Steven Beckwith Ayres

Steven Beckwith Ayres

Steven Beckwith Ayres (born October 27, 1861 in Fort Dodge , Iowa , † June 1, 1929 in New York City ) was an American politician . Between 1911 and 1913 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Steven Beckwith Ayres was born at Fort Dodge about six months after the outbreak of the Civil War . The family moved to Elmira in 1866 , where he attended grammar school . In 1873 he moved to Penn Yan . There he attended the Penn Yan Academy and then graduated from Syracuse University in 1882 . He then went into publishing in Penn Yan and edited the Yates County Chronicle . Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party at that time . In 1884 he took part as a delegate at the Republican State Convention . He moved to New York City in 1893 , where he worked in the advertising business. In the following time he joined the Democratic Party . In 1910 he turned down a Democratic nomination for the New York State Assembly .

In the 1910 congressional elections for the 62nd Congress , Ayres was elected as an independent Democrat in the 18th electoral district of New York in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Joseph A. Goulden on March 4, 1911 . In 1912 he was defeated in his re-election bid and was eliminated from the after March 3, 1913 Congress of.

He has authored several books and many historical articles. In 1914 he worked as a lecturer at the New York University Summer School . He went in the winter cultivation of oranges in Clearwater ( Florida ) after and during the summer the real estate business in Woodstock (New York). He died on June 1, 1929 in New York City and was buried in Clearwater in the cemetery of the same name.

Web links

• Steven Beckwith Ayres in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Steven Beckwith Ayres in the database of Find a Grave (English)