Simon Seibert (September 12, 1857

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– 1917) was an American politician from

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Life

He attended the public schools. In 1893, he became a clerk in the City Treasurer's office. Seibert was a member of the

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(Erie Co., 2nd D.) in

1894 Events January * January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire. * January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United States. * Ja ...

and

1895 Events January * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island (off French Guiana) on what is much later admitted to be a false charge of tr ...

. He was a member of the

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(48th D.) from 1896 to 1898, sitting in the 119th, 120th and

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s. He was an alternate delegate to the

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 ...

; and a delegate to the

1900 Republican National Convention The 1900 Republican National Convention was held June 19 to June 21 in the Exposition Auditorium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Exposition Auditorium was located south of the University of Pennsylvania, and the later Convention Hall was co ...

. Seibert was a

presidential elector In the United States, the Electoral College is the group of presidential electors that is formed every four years for the sole purpose of voting for the president and vice president in the presidential election. This process is described in ...

in the 1904 presidential election. He was buried at the

Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo Forest Lawn Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in Buffalo, New York, founded in 1849 by Charles E. Clarke. It covers over and over 152,000 are buried there, including U.S. President Millard Fillmore, First Lady Abigail Fillmore, singer Ric ...

References

Sources

''The New York Red Book''
compiled by Edgar L. Murlin (published by James B. Lyon, Albany NY, 1897; pg. 169, 404 and 511)
Sketches of the members of the Legislature
in ''The Evening Journal Almanac'' (1895; pg. 54)
''VOTE OF NEW YORK SPLIT''
in NYT on March 15, 1896
''NEW YORK'S DELEGATION''
in NYT on June 11, 1900

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Seibert, Simon 1857 births 1917 deaths Republican Party New York (state) state senators Politicians from Buffalo, New York Republican Party members of the New York State Assembly Burials at Forest Lawn Cemetery (Buffalo) 1904 United States presidential electors 19th-century members of the New York State Legislature