George N. Seger

George N. Seger

George Nicholas Seger (born January 4, 1866 in New York City , †  August 26, 1940 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1923 and 1940 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

George Seger attended the public schools in his home country. In 1899 he came to Passaic , New Jersey, where he worked in the construction industry. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . Between 1906 and 1911 he was a member of the Passaic Education Committee; from 1911 to 1919 he was mayor of this city. In 1916 he took part as a delegate at the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where Charles Evans Hughes was nominated as a presidential candidate. In 1917 and 1918, Seger was President of the New Jersey City Council. From 1919 to 1923 he was city treasurer. During the First World War he was a member of the National Defense Council.

In the 1922 congressional election , Seger was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the seventh constituency of New Jersey, where he succeeded Amos H. Radcliffe on March 4, 1923 . After eight re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on August 26, 1940 . Since 1933 he represented the eighth district of his state as the successor to Fred A. Hartley . During his time in Congress, from 1933 onwards, most of the Federal Government's New Deal laws were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . In 1933 the 20th and 21st amendments were ratified.

Web links

• George N. Seger in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• George N. Seger in the database of Find a Grave (English)