Anthony Jerome Griffin

Anthony Jerome Griffin (April 1, 1866 - January 13, 1935) was a United States Representative from New York. Griffin was born in New York City. He attended City College, Cooper Union, and New York University School of Law. He was admitted to the bar in 1892 and commenced practice in New York City. Griffin organized and commanded Company F, Sixty-ninth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, in the Spanish-American War in 1898 and 1899. He founded and edited the Bronx Independent 1905-1907. He was member of the State Senate from 1911 to 1915 and member of the New York State Constitutional Convention in 1915. Griffin was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-Fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry Bruckner. He was...