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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyDow Henry DRUKKER
(1872-1963)
DRUKKER, Dow Henry, a
Representative from New Jersey; born in Sneek, Holland, February 7,
1872; immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled
in Grand Rapids, Mich., the same year; attended the public schools
of Grand Rapids, Mich.; moved to New Jersey in 1897 and settled in
Passaic; businessman and banker; member of the Passaic County Board
of Chosen Freeholders 1906-1913, serving as director 1908-1912;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Robert Gunn Bremner; reelected to
the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses and served from April
7, 1914, to March 3, 1919; was not a candidate for renomination in
1918; publisher of the Herald-News of Passaic-Clifton 1916-1963;
became president of the Union Building and Investment Co., in 1909;
knighted as an Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau by Queen
Juliana for services rendered in the great flood of 1953; resided
in Clifton, N.J., and Lake Wales, Fla., until his death in Lake
Wales January 11, 1963; interment in Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson,
N.J.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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