Stewart Hoffman APPLEBY, Congress, NJ (1890-1964)

APPLEBY, Stewart Hoffman, (son of Theodore Frank Appleby), a Representative from New Jersey; born in Asbury Park, Monmouth County, N.J., May 17, 1890; attended the public schools of Asbury Park, and Mercersburg Academy; was graduated from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., in 1913; engaged in the real estate and insurance business; organized and served as vice president of the First National Bank of Avon-by-the-Sea, N.J.; during the First World War enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on May 17, 1917, and served until May 17, 1921; commissioned a captain in the United States Marine Corps Reserve on November 24, 1925; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, Representative-elect T. Frank Appleby, and served from November 3, 1925, to March 3, 1927; was not a candidate for renomination in 1926; during the Second World War served in the United States Coast Guard, being discharged in September 1945 as a coxswain; retired to Hallandale, Fla.; died in Miami, Fla., January 12, 1964; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Fort Myer, Va.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present