==<!--consensus reached to standardize this heading per WP:WikiProject Cities/US Guideline -->
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* [[George S. Brown (minister)|George S. Brown]] (1801–1886) – first African American pastor in the former Troy Annual Conference<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Thompson |first=Patricia J. |date=2021 |title=Sermon in Stone. Rev. George S. Brown: Stone Wall Builder, Missionary to Liberia, and African American Methodist Pastor in Antebellum Vermont |url=https://vermonthistory.org/journal/89/V8902SermonInStone.pdf |journal=Vermont History: The Proceedings of the [[Vermont Historical Society]] |volume=89 |issue=2 |pages=91–117}}</ref>
* [[Joseph Bruno]] – former Majority Leader of [[New York State Senate]]; born in Glens Falls<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.northcountrygazette.org/2009/01/23/bruno_indicted|title=Former NY Sen. Joseph Bruno Indicted|publisher=North Country Gazette|date=January 23, 2009|access-date=July 15, 2009 }}{{dead link|date=May 2017|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
* [[George H. Chase]] (1843–1918) - Member of the [[1st Arizona State Legislature]].
* [[Bradshaw Crandell]] - illustrator and [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] portrait artist; born in Glens Falls
* [[Douglass Crockwell]] (1904–1968) - artist and filmmaker (''Glens Falls Sequence'', 1946); moved to Glens Falls in 1933
* [[John Alden Dix]] – 41st governor of New York (1911–1913), born in Glens Falls<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=b9174025c2d4b010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD |title=New York Governor John Alden Dix |publisher=National Governors Association |access-date=July 15, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080530152105/http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=b9174025c2d4b010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD|archive-date=May 30, 2008}}</ref>
* [[Laura Don]] – born Anna Laura Fish at Glens Falls, actress-manager and playwright<ref>Laura Don Dead. The New York Times February 5, 1886, p. 5</ref>
* [[Jim Duggan|"Hacksaw" Jim Duggan]] – professional wrestler of [[Universal Wrestling Federation (United States)|Mid-South]], [[WWE|WWF]] and [[World Championship Wrestling|WCW]] fame, Glens Falls native<ref name="DugganGF">{{cite news|title='Hacksaw' Jim Duggan to WWE Hall of Fame|last=Woodworth|first=Gordon|date=February 24, 2011|publisher=The Chronicle|page=7}}</ref>
* [[Lisa Eichhorn]] – actress, born in Glens Falls<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.broadway.com/buzz/157961/lisa-eichhorn-it-girl-of-70s-cinema-on-returning-to-the-london-stage-in-cool-hand-luke/|title=Lisa Eichhorn, 'It' Girl of '70s Cinema, on Returning to the London Stage in Cool Hand Luke|publisher=Broadway.com|date=October 5, 2012|access-date=July 1, 2019|last1=Wolf|first1=Matt|archive-date=July 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190702005527/https://www.broadway.com/buzz/157961/lisa-eichhorn-it-girl-of-70s-cinema-on-returning-to-the-london-stage-in-cool-hand-luke/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Warren Angus Ferris]] (1810–1873) – explorer of the American West and early surveyor of [[Dallas]]
* [[George Fitch (Wisconsin politician)|George Fitch]] – member of the [[Wisconsin State Senate]]
* [[Jimmer Fredette]] – former [[combo guard]] for [[Brigham Young University]]'s [[BYU Cougars men's basketball|basketball team]] and consensus [[2010–11 NCAA Division I men's basketball season|2011]] college player of the year; Glens Falls native<ref name="Fredette">{{cite web|url=http://www.byucougars.com/Profile.jsp?ID=3062|title=Men's Basketball Athlete Profile – Jimmer Fredette|publisher=BYUCougars.com|access-date=January 3, 2011|archive-date=June 2, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110602115050/http://www.byucougars.com/Profile.jsp?ID=3062|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Joseph Girard III]] – [[college basketball]] player for [[Clemson University]]
* [[Ferris Greenslet]] – editor of the ''Atlantic Monthly'' (1902–07),<ref>{{cite web|title=Ferris Greenslet|url=http://www.bartleby.com/library/bios/2702.html|website=Bartleby.com|access-date=9 January 2017|archive-date=January 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170109185432/http://www.bartleby.com/library/bios/2702.html|url-status=live}}</ref> born in Glens Falls<ref>{{cite book |jstor=25080532|title=Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society – Third Series, Vol. 72 (October 1957–December 1960)|last=Laughlin|first=Henry A.}}</ref>
* [[Carlyle Harris]] – convicted murderer; executed in 1893 for poisoning his wife
* [[Lionel Hitchman]] – professional hockey player, 1929 Stanley Cup champion, died in Glens Falls<ref>{{cite news|last1=Stubbs|first1=Dave|title=Bruins legend Hitchman deserves Hall recognition|url=https://www.nhl.com/news/lionel-hitchman-worthy-of-hockey-hall-of-fame/c-279063520|access-date=17 January 2017|publisher=NHL.com|date=February 22, 2016|archive-date=January 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118052127/https://www.nhl.com/news/lionel-hitchman-worthy-of-hockey-hall-of-fame/c-279063520|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Charles Evans Hughes]] – Governor of New York (1907–1910), presidential candidate (1916), and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1930–1941); born in Glens Falls<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=21864025c2d4b010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD |title=New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes |publisher=National Governors Association |access-date=July 15, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091209050446/http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=21864025c2d4b010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD |archive-date=December 9, 2009 }}</ref>
* [[Thomas M. Jacobs]] – Olympic Nordic skier<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.insideedgeskiandbike.com/about.cfm|title=About Us - Inside Edge Ski and Bike|website=www.insideedgeskiandbike.com|access-date=August 23, 2010|archive-date=March 30, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100330103037/http://www.insideedgeskiandbike.com/about.cfm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Frederick Avery Johnson]] – Member of Congress, village president<ref>{{cite web|title=JOHNSON, Frederick Avery (1833 - 1893)|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000131|website=Biographical Directory of the US Congress|access-date=17 January 2017|archive-date=January 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118052943/http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000131|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Dave LaPoint]] – retired [[Major League Baseball]] pitcher and [[1982 World Series]] champion; owner of Dave LaPoint's Pitchers bar formerly on South Street; [[Glens Falls High School]] graduate<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=lapoida01|title=Dave LaPoint Stats|publisher=Baseball Almanac|access-date=November 6, 2012|archive-date=November 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120063736/https://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=lapoida01|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Betty Little]] – State Senator serving 45th Senate District (includes Glens Falls); born in Glens Falls but resides in Queensbury<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nysenate.gov/senator/elizabeth-little/bio |title=Betty Little's Biography |publisher=New York State Senate |access-date=July 15, 2009 |archive-date=May 27, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090527013117/http://www.nysenate.gov/senator/elizabeth-little/bio |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Rob Loughan]] – entrepreneur and investor<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/15/AR2009061502227.html|title=mocoNews - Antenna Software Quietly Buys Mobile Enterprise Software Company Dexterra|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2009-06-15|first=Tricia|last=Duryee|date=June 15, 2009|archive-date=September 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916130619/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/15/AR2009061502227.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Peter Mahovlich]] – retired All-Star hockey player; was on four [[Stanley Cup]]-winning teams; member of [[Canada's Sports Hall of Fame]]; resides in Glens Falls<ref>Atlanta Thrashers: [http://thrashers.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=35574 Hockey Operations Staff] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100807211042/http://thrashers.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=35574 |date=August 7, 2010 }} June 6, 2010</ref>
* [[Barry Melrose]] – former head coach of the [[NHL]]'s [[Tampa Bay Lightning]] and [[Los Angeles Kings]], television commentator, former co-owner of [[Adirondack Frostbite]] UHL team and former coach of [[Adirondack Red Wings]] AHL team, both of which were based in Glens Falls
* [[Lorrie Moore]] – [[O. Henry Award]]-winning author<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.pshares.org/issues/fall-1998/about-lorrie-moore-profile|title=About Lorrie Moore: A Profile|first=Don|last=Lee|date=Fall 1998|issue=76|journal=Ploughshares|language=en|access-date=July 10, 2018|isbn=0933277237|archive-date=July 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200730000719/https://www.pshares.org/issues/fall-1998/about-lorrie-moore-profile|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Scott Murphy]] – [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] (2009–2011) for [[New York's 20th congressional district]],<ref name="Murphy1">{{cite news|url=http://www.newsweek.com/2010/11/03/the-anatomy-of-one-democrat-s-loss.html|title=The Anatomy of One Democrat's Loss: Murphy's Law|last=Romano|first=Andrew|work=Newsweek|access-date=January 3, 2011|archive-date=November 7, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101107060108/http://www.newsweek.com/2010/11/03/the-anatomy-of-one-democrat-s-loss.html|url-status=live}}</ref> which includes Glens Falls; Murphy also lives in Glens Falls<ref name="Murphy2">{{cite web|url=http://www.troyrecord.com/articles/2010/12/11/news/doc4d031e0ccd90a036403943.txt|last=Donges|first=Patrick H.|title=Congressman Scott Murphy's Saratoga Springs district office is still open|publisher=The Record|access-date=January 3, 2011|archive-date=March 8, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308031625/http://www.troyrecord.com/articles/2010/12/11/news/doc4d031e0ccd90a036403943.txt|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Algernon Sidney Paddock]] – Secretary of Nebraska Territory and Governor of Nebraska; United States Senator; born in Glens Falls<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930154617/http://www.nebraskahistory.org/lib-arch/research/manuscripts/politics/algernon-paddock.htm Nebraska State Historical Society]}}: Biography of Algernon Paddock</ref>
* [[David Palmer (baseball)|Dave Palmer]] – retired [[Major League Baseball]] pitcher<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/palmeda01.shtml?redir|title=David Palmer Statistics & History|publisher=Sports Reference, LLC|access-date=March 24, 2011|archive-date=November 10, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110200902/http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/palmeda01.shtml?redir|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Johnny Podres]] – pitcher for the [[Brooklyn Dodgers|Brooklyn]] and [[Los Angeles Dodgers|Los Angeles]] Dodgers; retired to Glens Falls region{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}}
* [[Edward C. Prescott]] – 2004 Nobel Prize in Economics, Glens Falls High School class of 1958{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}}
* [[Edgar Preston Richardson]] – art historian and director of the [[Detroit Institute of Arts]] and [[Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015 |title=Biographical Note {{!}} A Finding Aid to the E.P. (Edgar Preston) and Constance Richardson papers, 1814-1996, bulk 1921-1996 |url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/ep-edgar-preston-and-constance-richardson-papers-10104/biographical-note |access-date=2022-08-14 |website=[[Archives of American Art]], [[Smithsonian Institution]] |language=en |archive-date=August 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815125815/https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/ep-edgar-preston-and-constance-richardson-papers-10104/biographical-note |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Ed Reulbach]] – MLB pitcher with the [[Chicago Cubs]] during the early 1900s; [[1907 World Series|1907]] and [[1908 World Series]] champion; died in Glens Falls<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/reulbed01.shtml|title=Ed Reulbach Stats|website=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=March 27, 2018|archive-date=December 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171205215607/https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/reulbed01.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Robert Rheinlander]] – noted architect and designer of several prominent Glens Falls buildings<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/NY/Warren/state.html|title=National Register of Historical Places - NEW YORK (NY), Warren County|website=www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com|access-date=July 5, 2018|archive-date=July 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723063334/http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/ny/warren/state.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/north-adams-transcript-jul-07-1961-p-3/|title=North Adams Transcript Archives, Jul 7, 1961, p. 3|date=July 7, 1961|website=NewspaperArchive.com|access-date=July 5, 2018|archive-date=April 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220415052918/https://newspaperarchive.com/north-adams-transcript-jul-07-1961-p-3/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Rochelle Saidel]] – author, activist, and founder of the [[Remember the Women|Remember the Women Institute]]
* [[Powel J. Smith]] – member of the New York State Assembly, City Chamberlain
* [[Gerald B. H. Solomon]] – United States Representative from New York (1979–1999)<ref>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000675 SOLOMON, Gerald Brooks Hunt (1930–2001)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100709041743/http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000675 |date=July 9, 2010 }}, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress</ref>
* [[Kate White]] – former editor-in-chief of ''[[Cosmopolitan Magazine]]''; identifies Glens Falls as her hometown<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a9712.asp|title=So What Do You Do, Kate White, Editor-In-Chief, Cosmopolitan?|publisher=mediabistro.com|last=Clehane|first=Diane|date=May 31, 2007|access-date=July 17, 2009|archive-date=June 5, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090605094417/http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a9712.asp|url-status=live}}</ref>