Charles L. Craig

Charles Lacy Craig was the New York City Comptroller from 1918 to 1925.

Biography

He was born March 9, 1872, in Arcola, Illinois. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis. He attended and graduated from Columbia University Law School.
In 1921 he was convicted for contempt of court and received a 60-day jail sentence for criticizing federal judge Julius Mayer and that conviction was upheld by the New York Supreme Court in 1923, but remitted by President Coolidge that year.
He died on August 7, 1935, at the Hotel Senator in Sacramento, California.