Lewis D. Apsley
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Lewis Dewart Apsley was a U.S. Representative
United States House of Representatives
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 from Massachusetts
Massachusetts
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Biography

Born in Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Northumberland, Pennsylvania
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, Apsley moved with his parents to Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
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, in 1861. He attended public and private schools.He moved to Philadelphia and engaged in business. Apsley identified himself with the rubbergoods trade.
He moved to Massachusetts in 1877 and became a manufacturer of rubber clothing in Hudson in 1885. He served as president of the Apsley Rubber Co., succeeded by the Firestone Apsley Rubber Co.
Firestone-Apsley Rubber Company
The Firestone-Apsley Rubber Company was the successor of the Apsley Rubber Company, and was located in Hudson, Massachusetts.-History:The Goodyear Gossamer Company was founded in 1885 in Hudson by U.S. congressman and businessman Lewis Dewart Apsley and J. H. Coffin of Boston...

. He served as president of the Hudson Board of Trade and a director of the Hudson National Bank.

Apsley was elected as a Republican
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 to the Fifty-third
53rd United States Congress
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 and Fifty-fourth
54th United States Congress
- House of Representatives :-Leadership:- Senate :* President: Adlai E. Stevenson * President pro tempore: William P. Frye - Majority leadership :* Republican Conference Chairman: John Sherman- Minority leadership :...

 Congresses
United States House of Representatives
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 (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1897).
He served as chairman of the Committee on Manufactures (Fifty-fourth Congress).
He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1896.
He resumed his former business pursuits in Hudson, Massachusetts
Hudson, Massachusetts
Hudson is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 19,063 at the 2010 census. The town is located in central Massachusetts, about a 40-minute drive, or about , west of Boston, and about a 20-minute drive, or about , northeast of Worcester.Before its...

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He served two terms as vice chairman of the Republican National Congressional Committee.
He died in Colon, Panama, April 11, 1925.
He was interred in Forestvale Cemetery, Hudson, Massachusetts
Hudson, Massachusetts
Hudson is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 19,063 at the 2010 census. The town is located in central Massachusetts, about a 40-minute drive, or about , west of Boston, and about a 20-minute drive, or about , northeast of Worcester.Before its...

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