Frank Bateman Keefe

Frank Bateman Keefe ( born September 23, 1887 in Winneconne, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, † February 5, 1952 in Neenah, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1951 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frank Keefe attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1906, the Oshkosh State Normal School. In 1906 and 1907 he worked as a teacher in Viroqua. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1910 admitted to the bar he began in Oshkosh to work in his new profession. Between 1922 and 1928 acted Keefe as prosecutor in Winnebago County. He was also president of the Oshkosh bank.

Politically, Keefe member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1938 he was in the sixth constituency of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Michael Reilly on January 3, 1939. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1951 six legislative periods. There, until 1941, further New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted. Between 1941 and 1945, the events of the Second World War also influenced the work of the Congress. In his last years in the U.S. House of Representatives Keefe saw the beginning of the Cold War.

In 1950, Frank Keefe gave up another candidacy. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he again worked as a lawyer. He died on February 5, 1952 in Neenah, and was buried in Oshkosh.