Peter G. Ten Eyck

Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck ( born November 7, 1873 in Bethlehem, New York, † September 2, 1944 in Altamont, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1915, and 1921-1923 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck was born about eight years after the end of the civil war in Albany County. He attended community schools in Normanville, the Albany Academy and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy. After that, he spent 15 years in engineering and communication engineering works. He worked as a signal engineer for the New York Central Lines. In 1903 he was a senior engineer at the Federal Railway Signal Company and later as Vice President and General Manager. He served seven years in the Third Signal Corps in the 3rd Brigade of the National Guard of New York.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1912 for the 63rd Congress Ten Eyck was the 28th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Luther W. Mott on March 4, 1913. He suffered in his renewed candidacy in 1914 a defeat and then retired after the March 3, 1915 from the Congress of.

In 1920 he participated as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention.

In the congressional elections of 1920 he was elected to the 67th Congress, where he became the successor of Rollin B. Sanford on March 4, 1921. Since he gave up for reelection in 1922, he retired after March 3, 1923 from the Congress.

After his conference time he went to Albany again farming activities after. He died on 2 September 1944 in his summer residence at Altamont. His body was buried in the Rural Cemetery in Albany.