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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyFrederick Reimold LEHLBACH
(1876-1937)
LEHLBACH, Frederick
Reimold, (nephew of Herman Lehlbach), a Representative from
New Jersey; born in New York City January 31, 1876; moved with his
parents to Newark, N.J., in 1884; attended the public schools; was
graduated from Yale University in 1897; attended the New York Law
School; was admitted to the bar in February 1899 and commenced
practice in Newark, N.J.; member of the Newark Board of Education
1900-1903; member of the State house of assembly 1903-1905; clerk
of the State board of equalization of taxes from April 3, 1905,
until his resignation on April 14, 1908; appointed assistant
prosecutor of Essex County on April 15, 1908, and served until
April 6, 1913, when he resigned to resume the practice of law;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the ten
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-January 3, 1937); chairman,
Committee on Reform in the Civil Service (Sixty-sixth through
Sixty-eighth Congresses), Committee on Civil Service (Sixty-ninth
through Seventy-first Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress; continued the
practice of law in Washington, D.C., until his death there on
August 4, 1937; interment in Fairmount Cemetery, Newark, N.J.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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