Pell 's political career began as a member of the Progressive committee of Orange County , New York ( 1912 to 1914 ) . He was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress ( March 4 , 1919 – March 3 , 1921 ) and was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress . He was chairman of the Democratic State committee from 1921 to 1926 and a delegate to the 1924 Democratic National Convention . Pell was an occasional lecturer at Columbia University , Harvard University , and other institutions of learning , and in 1936 was vice chairman of the Democratic National Campaign Committee
1924 Democratic National Convention
1924 Democratic National Convention
Herbert Pell