Peter Goelet Gerry
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United States Senator from Rhode Island |
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In office January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1947 |
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| Preceded by | Felix Hebert |
| Succeeded by | James Howard McGrath |
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In office March 4, 1917 – March 3, 1929 |
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| Preceded by | Henry Frederick Lippitt |
| Succeeded by | Felix Hebert |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Rhode Island's 2nd district |
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In office March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1915 |
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| Preceded by | George Herbert Utter |
| Succeeded by | Walter Russell Stiness |
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Peter Goelet Gerry September 18, 1879 Manhattan, New York City, New York |
| Died | October 31, 1957 (aged 78) Providence, Rhode Island |
| Political party | Democratic |
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Mathilde Townsend (m. 1910; div. 1925) Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (m. 1925; his death 1957) |
| Relations | Robert Livingston Gerry (brother) |
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Elbridge Thomas Gerry Louisa Matilda Livingston |
| Education | Harvard University (1901) |
| Profession | Attorney |
Peter Goelet Gerry (September 18, 1879 – October 31, 1957) was an American lawyer and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives and later, as a U.S. Senator from Rhode Island. He holds the distinction of being the only U.S. Senator to lose re-election and later reclaim such Senate seat from the person who had defeated him.
Gerry was born on September 18, 1879 in Manhattan, New York City, the son of Elbridge Thomas Gerry (1837–1927) and Louisa Matilda Livingston Gerry (1836–1920), and the great grandson of Elbridge Gerry (1744–1814), the fifth Vice President of the United States (who had given his name to the term gerrymandering). His father was worth an estimated $25,000,000 (equivalent to $620,431,034 today) in 1912. His maternal grandmother, Hannah Green Goelet (1804–1845), was the granddaughter of Peter Goelet (1727–1811). His father, Elbridge T. Gerry, was first cousins with Robert Goelet (1841–1899) and Ogden Goelet (1851–1897).
In the summer of 1899, Gerry and his brother Robert were tutored by William Lyon Mackenzie King, who later became the Prime Minister of Canada In 1901, Gerry graduated from Harvard University. He studied law and was admitted to the Rhode Island bar in 1906.
He inherited large real estate holdings from his mother, who died in 1920, which Gerry and his elder brother, agreed to sell in 1922. In a 1918 trust agreement, the brothers, and their sisters, Angelica Livingston Gerry and Mabel Gerry, could all exchange ownership in Gerry real estate for stock in the Gerry Estates, Inc.
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