Frank J. G. Dorsey | |
Image Name: | FrankJosephGerardDorsey.jpg |
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.
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.