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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MichiganFrancis Oscar LINDQUIST
(1869-1924)
LINDQUIST, Francis Oscar,
a Representative from Michigan; born in Marinette, Marinette
County, Wis., September 27, 1869; attended the common schools;
moved to Greenville, Mich., in 1904 and engaged in the mail-order
clothing and manufacturing business; moved to Grand Rapids, Mich.,
in 1915 and became president of the Canada Mills Co., of New York
and Michigan; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third Congress
(March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); was not a candidate for renomination
in 1914; resumed the mail-order business in Grand Rapids; after the
First World War returned to Greenville, Mich., and supervised a
correspondence-school course for sales people; unsuccessful
candidate for election in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; died
in Grand Rapids, Mich., on September 25, 1924; interment in Forest
Rose Cemetery, Greenville, Montcalm County, Mich.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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