Steven Beckwith Ayres
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 18th district
In office
March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1913
Preceded byJoseph A. Goulden
Succeeded byThomas G. Patten
Personal details
BornOctober 27, 1861 (1861-10-27)
Fort Dodge, Iowa
DiedJune 1, 1929 (1929-07) (aged 67)
Clearwater, Florida
Citizenship United States
Political partyDemocratic Party
SpouseHelen Ayres
Alma materSyracuse University
Professionpublisher/editor

advertising agent

politician

orange grower

real estate agent

Steven Beckwith Ayres (October 27, 1861 – June 1, 1929) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York.

Biography

Born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Ayres was the son of Stephen and Artemisia (Dunlap) Ayres. He moved with his parents to Elmira, New York, in 1866, where he attended grammar school. He moved to Penn Yan, New York, in 1873, and attended the Penn Yan Academy. Ayres later graduated from Syracuse University in 1882.

He married his first wife, Harriet Margaret Bowers of Penn Yann, NY, in 1884. They had one son, Malcolm Beckwith Ayres (b.1886).[1] His second wife, Helen Ayres (b.1869), was one of the founders of the Woman's National Democratic League (est.1896) in New York City.[2][3] It was the first permanent national political organization exclusively established for and by women. They had one daughter, Janette.[2]

Career

Ayres worked in the publishing business at Penn Yan and became editor of the Yates County Chronicle. He served as delegate to the Republican State convention in 1884. In 1893, he moved to New York City, where he worked in advertising. He declined the Democratic nomination as candidate for the New York State Assembly in 1910.

He was elected as an Independent (non-Tammany) Democrat to represent Bronx district in the Sixty-second Congress in 1910. Ayres served one term from March 4, 1911, to March 3, 1913.[4] In 1912 he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty-third Congress.

Ayres wrote several books and many history articles, and lectured at the New York University Summer School in 1914.

He engaged in the cultivation of oranges at Clearwater, Florida, in winter and in the real estate business at Woodstock, New York, during the summer.[5]

Death

Steven Beckwith Ayres died on June 1, 1929, in Manhattan's Park West Hospital. He is interred at Clearwater Cemetery in Clearwater, Florida.[6]

References

  1. ^ University, Syracuse (1904). Alumni Record and General Catalogue of Syracuse University.
  2. ^ a b Foofle Books.com: "Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915", by John W. Leonard, pg. 62.
  3. ^ Google Books.com: Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac, Volume 15, 1900, pg. 293.
  4. ^ "Steven Beckwith Ayres". Govtrack US Congress. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  5. ^ "Steven Beckwith Ayres". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  6. ^ "Steven Beckwith Ayres". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved 15 July 2013.

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