Matthew J. Merritt

Matthew Joseph Merritt ( born April 2, 1895 in New York City; † September 29, 1946 ) was an American politician. Between 1935 and 1945 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Matthew Merritt attended the public schools and high schools of his home. During the final stages of the First World War he served in 1918 as a sergeant in a tank unit of the U.S. armed forces. Between 1926 and 1933 he worked in New York City in the real estate and insurance business. In the years 1933 and 1934 he worked for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1934, Merritt was in a state-wide electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 3 January 1935. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1945 five legislative sessions. During his time in Congress, most New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration there have been adopted. 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends, or begins on January 3. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked.

In 1944, Matthew Merritt gave up another Congress candidate. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked again in the real estate and insurance industries. He died on 29 September 1946 at the New York district of Malba.