John Kissel (New York)

John Kissel ( born July 31, 1864 in Brooklyn, New York, † October 3, 1938 ) was an American politician. Between 1921 and 1923 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Kissel was born during the Civil War in Brooklyn. He attended public and private schools. He then worked as a clerk ( clerk ) in the New York Naval. He was apprenticed to the printer and published 1889-1914 the Kings County Republican. Kissel was in 1886 a member of the Republican State Committee. In the years 1894 and 1895 he worked as a clerk in the county council. He worked in the brewery business. In the years 1909 and 1910 he sat in the Senate from New York. He then erected the first independent labor office in the County and managed it for 15 years at his own expense, which subsequently merged with the National Employment Agency.

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1920 he was in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John MacCrate on March 4, 1921. He suffered in his re-election bid in 1922, a defeat and retired after March 3, 1923 the Congress of.

He then worked as a general tax advisor with offices in Brooklyn. In 1932 he worked as attendant at the Empire State Building. He died on October 3, 1938 in Brooklyn and was then buried in the Lutheran Cemetery in Queens.