William J. Coombs

William J. Coombs

William Jerome Coombs (born December 24, 1833 in Jordan , New York , † January 12, 1922 in Brooklyn , New York) was an American politician . Between 1891 and 1895 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Jerome Coombs attended the Jordan Academy . He moved to New York City in 1850 and from there to the still independent city of Brooklyn in 1855. The following year he began exporting American goods, a business he pursued for the next 37 years.

In 1888 he ran unsuccessfully for a congress seat. Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1890 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of New York , where he succeeded William C. Wallace on March 4, 1891 . He then ran for a seat in the fourth constituency of New York in 1892 . After a successful election, he succeeded John Michael Clancy on March 4, 1893 . In his re-election bid in 1894 , he was defeated and withdrew from the after March 3, 1895 Congress of.

President Cleveland appointed him director of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1894 and gave him special powers to collect federal government debts from the various Pacific railways. He was then President of Manufacturers' Terminal Co. , which later merged with Title Guarantee & Trust Co. in Brooklyn. In 1904 he became president of the South Brooklyn Savings Bank , a position he held in Brooklyn until his death on January 12, 1922. His body was then interred in Green-Wood Cemetery .

Web links

• William J. Coombs in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William J. Coombs in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ "South Brooklyn Savings Institution," The Independent, July 13, 1914