Andrew Nicholas Petersen (March 10, 1870 - September 28, 1952) was a U.S. Representative

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 from New York

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.

Born near Thisted

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, Denmark

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, Petersen immigrated to the United States in 1873 with his parents, who settled in Boston, Massachusetts. He moved to New York City

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 in 1879. He attended the public schools and learned the patternmaker

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's trade. He served as president of the Brooklyn Foundry Co. 1900-1952.

Petersen was elected as a Republican

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 to the Sixty-seventh Congress

67th United States Congress

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 (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress

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. He resumed manufacturing pursuits in Brooklyn, New York. He died in East Rockaway, New York

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, September 28, 1952. He was buried in Cypress Hills Abbey, Brooklyn, New York.

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