Dow Henry Drukker (February 7, 1872 – January 11, 1963) was an American Republican Party politician from
New Jersey
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Sneek
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,
Netherlands
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, and immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in
Grand Rapids, Michigan
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the same year. He attended the public schools of Grand Rapids and then moved to New Jersey in 1897 and settled in
Passaic, New Jersey
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. He worked as a businessman and banker and served as a member of the
Passaic County
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Board of Chosen Freeholders
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from 1906–1913, serving as director 1908-1912.
Congress
Drukker was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert Gunn Bremner. He was reelected to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses and served from April 7, 1914, to March 3, 1919. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1918.
Later career
After leaving Congress, he was the publisher of the '' Herald-News of Passaic-Clifton'' 1916-1963 and became president of the Union Building and Investment Co., in 1909. He was knighted as an Officer of the
Order of Orange-Nassau
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by
Queen Juliana
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for services rendered in the great flood of 1953.
Death and burial
He resided in
Clifton, New Jersey
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and
Lake Wales, Florida
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History
Early history
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until his death in Lake Wales in 1963. He was buried in Cedar Lawn Cemetery in