 In 1913, he became president of the American Cement Corporation, the largest of its kind out side of New York City.Although he lost his bids to become a member of the U.S. Congress and to serve as New York State Governor, Aldridge was a well-known Republican party boss in Rochester and greater New York.During the Republican administration of Governor Charles Seymour Whitman, he was a member of Whitman's "Kitchen Cabinet" and was part of a triumvirate, known as the "Big Three" that once ruled the state with Thomas C. Platt (a U.S.