[Nfb-history] congress not immune to fears of blindness HR620

[Peggy Chong]

This past week, we saw the passage of HR620, a bill that will take away the
rights of the disabled in our country.  There are many reasons why our
Congressmen chose to vote against us. 

Each yes vote has a reason behind it.  How would they feel if they became
disabled and found out they had no due process under the law.  Or would they
react as one of their colleagues did when he learned he was going blind?  

 

            Charles Henry Voorhis (1833-1896) - also known as Charles H.
Voorhis - of New Jersey. Born in Spring Valley (now Paramus), Bergen County,
N.J., March 13, 1833. Republican. Lawyer; banker; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New Jersey, 1864; U.S. Representative from New
Jersey 5th District, 1879-81. Indicted in 1881 for bank fraud over his
actions as president of two banks, which later became insolvent; tried and
found not guilty. Fearing oncoming total blindness, he committed suicide by
gunshot, in his office in the Davidson Building, Jersey City, Hudson County,
N.J., April 15, 1896 (age 63 years, 33 days). Original interment at Bayview
- New York Bay Cemetery, Jersey City, N.J.; reinterment at Hackensack
Cemetery, Hackensack, N.J.

 

Peggy Chong

 

 

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