William M. Calder

William M. Calder (1917)

William Musgrave Calder (born March  3, 1869 in Brooklyn , New York , †  March 3, 1945 ibid) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of New York in both chambers of Congress .

Career

After attending public schools in Brooklyn, which was still independent at the time, William Calder began training as a carpenter . He also attended night school in New York City . He worked from 1893 in the construction industry and served from 1902 to 1903 as Building Commissioner of Brooklyn, which now belonged to the city of New York as a borough . Calder had been married since 1893 and had two children.

In 1904, Calder was run by the Republican Party in New York's sixth district as a candidate for election to the United States House of Representatives . After his victory, he entered Congress on March 4, 1905, and remained there until March 3, 1915. He did not apply for re-election; instead he took part in the Republican primary for election to the US Senate . However, he was subject to James Wolcott Wadsworth , who then decided the actual choice for himself. Two years later, Calder narrowly won his party's primary for the second Senate seat of New York against former US Secretary of State Robert Bacon ; then he sat down against the Democrat William F. McCombs and the later US Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby , who ran for the Progressive Party , with a clear lead.

Calder took up his mandate in the Senate from March 4, 1917, but could only exercise it for one term. In the next election he was defeated by the Democrat Royal S. Copeland and had to leave Congress on March 3, 1923. During this time he was chairman of the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expense . After his Senate career, Calder worked again in the construction industry and as a director of various financial institutions in Brooklyn, where he died on March 3, 1945, his 76th birthday.

His grandson William M. Calder III is a well-known classical philologist.

Web links

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• William M. Calder in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• William M. Calder in the database of Find a Grave (English)