Nathan Frank

This article is about the politician Nathan Frank. For the physicist, see Nathaniel H. Frank .

Nathan Frank

Nathan Frank (born February 23, 1852 in Peoria , Illinois , †  April 5, 1931 in St. Louis , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1889 and 1891 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Nathan Frank attended public schools in Peoria and St. Louis. He then studied at Washington University in St. Louis . After studying law at Harvard University and being admitted to the bar in 1871, he began to work in this profession from 1872 in St. Louis. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In 1886 he ran unsuccessfully against John Milton Glover for the US House of Representatives. An election challenge was also unsuccessful. In the congressional elections of 1888 Frank was then elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded Glover on March 4, 1889. Since he refused to run again in 1890, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1891 .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Nathan Frank got into the newspaper business. He founded and ran the newspaper “St. Louis Star ”. He also continued to work as a lawyer. In 1896 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in St. Louis, where William McKinley was nominated as a presidential candidate. In 1904 Frank was Vice President of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition , the St. Louis World's Fair . In 1910, 1916 and 1928 he unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination for the US Senate elections . After that, he retired. Nathan Frank died in St. Louis on April 5, 1931.

Web links

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

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