Reuben L. Haskell

Reuben Locke Haskell ( born October 5, 1878 in Brooklyn, New York, † October 2, 1971 in Westwood, New Jersey) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1914 and 1919 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Reuben Locke Haskell was born during the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes in the then still independent city of Brooklyn and grew up there. In 1894 he graduated from Hempstead High School on Long Iceland. He visited in the years 1894 and 1895, the Ithaca High School, in 1896 and 1897, the New York City Law School in 1898 and Cornell University in Ithaca, which he left with a Bachelor of Laws. His admission to the bar he received in 1899 and then began to practice in New York City. During the Spanish- American War he served in the 22nd Regiment of New York Volunteers. Between 1899 and 1902 he was in the companies I and G of the 13th Regiment of the National Guard of New York, where he advanced from private to sergeant over time. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. Haskell took in 1908 and 1920 as a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in part. He worked in the years 1908 and 1909 as Counsel for the town clerk of Kings County. Between 1910 and 1913 he worked as a Secretary in the Borough of Brooklyn and 1913-1915 as Deputy Commissioner of Public Works in the Borough of Brooklyn. He was 1907-1913 and 1914-1919 a member of the Republican State Committee.

In 1912 he ran unsuccessfully for the 63rd Congress. In the congressional elections of 1914 for the 64th Congress, he was in the tenth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Herman A. Metz on March 4, 1915. He was re-elected twice in a row, however, occurred on December 31 in 1919 from his seat. As a Congressman he had presided over the Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department ( 66th Congress ).

Between 1920 and 1925 he was a judge at the Kings County Court At his re-election candidacy for the post was defeated. He then went to New York City back to his work as a lawyer after. Between 1932 and 1942 he was Commissioner transit in New York. He died on October 2, 1971 in Westwood and was then buried in the Mt Repose Cemetery in Haverstraw.