Franklin Bartlett

Franklin Bartlett ( born September 10, 1847 in Worcester County, Massachusetts, † April 23, 1909 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1893 and 1897 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Franklin Bartlett was born during the Mexican - American War in Worcester County. He graduated in 1865 at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and in 1869 at Harvard University. Then he visited in 1869 the Columbia College Law School. He was admitted as a lawyer in the following year. Bartlett attended Exeter College and the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom between 1870 and 1871. In 1873 he completed the courses at Columbia College Law School. He was a member of the 1890 Constitutional Commission of the State of New York. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1892 he took part in Chicago as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention.

In the congressional elections of 1892 for the 53rd Congress, he was in the seventh election district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Edward J. Dunphy on March 4, 1893. He was re-elected once. In 1896 he suffered in his re-election bid a defeat and retired after March 3, 1897 the Congress of.

In the Spanish-American War he served as Colonel of Volunteers. He died on April 23, 1909 in New York City and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.