Alfred Florian Beiter (July 7, 1894 – March 11, 1974) was an American businessman and politician who served four terms as a

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from

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from 1933 to 1939 and from 1941 to 1943. He was a Democrat.

Biography

Beiter was born the son of Nicholas I and Elizabeth E Wyman Beiter in

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, Erie County,

. He attended Williamsville High School and

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. He married Caroline A. Kibler on November 19, 1919.

Career

After a move to

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, Beiter engaged in the general merchandising business from 1915 to 1929. He was a supervisor of the town of

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, from 1930 to 1934.

Congress

Elected as a

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to the Seventy-third and the two succeeding Congresses, Beiter was U. S. Representative for the forty-first district of New York from March 4, 1933, to January 3, 1939; and was chairman of the Committee on War Claims during the Seventy-fifth Congress. An unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress, he was assistant to the

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in 1939 and 1940. He was then elected to the Seventy-seventh Congress and served from January 3, 1941, to January 3, 1943, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress. Beiter owned and operated a hatchery and feed business in

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, from 1944 to 1948, and was president of the National Customs Service Association from 1949 to 1961. He finished his career as Deputy Commissioner of Customs for the Treasury Department in

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, from 1961 to 1964. He resided in

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. He moved to

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, upon his retirement.

Death

Beiter died in

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, on March 11, 1974 (age 79 years, 247 days). He is

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at Boca Raton Cemetery, Boca Raton, Florida.

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