Joseph C. Hendrix

Joseph C. Hendrix

Joseph Clifford Hendrix (born May 25, 1853 in Fayette , Missouri , † November 9, 1904 in Brooklyn , New York ) was an American politician . Between 1893 and 1895 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joseph Clifford Hendrix attended private schools and between 1870 and 1873 Central College (now Central Methodist University ) in Fayette and Cornell University in Ithaca (New York). Hendrix moved in 1873 to New York City , where he worked for the New York Sun worked. In 1882 he was a member of the Brooklyn Education Committee. The following year he ran unsuccessfully for the office of mayor of the then still independent city of Brooklyn. He was then named trustee of the New York and Brooklyn Bridges in 1884 . The following year he was elected Secretary to the Board of Bridge Trustees . President Grover Cleveland appointed him postmaster in Brooklyn in 1886 , a position he held until July 1, 1890. During this time he held several other offices: from 1887 as President of the Brooklyn Education Committee and from 1889 to 1893 as President of the Kings County Trust Co. He was then President of the National Union Bank of New York City from 1893 to 1900 . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1892 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of New York , where he succeeded William J. Coombs on March 4, 1893 . Since he on a run again in 1894 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1895 Congress of. Hendrix was President of the National Bank of Commerce in 1900 . He then served as a trustee of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and Cornell University. He died on November 9, 1904 in Brooklyn and was then buried in Green-Wood Cemetery .

Web links

• Joseph C. Hendrix in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Joseph C. Hendrix in the database of Find a Grave (English)