Robert H. Foerderer

Robert Herman Foerderer ( born May 16, 1860 in Frankenhausen, Schwarzburg- Rudolstadt, † July 26, 1903 in Torresdale, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1901 and 1903 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Foerderer was born in 1860 in what is now Thuringia, where his German - American parents spent their holidays. He grew up in Philadelphia and attended the public schools. He then became active in the leather processing. In 1892 he established in Philadelphia one of the then world's largest leather factories with about 3000 employees. Later, he was also president of a telephone company. Politically, he joined the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1900 Foerderer was for the then state-wide 30 seat from Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1901. After a re-election in the fourth electoral district of his state he could remain until his death on July 26, 1903 in Congress.