Frank Fellows

Frank Fellows

Frank Fellows (born November 7, 1889 in Bucksport , Hancock County , Maine , †  August 27, 1951 in Bangor , Maine) was an American politician . Between 1941 and 1951 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Frank Fellows attended his home public schools and the East Maine Conference Seminary . He then studied law at the University of Maine, among other things. After his admission to the bar in 1911, he began working in his new profession in Portland . He later relocated his law office to Bangor.

Between 1917 and 1920 he was an administrative clerk with the Maine federal court. Politically, Fellows was a member of the Republican Party . In 1940 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC as their candidate in the third constituency of Maine . There he took over from Ralph Owen Brewster , who moved to the US Senate , on January 3, 1941 .

After five re-elections, Fellows could remain in Congress until his death on August 27, 1951 . During this time the Second World War fell . Fellows temporarily chaired the subcommittee that dealt with immigration issues. He successfully campaigned for a law to admit 200,000 European war refugees to the United States. In 1951, the 22nd amendment was ratified, which limited the presidential term to two terms. Frank Fellows died after illness on August 27, 1951 and was buried in Bucksport, his birthplace. His parliamentary mandate fell to Clifford McIntire after a by-election .

His brother, Raymond Fellows, was a Maine Attorney General and presiding judge in the Maine Superior Court.

Web links

• Frank Fellows in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Frank Fellows in the database of Find a Grave (English)