Frank Plumley

Frank Plumley (1905)

Frank Plumley (born December 17, 1844 in Eden , Vermont , †  April 30, 1924 in Northfield , Vermont) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1909 and 1915 he represented the second constituency of the state of Vermont in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Frank Plumley attended his homeland public schools and the People's Academy . He then taught himself as a teacher in Morrisville . After studying law in Morrisville and at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, as well as being admitted to the bar in 1869, he began practicing this profession in Northfield. Between 1876 and 1880 he was a prosecutor in Washington County .

Plumley was a member of the Republican Party . In 1882 he was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives. In 1886 he was chairman of the Vermont Republican regional convention and in 1888 Plumley was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where Benjamin Harrison was nominated as the party's presidential candidate. Between 1889 and 1894, Plumley served as a federal attorney for the Vermont Judicial District. In 1894 he was elected to the Vermont Senate. In 1902 and 1904 he was a member of a civil court ( Court of Claims ) in Vermont and from 1904 to 1908 he was chief justice presiding judge of the Vermont Supreme Court . In 1903 he was sent as chairman to an international commission that met in Caracas ( Venezuela ). Two years later he was the chairman of another international commission meeting in Northfield. In 1905, Plumley also became a curator of Norwich University .

In the congressional elections of 1908, Plumley was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the second district of Vermont , where he succeeded Kittredge Haskins on March 4, 1909 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1915 . In 1912 he was one of four congress delegates to the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Geneva . In 1914 he decided not to run again.

After his tenure in Congress, Plumley returned to practice as a lawyer. He died in Northfield on April 30, 1924. Frank Plumley was the father of Charles Albert Plumley (1875-1964), who represented Vermont's first constituency in Congress between 1934 and 1951.

Web links

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

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