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- HASKELL, Reuben Locke, a Representative from New York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., October 5, 1878; was graduated from Hempstead High School, Long Island, N.Y., in 1894; attended Ithaca High School in 1894 and 1895, New York City Law School in 1896, and 1897 and Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., LL.B., 1898; was admitted to the bar in 1899 and commenced practice in New York City; served with the Twenty-second Regiment of New York Volunteers during the Spanish-American War; served in the Thirteenth Regiment of the National Guard, Company I and Company G, as private, corporal, and sergeant 1899-1902; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1908 and 1920; counsel to the county clerk of Kings County 1908 and 1909; secretary for the Borough of Brooklyn 1910-1913; deputy commissioner of public works for the Borough of Brooklyn 1913-1915; member of the Republican State committee 1907-1913 and 1914-1919; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth Congress; reelected to the two succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1915, to December 31, 1919, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Sixty-sixth Congress); judge of the Kings County Court 1920-1925; defeated for reelection to that office; resumed the practice of law in New York City; transit commissioner, State of New York, 1932-1942; died in Westwood, N.J., October 2, 1971; interment in Mt. Repose Cemetery, Haverstraw, N.Y.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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New York Times
October 3, 1971
WESTWOOD, N.J., Oct. 2- Reuben L. Haskell, formerly a Representative from Brooklyn, a judge of the Kings County Court and a member of the onetime New York Transit Commission. died today in Valley Nursing Home. He would have been 93 years old Tuesday. His home was at 19 Brookside Place, Hillsdale.
Surviving are six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Mr. Haskell, a Republican district leader in the East New York area, of Brooklyn before he was 25, was said to have combined the soft-spoken, worldly wise attitude of the modern politician with the fighting strength of the bosses of the old school.
He was born in Brooklyn on Oct. 5, 1878, grew up on his grandfather's farm near Hempstead, L.I., and received his law degree from Cornell University in 1898. He served as a sergeant with the old 22d Regiment of New York Volunteers in the Spanish-American War.
After becoming leader of the 23d Assembly District Club in Brooklyn, Mr. Haskell was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1908 and 1920. He was Borough Secretary of Brooklyn from 1910 to 1913 and deputy public works commissioner of Brooklyn from 1913 to 1915.
Mr. Haskell was elected to Congress on the Republican ticket and served from 1915 to 1919. In June, 1919, he led a parade of 10,000 on Fifth Avenue in New York to protest ratification of the Volstead Act, which imposed Prohibition on the country.
In 1932 Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him to the New York Transit Commission, and in 1938 he was reappointed by Gov. Herbert H. Lehman. After unification of the transit system in 1940, the functions of the Transit Commission were taken over by the Public Service Commission in 1943 and Mr. Haskell resumed for a time the practice of law in Brooklyn.
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U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010
Name: Reuben Haskell
Death Date: 2 Oct 1971
SSN: 155308711
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