Otto G. Foelker

Otto G. Foelker

Otto Godfrey Foelker (born December 29, 1875 in Mainz , German Empire , † January 18, 1943 in Oakland , California ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1908 and 1911 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

The Foelker family immigrated to the United States in 1888 and settled in Troy, New York. Otto Godfrey Foelker attended public schools there. He then moved to Brooklyn in December 1895. Foelker studied law at the New York Law School . After receiving his license to practice bar in 1908, he began practicing in Brooklyn. He served in the New York State Assembly in 1905 and 1906 and in the New York Senate in 1907 and 1908 . Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party . He was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC on November 3, 1908, in the third electoral district of New York , to fill the vacancy created by the death of Charles T. Dunwell . He was re-elected for a full term in the US House of Representatives, but declined in 1910 to submit a bid again and retired after the March 3, 1911 Congress of. He then moved to California, where he again worked as a lawyer in Oakland. He died there on January 18, 1943 and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery .

Web links

• Otto G. Foelker in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Otto G. Foelker in the database of Find a Grave (English)