George E. Waldo

George Ernest Waldo ( born January 11, 1851 in Brooklyn, New York, † June 16, 1942 in Pasadena, California ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1905 and 1909 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Ernest Waldo was born about three years after the end of the Mexican - American War in the then still independent city of Brooklyn and grew up there. During this time he attended public schools there and in Scotland ( Connecticut ). Then he went to the Doctor Fitch 's Academy in South Windham, the Natchaug High School in Willimantic and studied for two years at Cornell University in Ithaca. He was in the graduating class of 1872. Afterwards he studied law in New York City. His admission to the bar he received in 1876 in Poughkeepsie and then practiced 1876-1883 in New York City and 1883-1889 in Ulysses (Nebraska ). Waldo was several years Attorney (village attorney ) in Ulysses. He spent four years as a member of the Baord of Trustees as well as headmaster of Ulysses High School. In 1889 he returned to New York City. He sat then in 1896 in the New York State Assembly. Between 1899 and 1904 he was Commissioner of Records in Kings County.

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. He took at the 1900 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia in part. In the congressional elections of 1904 Waldo 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 Edward Bassett on March 4, 1905. A re-election took place in 1906. Since he gave up for reelection two years later, he retired after March 3, 1909 from from Congress.

He was then in New York City again worked as a lawyer. In 1913 he moved to Los Angeles and from there five years later to Pasadena, where he continued his previous work. He died during the Second World War on June 16, 1942 in Pasadena. His body was cremated and the ashes interred in the New Cemetery in Scotland.