Elmer E. Studley

Elmer E. Studley, 1917

Elmer Ebenezer Studley (born September 24, 1869 in East Ashford , New York , †  September 6, 1942 in New York City ) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1935 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Elmer Studley was born on a farm in Cattaraugus County . He attended the public schools in his home country. In 1894 he graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca . In 1894 and 1895 he worked as a reporter for several newspapers in Buffalo . After completing a law degree and being admitted to the bar in 1895, he began to work in this profession in Buffalo. From 1898 to 1899 he took part in the Spanish-American War as a lieutenant in a volunteer infantry unit from New York State . He was used in Cuba .

Between 1899 and 1917, Studley lived in Raton , New Mexico , where he practiced as a lawyer. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party at the time . In 1907 he was a member of the territorial House of Representatives. In the same year he was also a member of the New Mexico Statutory Revision Commission . Between 1909 and 1910 he served as the district attorney in Colfax and Union Counties . Politically, he then joined the Progressive Party founded by former President Theodore Roosevelt . In 1916 he was a delegate to their federal party convention in Chicago . He later switched to the Democrats . Since 1917 Elmer Studley lived in New York City, where he also worked as a lawyer. In 1924 he was Assistant Attorney General of New York; in 1925 and 1926 he was federal commissioner for the eastern part of this state.

In the 1932 congressional elections , Studley was elected as a Democrat in a state-wide constituency of New York to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1933. Since he renounced another candidacy in 1934, he could only complete one term in Congress until January 3, 1935 . During this time, the Roosevelt government's first New Deal laws were passed there. In 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were applied for the first time , according to which the legislative period of the Congress ends or begins on January 3rd. After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, Studley worked again as a lawyer. From February 1935 he was also a member of the Board of Veterans' Appeals . He died on September 6, 1942 in Flushing, New York .

Web links

• Elmer E. Studley in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)