Gottfried H. Wende

Wende was appointed a member of the Code and Military Affairs committees by Speaker James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.[2] He also served in the 1910, 1911 and 1912.

[5] Reportedly, New York Governor Al Smith's favorite story involved Wende and took place when both were members of the Assembly:[6] "Serving in the state legislature, he [Smith] was involved in a floor debate with three Republican representatives: Ed Merritt, Fred Hammond, and Jesse Phillips.

As the discussion grew heated, an assemblyman from Buffalo, Gottfried Wende, asked the privilege of interrupting.

Wende's addition to the proceedings, breathed with the air of a town crier announcing the results of a critical battle, was the declaration, 'Mr.

If the speakers thought that they were humiliating Al Smith, bring him up short with their pedigrees, they most definitely underestimated the man's quickness of wit.

[9] Together, they were the parents of four children, including: Wende died at his home in Buffalo, New York on December 3, 1933.