Lester D. Volk

Lester David Volk ( born September 17, 1884 in Brooklyn, New York, † April 30, 1962 ) was an American physician, lawyer and politician. Between 1920 and 1923 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

David Lester people were, had four months after the Alaska receive a civil administration and was officially renamed the District of Alaska, who was born in the then still independent city of Brooklyn and grew up there. During this time he attended public schools and the high school. He graduated in 1906 at the Long Iceland Medical School and then began to practice as a doctor. In the following years he worked as an editor of the Medical Economist. He graduated in 1911 from St. Lawrence University Law School. In 1912 he was elected as a Progressive in the New York State Assembly. He opted not to run again. His admission to the bar he received in 1913 and then began to practice. In 1914, he worked as a Coroner. During the First World War he served in the years 1918 and 1919 as a First Lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the American Expeditionary Force. He was largely responsible for ensuring the Agen Sold allowance, which was approved by the state of New York. As a Judge Advocate in 1922 he took care to veterans from New York who fought abroad. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. As a delegate, he participated in the years 1920, 1924, 1942 and 1946 to the Republican State Convention.

In a special election on November 2, 1920, he was in the tenth 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 Reuben L. Haskell. For the regular elections of 1920 he was elected to the 67th Congress. He suffered in the congressional elections of 1922, a defeat and retired after March 3, 1923 the Congress of.

After his time Congress, he represented New York City in 1924 in the American Waterways Commission. On 1 March 1943 he was Assistant Attorney General in New York - a position that he held until 15 January 1958. He died on 30 April 1962 in Brooklyn and was then buried at the Bayside Cemetery in Ozone Park.