William I. Sirovich
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William Irving Sirovich (March 18, 1882 – December 17, 1939) was a United States Representative from New York.
Born in York County, Pennsylvania, he moved to New York City with his parents in 1888, attended the public schools, and was graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1902 and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York City, in 1906. He commenced the practice of medicine in New York City in 1906 and also engaged as a lecturer, editor, and playwright, several of his plays being produced on Broadway.
He was a member of the fifth district school board from 1906 to 1926 and was appointed as a member of the commission to inquire into the subject of widows' pensions and of the State pension commission in 1913. He was appointed a member of the State charities convention in 1914 and served as superintendent of Peoples Hospital in New York City from 1910 to 1927. He was appointed commissioner of child welfare in 1919 and served until 1931; in 1924 he was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Sixty-ninth Congress.
Sirovich was elected as a Democrat to the Seventieth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1927 until his death. During the Seventy-second through Seventy-sixth Congresses he was chairman of the Committee on Patents. He was president of the Industrial National Bank in New York City from 1929 to 1932 and was a delegate to the Interparliamentary Union Congress held at Bucharest, Rumania, in 1931. In 1939 he died in New York City; interment was in Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Long Island.
