Franklin Lewis Dershem

Franklin Lewis Dershem ( born March 5, 1865 New Columbia, Union County, Pennsylvania, † February 14, 1950 in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Franklin Dershem attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1887, the Palm's National Business College in Philadelphia. Between 1888 and 1891 he was postmaster in the village of Kelly Point. He then worked in agriculture. From 1891 to 1913 he was also active in the hardware store. He was also a curator at the Albright College, Myerstown. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1907, 1908, 1911 and 1912 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1912 Dershem was in the 17th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Benjamin K. Focht on March 4, 1913. As he defeated his predecessor Focht in 1914, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1915. Between 1913 and 1915, the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. It was about the nationwide introduction of the income tax and the direct election of U.S. senators.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Franklin Dershem worked in various capacities for the Internal Revenue Service. From 1915 to 1935 he worked for the federal tax authority as an auditor in Philadelphia. Then he worked until his death in Lewisburg in the same capacity for the local local tax authority. In this city he has also died on 14 February 1950.