Bert Lord
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Bert Lord (December 4, 1869 – May 24, 1939) was an American politician from New York. A Republican, he served several terms in the New York State Assembly and New York State Senate, and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1935 until his death.
Life
Born in the town of Sanford, Broome County, he attended the public schools and the Afton Union School and Academy.Template:Sfn He engaged in the mercantile business at Afton from 1893 to 1918, when he entered the lumber business and operated sawmills.Template:Sfn
He was Afton's town supervisor from 1905 to 1915; and a member of the New York State Assembly (Chenango Co.) in 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920 and 1921.Template:Sfn
He was New York State Commissioner of Motor Vehicles from 1921 to 1923.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
He was again a member of the State Assembly in 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928 and 1929.Template:Sfn On November 5, 1929, he was re-elected to the Assembly; on November 25 State Senator B. Roger Wales died, and Lord ran to succeed him.Template:Sfn
On January 3, 1930, Lord was elected to the New York State Senate (40th D.).Template:Sfn He served in the Senate until 1934, sitting in the 153rd, 154th, 155th, 156th and 157th New York State Legislatures.Template:Sfn
Lord was elected as a Republican to the 74th, 75th and 76th United States Congresses;Template:Sfn he served from January 3, 1935 until his death.Template:Sfn
Lord suffered two heart attacks in May 1939.Template:Sfn The second one proved fatal, and he died in Washington, D.C., on May 24, 1939.Template:Sfn He was buried at Glenwood Cemetery in Afton.Template:Sfn
Family
Lord was married twice; his first wife was Lillian (Kniskern) Lord (1872-1937),Template:Sfn and in December 1938 he married Margaret T. Gregg, who survived him.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Lord had no children.Template:Sfn
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- 1869 births
- 1939 deaths
- People from Broome County, New York
- Republican Party members of the New York State Assembly
- Republican Party New York (state) state senators
- People from Afton, New York
- Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)
- 20th-century members of the New York State Legislature
- 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives