Bert Lord

Bert Lord ( born December 4, 1869 in Sanford, Broome County, New York, † May 24 1939 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1935 and 1939 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Bert Lord attended the common schools and the Afton Afton Union School and the Academy. Between 1893 and 1918 he worked in Afton commercially. Then he went into the lumber business. He also ran some sawmills. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1905 and 1915 he was chairman of the City Council ( Town Supervisor) in Afton. From 1915-1922 and again 1924-1929 he sat as an MP in the New York State Assembly; 1929 to 1935 he was a member of the State Senate. In the years 1921 to 1923 he was state commissioner of motor vehicles.

In the congressional elections of 1934, Lord was elected in the 34th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Marian W. Clarke on 3 January 1935. After two re- elections he could remain until his death on 24 May 1939 at the Congress. During this time many New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration there were adopted, which Lords Party faced a rather negative. 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends, or begins on January 3.

Bert Lord was buried in Afton.