George W. Lindsay

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George Washington Lindsay (born March 28, 1865 in Brooklyn , New York , † March 15, 1938 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1923 and 1935 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

George Washington Lindsay, son of Congressman George H. Lindsay , was born in Brooklyn at the end of the Civil War . He attended public schools. Between 1886 and 1892 he was Deputy Coroner in Kings County . Then he went into real estate business. He sat on the Democratic State Committee and headed the Assembly District from 1919 to 1934. He was a Confidential Investigator in the New York State Insurance Department from 1914 to 1920. In 1920 he was elected to the New York State Assembly , but waived re-election. Between 1921 and 1923 he served as Deputy Tenement House Commissioner in Brooklyn and Queens .

Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . In the 1922 congressional elections he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of New York , where he succeeded John Kissel on March 4, 1923 . He was re-elected five times in a row. On his seventh nomination in 1934 but he suffered a defeat and withdrew from the after January 3, 1935 Congress of.

Then he went back to real estate business. He died on March 15, 1938 in Brooklyn and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery .

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