Robert W. Bonynge

Robert William Bonynge ( born September 8, 1863 in New York City; † September 22, 1939 ) was an American politician. Between 1904 and 1909 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Bonynge attended the public schools in New York and then studied law at Columbia College. After his made ​​in 1885 admitted to the bar he began in his hometown until 1888 in this profession work. Then he moved to Denver, Colorado, where he also practiced law.

Bonynge was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1893 and 1894 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Colorado. In 1900 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat for the first time in the U.S. Congress; in the elections of 1902 he lost to John F. Shafroth then. He appealed against the outcome of the elections is a contradiction. After Shafroth had provided before a decision on the choice of contesting from his seat, Bonynge took over on February 16, 1904 its seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Since it was built in 1904 and 1906 respectively confirmed in the elections of the year, he could represent the first district of Colorado until March 3, 1909 Congress. In the elections of 1908 he lost to Democrat Atterson W. Rucker.

After retiring from Congress Bonynge was until 1912 a member of the National Monetary Commission ( National Monetary Commission ). He then worked again as a lawyer. In November 1912 he moved his practice from Denver to New York City. From 1916 to 1918 he was an advisor to the industrial commission of the state of New York. In 1923 he became a member of the German American Mixed Claims Commission, a German - American Commission, which negotiated claims between the two countries as a result of the First World War. In 1927 he was in a similar Commission, which dealt with claims to Austria and Hungary. Then Bonynge is no longer politically have appeared. He died in September 1939 in his hometown of New York.

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