Matthew J. Merritt

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Matthew Joseph Merritt (April 2, 1895 - September 29, 1946) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in New York City, he attended the public and high schools, and during the First World War served in 1918 as a sergeant in Company C, Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh Battalion, Tank Corps. He engaged in the real estate and insurance business in New York City from 1926 to 1933, and served with the New York loan agency of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1933 and 1934.

Merritt was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to the four succeeding Congresses, holding office from January 3, 1935 to January 3, 1945. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1944, and engaged in the real estate and insurance business in New York City. In 1946 he died at Malba, Queens County; interment was in Mount St. Mary's Cemetery, Whitestone.

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• Matthew J. Merritt at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress