Steven Beckwith Ayres

Steven Beckwith Ayres ( born October 27, 1861 in Fort Dodge, Iowa, † June 1, 1929 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1913 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Steven Beckwith Ayres was born in Dodge about six months after the outbreak of the Civil War Fort. The family moved in 1866 to Elmira, where he attended the Grammar School. In 1873 he moved to Penn Yan. There he attended the Penn Yan Academy and then graduated in 1882 from Syracuse University. After that he went to the publishing industry in Penn Yan gradually gave the Yates County Chronicle out. Politically he belonged at that time to the Republican Party. In 1884, he attended the Republican State Convention as a delegate. He moved in 1893 to New York City where he worked in the advertising business. In the following years, he joined the Democratic Party. In 1910 he declined the Democratic nomination as a candidate for the New York State Assembly.

In the congressional elections of 1910 for the 62nd Congress Ayres was an independent Democrat in the 18th Election District of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph A. Goulden on March 4, 1911. In 1912 he suffered in his re-election bid a defeat and retired after March 3, 1913, the Congress of.

He wrote several books and many historical articles. In 1914, he worked as a lecturer at the New York University Summer School. He went in the winter, the cultivation of oranges in Clearwater (Florida ) to and in the summer the real estate business in Woodstock (New York). On June 1, 1929, he died in New York City and was buried in Clearwater on the same cemetery.