Andrew Lawrence Somers

Andrew Lawrence Somers ( born March 21, 1895 in Brooklyn, New York, † April 6, 1949 in St. Albans, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1925 and 1949 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Andrew Lawrence Somers attended St. Teresa 's Academy in Brooklyn, the Brooklyn College Preparatory School, Manhattan College and New York University in New York City. After that, he pursued business with powder paint and chemicals. During the First World War he enlisted on July 18, 1917 as a Hospital Corpsman Second Class in the United States Naval Reserve Force. After that, he served as Ensign in the Naval Reserve Flying Corps and was appointed on September 17, 1918 Naval Aviator. On September 30, 1918, he went abroad and served there until his honorable discharge on March 4, 1919. Politically, he belongs to the Democratic Party. He took 1928 as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Houston in part.

In the congressional elections of 1924 he was in the sixth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles I. Stengle on March 4, 1925. He was re-elected ten times in a row. In 1944 he stood as a candidate in the tenth electoral district of New York for a congress seat. After a successful election, he entered on January 3, 1945, to succeed Emanuel Celler. He was re-elected once, but died on April 6, 1949 in St. Albans. As a Congressman he had presided over the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures ( 72nd to 78th Congress ), the Committee on Mines and Mining ( 79th Congress ) and the Committee on Public Lands ( 81 Congress ). His body was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn.