Frank A. Mathews

Frank Asbury Mathews Jr. (born August 3, 1890 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , †  February 5, 1964 in Camden , New Jersey ) was an American politician . Between 1945 and 1949 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Frank Mathews attended public schools in Palmyra . Between September 1917 and May 1919 he served in the United States Army in Europe during World War I. After a subsequent law degree at the Law School of Temple University in Philadelphia and his license to practice law in 1919, he began to work in Camden in this profession. Between 1929 and 1933, Mathews served as district judge in the first judicial district of Burlington County . From 1933 to 1944 he was one of the legal advisers to the highway administration in his state. He was then Deputy Attorney General of New Jersey from 1944 to 1945 .

Politically, Mathews was a member of the Republican Party . After the resignation of Congressman D. Lane Powers , he was elected at the by-election for the fourth seat of New Jersey as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on November 6, 1945. After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1949 . This time was determined by the consequences of the Second World War and the beginning of the Cold War .

In 1948, Mathews declined to run again for Congress. Between 1949 and 1953 he was again Deputy Attorney General of his state; then he practiced again as a lawyer. He died in Camden on February 5, 1964 and was buried in Palmyra.

Web links

• Frank A. Mathews in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Frank A. Mathews in the database of Find a Grave (English)