Theodore Albert Peyser

(1873 - 1937)

PEYSER, Theodore Albert, a Representative from New York; born in Charleston, W.Va., February 18, 1873; attended the public schools; engaged in various occupations until 1893, when he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and became employed as a traveling salesman, in which capacity he served until 1900; moved to New York City in 1900 and engaged in the life insurance business; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, until his death in New York City August 8, 1937; interment in United Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Sources: Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress