Lucius Littauer
Lucius Nathan Littauer ( born January 20, 1859 in Gloversville, New York, † March 2, 1944 in New Rochelle, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1907 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Lucius Nathan Littauer was born about two years before the outbreak of the civil war in Fulton County. The family moved in 1865 to New York City. He attended the Charlier Institute. In 1878 he graduated from Harvard University. Then he went to Gloversville in the manufacture of gloves. He was an officer and director of many trade and financial institutions. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.
In the congressional elections of 1896 for the 55th Congress Littauer in 22 electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Newton Martin Curtis on March 4, 1897. He was re-elected twice in a row. In 1902 he stood as a candidate in the 25th electoral district of New York for the 58th Congress. After a successful election, he entered on March 4, 1903, to succeed James S. Sherman. He was re-elected once. Since he gave up for reelection in 1906, he retired after March 3, 1907 from the Congress. He took part in all Republican State Convention as a delegate 1897-1912.
After his conference time he returned to the manufacture of gloves. He attended the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Chicago and Kansas City as a delegate in 1900, 1904, 1908 and 1928. Between 1912 and 1914 he was regent of the University of the State of New York. Littauer went into retirement in 1927 and was devoted to education, medical research and charitable work. He died during the Second World War in his country house in New Rochelle and was then buried in the Jewish Cemetery in New Rochelle.