Schuyler Merritt was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut's 4th congressional district from 1917 to 1931 and 1933 to 1937.
18 Facts About Schuyler Merritt
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Schuyler Merritt was born in New York City, in 1853, the son of Matthew Franklin Merritt, a Connecticut State Senator, and Mariah Shaw Merritt.
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Schuyler Merritt's father had served in the Connecticut General Assembly.
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Schuyler Merritt moved with his parents to Stamford, Connecticut, in 1855.
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Schuyler Merritt eventually rose to be secretary in 1878, general manager in 1890 and treasurer in 1898.
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Schuyler Merritt was involved in banking from 1877 until 1917.
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In 1904, Schuyler Merritt was member of the Connecticut constitutional convention that rewrote Connecticut's Constitution.
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Schuyler Merritt was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ebenezer J Hill.
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Schuyler Merritt was reelected to the Sixty-sixth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from November 6,1917, to March 3,1931.
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Schuyler Merritt was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930, but was again elected to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses, serving from March 4,1933, until January 3,1937.
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In 1936, Merritt again ran for reelection to the Seventy-fifth Congress, but was not elected, losing to Alfred N Phillips.
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Schuyler Merritt was an officer of the First Stamford National Bank, since 1902, served as board chairman.
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Schuyler Merritt was a vice president of the Stamford Gas and Electric Company.
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Schuyler Merritt was recognized in 1951 and 1952 as the oldest living Yale graduate and the sole survivor of the class of 1873.
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On October 21,1879, Schuyler Merritt married Frances Hannah Hoyt, the daughter of Stamford multimillionaire Joseph Blachley Hoyt and Catherine Krom, and the niece of Oliver Hoyt, a Connecticut State Senator.
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Schuyler Merritt was a mentor to his niece, Joyce Porter Arneill, who would go on to found the National Federation of Republican Women in 1938 and become an RNC delegate for the 1940 presidential election.
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Schuyler Merritt died in Stamford on April 1,1953, at the age of 99.
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The Schuyler Merritt Parkway, finished on September 2,1940, in southern Connecticut was named in his honor and his daughter Louise cut the ribbon.