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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—PennsylvaniaFrank Joseph Gerard DORSEY
(1891-1949)
DORSEY, Frank Joseph
Gerard, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in
Philadelphia, Pa., April 26, 1891; attended grade and high schools;
was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia
in 1917; served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in
1916 and 1917; enlisted as a private in the Ordnance Department,
United States Army, in July 1917 and was honorably discharged as a
lieutenant on April 18, 1919; engaged in the manufacture of steel
tools in 1919; also engaged in banking; elected as a Democrat to
the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses (January 3,
1935-January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; member of the United States
Sesquicentennial Constitution Commission in 1938; director, Region
III, Wage and Hours and Public Contracts Division, United States
Department of Labor, from 1939 until his death in Philadelphia,
Pa., July 13, 1949; interment in St. Dominic’s Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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