Elmer E. Studley

Elmer Ebenezer Studley (September 24, 1869 - September 6, 1942) was a United States Representative from New York. Born on a farm near East Ashford, Cattaraugas, he attended the district schools and graduated from Cornell University in 1894, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. He was a reporter on Buffalo newspapers in 1894 and 1895 and was commissioned as a first lieutenant in the Two Hundred and Second Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, serving in Cuba in 1898 and 1899. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1895 and practiced in Buffalo from 1895 to 1898. He moved to Raton, Colfax County, New Mexico in 1899 and practiced law until 1917, and served as a Republican in the Territorial house of representatives in 1907. He was a member of the New Mexico Statutory Revision Commission in 1907 and was district attorney of Colfax and Union Counties in 1909 and 1910. He was a delegate to the Progressive National Convention at Chicago in 1916, moved to New York City in 1917, and continued the practice of law.

Studley was deputy attorney general of New York in 1924 and was United States commissioner for the eastern district of New York in 1925 and 1926. He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third Congress, holding office from March 4, 1933 to January 3, 1935. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1934 and resumed the practice of law; in February 1935 he was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a member of the Board of Veterans' Appeals and served until his death in Flushing in 1942. Interment was in Flushing Cemetery.

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