Ellis H. Roberts

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office = Treasurer of the United States
term_start = July 11897
term_end = June 301905
predecessor = D.N. Morgan
successor = Charles H. Treat
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term_start2 = March 41871
term_end2 = March 31875
predecessor2 = Alexander H. Bailey, William E. Lansing
successor2 = Clinton L. Merriam, George A. Bagley
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birth_date = September 301827
birth_place = Utica, New York
death_date = January 81918
death_place = Utica, New York
party = Republican
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Ellis Henry Roberts (September 301827 - January 81918) was a United States Representative from New York and 20th Treasurer of the United States.

Roberts was born in Utica, Oneida County, New York on September 30, 1827. He attended the common schools and the Whitestown Seminary and graduated from Yale College in 1850. He served as principal of Utica Free Academy in 1850 and 1851 and became editor and proprietor of the "Utica Morning Herald" 1851 - 1889. A delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1864, 1868, and 1876; member of the New York State Assembly in 1866; elected as a Republican to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses (March 41871 - March 31875); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; resumed his former newspaper activities in Utica, N.Y.; Assistant Treasurer of the United States 1889 - 1893; president of the Franklin National Bank of New York City 1893 - 1897; appointed Treasurer of the United States on July 11897, and served until June 301905, when he resigned; again engaged in banking; died in Utica, N.Y., January 81918; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery in Utica.

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