Ira E. Rider

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Ira E. Rider

|image = Ira Edgar Rider.jpg

|state = New York

|district = {{ushr|NY|14|14th}}

|term_start = March 4, 1903

|term_end = March 3, 1905

|predecessor = William H. Douglas

|successor = Charles A. Towne

|birth_name = Ira Edgar Rider

|birth_date = {{birth date|1868|11|17}}

|birth_place = Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|1906|05|29|1868|11|17}}

|death_place = New York City, U.S.

|resting_place = Calvary Cemetery

|party = Democratic

|spouse =

|children =

|education = St. Lawrence University

|profession = Attorney

}}

Ira Edgar Rider (November 17, 1868 – May 29, 1906) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1903 to 1905.

Biography

Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Rider attended the public schools and the College of the City of New York. He graduated from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. Rider studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in New York City. From 1898 to 1902, he served as secretary to Manhattan's borough president.

= Congress =

Rider was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1905). Owing to ill health, he was not a candidate for renomination in 1904.

= Later career and death =

He resumed the practice of law and died in New York City, May 29, 1906. He was interred in Calvary Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, New York.

Electoral history

{{Election box begin no change | title=1902 election: District 14{{cite book |title=The New York Red Book, 1903 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d02634292s&view=1up&seq=765 |access-date=June 28, 2020 |year=1903 |page=619 | publisher=Williams Press etc. }}

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (US)

| candidate = Ira E. Rider

| votes = 20,402

| percentage = 63.7%

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (US)

| candidate = Andrew J. Anderson

| votes = 8,492

| percentage = 26.5%