Lewis Beach
Lewis Beach | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromNew York | |
In office March 4, 1881 – August 10, 1886 | |
Preceded by | John W. Ferdon |
Succeeded by | Henry Bacon |
Constituency | 14th district(1881–85) 15th district(1885–86) |
Personal details | |
Born | March 30, 1835 New York City, New York |
Died | August 10, 1886 Cornwall, New York | (aged 51)
Citizenship | United States |
Political party | Democratic |
Alma mater | Yale Law School |
Profession | lawyer politician |
Lewis Beach(March 30, 1835 – August 10, 1886) was an American politician and aU.S. RepresentativefromNew Yorkrepresenting two different congressional districts, the fourteenth and the fifteenth.[1]In all, he served three terms in office before his death in 1886.
Biography
[edit]Born inNew York City,Beach graduated fromYale Law Schoolin 1856.
Career
[edit]Beach wasadmitted to the barin 1856 and commenced practice in New York. He moved toOrange County, New York,in 1861, and served as member and treasurer of the Democratic State central committee from 1877 to 1879.[2]
Elected as aDemocratto theForty-seventhandForty-eighthCongresses, Beach was aU. S. Representativefor the fourteenth district of New York from March 4, 1881, to March 3, 1885. He was elected to theForty-ninthCongress for the fifteenth district and served from March 4, 1885, until his death on August 10, 1886.[3]He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings during the Forty-ninth Congress.
He published a history ofCornwall, New York,in 1873.[4]
Death
[edit]Beach died, from typhoid fever and Bright's disease, at his home, "Knoll View" in Cornwall, Orange County, New York, on August 10, 1886 (age 51 years, 133 days). He isinterredat Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^"Lewis Beach".Find A Grave.Retrieved21 August2013.
- ^"Lewis Beach".Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.Retrieved21 August2013.
- ^"Lewis Beach".Govtrack US Congress.Retrieved21 August2013.
- ^OBITUARY RECORD OF GRADUATES OF YALE UNIVERSITY(PDF).1887. p. 408.
- ^"Lewis Beach".The Political Graveyard.Retrieved21 August2013.
External links
[edit]- United States Congress."Lewis Beach (id: B000263)".Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
This article incorporatespublic domain materialfrom theBiographical Directory of the United States Congress
- 1835 births
- 1886 deaths
- Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery
- Yale Law School alumni
- Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)
- People from Cornwall, New York
- 19th-century American legislators
- Politicians from New York City
- 19th-century New York (state) politicians