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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Massachusetts / USFrederick Huntington GILLETT
(1851-1935)
Senate Years of Service:
1925-1931Party: RepublicanGILLETT, Frederick
Huntington, a Representative and a Senator from
Massachusetts; born in Westfield, Hampden County, Mass., October
16, 1851; attended the public schools; graduated from Amherst
College, Amherst, Mass., in 1874 and from the law department of
Harvard University in 1877; admitted to the bar at Springfield,
Mass., in 1877 and commenced practice in that city; assistant
attorney general of Massachusetts 1879-1882; member, State house of
representatives 1890-1891; elected as a Republican to the
Fifty-third and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses; (March 4,
1893, to March 3, 1925); Speaker of the House of Representatives
(Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh, and Sixty-eighth Congresses);
chairman, Committee on Reform in the Civil Service (Fifty-sixth
through Sixty-first Congresses); was not a candidate for
renomination to the Sixty-ninth Congress; elected as a Republican
to the United States Senate in 1924 and served from March 4, 1925,
to March 3, 1931; was not a candidate for renomination in 1930;
engaged in literary pursuits; died in Springfield, Mass., July 31,
1935; interment in Pine Hill Cemetery, Westfield, Mass.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Gillett, Frederick H.
George Frisbie Hoar. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1934;
Gillett, Frederick H. The United States and the World Court.
New York: American Foundation, 1930.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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