Edwin Joseph O'Malley (1881-1953)

Edwin Joseph O'Malley (1881-1953) Commissioner of Public Markets for New York City; and Father of Walter Francis O'Malley who was the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers (b. August 23, 1881, The Bronx, Bronx County, New York, USA - d. April 10, 1953, Amityville, Nassau County, Long Island, New York, USA)

Edwin was the son of Thomas Francis O'Malley (1854-1918) and Georgiana Reynolds (1855-1941) and he was born in the Bronx, New York in 1881. He married Alma Feltner (1883-1940) around 1902 and had one child, a son, Walter Francis O'Malley (1903-1979), who would become the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1950 to 1979, and who would oversee their controversial move from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.

In 1910 Edwin was living in the Bronx, New York and working as a cotton goods salesman. Around 1911 he moved the family from the Bronx to Hollis, Queens. He registered for the draft on September 12, 1918, but did not serve in World War I. He became a Democratic party "ward heeler" for Tammany Hall, and was appointed as the Commissioner of Public Markets for New York City by mayor John F. Hylan. He survived a graft scandal in 1921-1922. He testified on August 18, 1922 before the Kings County, New York Grand Jury, which was investigating the mishandling of the fees paid by vendors to the Public Markets office. He died in Amityville, New York in 1953, aged 73.

Court cases

 * Schumaker v. O'Malley; May 1, 1920
 * Matter of Joerger v. O'Malley; December 1, 1923