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Robert Watson Pomeroy (June 21, 1902 – January 4, 1989) was an American businessman and politician from New York. ==Life== He was born on June 21, 1902, in Buffalo, New York, the son of Robert Watson Pomeroy (1868–1935) and Lucy (Bemis) Pomeroy (born 1869). He attended the Hotchkiss School. He graduated Ph.B. from Yale University in 1924. Then he engaged in the management of investments. In 1930, he married Estelle Bassett (1907–1988), and they had two children.〔(''New York Red Book'' ) (1963–1964; pg. 205)〕 During World War II he served in the U.S. Army, attaining the rank of captain. After the war he entered politics as a Republican. Pomeroy was a member of the New York State Assembly (Dutchess Co.) from 1948 to 1964, sitting in the 166th, 167th, 168th, 169th, 170th, 171st, 172nd, 173rd and 174th New York State Legislatures. He was a leading conservationist, and was Chairman of the Joint Legislative Committee on Natural Resources from 1959 to 1965. He was a member of the New York State Senate in 1965 and 1966; and a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1967.〔(''Directory of Delegates and Staff'' ) of the NYS Constitutional Convention (1967; pg. 80)〕 He died on January 4, 1989, at his home in Millbrook, New York, of heart failure;〔(''Robert Pomeroy, 86, An Ex-Legislator, Dies'' ) in the ''New York Times'' on Januatry 10, 1989〕 and was buried at St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery in Lithgow. Congressman Theodore M. Pomeroy (1824–1905) was his grandfather. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Watson Pomeroy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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