1. Andrew Nicholas Petersen was a patternmaker and foundry company executive who served as a US Representative from New York.
11 Facts About Andrew Petersen
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Andrew Petersen attended the public schools and learned the patternmaker's trade.
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Andrew Petersen later became an executive in the metal working industry, and served as president of Brooklyn's Whale Creek Iron Works.
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Andrew Petersen was active in a real estate sales and development company, Farragut Realty.
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Andrew Petersen served as president of the Brooklyn Foundry Company from 1900 to 1952.
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Andrew Petersen's companies were active in construction throughout the New York City area, including fulfilling contracts for elevator fronts, staircases, railings, columns, building fronts, and other building components.
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Andrew Petersen was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress.
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Andrew Petersen was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress.
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Rather than the planned undercover operation, the investigation Rossdale and Andrew Petersen intended degenerated into farce; when the media became aware of the events, they generated satirical headlines that showed the principals and the Harding administration in a negative light.
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Andrew Petersen was buried in Cypress Hills Abbey, Brooklyn, New York.
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Elliott Andrew Petersen was vice president of production for the Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company.