He received his early schooling in Arizona and upon graduation from high school became a newspaper correspondent for the Phoenix. Ariz.. Morning Courier. and later for the St. Louis. Mo.. PostDispatch. In the years to follow he became a clerk and consular agent in the U.S. consulate in Hungary. an interpreter at the immigration station on Ellis Island in New York Harbor. a lawyer. and deputy attorney general for New York State. He was first elected to Congress in 1916 and participated in the special session called by President Woodrow Wilson to declare war against Germany. Always a man of his word.
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