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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyErnest Robinson ACKERMAN
(1863-1931)
ACKERMAN, Ernest Robinson,
a Representative from New Jersey; born in New York City, N.Y., June
17, 1863; moved with his parents to Plainfield, N.J., very shortly
thereafter; educated at public and private schools and was
graduated from the Plainfield High School in 1880; engaged in
cement manufacturing; member of the common council of Plainfield,
N.J., in 1891 and 1892; member of the State senate 1905-1911,
serving as president in 1911; delegate to the Republican National
Conventions at Chicago in 1908 and in 1916; member of the board of
trustees of Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N.J., 1916-1920;
Federal food administrator for Union County during the First World
War; member of the State board of education 1918-1920; member of
the New Jersey Geological Survey and associate of the American
Society of Civil Engineers; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from
March 4, 1919, until his death in Plainfield, N.J., October 18,
1931; interment in the family plot, Hillside Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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