caption district succeeded death_date death_place birth_place party term_end preceded birth_date term_start article_title state name
closeup near observation tower , buffalo , new york . of gorski memorial located at erie basin marina 44th john c. butler 25 april 1975 buffalo , new york buffalo , new york democrat january 3 , 1951 john c. butler 2 june 1906 january 3 , 1949 chester c. gorski
 new york chester charles gorski
chester c. gorski

chester charles gorski -lrb- june 22 , 1906 -- april 25 , 1975 -rrb- was an american congressman who represented the state of new york .
he was born in buffalo , new york , usa on to a polish immigrant family .
he was a member of the erie county board of supervisors from 1941 to 1945 and of the buffalo common council from 1946 to 1948 .
he served in the house as a democrat from january 3 , 1949 to january 3 , 1951 but failed to be reelected in 1950 .
after this he worked for the department of commerce from 1951 to 1952 , served on the buffalo common council again from 1954 to 1956 , on the new york state building code commission from 1956 to 1959 , and on the buffalo common council for a third time from 1960 to 1974 , when he resigned .
he died in buffalo on april 25 , 1975 .
he is the father of former erie county executive dennis gorski and new york state supreme court justice jerome gorski .
