Lloyd Bryce

Lloyd Bryce (1891)

Lloyd Stephens Bryce (born September 4, 1851 in Flushing , New York , † September 2, 1917 in Mineola , New York) was an American politician . Between 1887 and 1889 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Lloyd Bryce was born and raised in Flushing approximately three years after the end of the Mexican-American War . During this time he attended public schools and Georgetown University in Washington, DC In 1869 he graduated from the University of Oxford in Great Britain . He studied law at Columbia Law School in New York City . Governor David B. Hill then appointed him paymaster general of New York in 1886 and made him brigadier general - a position he held until 1887. Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

In the congressional elections of 1886 for the 50th Congress he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington DC in the seventh constituency of New York, where he succeeded John J. Adams on March 4, 1887 . In 1888 he was defeated in his re-election bid and was eliminated from the after March 3, 1889 Congress of.

Between 1889 and 1896 he published the North American Review . On August 12, 1911, he was appointed to succeed Arthur M. Beaupre as envoy ( Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary ) in Luxembourg and the Netherlands - a position he held until September 10, 1913. Bryce died in Mineola on April 2, 1917 and was then buried in Green-Wood Cemetery , Brooklyn . He was married to Edith Cooper, daughter of Edward Cooper , Mayor of New York City, and granddaughter of industrialist Peter Cooper . On July 31, 1914, their daughter Cornelia married the environmentalist Gifford Pinchot in Roslyn .

Web links

• Lloyd Bryce in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Lloyd Bryce in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Elliott Roosevelt: "FDR: His Personal Letters: 1905-1928" , Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1948, pp. 112, 655f.
2. ^ Allan Nevins: Abram S. Hewitt, with some account of Peter Cooper. Octagon Books, 1967, p. 541.
3. ^ Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (ed.): Director's Report. Issues 56–57, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, 1915, p. 1.
4. ↑ Editor & Publisher. Volume 49, Editor & Publisher Company, 1917, p. 32.
5. ^ Char Miller: Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism . Island Press, 2001, p. 180.