Louis W. Emerson

Louis Woodard Emerson ( born July 25, 1857 in Warrensburg, New York, † June 10, 1924 ) was an American politician. Between 1899 and 1903 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Louis Woodard Emerson was born about four years before the outbreak of the civil war in Warren County. He attended the district school and then graduated from Warrensburg Academy. Then he went to lumber and banking transactions, but also worked as a producer. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. He sat 1890-1893 in the Senate from New York. It also adopted in 1888, 1892 and 1896 as a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in part.

In the congressional elections of 1898 for the 56th Congress Emerson was the 23rd electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Wallace T. Foote Jr. on March 4, 1899. He was re-elected once and then retired after March 3, 1903 from the Congress of.

After his time he took Congress in Warrensburg back to its previous business activities. He died there about six years after the end of the First World War. His body was buried in the city cemetery.