Edward Bassett

Edward Murray Bassett ( born February 7, 1863 in Brooklyn, New York, † October 27, 1948 ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1903 and 1905 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edward Murray Bassett was born during the civil war in the then still independent city of Brooklyn and grew up there. During this time he attended public schools there and in Watertown. Then he went in the years 1881 and 1882 on the Hamilton College in Clinton. He graduated in 1884 from Amherst College in Massachusetts and in 1886 from Columbia Law School in New York City. His admission to the bar he was in the same year and commenced practice in Buffalo. In 1892 he moved to New York City, where he continued his activities as a lawyer. Between 1899 and 1903 he was a member of the School Board of Brooklyn. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1902, Bassett was in the fifth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Frank E. Wilson on March 4, 1903. Since he gave up for reelection two years later, he retired after March 3, 1905 together from the Congress.

Bassett resumed his activities as a lawyer. Between 1907 and 1911 he sat in the New York Public Service Commission. He had 1913-1915 presided over the Heights of Buildings Commission and in 1916-1917 on the Zoning Commission. 1922 he was appointed Minister of Commerce Herbert Hoover in the Advisory Committee on Zoning Department of Commerce. Bassett wrote essays on the topics of bankruptcy among others, expropriation ( eminent domain ) and police violence ( police power). He died about three years after the end of World War II on 27 October 1948, was then buried in the Ashfield Plains Cemetery in Ashfield (Massachusetts ).