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Wilson (politician)">Frank E. Wilson</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/George_E._Waldo" title="George E. Waldo">George E. 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He also served one term as a <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. Representative</a> for <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a> from 1903 to 1905. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_Bassett&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bassett was born on February 7, 1863, in <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Brooklyn, New York">Brooklyn, New York</a>, son of merchant Charles R. Bassett and Elvira Rogers Bassett. He attended <a href="/wiki/Hamilton_College_(New_York)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hamilton College (New York)">Hamilton College</a> and <a href="/wiki/Amherst_College" title="Amherst College">Amherst College</a>, graduating from the latter in 1884. While at Amherst he was elected to <a href="/wiki/Phi_Beta_Kappa" title="Phi Beta Kappa">Phi Beta Kappa</a> and joined the <a href="/wiki/Delta_Upsilon" title="Delta Upsilon">Delta Upsilon</a> fraternity. From 1884 to 1886 he attended <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University_Law_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Columbia University Law School">Columbia University Law School</a>, and taught at a private school run by R. D. Dodge in Brooklyn. In 1886 Bassett graduated from Columbia and was <a href="/wiki/Admission_to_the_bar_in_the_United_States" title="Admission to the bar in the United States">admitted to the bar</a>, and began practicing law in <a href="/wiki/Buffalo,_New_York" title="Buffalo, New York">Buffalo, New York</a>. He married Annie R. Preston on May 14, 1890, and they had five children together: Marion P. Bassett; inventor and engineer <a href="/wiki/Preston_Bassett" title="Preston Bassett">Preston Bassett</a>; geologist <a href="/wiki/Isabel_Bassett_Wasson" title="Isabel Bassett Wasson">Isabel Bassett Wasson</a>; Howard M. Bassett; and Helen B. Hauser.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_Bassett&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After returning to New York City in 1892 to practice law, Bassett served on the Brooklyn School Board from 1899 to 1901 and chaired the Local School Board from 1901 to 1903. </p><p>In 1903 Bassett was elected as a <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democrat</a> to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">United States House of Representatives</a>, representing <a href="/wiki/New_York%27s_5th_congressional_district" title="New York's 5th congressional district">New York's 5th congressional district</a>. He served one term from March 4, 1903, to March 3, 1905,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but declined to run for reelection so he could serve at the local level. Major projects he worked on included <a href="/wiki/Bankruptcy_in_the_United_States" title="Bankruptcy in the United States">bankruptcy law</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Panama_Canal" title="Panama Canal">Panama Canal</a>, advocating a canal route through <a href="/wiki/Nicaragua" title="Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a>, and opposing high <a href="/wiki/Tariff_in_American_history" class="mw-redirect" title="Tariff in American history">tariffs</a>. </p><p>In 1907 Bassett was appointed by Governor <a href="/wiki/Charles_Evans_Hughes" title="Charles Evans Hughes">Charles Evans Hughes</a> to the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Public_Service_Commission" title="New York Public Service Commission">New York Public Service Commission</a>, where he served until 1911. During this time he aided in the development of the <a href="/wiki/Dual_Contracts" title="Dual Contracts">Dual Contracts</a> (also called the dual subway plan) for the <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Subway" title="New York City Subway">New York City Subway</a>, which resulted in subways connecting <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a> for the first time, and he also championed the streamlining of train movement by abolishing stub-end terminals in favor of the "pendulum" method of train movement.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was vice-chairman of the Brooklyn Committee on City Plan, for which a report was published in 1914. He was chairman of the Heights of Buildings Commission in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, the final report of which 1916 presented the first <a href="/wiki/Zoning" title="Zoning">Zoning</a> Resolution of the City of New York, which was the first comprehensive zoning ordinance in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>. He consequently served posts of counsel to the Zoning Committee of New York, the <a href="/wiki/Regional_Plan_Association" title="Regional Plan Association">Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Planning_Commission" class="mw-redirect" title="New York City Planning Commission">New York City Planning Commission</a>. A member of the Advisory Committee on City Planning and Zoning, Bassett was appointed by then U.S. Commerce Department Secretary <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Hoover" title="Herbert Hoover">Herbert Hoover</a> to serve as president of the National Conference on City Planning. Two articles written to commemorate the centennial of the first New York zoning ordinance in 1916 highlighted his role in its creation." <a href="/wiki/Carl_Weisbrod" title="Carl Weisbrod">Carl Weisbrod</a>, the current chairman of the City Planning Commission,] credited Mr. McAneny and Mr. Bassett with creating a revolutionary document couched in accepted common-law and constitutional doctrines: that landowners are not entirely free to create nuisances to those around them; and that local governments may police conduct in the name of public health, safety and welfare."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Bassett (1863- 1948) served as chairman for both zoning commissions and has been called the “father” and “midwife” of American zoning for the prominent role he played in establishing New York's code and helping to institute the system around the country."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Most of Bassett's work, both private and on committees, concerned city planning, zoning and the legal issues surrounding these fields. Bassett is credited with developing the "<a href="/wiki/Freeway" class="mw-redirect" title="Freeway">freeway</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Parkway" title="Parkway">parkway</a>" concepts, and for coining the term "<a href="/wiki/Freeway" class="mw-redirect" title="Freeway">freeway</a>" to describe a controlled-access urban highway, based on the parkway concept but open to commercial traffic.<sup id="cite_ref-bassett_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bassett-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Swift_Page_110_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Swift_Page_110-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bassett authored the 1936 book <i>Zoning</i>, published by the <a href="/wiki/Russell_Sage_Foundation" title="Russell Sage Foundation">Russell Sage Foundation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Edward_Murray_Bassett_standing_%26_smiling,_1930.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Edward_Murray_Bassett_standing_%26_smiling%2C_1930.png/220px-Edward_Murray_Bassett_standing_%26_smiling%2C_1930.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="365" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Edward_Murray_Bassett_standing_%26_smiling%2C_1930.png/330px-Edward_Murray_Bassett_standing_%26_smiling%2C_1930.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Edward_Murray_Bassett_standing_%26_smiling%2C_1930.png/440px-Edward_Murray_Bassett_standing_%26_smiling%2C_1930.png 2x" data-file-width="983" data-file-height="1632" /></a><figcaption>Edward Murray Bassett standing & smiling, 1930</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_Bassett&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bassett died in <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>, Kings County, New York, on October 27, 1948, at the age of 85. He is buried at Ashfield Plains Cemetery, <a href="/wiki/Ashfield,_Massachusetts" title="Ashfield, Massachusetts">Ashfield, Massachusetts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_Bassett&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Schäfer-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Schäfer_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFSchäfer2000" class="citation book cs1">Schäfer, Axel R. 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Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. p. 137. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9783515074612" title="Special:BookSources/9783515074612"><bdi>9783515074612</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=American+Progressives+and+German+Social+Reform%2C+1875-1920%3A+Social+Ethics%2C+Moral+Control%2C+and+the+Regulatory+State+in+a+Transatlantic+Context&rft.place=Stuttgart&rft.pages=137&rft.pub=Franz+Steiner+Verlag&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=9783515074612&rft.aulast=Sch%C3%A4fer&rft.aufirst=Axel+R.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DVHC2nIqWl48C%26pg%3DPA137&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEdward+Bassett" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/10/28/96436153.html?pageNumber=29">"Edward Bassett, 'Father' of Zoning"</a>. <i>New York Times</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 21,</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Edward+Bassett&rft.pub=Govtrack+US+Congress&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.govtrack.us%2Fcongress%2Fmembers%2Fedward_bassett%2F401221&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEdward+Bassett" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bassett, E.M. Autobiography of Edward M. Bassett. Harbor Press, New York, 1939. Chapter XIII (pp. 107-115). 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In Mauch, Christof & Zeller, Thomas (eds.). <i>The World Beyond the Windshield: Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe</i>. 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(eds.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2570821">"Communal Decency in Democracy?"</a>. <i>Social Forces</i>. <b>16</b> (3): 432–434. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F2570821">10.2307/2570821</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0037-7732">0037-7732</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Social+Forces&rft.atitle=Communal+Decency+in+Democracy%3F&rft.volume=16&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=432-434&rft.date=1938&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F2570821&rft.issn=0037-7732&rft.aulast=Brooks&rft.aufirst=Lee+M.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F2570821&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEdward+Bassett" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/basset-bastin.html">"Edward Bassett"</a>. The Political Graveyard<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 21,</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Edward+Bassett&rft.pub=The+Political+Graveyard&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fpoliticalgraveyard.com%2Fbio%2Fbasset-bastin.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEdward+Bassett" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_Bassett&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Wilhelm, Carl. <i>Bassett shaped Gotham's towers.</i> <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Eagle" title="Brooklyn Eagle">Brooklyn Eagle</a>, May 9, 1926, p. 10.</li> <li>Bassett, E.M. <i>The master plan, with a discussion of the theory of community land planning legislation.</i> New York: Russell Sage foundation, 1938.</li> <li>Bassett, E. M. <i>Zoning.</i> New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1936</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130703112628/http://www.planning.org/awards/pioneers.htm">List of National Planning Pioneers, American Planning Association</a></li> <li><i>Milestones in American City Planning: from the Plan of Chicago to the Crash.</i> National Building Museum, Spring 1992.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_Bassett&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco94/genealogy/acbiorecord/1884.html">Amherst College graduates, 1884</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070310160506/http://www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco94/genealogy/acbiorecord/1884.html">Archived</a> March 10, 2007, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/freeway.cfm">U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (FWA)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM02708.html">Cornell University, Guide to the Edward M. Bassett Papers, 1892-1948, Collection Number: 2708</a></li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Frank_E._Wilson_(politician)" title="Frank E. Wilson (politician)">Frank E. Wilson</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Member of the <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_representatives_from_New_York" title="List of United States representatives from New York">U.S. House of Representatives</a> <br />from <span data-sort-value="New York05 !"><a href="/wiki/New_York%27s_5th_congressional_district" title="New York's 5th congressional district">New York's 5th congressional district</a></span> </b><br />March 4, 1903 to March 3, 1905 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/George_E._Waldo" title="George E. Waldo">George E. 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