Frederick William Magrady

Frederick William Magrady (* November 24, 1863 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, † August 27, 1954 in Danville, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1925 and 1933 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frederick Magrady attended the public schools in Mount Carmel. In 1890 he graduated from the State Normal School in Bloomsburg. In the following 13 years he taught at Mount Carmel as a teacher. After that, he was for some time in Gauley (West Virginia) in the coal business. After a law degree from the Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle and his 1909 was admitted as a lawyer, he started in Mount Carmel to work in this profession. He was also a director of the First National Bank of Mount Carmel, president of the company Shamokin -Mount Carmel Transit Co. and Ashland & Shamokin Auto Bus Co. Inc and Director of Mount Carmel Water Co.

Politically Magrady was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1924 he 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 Herbert Wesley Cummings on March 4, 1925. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1933 four legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the world economic crisis since 1929. In 1932 he was not re-elected.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Frederick Magrady practiced as a lawyer again. He died on August 27, 1954 in Danville and was buried in Mount Carmel.