Frank A. McLain

Frank Alexander McLain (* January 29, 1852 in Gloster, Amite County, Mississippi, † October 10, 1920 ) was an American politician. Between 1898 and 1909 he represented the fifth and the seventh consecutive electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frank McLain attended after elementary school until 1874 the University of Mississippi in Oxford. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began in Liberty to work in his new profession. Politically, McLain member of the Democratic Party. Between 1881 and 1883 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Mississippi. From 1883 to 1896 McLain worked as district attorney and then again as a private lawyer. In 1890 he was a delegate at a meeting to revise the constitution of Mississippi.

After the death of Congressman William F. Love McLain was elected in the by-election due in the fifth district of Mississippi as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. He finished until March 3, 1897 the opened first legislative period of his predecessor. In the following regular congressional elections McLain was confirmed in each case. Thus he was able to represent the fifth district in Congress until March 3, 1903. Since the elections of 1902 he ran in the seventh district. This he represented until March 3, 1909 Congress. He was since December 12, 1898 to March 3, 1909 for uninterrupted member of the House of Representatives.

After the end of his time in Washington was Frank McLain 1910-1912 employed at the Mississippi State Supreme Court ( State Supreme Court Commissioner). He died in October 1920 in his birthplace of Gloster and was also buried there.