Samuel J. Foley (politician)

Samuel J. Foley (July 10, 1862 – June 25, 1922) was an American politician from New York.

[1][2] The family emigrated to the United States when Samuel was still a child.

In 1876, he began to work as a buyer for a dry-goods exporting firm.

He died on June 25, 1922, in a sanitarium in Central Islip, Suffolk County, New York.

[5] His son, also named Samuel J. Foley (1891–1951), was Bronx County District Attorney from to 1933 to 1950, and a Bronx County Judge from 1950 until his death.