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Photograph (detail), 1941, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives |
BLOOM, Sol, a Representative from New York; born in Pekin, Tazewell County,
Ill., March 9, 1870; moved with his parents to San Francisco, Calif., in 1873;
attended the public schools; engaged in the newspaper, theatrical, and
music-publishing businesses; superintendent of construction of the Midway
Plaisance at the Worlds Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893; moved to New
York City in 1903 and engaged in the real estate and construction business;
captain in the New York Naval Reserve in 1917; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-eighth Congress by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of United States Representative-elect Samuel Marx, and reelected to the
thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 30, 1923-March 7, 1949); chairman,
Committee on Foreign Affairs (Seventy-sixth through Seventy-ninth Congresses
and Eighty-first Congress), Special Committee on Chamber Improvements
(Eighty-first Congress); director of the United States George Washington
Bicentennial Commission; director general of the United States Constitution
Sesquicentennial Commission; chairman of the Committee on Celebration of the
One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the United States Supreme Court;
director and United States Commissioner, New York Worlds Fair, in 1939; died
on March 7, 1949, in Washington, D.C.; interment in Mount Eden Cemetery,
Westchester Hills, N.Y.
BibliographyBloom Sol.
The Autobiography of Sol Bloom. New York: Putnams, 1948.
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