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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyFranklin William FORT
(1880-1937)
FORT, Franklin William, a
Representative from New Jersey; born in Newark, N.J., March 30,
1880; moved in 1888 with his parents to East Orange, N.J.; attended
the public schools and Newark Academy; was graduated from
Lawrenceville School in 1897 and from Princeton University in 1901;
attended New York Law School 1901-1903; was admitted to the bar in
1903 and commenced practice in Newark; recorder of East Orange,
N.J., in 1907 and 1908; during the First World War served as a
volunteer on the staff of the United States Food Administrator,
Washington, D.C., 1917-1919; engaged in the insurance business in
1919 at Newark, N.J., and was also interested in banking; elected
as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, and Seventy-first
Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1931); was not a candidate for
renomination, but was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination as
United States Senator in 1930; served as secretary of the
Republican National Committee 1928-1930; resumed the practice of
law; served as chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board from
January 1932 to March 1933; died on June 20, 1937, in Rochester,
Minn.; interment in Bloomfield Cemetery, Bloomfield, N.J.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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