Hubert Delany (1901 - 1990)

Born 11 May 1901 in Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Clarissa Mae (Scott) Delany — married 9 Oct 1926 in District of Columbia, United States

Husband of Willetta Smith — married 19 Sep 1942 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

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Biography

Hubert Delany is Notable.

Hubert Thomas Delany was an American civil rights pioneer, a lawyer, politician, Assistant U.S. Attorney, the first African American Tax Commissioner of New York and one of the first appointed African American judges in New York City. Judge Delany was on the board of Directors for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Harlem YMCA and became an active leader in the Harlem Renaissance. He also served as a Vice President of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

Hubert Delaney, son of Henry Beard Delany^[1] and Nannette James Logan, was born in 1901.^[2] In 1926, in a lavish high society wedding,^[3] he married author Clarissa Mae Scott.^[4] Scott, a poet, essayist and educator, was also a social worker with the National Urban League working to gather statistics for a "Study of Delinquent and Neglected Negro Children." The two were married only one year before Scott died from kidney disease in 1927. His second wife was Willetta Smith.

Judge Delany passed away in 1990^[5] and is buried in Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum in Hartsdale, New York.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Beard_Delany
2. ↑ "United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV5Y-WBFB : 16 March 2018), Hubert Thomas Delany, 1924; citing Passport Application, New York, United States, source certificate #457105, Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925, 2599, NARA microfilm publications M1490 and M1372 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
3. ↑ https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6252656/hubert-and-clarissa-delany-marrypco
4. ↑ "Washington, D.C., U.S., Marriage Records, 1810-1953"
   Ancestry Record 61404 #391006 (accessed 28 October 2021)
   Hubert T Delany (25) marriage to Clarissa Mae Scott on 9 Oct 1926 in District of Columbia, USA.
5. ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JK5G-6Z8 : 7 January 2021), Hubert T Delany, 28 Dec 1990; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
6. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLZ-VQ5M : 13 September 2020), Hubert Thomas Delany, ; Burial, Hartsdale, Westchester, New York, United States of America, Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum; citing record ID 93074399, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ML37-61N : accessed 28 October 2021), Hubert T Delaney in household of Henry B Delaney, Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 111, sheet 5A, family 83, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1136; FHL microfilm 1,375,149.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Thomas_Delany
• https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87936310/hubert-delany-nominee-for-congress-1929/