Truman H. Aldrich

Truman H. Aldrich

Truman Heminway Aldrich (born October 17, 1848 in Palmyra , Wayne County , New York , † April 28, 1932 in Birmingham , Jefferson County , Alabama ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ). He was the brother of US MP William Farrington Aldrich .

Life

Truman Aldrich Heminway attended public schools, the Military Academy in West Chester ( Pennsylvania ) and graduated in 1869 at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy (New York). Then he worked as an engineer in New York and New Jersey . Aldrich moved to Selma, Alabama in 1871 , where he did banking and coal mining . He became Vice President and General Manager of the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. in 1892. He was also the founder of the Cahaba Coal Mining Co.

Aldrich also pursued a political career. He successfully contested the election of Oscar W. Underwood to the 54th US Congress , where he served from June 9, 1896 to March 3, 1897. Aldrich decided against running for the 55th US Congress in 1896 . US President Taft appointed him postmaster of Birmingham on September 1, 1911 , a position he held until December 15, 1915. Aldrich took part in 1904 as a delegate at the Republican National Convention in Chicago . Then he was during the First World War as a year per-dollar man for the War Industries Board operates. He then worked as a mining engineer and geologist.

Truman Heminway Aldrich died in Birmingham in 1932 and was buried there in Elmwood Cemetery .

Web links

• Truman H. Aldrich in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Truman H. Aldrich in the database of Find a Grave (English)