- Bertrand Snell
Bertrand Hollis Snell (
December 9 ,1870 –February 2 ,1958 ) represented the state of New York in theUnited States House of Representatives .Born in
Colton, New York , Snell graduated from the Potsdam Normal School in 1889 and fromAmherst College in 1894. He began work as abookkeeper and afterward became secretary and manager of a paper company inPotsdam, New York . In 1904 he organized the Canton Lumber Co. in Potsdam. He was president and manager of cheese manufacturing company of New York City, owner of a power plant inHigley Falls, New York , director of theNorthern New York Trust Company , the Agricultural Insurance Co. ofWatertown, New York , and Gould Pumps, Inc.,Seneca Falls, New York . He was vice president of theNorthern New York Development League , 1908–1910.He was member of the Republican State committee 1914–1944 and delegate to all
Republican National Convention s 1916–1940, serving as chairman in 1932 and 1936. Snell served as president ofClarkson University , in Potsdam, New York, 1920–1945; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofEdwin A. Merritt ; reelected to the Sixty-fifth and to the ten succeeding Congresses and served fromNovember 2 ,1915 , toJanuary 3 ,1939 , when he retired from politics. At various times in his Congressional career, he was chairman of theCommittee on War Claims and the Committee on Rules. He served as House minority leader from 1931 until his retirement.He was publisher of the "
Potsdam Courier-Freeman " newspaper 1934–1949 and in 1941 became owner and manager of theNew York State Oil Company , of Kansas. After his death in Potsdam, New York, in 1958, he was interred inBayside Cemetery .ource
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