State Historian
Centurion, 1920–1931
Born 13 February 1873 in Baltimore, Maryland
Died 8 October 1931 in Albany, New York
Proposed by John Huston Finley and William A. Dunning
Elected 6 November 1920 at age forty-seven
Century Memorial
By most people, James Sullivan will be remembered as State Historian, an office which he filled at Albany in wartime and for five years afterward. Citizens of New York are not apt to know much of what that office is doing, but one could be sure that Sullivan was using his facilities in every way to promote historical research. He was an untiring worker in the field during all his active life, full of enthusiasm for his subject, and he talked at summer schools not only of history but of how to teach it—which is something that many of our most learned historical instructors have never mastered.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1932 Century Association Yearbook