Edward Bassett

Edward Bassett (1914)

Edward Murray Bassett (born February 7, 1863 in Brooklyn , New York , † October 27, 1948 there ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1903 and 1905 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edward Murray Bassett was born and raised in the then still independent city of Brooklyn during the Civil War . During this time he attended public schools there and in Watertown . Then he went to Hamilton College in Clinton in 1881 and 1882 . He graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts in 1884 and Columbia Law School in New York City in 1886 . He was admitted to the bar that same year and then began practicing in Buffalo . In 1892 he moved to New York City, where he continued his practice as a lawyer. Between 1899 and 1903 he was a member of the Brooklyn School Board. Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

In the 1902 congressional elections , Bassett was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Frank E. Wilson on March 4, 1903 . Since it to submit a bid again two years later abandoned, he retired from the after 3 March 1905 Congress of.

Bassett resumed his practice as a lawyer. Between 1907 and 1911 he was on the New York Public Service Commission . He chaired the Heights of Buildings Commission between 1913 and 1915 and the Zoning Commission between 1916 and 1917 . In 1922, Minister of Commerce Herbert Hoover appointed him to the Advisory Committee on Zoning of the Ministry of Commerce. Bassett wrote treatises among other things on the topics bankruptcy , expropriation ( eminent domain ) and police violence ( police power ). He died about three years after the end of World War II on October 27, 1948 and was then buried in Ashfield Plains Cemetery in Ashfield, Massachusetts.

Web links

• Edward Bassett in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Edward Bassett in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Graduation from 1884 at Amherst College ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ National Planning Pioneers, 1986-2009 ( Memento of the original of July 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Richard F. Weingroff: Edward M. Bassett - The Man Who Gave us "Freeway"
4. ↑ Guide to the Edward M. Bassett Papers, 1892-1948, Collection Number: 2708 , Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library