Courtlandt Nicoll

Courtlandt Nicoll (December 2, 1880, in New York City – September 20, 1938, in Water Mill, Suffolk County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Early life He was the son of Benjamin Nicoll (1855–1921) and Grace Davison (née Lord) Nicoll. His younger sister, Elsie Nicoll (1887–1947), married John Sloane, Jr. (1883–1971), chairman of W. & J. Sloane, in 1917. His father was a coal and steel merchant who, upon his 1921 death, left his estate three-fifths to Courtlandt and two-fifths to his sister Elsie, after providing for a $850,000 trust for their mother.

His paternal grandparents were Solomon Townsend Nicoll (1813–1864) and Charlotte Anne Nicoll (1827–1891). Nicoll's uncle was De Lancey Nicoll (1854–1931), the New York County District Attorney. He was a direct descendant of Matthias Nicoll, an English lawyer, who emigrated to America with his uncle, Sir Richard Nicholls, the first Governor of the English Province of New York following Dutch rule under Peter Stuyvesant, in 1664.

Career He was an Alderman (28th D.) of New York City from 1911 to 1913.

Nicoll was a member of the New York State Senate (17th D.) in 1918; and was Chairman of the Committee on Penal Institutions.

He was again a member of the State Senate in 1925 and 1926. In 1925, he sponsored legislation which forced New York City to use voting machines at subsequent elections. In November 1926, he was defeated for re-election by Democrat Abraham Greenberg. At the opening of the next session in January 1927, Nicoll contested Greenberg's election, but after long drawn out proceedings Greenberg's election was upheld in February 1928.

Personal life On April 19, 1911, he married Ione Page (d. 1940), and a delegate to the New York State Convention to Ratify the 21st Amendment in 1933. She was the daughter of Howard Page (d. 1925), who was associated with the Standard Oil Company, and Mildred A. (née Mitchell) Page (d. 1937). Courtlandt Nicoll Jr. (1916–1995), who married Kathryna Hoffman Ray (1924–2004) in 1944. They divorced and he married Nancy C. Woods (b. 1927) in 1958. Eileen Nicoll (1922–2001), who married Floyd Kirk Haskell (1916–1998), who later served as a United States senator from Colorado, in 1941. Benjamin Nicoll (b. 1926)

He was President of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of the City of New York from December 1935 to February 1938. of coronary thrombosis. His widow died on August 9, 1940, after falling down 16 stories from a room in New York Hospital. Her funeral was attended by Mayor LaGuardia and David Rockefeller.