Edward B. Vreeland

Edward Butterfield Vreeland ( born December 7, 1856 in Cuba, Allegany County, New York, † May 8, 1936 in Salamanca, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1899 and 1913 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edward Vreeland visited the Friendship Academy until 1877. Since 1869 he lived in Salamanca, where he served as school board had the supervision of the public schools 1877-1882. After a subsequent law degree in 1881 and its recent approval as a lawyer he would be able to practice in this profession. He renounced the exercise of a legal profession. Instead, he worked in the banking industry, the oil industry and in insurance. In 1891 he became president of the company Salamanca Trust Co. From 1889 to 1893 was Vreeland postmaster in Salamanca. Politically, he joined the Republican Party.

Following the resignation of Mr Warren B. Hooker Vreeland was at the due election for the 34th seat from New York as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on November 7, 1899. After six re- elections he could remain until March 3, 1913 at the Congress. Between 1909 and 1911 he was chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency. From 1909 to 1912 he was vice president of the National Monetary Commission. Since 1903, Vreeland was of the then newly created 37th district of his state in Congress.

In 1912 he gave up another Congress candidate. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he took his previous activities in Salamanca on again. On January 1, 1936, he withdrew into retirement. Edward Vreeland died on May 8, 1936 in Salamanca, where he was also buried.