Education
He attended the public schools of New York City and engaged in the cigar manufacturing business.
United States representative politician
He attended the public schools of New York City and engaged in the cigar manufacturing business.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress, and after leaving Congress engaged in banking in Bayside. He founded the Bayside National Bank in 1905 and was its president until his resignation in 1920. He resided in Bayside until his death in that city in 1935.
Interment was in Flushing Cemetery, Flushing, New New York
He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1894. And a member of the New York State Assembly (Queens Company, 2nd Doctorate) in 1896. He was a member of the Queens County Republican committee from 1894 to 1900 and was three times its chairman.