Alexander Hamilton Garnjost (January 5, 1894 – July 2, 1937) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
After he was admitted to the bar, he worked with the firm Geller, Rolston & Blanc in New York City.
[1] In 1923, Garnjost was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Republican, representing the Westchester County 4th District.
[11] While in the Assembly, he proved crucial in passing legislation that provided for the electrification of the Yonker's branch of the New York Central Railroad's Putman Division, introduced legislation on insurance laws, forced extension of emergency rent legislation in Yonkers, aided tenants during an acute house shortage, obtained higher salaries and shorter hours for policemen in the county, supported old age pension, worked for income tax reduction, and advocated a tax on gas and the repeal the state's direct property tax and the decadent estate law.
[3] Garnjost died in St. John's Riverside Hospital, where he suffered a relapse while recovering from an emergency appendectomy a week previously, on July 2, 1937.