George E. Waldo

George Ernest Waldo (born January 11, 1851 in Brooklyn , New York , † June 16, 1942 in Pasadena , California ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1905 and 1909 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

George Ernest Waldo was born about three years after the end of the Mexican-American War in the then still independent city of Brooklyn and grew up there. During this time he attended public schools there and in Scotland ( Connecticut ). Then he went to Doctor Fitch's Academy in South Windham , Natchaug High School in Willimantic and studied for two years at Cornell University in Ithaca . He was in the senior class of 1872. He then studied law in New York City . He was admitted to the bar in 1876 in Poughkeepsie and then practiced from 1876 to 1883 in New York City and from 1883 to 1889 in Ulysses ( Nebraska ). Waldo was a village attorney in Ulysses for several years . He was a member of the Baord of Trustees and principal of Ulysses High School for four years . In 1889 he returned to New York City. He then sat in the New York State Assembly in 1896 . Between 1899 and 1904 he was Commissioner of Records in Kings County .

Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party . In 1900 he attended the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia . In the congressional elections of 1904 Waldo was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Edward Bassett on March 4, 1905 . A re-election took place in 1906 . Since it to submit a bid again two years later abandoned, he retired from the after March 3, 1909 Congress of.

He then returned to practice as a lawyer in New York City. In 1913 he moved to Los Angeles and from there five years later to Pasadena, where he continued his previous work. He died in Pasadena on June 16, 1942 during World War II . His body was cremated and the ashes were interred in New Cemetery , Scotland.

Web links

• George E. Waldo in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• George E. Waldo in the database of Find a Grave (English)