BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Businessman, politician.
Bert Lord was born in Sanford, Broome County, New York, and attended
public schools and the Afton Union School and Academy. He engaged in the
mercantile business in Afton, New York, from 1863 to 1918, when he entered the
lumber business and operated sawmills; served as supervisor of the Town of
Afton, 1905-1915; member of the New York Assembly, 1915-1922 and 1924-1929;
served as Commissioner of Motor Vehicles of the State of New York, 1921-1923;
member of the state Senate, 1929-1935; was elected as a Republican to the
Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, and Seventy-sixth Congress, serving until his
death in 1939.
