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Photograph (detail), 1935, Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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SNELL, Bertrand Hollis, a Representative from New York; born in Colton, St. Lawrence County, N.Y.,
December 9, 1870; attended the public schools; was graduated from the State normal school at
Potsdam, N.Y., in 1889 and from Amherst (Mass.) College in 1894; began work as a bookkeeper
and afterward became secretary and manager of a paper company in Potsdam; in 1904 organized the
Canton Lumber Co. in Potsdam; president and manager of cheese manufacturing company of New
York City; owner of a power plant in Higley Falls, N.Y.; director of the Northern New York Trust
Co., the Agricultural Insurance Co. of Watertown, N.Y., and Gould Pumps, Inc., Seneca Falls, N.Y.;
vice president of the Northern New York Development League 1908-1910; member of the
Republican State committee 1914-1944; delegate to all Republican National Conventions 1916-1940,
serving as chairman in 1932 and 1936; president, board of trustees of Clarkson College, Potsdam,
N.Y., 1920-1945; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Edwin A. Merritt, Jr.; reelected to the Sixty-fifth and to the ten succeeding Congresses
and served from November 2, 1915, to January 3, 1939; chairman, Committee on War Claims
(Sixty-seventh Congress), Committee on Rules (Sixty-eighth through Seventy-first Congresses);
minority leader (Seventy-second through Seventy-fifth Congresses); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1938; publisher of the Potsdam Courier-Freeman newspaper 1934-1949; in 1941
became owner and manager of New York State Oil Co., of Kansas; died in Potsdam, N.Y., February
2, 1958; interment in Bayside Cemetery.
BibliographyBarone, Louis A. Republican House Minority Leader
Bertrand H. Snell and the Coming of the New Deal, 1931-1939. Ph.D. diss., State University of
New York at Buffalo, 1969.
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