Lewis K. Rockefeller
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Lewis Kirby Rockefeller (November 25, 1875 - September 18, 1948) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Schenectady, he attended the public schools and graduated from New York State College in Albany, 1898. He was principal of a grammar school at North Germantown and was employed in the finance bureau of the New York State Department of Public Instruction from 1898 to 1904. He was chief accountant of the municipal accounts bureau in the New York State Comptroller's office from 1905 to 1915 and was deputy State tax commissioner from 1915 to 1921. He was deputy State commissioner of taxation and finance from 1921 to 1933, and engaged in the accounting and auditing business in 1933.
Rockefeller was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1936 and was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Philip A. Goodwin. He was reelected to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses and held office from November 2, 1937 to January 3, 1943. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1942 and resumed activities as an accountant and tax consultant in Chatham, New York. He died in Canaan, New York in 1948; interment was in Kinderhook Cemetery, Kinderhook.
