Edwin Einstein

Edwin Einstein ( born November 18, 1842 in Cincinnati, Ohio; † January 24, 1905 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1879 and 1881 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edwin Einstein was born about four years before the outbreak of the Mexican - American War in Cincinnati. The Einstein family moved in 1846 to New York City. He worked there as a clerk ( clerk ) in a shop (store ). Einstein received an academic education at the City College of New York and then attended Union College, but did not graduate. He then went to commercial transactions. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1878 for the 46th Congress, he was in the seventh election district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Anthony Eickhoff on March 4, 1879. Since he gave up for reelection in 1880, he retired after the March 3, 1881 out of the Congress.

Einstein ran unsuccessfully in 1892 for the post of mayor of New York City. In 1895 he was Dock Commissioner in New York City. He played an important role in a number of investment companies and woolen cloth factories. On January 24, 1905, he died in New York City and was buried at the Shearith Israel Cemetery in Brooklyn.