Edwin Einstein

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Edwin Einstein (born November 18, 1842 in Cincinnati , Ohio , † January 24, 1905 in New York City ) was an American politician . Between 1879 and 1881 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edwin Einstein was born in Cincinnati about four years before the outbreak of the Mexican-American War . The Einstein family moved to New York City in 1846. He worked there as an office worker ( clerk ) in a store ( store ). Einstein received an academic education from City College of New York and then attended Union College , but did not graduate. Then he went about commercial business. Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party .

In the congressional elections of 1878 for the 46th Congress he was elected in the seventh constituency of New York to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Anthony Eickhoff on March 4, 1879 . Since he on a run again in 1880 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1881 Congress of.

Einstein ran unsuccessfully for the post of Mayor of New York City in 1892. In 1895 he was Dock Commissioner in New York City. He played an important role in a number of holding companies and woolen mills. He died on January 24, 1905 in New York City and was then buried in Shearith Israel Cemetery in Brooklyn .

Web links

  • Edwin Einstein in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)