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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—AlabamaFrank William BOYKIN
(1885-1969)
BOYKIN, Frank William, a
Representative from Alabama; born in Bladon Springs, Choctaw
County, Ala., February 21, 1885; attended the public schools; moved
to Fairford, Ala., in 1890 and was employed as a clerk in a store
and later as store manager; moved to Malcolm, Ala., in 1905 and
engaged in the manufacture of railroad cross ties; moved to Mobile,
Ala., in 1915 and was occupied with real estate, farming,
livestock, timber, lumber, and naval stores in southern Alabama;
during the First World War served as an official in shipbuilding
companies; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth Congress to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John McDuffie;
reelected to the Seventy-fifth and to the twelve succeeding
Congresses and served from July 30, 1935, to January 3, 1963;
chairman, Committee on Patents (Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth
Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1962 to the
Eighty-eighth Congress; convicted in July 1963, on charges of
conspiracy and conflict-of-interest by using his congressional
influence to gain dismissal of mail fraud charges against J.
Kenneth Edlin; served six months’ probation, fined, and
received full pardon from President Johnson in 1965; returned to
his many business activities; died in Washington, D.C., March 12,
1969; interment in Pine Crest Cemetery, Mobile, Ala.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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