Dow Henry Drukker (February 7, 1872 – January 11, 1963) was an American Republican Party politician from

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who represented the state's 7th congressional district from 1914 to 1919.

Biography

He was born in

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, and immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in

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the same year. He attended the public schools of Grand Rapids and then moved to New Jersey in 1897 and settled in Passaic, New Jersey. He worked as a businessman and banker and served as a member of the Passaic County

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from 1906–1913, serving as director 1908-1912. Drukker was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert Gunn Bremner. He was reelected to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses and served from April 7, 1914, to March 3, 1919. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1918. After leaving Congress, he was the publisher of the '' Herald-News of Passaic-Clifton'' 1916-1963 and became president of the Union Building and Investment Co., in 1909. He was knighted as an Officer of the

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for services rendered in the great flood of 1953. He resided in

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and Lake Wales, Florida until his death in Lake Wales in 1963. He was buried in

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in Paterson, New Jersey.

References

Dow H. Drukker election in the ''New York Times''

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Drukker, Dow H. 1872 births 1963 deaths County commissioners in New Jersey Dutch emigrants to the United States Politicians from Passaic, New Jersey People from Sneek Politicians from Clifton, New Jersey Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey Burials at Cedar Lawn Cemetery