Lemuel E. Quigg

Lemuel Ely Quigg (* February 12, 1863 in Chestertown, Maryland, † July 1, 1919 in New York City ) was an American journalist, lawyer and politician. Between 1894 and 1899 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lemuel Ely Quigg was born during the Civil War in Chestertown in Kent County. He attended public schools in Wilmington (Delaware). In 1880 he moved to New York City where he worked as a journalist. He gave up the Flushing Times in 1883 and 1884. Between 1884 and 1894 he was part of the editorial staff of the New York Tribune. He held the post of chief editor in 1895 (editor in chief) of the New York Press pause. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

Quigg was in a by-election on 30 January 1894 14 electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the resignation of John R. Fellows. In the regular congressional elections of 1894 he was elected to the 44th Congress. After the re-election to the 45th Congress he suffered in 1898 at his renewed candidacy defeat and retired after March 3, in 1899 the Congress of. As a Congressman he had presided over the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State.

He was in the years 1896 and 1902 Chairman of the respective Republican State Convention. As a delegate, he participated in the years 1896, 1900 and 1904 to the Republican National Conventions. Between 1896 and 1900 he was Chairman of the Republican County Committee. He studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1903. He took 1915 as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of New York. Quigg practiced in New York City as a lawyer. On July 1, 1919, he died there, and was then buried in Flushing at the same cemetery.