Frank J. Becker

Frank John Becker ( born August 27, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, † September 4, 1981 Lynbrook, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1953 and 1965 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frank John Becker was born in the late 19th century in Brooklyn. His family moved in November 1905 after Lynbrook. He attended public schools and then Brown's Business College in Jamaica. During the First World War he undertook on 22 July 1918 in the U.S. Army and served in the following time in France and the UK. On September 22, 1919 he was discharged from the Army. He then worked in the insurance business in Lynbrook. Between 1945 and 1953 he sat in the New York State Assembly. He was Director and later Chairman of the Board of Suburbia Federal Savings & Loan Association. Between 1952 and 1964 he participated in every Republican National Convention as a delegate. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1952 he was in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Henry J. Latham on 4 January 1953. He was re-elected four times in a row. In 1962 he was a candidate in the fifth electoral district of New York for a congress seat. After a successful election, he stepped on 4 January 1963, the successor of Joseph Patrick Addabbo. Since he gave up for reelection in 1964, he retired after January 3, 1965 out of the Congress. As a congressman, he was on several committees and sub-committees: Committee on Ways and Means, Armed Services Committee (including the Subcommittee of Research and Development), Joint Legislative Committee for the Study of Military Law and Charitable and Religious Societies Committee.

He died on 4 September 1981 in Lynbrook and was then buried in the Pine Lawn National Cemetery in Pinelawn.