Otto G. Foelker

Otto Godfrey Foelker ( born December 29, 1875 in Mainz, German Reich, † January 18, 1943 in Oakland, California ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1908 and 1911 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

The Foelker family emigrated in 1888 to the United States and settled in Troy (New York). Otto Godfrey Foelker where he attended public schools. He then moved in December 1895 to Brooklyn. Foelker studied law at New York Law School. After receiving his license to practice law in 1908, he began practicing in Brooklyn. He sat in the years 1905 and 1906 in the New York State Assembly and in the years 1907 and 1908 in the Senate from New York. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. He was born on November 3, 1908 in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the death of Charles T. Dunwell. He was re-elected for a full term in the U.S. House of Representatives, however, renounced in 1910 on a bid again and retired after March 3, 1911 the Congress of. He then moved to California where he worked as a lawyer again in Oakland. He died there on 18 January 1943 and was then buried in the Evergreen Cemetery.