Bert Lord (December 4, 1869 – May 24, 1939) was a United States Representative from New York.
Born in the town of Sanford, Broome County, he attended the public schools and the Afton Union School and Academy. He engaged in the mercantile business at Afton from 1893 to 1918, when he entered the lumber business and operated sawmills. He served as supervisor of the town of Afton from 1905 to 1915 and was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1915 to 1921 and 1924 to 1930. He served as commissioner of motor vehicles of the State of New York from 1921 to 1923, and was a member of the New York State Senate from 1930 to 1934.
Lord was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, and Seventy-sixth Congresses and held office from January 3, 1935 until his death in Washington, D.C. in 1939; interment was in Glenwood Cemetery, Afton.
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“Why don’t you go home to your wife? I’ll tell you what. I’ll go home to your wife and outside of the improvements, you’ll never know the difference. Pull over to the side of the road there and let me see your marriage license.”
—S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Horsefeathers, a wisecrack made to Huxley College’s outgoing president (1932)
“Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep;
If I should die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take.”
—Unknown. Now I Lay Me Down to Take My Sleep (l. 1–4)