Stewart H. Appleby

Stewart H. Appleby

Stewart Hoffman Appleby (born May 17, 1890 in Asbury Park , New Jersey , †  January 12, 1964 in Miami , Florida ) was an American politician . Between 1925 and 1927 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Stewart Appleby, son of Congressman T. Frank Appleby , attended his homeland public schools and the Mercersburg Academy . In 1913 he graduated from Rutgers University in New Brunswick . In the following years he worked in the real estate market and in the insurance industry. He also worked in the banking industry. He founded the First National Bank of Avon-by-the-Sea , of which he became Vice President. During the First World War , Appleby served in the United States Marine Corps from 1917 . He remained in active military service until May 1921. He was then a member of the Marine Corps Reserve. In 1925 he was promoted to captain.

Politically, like his father, Stewart Appleby was a member of the Republican Party . In the 1924 congressional election , Frank Appleby was re-elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of New Jersey . But since he died on December 15, 1924, before the beginning of the legislative period on March 4, 1925, a by-election was necessary. This won Stewart Appleby, who was able to take up his new mandate on November 3, 1925. By March 3, 1927, he ended the current legislative period in Congress . In 1926 he declined to run again.

After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, Appleby withdrew from politics. During the Second World War he served in the US Coast Guard until September 1945. He then retired, which he spent in Hallandale, Florida. He died in Miami on January 12, 1964 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery , Virginia .

Web links

• Stewart H. Appleby in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Stewart H. Appleby in the database of Find a Grave (English)