Merritt was the representative for Connecticut’s 4th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1933 to 1936.
He was previously the representative for Connecticut’s 4th congressional district as a Republican from 1927 to 1931; the representative for Connecticut’s 4th congressional district as a Republican from 1925 to 1927; the representative for Connecticut’s 4th congressional district as a Republican from 1923 to 1925; and the representative for Connecticut’s 4th congressional district as a Republican from 1917 to 1923.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
