Francis O. Lindquist

Francis Oscar Lindquist ( born September 27, 1869 in Marinette, Wisconsin, † September 25, 1924 in Grand Rapids, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Francis Lindquist attended the public schools of his home. In 1904, he moved to Greenville, Michigan, where he worked in the shipping clothes and crafts. Eleven years later, in 1915, Lindquist moved to Grand Rapids on. He was president of the company Canada Mills Co. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1912 he was in the eleventh electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Francis H. Dodds on March 4, 1913. Since he was not nominated by his party for re-election in 1914, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1915. Those days of the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution in force.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Lindquist worked back in the mail. He later moved to Greenville, where he led a correspondence school for mail order companies. In 1922 he applied unsuccessfully to return to Congress. Francis Lindquist died on September 25, 1924 in Grand Rapids and was buried in Greenville.

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