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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyFrank Asbury MATHEWS, Jr.
(1890-1964)
MATHEWS, Frank Asbury,
Jr., a Representative from New Jersey; born in Philadelphia,
Pa., August 3, 1890; attended the public schools of Palmyra, N.J.;
during the First World War served in the Ordnance Department,
United States Army, September 1917 to May 1919, with nineteen
months’ service overseas; was graduated from Temple
University Law School, Philadelphia, Pa.; in 1920; was admitted to
the bar in 1919 and commenced practice in Camden, N.J.; judge of
the district court of the first judicial district of Burlington
County, N.J., 1929-1933; assistant counsel for the State Highway
Department of New Jersey 1933-1944; deputy attorney general of New
Jersey in 1944 and 1945; served as division judge advocate of the
Forty-fourth Division from September 16, 1940, until relieved from
active duty on October 15, 1940; elected as a Republican to the
Seventy-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of D. Lane Powers; reelected in 1946 to the Eightieth
Congress and served from November 6, 1945, to January 3, 1949; was
not a candidate for renomination in 1948; again appointed deputy
attorney general of New Jersey and served from 1949 to 1953;
resumed the practice of law; was a resident of Riverton
(Cinnaminson Township), N.J., until his death in Camden, N.J.,
February 5, 1964; interment in Morgan Cemetery, Palmyra, N.J.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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