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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyWilliam Edgar TUTTLE, Jr.
(1870-1923)
TUTTLE, William Edgar,
Jr., a Representative from New Jersey; born in Horseheads,
Chemung County, N.Y., December 10, 1870; was graduated from
Horseheads High School and Elmira Free Academy in 1887 and attended
Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., for two years; was engaged in the
lumber business in Westfield, N.J.; delegate to the Democratic
National Convention in 1908 and 1916; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3,
1915); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the
Sixty-fourth Congress; resumed the lumber business; United States
commissioner to the Panama Exposition in 1916; president of the
State board of conservation and development in 1919; State
commissioner of banking and insurance in 1921; died in Westfield,
Union County, N.J., February 11, 1923; interment in Maple Grove
Cemetery, Horseheads, N.Y.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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