Anthony Jerome Griffin

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Anthony Jerome Griffin (April 1, 1866 - January 13, 1935) was a United Representative from New York.

Griffin was born in New York City. He attended the public schools, 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 1911-1915 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 reelected to the Sixty-sixth and to the eight succeeding Congresses and served from March 5 1918, until his death in New York City.