John Wilbur Dwight
John Wilbur Dwight ( born May 24, 1859 in Dryden, New York; † January 19, 1928 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1902 and 1913 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Jeremiah W. Dwight was his father.
Career
John Wilbur Dwight was born about two years before the outbreak of the civil war in Tompkins County. He attended public schools. In the following years he went into preparing for the Yale College in New Haven ( Connecticut ) after preliminary studies, however, gave in 1879 on his plan to go into the lumber business in Clinton ( Iowa). Shortly thereafter he moved to Northern Wisconsin, where he was further active in timber business, but also in agriculture. In 1884 he returned to Dryden. After the death of his father in 1885 he became president of the Dwight Farm & Land Company. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. He took in 1888, 1892, 1900, 1904 and 1920 as a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in part.
In a by-election in the 26th electoral district of New York, he was elected to the 57th Congress, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the resignation of George W. Ray. His seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, he took on 4 November 1902. In the congressional elections of 1902 for the 58th Congress, he was in the 30th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James Wolcott Wadsworth on March 4, 1903. He was re-elected four times in a row and then retired after March 3, 1913, the Congress of. During his time, he was Majority Whip Congress ( 61st Congress ) and Minority Whip ( 62nd Congress ).
After his conference time he remained in Washington DC In 1913 he became president of the Virginia Blue Ridge Railway Company - a post he held until his death on 19 January 1928. His body was then buried in the Rock Creek Cemetery.