Political Career
Merritt was member of the Connecticut constitutional convention in 1904 and a member of the Connecticut State Board of Education 1910–1916. Later, he was a delegate to the 1916 Republican National Convention.
He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ebenezer J. Hill. Merritt was reelected to the Sixty-sixth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from November 6, 1917, to March 3, 1931. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 but was again elected to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1937). Merritt again ran for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress, but was not elected.
After leaving Congress, he continued his interests in the Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company and the First Stamford National Bank. Merritt died in Stamford in 1953 at the age of 99, and was buried in Woodland Cemetery.
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