Bloom, Sol, 1870-1949

LC control no.	n 86001567
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Bloom, Sol, 1870-1949 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated place	San Francisco (Calif.) New York (N.Y.)
Birth date	18700309
Death date	19490307
Place of birth	Pekin (Ill.)
Place of death	Washington (D.C.)
Affiliation	World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) United States. Congress
Profession or occupation	Legislators--United States
Found in	His The story of the Constitution, 1986: CIP t.p. (Sol Bloom) LC manual auth. card (hdg.: Bloom, Sol, 1870-1949) Biog. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, viewed Feb. 15, 2012 (BLOOM, Sol, a Representative from New York; born in Pekin, Tazewell County, Ill., Mar. 9, 1870; moved with his parents to San Francisco, Calif., in 1873; attended the public schools; engaged in the newspaper, theatrical, and music-publishing businesses; superintendent of construction of the Midway Plaisance at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893; moved to New York City in 1903 and engaged in the real estate and construction business; captain in the New York Naval Reserve in 1917; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of U.S. Representative-elect Samuel Marx, and reelected to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (Jan. 30, 1923-Mar. 7, 1949); chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs (Seventy-sixth through Seventy-ninth Congresses and Eighty-first Congress), Special Committee on Chamber Improvements (Eighty-first Congress); director of the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission; director general of the United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission; chairman of the Committee on Celebration of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the United States Supreme Court; director and United States Commissioner, New York World's Fair, in 1939; died on Mar. 7, 1949, in Washington, D.C.; interment in Mount Eden Cemetery, Westchester Hills, N.Y.) English Wikipedia website, viewed Feb. 15, 2012 (Sol Bloom (Mar. 9, 1870-Mar. 7, 1949) was an entertainment and popular music entrepreneur who billed himself as "Sol Bloom, the Music Man" and served for many years in the United States House of Representatives)