Education
Born in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York, attended Saint Peter’s Parochial School and the public schools of Poughkeepsie. Reporter and editor on the Poughkeepsie News-Press (1887–1910). Police commissioner of Poughkeepsie in 1892.
Unsuccessful candidate for election to the Fifty-fifth Congress in 1896.
Unsuccessful candidate for member of the State assembly in 1898 and 1900. Inheritance tax appraiser 1907 - 1909.
Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1900 and 1904. Elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1911, until his death.
Had been nominated in 1912 as the Democratic candidate for reelection to the Sixty-third Congress.
Died in Poughkeepsie, New York and is buried in Saint Peter"s Cemetery.