Bernard Shandon Rodey

Bernard Shandon Rodey (1904)

Bernard Shandon Rodey (born March 1, 1856 in County Mayo , Ireland , † March 10, 1927 in Albuquerque , New Mexico ) was an American politician . Between 1901 and 1905 he represented the New Mexico Territory as a delegate in the US House of Representatives .

Early years and advancement

Bernard Rodey emigrated from Ireland to Canada with his parents in 1862 . He attended public schools in the province of Québec . After moving to Massachusetts , he studied law in Boston . In 1881 he moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico Territory. There he became the private secretary to the head of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company . In 1882 he was also a stenographer at the Court of the Second Legal District. After his admission to the bar in 1883, he began to work in this profession in Albuquerque. Between 1887 and 1888 he was the legal representative of his new hometown.

Congress delegate

Bernard Rodey became a member of the Republican Party . In 1889 he was elected to the territorial senate; a year later he was a member of the New Mexico Constituent Assembly. In the congressional elections of 1900 Rodey was elected as his party's candidate for a delegate to the US House of Representatives, where he replaced Pedro Perea on March 4, 1901 . After a re-election in 1902, he was able to exercise his mandate until March 3, 1905. In 1904 he unsuccessfully applied for another term. He lost in his party's primary to William Henry Andrews .

Another résumé

In 1906, Rodey was named federal district judge for Puerto Rico by President Theodore Roosevelt . He held this office as the successor to Charles F. McKenna until 1910. In 1908, Bernard Rodey was a delegate to the Republican National Convention , where William Howard Taft was nominated as a presidential candidate. At this congress, Rodey campaigned for the rapid accession of the future states of New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma to the United States. Between 1910 and 1913, Bernard Rodey was a federal attorney in Alaska . In this capacity he was involved in the investigation into a fraud scandal in the coal industry. He then started his own law firm in Albuquerque.

Web links

• Bernard Shandon Rodey in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Bernard Shandon Rodey in the database of Find a Grave (English)