Frank C. Partridge

Frank C. Partridge

Frank Charles Partridge (born May 7, 1861 in Middlebury , Addison County , Vermont , †  March 2, 1943 in Proctor , Vermont) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of Vermont in the US Senate .

After attending public schools, Frank Partridge graduated from Amherst College in 1882 ; Two years later the legal examination at the follow Law School of Columbia University in New York . He was admitted to the bar in 1885 and then practiced initially in Rutland . The following year he moved to Proctor and worked there in the marble industry.

Politically, Partridge was initially active at the local level as a town clerk and member of the Proctor school committee. From 1889 he was then in the service of the federal government: initially as private secretary to US Secretary of War Redfield Proctor , the former governor of Vermont, from 1890 to 1893 then as a solicitor at the State Department . As a result, he struck a career as a diplomat and was envoy to Venezuela (1893-1894) and consul general in Tangier (1897-1898).

Upon his return to the United States, Frank Partridge was elected to the Vermont Senate, of which he was a member between 1898 and 1900. From 1906 to 1923 he was a member of the executive council of the American Society for International Law . In 1909 he was a commission to discuss amendments to the Vermont Constitution . During the First World War he worked from 1917 to 1919 on the Vermont Committee of Public Safety .

In 1923 Partridge participated as a US delegate at the 5th Pan-American Conference in Santiago de Chile . Other offices at the state level followed before he was named on December 23, 1930 to succeed the late US Senator Frank L. Greene . He also applied for the nomination of his party for the by-election to this mandate, but was defeated by Warren Austin , who also won the following election and thus replaced Partridge as Senator on March 31, 1931. This then withdrew from politics and went about his private business.

Web links

• Frank C. Partridge in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Frank C. Partridge in the database of Find a Grave (English)