Andrew Lawrence Somers

Andrew Lawrence Somers

Andrew Lawrence Somers (born March 21, 1895 in Brooklyn , New York , † April 6, 1949 in St. Albans , New York) was an American politician . Between 1925 and 1949 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Andrew Lawrence Somers attended St. Teresa's Academy in Brooklyn, Brooklyn College Preparatory School , Manhattan College, and New York University in New York City . After that, he pursued businesses with dry paint and chemicals. During World War I , he enlisted on July 18, 1917 as a second class hospital corpsman in the United States Naval Reserve Force . He then served as Ensign in the Naval Reserve Flying Corps and was promoted to naval aviation on September 17, 1918. On September 30, 1918, he went abroad and served there until his honorable discharge on March 4, 1919. Politically, he is a member of the Democratic Party . He took part in 1928 as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Houston .

In the 1924 congressional elections he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Charles I. Stengle on March 4, 1925 . He has been re-elected ten times in a row. In 1944 he ran for a seat in Congress in the 10th electoral district of New York. After a successful election, he succeeded Emanuel Celler on January 3, 1945 . He was re-elected once, but died on April 6, 1949 in St. Albans. As a Congressman, he chaired the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures ( 72nd to 78th Congress ), the Committee on Mines and Mining ( 79th Congress ), and the Committee on Public Lands ( 81st Congress ). His body was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Web links

• Andrew Lawrence Somers in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Andrew Lawrence Somers in the database of Find a Grave (English)