Herman A. Metz

Herman August Metz ( * October 19, 1867 in New York City; † May 17, 1934 in New Rochelle, New York) was an American businessman and politician. Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Herman August Metz was born about two years after the end of the Civil War in New York City and grew up there. During this time he attended public and private schools. He was a manufacturer and importer of dyes, chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Metz sat in the Education Committee of Brooklyn and New York City. Between 1906 and 1910 he served as New York City Comptroller. Governor Charles Evans Hughes appointed him to the Commission, the New York City Charter, written in the years 1907 and 1908. 1922 appointed him Governor Nathan Lewis Miller in the same Commission. Metz was Commissioner at the New York Board of Charities. He was nominated in 1912 by Kings County for the post of governor of New York, however, renounced in favor of William Sulzer after the second ballot ( ballot ). Metz served in the National Guard of New York, where he rose over the period from the First Lieutenant to Brigadier General of the 14th Infantry. On 10 February 1916 he married his second wife, Alice M. Van Ronk, daughter of Cornelius Van Ronk from New York. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1912 for the 63rd Congress, he was in the tenth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Sulzer on March 4, 1913. Since he gave up for reelection in 1914, he retired after the March 3, 1915 out of the Congress.

After his conference time he went to his former business activities. He was a delegate in 1904, 1908 and 1920, the Democratic National Conventions in part. During the First World War he was Ordnance Officer, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the 27th Division. After that, he served as a Colonel in the Ordnance Department of the Officers' Reserve Corps. In 1922, he ran unsuccessfully for the 68th Congress. He died on 17 May 1934 in a hospital in New Rochelle and was then buried in the Kensico Cemetery in Westchester.