Royal H. Weller

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Royal H. Weller
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 21st district
In office March 4, 1923 - March 1, 1929
Preceded by	Martin C. Ansorge
Succeeded by	Joseph A. Gavagan
Born	July 2, 1881 New York City
Died	March 1, 1929 New York City
Political party	Democratic

Royal Hurlburt Weller (July 2, 1881 - March 1, 1929) was a United States Representative from New York.

Weller was born in New York City on July 2, 1881. He attended the public schools and the College of the City of New York and graduated from the New York Law School in 1901. He was admitted to the bar in 1902 and commenced practice in New York City; assistant district attorney of New York County from 1911 to 1917, when he resigned to reenter the practice of law; counsel for the Alien Property Custodian in 1918 and 1919; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, and Seventieth Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until his death; had been reelected to the Seventy-first Congress; died in New York City, interment in Woodlawn Cemetery.

The Library of Congress has cataloged a bill with which Weller was connected: A bill to establish a national conservatory of music for the education of pupils in music in all its branches. [Washington: Govt. Printing Office, 1927].

[edit] External links

• Royal H. Weller at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Preceded by Martin C. Ansorge

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 21st congressional district 1923 - 1929

Succeeded by Joseph A. Gavagan