Herman A. Metz

Herman Metz is a redirect to this article. For other people see Hermann Metz .

1904 Herman A. Metz

Herman August Metz (born October 19, 1867 in New York City , † May 17, 1934 in New Rochelle , New York ) was an American businessman and politician . Between 1913 and 1915 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Herman August Metz was born and raised in New York City about two years after the end of the Civil War . During this time he attended public and private schools. He was a manufacturer and importer of dyes, chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Metz sat on the Brooklyn and New York City Education Committees . Between 1906 and 1910 he was the New York City Comptroller . Governor Charles Evans Hughes appointed him to the commission that drafted the New York City Charter in 1907 and 1908. In 1922, Governor Nathan Lewis Miller appointed him to the same commission. Metz was a commissioner on the New York Board of Charities . It was in 1912 by Kings County nominated for the post of governor of New York, but declined in favor of William Sulzer after the second ballot ( ballot ). Metz served in the New York National Guard , where he rose over time from First Lieutenant to Brigadier General of the 14th  Infantry . On February 10, 1916, he married his second wife Alice M. Van Ronk, daughter of Cornelius Van Ronk from New York. Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

In the 1912 congressional elections for the 63rd Congress , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the tenth constituency of New York , where he succeeded William Sulzer on March 4, 1913 . Since he on a run again in 1914 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1915 Congress of.

After his time at Congress, he went about his previous business activities. He attended the Democratic National Conventions as a delegate in 1904, 1908 and 1920 . During World War I he was an Ordnance Officer with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the 27th  Division . He then served as a Colonel in the Ordnance Department of the Officers' Reserve Corps . In 1922 he ran unsuccessfully for the 68th Congress . He died on May 17, 1934 in a New Rochelle hospital and was then buried in Kensico Cemetery , Westchester .

literature

• "The Cyclopaedia of American biography" , Press Association Compilers, 1918, p. 86ff.
• "Wigwam and M'Carren to join in City ticket - Herman A. Metz of Brooklyn likely to get second place," The New York Times, June 29, 1905
• "Dr. Ehrlich's Remedy - Herman A. Metz declares there will be no "606" before Jan. 1. " , The New York Times, November 8, 1910

Web links

• Herman A. Metz in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Herman A. Metz in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Herman A. Metz on the website of ColorantsHistory.Org
• "The Cyclopædia of American Biography" , 1918

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Herman A. Metz Marries," The New York Times, February 11, 1916