Ellis H. Roberts

Ellis Henry Roberts ( born September 30, 1827 in Utica, New York, † January 8, 1918 ) was an American politician. Between 1871 and 1875 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ellis Henry Roberts attended community schools and Whitestown Seminary. In 1850 he graduated from Yale College. After that he had in 1850 and 1851, a job as principal at the Utica Free Academy. He was 1851-1889 owner of the Utica Morning Herald, where he also worked as an editor. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. He took in the years 1864, 1868 and 1876, in part as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Baltimore, Chicago and Cincinnati. In 1866 he sat in the New York State Assembly.

In the congressional elections of 1870 for the 42nd Congress Roberts was in the 21st electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Alexander H. Bailey on March 4, 1871. He was re-elected once. In his second re-election bid in 1874, he suffered a defeat and retired after March 3, 1875 the Congress of.

After his time he took Congress in Utica back to its previous newspaper activities. Between 1889 and 1893 he was Assistant Treasurer of the United States and 1893-1897 President of the Franklin National Bank in New York City. He was appointed on 1 July 1897 Treasurer of the United States - a position which he held until his resignation on 30 June 1905. Then he went back to banking transactions. He died about ten months before the end of the First World War in Utica and was then buried in the Forest Hill Cemetery.