Bliss, Archibald M
merchant, railroad president, congressman, was born Jan. 25, 1837, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He received an academic education and was for many years engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was for four years an alderman, from 1864, and president of the board in 1867, and was defeated for mayor in the latter year. He was a delegate to the Baltimore convention in 1864, Chicago convention of 1868, and the Cincinnati convention of 1872, and in 1869 and 1870 was commissioner of public works for Brooklyn. He was a director in several banks, vicepresident and director in the New York and Long Island Bridge company, and president of the Bushwick Railroad company. In 1874 he was elected a representative from New York to the fortyfourth congress, and was re-elected to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a republican.