Frank E. Guernsey

Frank E. Guernsey

Frank Edward Guernsey (born October 15, 1866 in Dover , Piscataquis County , Maine , †  January 1, 1927 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was an American politician . Between 1908 and 1917 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Frank Guernsey attended public schools in his home country. He then graduated from other schools in Maine and New York . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1890, he began practicing his new profession in Dover. Between 1890 and 1896 he was treasurer of Piscataquis County. Politically, Guernsey joined the Republican Party . From 1897 to 1899 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Maine ; in 1903 he was also a member of the State Senate . In 1908 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where William Howard Taft was nominated as a presidential candidate.

After the death of Congressman Llewellyn Powers , Guernsey was elected as his successor to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the due by-election in the fourth constituency of Maine . There he took up his new mandate on November 3, 1908. After three re-elections, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1917 . During this time the 16th and 17th amendments to the constitution were discussed and passed there.

In 1916 Frank Guernsey declined to run again for the House of Representatives. Instead, he unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination for the US Senate elections . In the following years he was President of the Piscataquis Savings Bank and Curator of the University of Maine . He also worked as a lawyer again.

Web links

• Frank E. Guernsey in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Frank E. Guernsey in the database of Find a Grave (English)