Francis Emanuel Shober

Francis Emanuel Shober ( born October 24, 1860 in Salisbury, North Carolina; † October 7, 1919 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1905 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Francis Edwin Shober was his father.

Career

Francis Emanuel Shober was born about six months before the outbreak of civil war in Salisbury. He was taught by private tutors and graduated in 1880 at St. Stephen 's College, Annandale. He went to the Dutchess County ministerial and educational work. Then he worked as a reporter for the News -Press of Poughkeepsie. Between 1880 and 1891 he was pastor at St. John 's Episcopal Church in Barrytown. He gave the Rockaway Journal out in Far Rockaway. Then he sat in the editor ( editorial staff ) of the New York World. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1902 for the 58th Congress Shober in the 17th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Arthur S. Tompkins on March 4, 1903. In 1904 he suffered in his re-election bid a defeat and retired after the March 3, 1905 from the Congress of.

He worked in the years 1907 and 1908 as Deputy Tax Appraiser in New York. Then he was back working in the newspaper business. He was until his death on October 7, 1919 in New York City the New York American out. His body was then buried at the Worcester Cemetery in Danbury in Fairfield County.