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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyJohn Rathbone RAMSEY
(1862-1933)
RAMSEY, John Rathbone, a
Representative from New Jersey; born in Wyckoff, Bergen County,
N.J., April 25, 1862; attended the public schools and a private
school in Parkersburg, W.Va., where he lived from 1872 to 1879;
studied law in Hackensack, N.J.; was admitted to the bar in 1883
and commenced practice in Hackensack, N.J.; county clerk of Bergen
County 1895-1910; delegate to the Republican National Convention in
1908; president of the Hackensack Brick Co. 1909-1933; director of
several banks; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth and
Sixty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1921); was an
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1920; resumed the
manufacture of brick; died in Hackensack, N.J., April 10, 1933;
interment in Hackensack Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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