Loring M. Black, Jr.

Loring Milton Black Jr. ( born May 17, 1886 in New York City; † 21 May 1956 Washington DC) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1923 and 1935 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Loring Milton Black junior was born a few weeks after the Haymarket Riot in New York City and grew up there. During this time he attended public schools and graduated in 1907 from Fordham University. He studied law at Columbia University. His admission to the bar he received in 1909 and then began to practice in New York City. He sat in the years 1911 and 1912 and the years 1919 and 1920 in the Senate from New York. In between, he worked as a lawyer.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1922 he was in the fifth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Ardolph L. Kline on March 4, 1923. He was re-elected five times in a row. Since he gave up for reelection in 1934, he retired after January 3, 1935 out of the Congress. As a Congressman he had presided over the Committee on Claims ( 72nd and 73rd Congress ).

After that he was in New York City and Washington DC again working as a lawyer. He died on 21 May 1956 in Washington, D.C. and was buried in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.