Perry Belmont Duryea (June 9, 1891 – November 9, 1968) was an American businessman and politician from New York.
He was born on June 9, 1891, in New York City,[2] the son of Carll Smith Duryea (1859–1911) and Almyra J. Howell (1858–1913).
[3] Duryea was elected on November 4, 1941, to the New York State Senate (1st D.), to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George L. Thompson, and took his seat in the 163rd New York State Legislature in January 1942.
He resigned his seat on April 11, 1945, and was appointed by Governor Thomas E. Dewey as New York State Commissioner of Conservation.
[4] He remained in that office until the end of the Dewey administration in 1954; and was appointed by Dewey on December 31, 1954, as one of the employers' representatives to the New York State Advisory Council on Employment and Unemployment Insurance.