Louis Woodard Emerson (July 25, 1857 – June 10, 1924) was a

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from

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Life

Born in

Warrensburg, New York Warrensburg is a town in Warren County, New York, United States. It is centrally located in the county, west of Lake George. It is part of the Glens Falls metropolitan area. The town population was 3,959 at the 2020 census. While the county is ...

, Emerson attended the district schools and was graduated from Warrensburg Academy. He engaged in the lumber, banking, and manufacturing business. Emerson was a delegate to the

1888 Events January * January 3 – The great telescope (with an objective lens of diameter) at Lick Observatory in California is first used. * January 12 – The Schoolhouse Blizzard hits Dakota Territory and the states of Montana, M ...

1892 In Samoa, this was the only leap year spanned to 367 days as July 4 repeated. This means that the International Date Line was drawn from the east of the country to go west. Events January * January 1 – Ellis Island begins processing imm ...

and

1896 Republican National Convention The 1896 Republican National Convention was held in a temporary structure south of the St. Louis City Hall in St. Louis, Missouri, from June 16 to June 18, 1896. Former Governor William McKinley of Ohio was nominated for president on the first ...

s. Emerson was a member of the

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(19th D.) from 1890 to 1893, sitting in the 113th, 114th, 115th and

116th New York State Legislature The 116th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 3 to April 20, 1893, during the second year of Roswell P. Flower's governorship, in Albany. Background Under the ...

s. Emerson was elected as a Republican to the 56th and

57th United States Congress The 57th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1901, to ...

es, holding office from March 4, 1899, to March 3, 1903. Emerson resumed former business activities in

, and died there June 10, 1924. He was interred in the City Cemetery. State Senator James A. Emerson was his brother.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Emerson, Louis W. 1857 births 1924 deaths Republican Party New York (state) state senators People from Warrensburg, New York Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) 19th-century members of the New York State Legislature 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives