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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaFrank PARK
(1864-1925)
PARK, Frank, a
Representative from Georgia; born in Tuskegee, Macon County, Ala.,
March 3, 1864; attended the common schools and the University of
Georgia at Athens; engaged in teaching 1882-1885; railway civil
engineer 1885-1889; graduated from Atlanta Medical College, 1891;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1891; lawyer, private practice;
chair of the Democratic executive committee of Worth County, Ga.,
1891-1902; judge of the county court, 1898-1903; chair of the
Democratic congressional committee for the second district of
Georgia, 1902-1904; judge of the city court of Sylvester, Ga.,
1903-1908; judge of the Albany judicial circuit, 1908-1913; chair
of the board of trustees of the State Agricultural and Mechanical
School, Tifton, Ga., 1911-1915; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
United States Representative Seaborn A. Roddenbery; reelected to
the Sixty-fourth and to the four succeeding Congresses (November 4,
1913-March 3, 1925); chair, Committee on Accounts (Sixty-fifth
Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomination to the
Sixty-ninth Congress in 1924; died on November 20, 1925, at Fort
Lauderdale, Fla.; interment in White Springs Cemetery, White
Springs, Fla.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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