| Birth: | Jan. 19, 1885
New York
New York County
New York, USA | | Death: | Oct. 2, 1976
Alexandria
Alexandria City
Virginia, USA | 
US Congressman. Born in New York City, New York, he graduated from Yale University in 1908. Entering the financial world, he went on to have a 30 year career as a successful and influential broker on Wall Street in New York City, serving as governor of the New York Stock Exchange from 1921 to 1938. In 1922 he co-founded the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New York to fight investment fraud. He served as Mayor of Rumson, New Jersey from 1938 to 1943 before option to run for national office. In 1943 he was elected as a Republican to represent New Jersey's 3rd Congressional District in the United House of Representatives, and served eleven consecutive terms from 1943 to 1965.
After declining to run for a 12th Congressional term in 1964, he retired to Alexandria, Virginia to be near his family, where he died there at the age of 91. (bio by: Bobb Edwards)
Search Amazon for James Auchincloss | | | Burial:
Woodlawn Cemetery
Bronx
Bronx County
New York, USA
Plot: Section 81/82, Columbine Plot, Lot 78 |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Jul 01, 2003
Find A Grave Memorial# 7643346 |
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