Joseph C. Hendrix

Joseph Clifford Hendrix ( born May 25, 1853 in Fayette, Missouri, † November 9, 1904 in Brooklyn, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1895 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Clifford Hendrix attended private schools as well as 1870-1873, the Central College (now Central Methodist University) in Fayette and Cornell University in Ithaca (New York). Hendrix moved in 1873 to New York City where he worked for the New York Sun. In 1882 he was a member of the Education Committee of Brooklyn. The following year, he ran unsuccessfully for the office of mayor of the then independent city of Brooklyn. He was appointed in 1884 to the Trustee of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge. The following year he was elected Secretary of the Board of Trustees Bridge. President Grover Cleveland appointed him postmaster in 1886 in Brooklyn, a position which he held until July 1, 1890. During this time he held several other offices: 1887 as President in the Education Committee of Brooklyn and 1889-1893 as President of the Kings County Trust Co. He then was 1893-1900 President of the National Union Bank of New York City. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1892 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 William J. Coombs on March 4, 1893. Since he gave up for reelection in 1894, he retired after the March 3, 1895 out of the Congress. Hendrix initiated in 1900 as President, the National Bank of Commerce. Then he worked as a Trustee of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and the Cornell University. He died on November 9, 1904 in Brooklyn and was then buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery.