Franklin Bartlett

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Franklin Bartlett (born September 10, 1847 in Worcester County , Massachusetts , † April 23, 1909 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1893 and 1897 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Franklin Bartlett was born in Worcester County during the Mexican-American War . He graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1865 and from Harvard University in 1869 . Then in 1869 he attended Columbia College Law School . He was admitted to the bar the following year. Bartlett attended Exeter College and the University of Oxford in Great Britain in 1870 and 1871 . In 1873 he graduated from Columbia College Law School. In 1890 he was a member of the Constitutional Commission of the State of New York . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . In 1892 he took part as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago .

In the congressional elections of 1892 for the 53rd Congress he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the seventh constituency of New York , where he succeeded Edward J. Dunphy on March 4, 1893 . He was re-elected once. In 1896 he suffered a defeat in his re-election and resigned from Congress on March 3, 1897 .

In the Spanish-American War he served as Colonel of the Volunteers . He died on April 23, 1909 in New York City and was then buried in Green-Wood Cemetery , Brooklyn .

Web links

  • Franklin Bartlett in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)