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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsLewis Dewart APSLEY
(1852-1925)
APSLEY, Lewis Dewart, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Northumberland, Pa.,
September 29, 1852; moved with his parents to Lock Haven, Clinton
County, Pa., in 1861; attended public and private schools; moved to
Philadelphia and engaged in business; early identified himself with
the rubbergoods trade; moved to Massachusetts in 1877 and became a
manufacturer of rubber clothing in Hudson in 1885; president of the
Apsley Rubber Co., succeeded by the Firestone Apsley Rubber Co.;
president of the Hudson Board of Trade and a director of the Hudson
National Bank; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third and
Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1897); chairman,
Committee on Manufactures (Fifty-fourth Congress); declined to be a
candidate for renomination in 1896; resumed his former business
pursuits in Hudson, Mass.; served two terms as vice chairman of the
Republican National Congressional Committee; died in Colon, Panama,
April 11, 1925; interment in Forestvale Cemetery, Hudson, Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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