Ernest Robinson Ackerman (June 17, 1863 – October 18, 1931) was an
American Republican Party politician who represented
New Jersey's
5th congressional district in the
United States House of Representatives from 1919 to 1931.
Early years
Ackerman was born in
New York City and moved with his parents to
Plainfield, New Jersey very shortly thereafter. He was educated at public and private schools and graduated from
Plainfield High School in 1880. Employed in cement manufacturing, Ackerman was a member of the Plainfield common council in 1891 and 1892.
Political career
Ackerman was as a member of the
New Jersey Senate from 1905 to 1911, serving as president in 1911. He was a delegate to the
Republican National Conventions at Chicago in
1908 and in
1916 and a member of the board of trustees of
Rutgers College,
New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1916-1920. He was a Federal food administrator for
Union County, New Jersey during the
First World War and a member of the New Jersey Board of Education 1918-1920.
In September 1907, Ackerman and his wife Nora attended the maiden voyage of the Cunard liner
RMS Lusitania from
Liverpool to
New York.
Ackerman was a member of the New Jersey Geological Survey and associate of the
American Society of Civil Engineers. He was elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1919, until his death in Plainfield, New Jersey on October 18, 1931. He was buried in the family plot in
Hillside......
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