sentences:  A member of the United States House of Representatives from New York, Loft was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the 1906 death of Timothy D. Sullivan.He was reelected in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress and served from November 4, 1913, to March 3, 1917.He was not a candidate for renomination in 1916.