death_date death_place predecessor birth_place cause_of_death successor office birth_date order term_start image article_title term_end name mayor
5 march 1918 queens , new york n/a new york city pneumonia thomas sturgis new york city fire commissioner 1841 1st january 1 , 1898 200px john j. scannell
 december 31 , 1904 john jay scannell thomas f. gilroy
john j. scannell

john jay scannell -lrb- 1841 -- march 5 , 1918 -rrb- was a tammany hall politician who was the leader of the eleventh assembly district .
he was appointed the first new york city fire commissioner of the new consolidated new york city .
