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  DeForest, Henry S.
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NameHenry S. DeForest
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Schenectady, New York , United States
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Born February 16, 1847
Died February 13, 1917 (69 years)
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Aug 25, 2015 04:03am
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InfoDE FOREST, Henry Schermerhorn, a Representative from New York; born in Schenectady, N.Y., February 16, 1847; attended the public schools of his native town and Eastman Business College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; engaged in the real-estate, banking, and contracting businesses; city recorder 1883-1885; mayor of Schenectady 1885-1887 and 1889-1891; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second Congress (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1913); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress; resumed the real-estate business and banking; unsuccessful candidate for nomination in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress and for election in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress; died in Schenectady, N.Y., February 13, 1917; interment in Vale Cemetery.


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