Lloyd Bryce

Lloyd Stephens Bryce ( born September 4, 1851 in Flushing, New York, † September 2, 1917 in Mineola, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1887 and 1889 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lloyd Bryce was born about three years after the end of the Mexican - American War in Flushing and grew up there. During this time he attended public schools and the Georgetown University in Washington DC In 1869 he graduated from the University of Oxford in the UK. He studied law at the Columbia Law School in New York City. Governor David B. Hill then appointed him in 1886 to the Paymaster General ( paymaster general) of New York and gave him the rank of brigadier general - a position which he held until 1887. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1886, for the 50th Congress, he was in the seventh election district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John J. Adams on March 4, 1887. In 1888 he suffered in his re-election bid a defeat and retired after March 3, in 1889 the Congress of.

Between 1889 and 1896 he gave the North American Review out. On August 12, 1911, he was the successor of Arthur M. Beaupre to the Messenger ( Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary ) appointed in Luxembourg and the Netherlands - a position that he held until 10 September 1913. Bryce died on 2 April 1917 in Mineola and was then buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. He was with Edith Cooper, daughter of Edward Cooper, Mayor of New York City, and granddaughter of industrialist Peter Cooper, married. On July 31, 1914 their daughter Cornelia married the environmentalists Gifford Pinchot in Roslyn.