Sol Bloom

Sol Bloom (1923)

Sol Bloom (born March 9, 1870 in Pekin , Illinois , †  March 7, 1949 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1923 and 1945 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1873, Sol Bloom moved with his parents to San Francisco , California , where he attended public schools. There he initially worked in the newspaper industry. He also came into contact with the theater. Soon he was working as a theater manager and music publisher. In 1893 he designed the entertainment mile Midway Plaisance at the World's Fair in Chicago . In 1903, Bloom moved to New York City , where he worked in the real estate and construction industries. He also expanded his music publishing business. In 1917 he was at the time of the First World War, a captain in the New York Naval Reserve . Politically, he was originally a member of the Republican Party . After moving to New York City, he joined the Democrats . He also joined the Tammany Hall Society .

After the death of the elected Congressman Samuel Marx, who died before the start of the new legislature, Bloom was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the due by-election for the 19th seat of New York, where he was on January 23 1923 took up his new mandate. After 13 re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on March 7, 1949 . Since 1945 he has represented the 20th  electoral district of his state as the successor to Vito Marcantonio . In his time as a congressman in the early 1930s was the Great Depression . Since 1933, the Roosevelt government passed the New Deal laws . In 1935 the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were applied for the first time , according to which the legislative period of the Congress ends or begins on January 3rd. Since 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of the Second World War and its consequences.

During his long tenure in Congress, Bloom served as Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee on several occasions . In 1949 he also chaired the Special Committee on Chamber Improvements . In 1932 he was also director of the commission for the preparation of the celebrations on the occasion of the 200th birthday of George Washington ( United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission ). It also headed the commission for the celebrations for the 150th birthday of the Supreme Federal Court . In 1939 he was federal commissioner for the New York World's Fair . In 1945 he was a member of the American delegation when the UN was founded . The first words of the UN preamble ( We the People of the United Nations ...) were suggested by him. In January 1946 he took part as a delegate to the General Assembly of the United Nations in London . It was his suggestion that the UN should take over the finances of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration , which was founded in 1943 , which it then did. Sol Bloom died on March 7, 1949 in the federal capital Washington.

Web links

• Sol Bloom in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Walter M. Chandler	United States House of Representatives for New York (19th constituency) January 23, 1923 - January 3, 1945	Samuel Dickstein
Vito Marcantonio	United States House of Representatives for New York (20th constituency) January 3, 1945 - March 7, 1949	Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.