Peter G. Ten Eyck

Peter G. Ten Eyck

Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck (born November 7, 1873 in Bethlehem , New York , † September 2, 1944 in Altamont , New York) was an American politician . Between 1913 and 1915 and between 1921 and 1923 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck was born in Albany County about eight years after the end of the Civil War . He attended community schools in Normansville , the Albany Academy and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy . He then worked in civil engineering and low-voltage technology for 15 years. He worked as a signal engineer for the New York Central Lines . In 1903 he was a senior engineer at the Federal Railway Signal Company and later its vice president and managing director. He served 7 years in the Third Signal Corps in the 3rd  Brigade of the National Guard of New York .

Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . In the 1912 congressional elections for the 63rd Congress , Ten Eyck was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 28th  constituency of New York , where he succeeded Luther W. Mott on March 4, 1913 . He suffered in his renewed candidacy in 1914 a defeat and then retired from the after March 3, 1915 Congress of.

In 1920 he took part as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention .

In the congressional elections of 1920 he was elected to the 67th Congress , where he succeeded Rollin B. Sanford on March 4, 1921 . Since he refused to run again in 1922 , he left the Congress after March 3, 1923.

After his time at Congress, he went back to agricultural activities at Albany . He died on September 2, 1944 in his summer residence near Altamont. His body was buried in the Rural Cemetery in Albany.

Web links

• Peter G. Ten Eyck in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Peter G. Ten Eyck in the database of Find a Grave (English)