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SOMERS, Andrew Lawrence

1895 – 1949

Overview
Biography
Congresses
Bibliography
Research Collections
Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives About this object
13 US Congresses Served
69th – 81st(1925 – 1949)
House Years of Service
1925 – 1949
State / Territory
New York
Position
Representative
Party
Democrat

Overview

13 US Congresses Served
69th – 81st(1925 – 1949)
House Years of Service
1925 – 1949
State / Territory
New York
Position
Representative
Party
Democrat

Biography

SOMERS, Andrew Lawrence, a Representative from New York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., March 21, 1895; attended St. Teresa's Academy in Brooklyn, Brooklyn College Preparatory School, Manhattan College, and New York University in New York City; engaged in dry color and chemical business; during the First World War enlisted on July 18, 1917, as a hospital apprentice, second class, United States Naval Reserve Force; subsequently served as ensign in the Naval Reserve Flying Corps and was then appointed a naval aviator on September 17, 1918; proceeded to foreign service on September 30, 1918, and served until honorably discharged March 4, 1919; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1928; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-ninth and to the twelve succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1925, until his death in St. Albans, Long Island, N.Y., April 6, 1949; chairman, Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures (Seventy-second through Seventy-eighth Congresses), Committee on Mines and Mining (Seventy-ninth Congress), Committee on Public Lands (Eighty-first Congress); interment in Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Congresses

CongressPositionPartyStateSwornStart
69
Representative
Democrat
New York
12/07/1925
03/04/1925
70
Representative
Democrat
New York
12/05/1927
03/04/1927
71
Representative
Democrat
New York
04/15/1929
03/04/1929
72
Representative
Democrat
New York
12/07/1931
03/04/1931
73
Representative
Democrat
New York
03/09/1933
03/04/1933
74
Representative
Democrat
New York
01/03/1935
01/03/1935
75
Representative
Democrat
New York
01/05/1937
01/03/1937
76
Representative
Democrat
New York
01/03/1939
01/03/1939
77
Representative
Democrat
New York
01/06/1941
01/03/1941
78
Representative
Democrat
New York
01/06/1943
01/03/1943
79
Representative
Democrat
New York
01/04/1945
01/03/1945
80
Representative
Democrat
New York
01/03/1947
01/03/1947
81
Representative
Democrat
New York
01/03/1949
01/03/1949

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The 77th United States Congress

The 78th United States Congress

The 79th United States Congress

The 80th United States Congress

The 81st United States Congress

Bibliography

Extended Bibliography
United States. 81st Cong., 1st sess., 1949. House. Memorial services held in the House of Representatives of the United States, together with remarks presented in eulogy of Andrew Lawrence Somers, late a Representative from New York. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1950.

Research Collections

Yale University Library

Manuscripts and Archives
New Haven, Connecticut
Papers:
In the Palestine Statehood Committee: "Concerning the campaigns for a Jewish Army; to save the Jewish people of Europe and the establishment of a Hebrew Republic in Palestine" papers, ca. 1933-1972, 15.75 linear feet.
Subjects include Andrew Lawrence Somers. An unpublished finding aid is available in the repository.
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