Lewis Kirby Rockefeller was a United States Representative from New York

United States Congressional Delegations from New York

These are tables of congressional delegations from New York to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.Over the years, New York has demographically changed so that it is hard to consider each district to be a continuation of the same numbered district before...

. Born in Schenectady

Schenectady, New York

Schenectady is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 66,135...

, he attended the public schools and graduated from New York State College in Albany

Albany, New York

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, 1898. He was principal of a grammar school at North Germantown and was employed in the finance bureau of the New York State Department of Public Instruction from 1898 to 1904. He was chief accountant of the municipal accounts bureau in the New York State Comptroller

New York State Comptroller

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's office from 1905 to 1915 and was deputy State tax commissioner from 1915 to 1921. He was deputy State commissioner of taxation and finance from 1921 to 1933, and engaged in the accounting and auditing business in 1933.

Rockefeller was a delegate to the Republican National Convention

Republican National Convention

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 in 1936 and was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Philip A. Goodwin

Philip A. Goodwin

Philip Arnold Goodwin was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.Goodwin was born in Athens, New York. He was in the steel bridge construction business in Albany, New York from 1902 until 1916. From 1916 until his death he owned and operated a lumber...

. He was reelected to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses and held office from November 2, 1937 to January 3, 1943. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1942 and resumed activities as an accountant and tax consultant in Chatham, New York. He died in Canaan, New York

Canaan, New York

Canaan is a town in Columbia County, New York, United States. The population was 1,820 at the 2000 census.The Town of Canaan is in the northeast part of the county.- History :The first settlers arrived around 1759....

 in 1948; interment was in Kinderhook Cemetery, Kinderhook.

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