Frank J. G. Dorsey Explained

Frank J. G. Dorsey
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State:Pennsylvania
District:5th
Term Start:January 3, 1935
Term End:January 3, 1939
Preceded:James J. Connolly
Succeeded:Fred C. Gartner
Birth Date:26 April 1891
Birth Place:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Death Place:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Party:Democratic
Alma Mater:University of Pennsylvania

Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey (April 26, 1891 – July 13, 1949) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Biography

He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 26, 1891; attended grade and high schools; was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1917; served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1916 and 1917; enlisted as a private in the Ordnance Department, United States Army, in July 1917 and was honorably discharged as a lieutenant on April 18, 1919; engaged in the manufacture of steel tools in 1919; also engaged in banking; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; member of the United States Sesquicentennial Constitution Commission in 1938; director, Region III, Wage and Hours and Public Contracts Division, United States Department of Labor, from 1939 until his death in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 13, 1949; interment in St. Dominic's Cemetery.