Frank P. Briggs

Frank P. Briggs (around 1945)

Frank Parks Briggs (born February 25, 1894 in Armstrong , Howard County , Missouri , †  September 23, 1992 in Macon , Missouri) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of Missouri in the US Senate .

Career

Frank Briggs attended schools in his native Armstrong and in Fayette . He then continued his education from 1911 to 1914 at Central College in Fayette before he graduated from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1915 . As a result, Briggs worked in the newspaper business; from 1925 he worked as an editor in Macon. In this city he began his political career with the office of mayor between 1930 and 1932. From 1933 to 1944 he then sat in the Missouri Senate .

On January 18, 1945, Frank Briggs was appointed to the United States Senate by Missouri's Governor Phil Donnelly . There he succeeded the to US Vice President elected Harry S. Truman at that a little later President of the United States was. Briggs' term in Washington, DC ended on January 3, 1947, when he was defeated in the next election in November 1946 to Republican James P. Kem .

As a result, Briggs worked again in the newspaper business. From 1955 to 1956 he served as chairman of the Missouri State Conservation Commission . He returned to Washington once more and served there from 1961 to 1965 as Deputy Secretary of the Interior with responsibility for fish and wildlife. He then retired in Macon, where he died in 1992 at the age of 98. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living US Senator.

Web links

• Frank P. Briggs in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Frank P. Briggs in the database of Find a Grave (English)