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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyJames Coats AUCHINCLOSS
(1885-1976)
AUCHINCLOSS, James Coats,
a Representative from New Jersey; born in New York City, January
19, 1885; attended Cutler School, New York City, and Groton School,
Groton, Mass.; was graduated from Yale University in 1908; engaged
in financial and stock brokerage business in New York City
1908-1940; a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, 1921-1938;
served in the Seventh Regiment, New York National Guard, 1909-1913;
during the First World War served as captain, Military
Intelligence; deputy police commissioner of New York City; founder,
treasurer, president, and chairman of the board of the New York
Better Business Bureau; member of the borough council, Rumson,
N.J., 1930-1937; mayor of Rumson, N.J., 1938-1943; elected as a
Republican to the Seventy-eighth and to the ten succeeding
Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1965); was not a candidate
for reelection in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; died in
Alexandria, Va., October 2, 1976; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery,
Bronx, N.Y.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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