Stephen A. Rudd

Stephen Andrew Rudd ( born December 11, 1874 in Brooklyn, New York, † March 31, 1936 ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1931 and 1936 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Stephen Andrew Rudd was born about nine years after the end of the civil war in the then still independent city of Brooklyn and grew up there. During this time he attended public schools and the New York Preparatory School. He studied law at the Brooklyn Law School of St. Lawrence University in Brooklyn. His admission to the bar he received in 1914 and then began practicing in Brooklyn. Between 1922 and 1930 he was a member of the board of aldermen of New York City. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

Rudd was in a by-election on 17 February 1931, was the ninth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the death of David J. O'Connell. He was re-elected twice in a row. On March 31, 1936, he died during his last term in office in Brooklyn and was then buried in the Evergreen Cemetery.