Elmer E. Studley

Elmer Ebenezer Studley (* September 24, 1869 in East Ashford, New York, † September 6, 1942 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1935 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Elmer Studley was born on a farm in Cattaraugus County. He attended the common schools. In 1894 he graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca. In the years 1894 and 1895 he worked as a reporter for several newspapers in Buffalo. After a subsequent law degree in 1895 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Buffalo in this profession. From 1898 to 1899 he took as lieutenant of an infantry unit composed of volunteers from the State of New York on the Spanish-American War in part. He was used in Cuba.

Between 1899 and 1917 lived in Studley Raton, New Mexico Territory, where he practiced law. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In 1907 he was a member of the Territorial House of Representatives. In the same year he was also a member of the New Mexico Statutory Revision Commission. Between 1909 and 1910 he served as District Attorney in Colfax and Union County. Politically, he then joined, which was founded by former President Theodore Roosevelt Progressive Party. In 1916 he was a delegate to the national convention in Chicago. Later he moved to the Democrats. Since 1917, Elmer Studley lived in New York City, where he also worked as a lawyer. In 1924, he was Deputy Attorney General of New York; in the years 1925 and 1926 he was Federal Commissioner ( Commissioner) for the eastern part of that State.

In the congressional elections of 1932 Studley was as a Democrat in a state-wide electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1933. Since he resigned in 1934 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1935. During this time the first New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration there have been adopted. In 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. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives to Studley operated again as a lawyer. From February 1935 he also served on the Committee on Veterans Hearings (Board of Veterans ' Appeals ). He died on September 6, 1942 in New York's Flushing district.