Robert H. Gittins

Robert Henry Gittins ( born December 14, 1869 in Oswego, New York, † December 25, 1957 in Sloatsburg, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Gittins attended St. Paul 's Academy in Oswego and worked in wood, grain and coal business. After studying law at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1900 admitted to the bar he began in 1901 in Niagara Falls in this profession work. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. From 1911 to 1913 he sat in the Senate from New York. In 1912 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in part in Baltimore, was nominated at the Woodrow Wilson as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1912 Gittins was in the then newly established 40th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1913. Since he Republican S. Wallace Dempsey was defeated in 1914, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1915.

Between 1914 and 1918, Gittins owner and publisher of the newspaper Niagara Falls Journal. From October 1916 to January 1920 he served as postmaster in Niagara Falls. At the same time he practiced as a lawyer continue. From 1918 to 1940 he was also a state representative for the Reservation at Niagara Falls. Since 1923, he had his principal residence in New York City, where he was still working as a lawyer until 1956. He died on 25 December 1957 in Sloatsburg.