Peter G. Gerry

Peter Goelet Gerry ( born September 18, 1879 in New York City; † October 31, 1957 in Providence, Rhode Iceland ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of Rhode Iceland in both chambers of the U.S. Congress.

Life

Peter G. Gerry was the great grandson of Elbridge Gerry, the fifth U.S. Vice-President, on the back, the term gerrymandering. Together with his brother Robert, he was privately tutored in the summer of 1899 from the later Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.

Gerry graduated in 1901 at Harvard University; after studying law, he was admitted to the Bar Association of Rhode Iceland 1906. He married in 1910 Mathilde Townsend, a wealthy lady of the Company; In 1925, the couple separated. Later he went into a second marriage with Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt, a, of the 1914 deceased businessman George Washington Vanderbilt II widow

Policy

In 1913, Peter Gerry was chosen as representative of the 2nd District of Rhode Iceland to the U.S. House of Representatives. This he was for two years; in the re-election he failed. But in 1916 he was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he remained for a re-election until 1929 and was regarded as supporters of President Woodrow Wilson in the early years. He served 1919-1929 as Whip of the Democratic Group. In 1928, he missed the re- nomination by his party; but in 1935 he returned for a further twelve years in the Senate, which he eventually left in 1946 when he did not run.