Ernest R. Ackerman

Ernest R. Ackerman (1920)

Ernest Robinson Ackerman (born June 17, 1863 in New York City , †  October 18, 1931 in Plainfield , New Jersey ) was an American politician . Between 1919 and 1931 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Ernest Ackerman attended public and private schools in Plainfield, where his parents moved with him shortly after he was born. In 1880 he graduated from the local high school. He then worked in cement production. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In 1891 and 1892 he was a member of the Plainfield City Council; from 1905 to 1911 he sat in the Senate of New Jersey , whose president he was in 1911 as the successor to Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen . In 1908 and 1916 Ackerman took part as a delegate at the respective Republican National Conventions . From 1916 to 1920 he was a member of the board of trustees of Rutgers College in New Brunswick . During World War I , he was head of the Union County Food Administration . Ackerman also served on his state's education committee from 1918 to 1920. He was also a member of the New Jersey Geological Survey .

In the 1918 congressional election , Ackerman was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fifth constituency of New Jersey , where he succeeded William F. Birch on March 4, 1919 . After six re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on October 18, 1931 . During his time as a Member of Parliament, the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1919 . It was about the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage . After his death, his seat fell after a special election to the Democrat Percy Hamilton Stewart .

Since 1892 he was married to the Maryland native Nora L. Weber. The marriage remained childless. In September 1907 both took part in the maiden voyage of the RMS Lusitania , the largest ship in the world at that time, from Liverpool to New York.

Web links

• Ernest R. Ackerman in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Ernest R. Ackerman in the database of Find a Grave (English)