caption death_date death_place predecessor birth_place successor children party office birth_date term spouse image article_title name
portrait of john b. manning 28 april 1908 brooklyn , new york harmon s. cutting albany , new york jonathan scoville seven children democratic mayor of buffalo july 13 , 1833 january 1883 -- 1884 married twice ; elizabeth house , marie schrewnk 1883mannings.jpg john b. manning
 john b. manning
john b. manning

john baker manning -lrb- 1833 -- 1908 -rrb- was mayor of the city of buffalo , new york , serving during january 1883 -- 1884 , in the aftermath of the resignation of grover cleveland .
he was born july 13 , 1833 , in albany , new york .
when a child , he served as a page in the new york state assembly and new york state senate .
he married elizabeth house on january 14 , 1856 ; after her death in 1894 , in 1897 he married marie schrewnk .
in 1860 -- 1862 , he was the albany correspondent for the `` brooklyn eagle . ''
several years later , he moved to buffalo and established his commission and malting businesses there .
manning was elected mayor in a special election held on january 9 , 1883 , as the democratic candidate .
he continued the string of vetoes begun by mayor grover cleveland ; they saved the city a great financial loss .
manning retired from politics after losing his campaign for re-election .
he continued to grow and expand the malting business and built several grain elevators in the 1890s , each with a large storage capacity .
on may 30 , 1902 , the largest fire black rock had ever seen consumed manning 's frontier canada plant .
he died on april 28 , 1908 at brooklyn , new york and is buried in forest lawn cemetery .
