Henry Bruckner (June 17, 1871 – April 14, 1942) was an American politician from
New York
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who served three terms in the
U.S. House of Representatives
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from 1913 to 1917.
Life
Born in
New York City
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, he attended the common and high schools in New York and became engaged in the manufacture of
mineral water
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Tra ...
s in 1892. He was a member of the
New York State Assembly
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(New York Co., 35th D.) in
1901. He was commissioner of
public works
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for the
borough
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History
In the Middle Ag ...
of
the Bronx
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from 1902 to 1905.
Bruckner was elected as a
Democrat
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to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses and held office from March 4, 1913, until December 31, 1917, when he resigned; while in the House he was chairman of the Committee on Railways and Canals (Sixty-fifth Congress). He resumed his former business pursuits in New York City and was also interested in banking; from 1918 to 1934 he was Bronx
Borough president. He died in the Bronx in 1942. He is interred at
Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.
One of the Bronx's main freeways, the
Bruckner Expressway
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, is named in his honor.
[Staff]
"Henry Bruckner, Lawyer, Son of Bronx President"
''The New York Times
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'', August 3, 1970. Accessed August 7, 2009.
See also
*
Timeline of the Bronx
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Prior to the 19th century
* Prior to European settlement: The Indian Siwanoy tribe of the Wappinger Confederacy roamed the easte ...
, 20th c.
References
Sources
1871 births
1942 deaths
Bronx borough presidents
Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
Democratic Party members of the New York State Assembly
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)
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