Frank Clague

Frank Andrew Clague ( born July 13, 1865 in Warrensville, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, † March 25, 1952 in Redwood Falls, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1921 and 1933 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frank Clague attended the public schools of his home and moved in 1881 to Minnesota. There he attended 1882-1885, the State Normal School, Mankato. From 1886 to 1890 he worked in Springfield as a teacher. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1891 admitted to the bar he began in Lamberton to work in his new profession. Between 1895 and 1903, Clague District Attorney in Redwood County.

Politically Clague was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1903 and 1907 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Minnesota; since 1905 he was its president. In the years 1907 to 1915 Clague was a member of the State Senate. He was also from 1919 to 1920 served as a judge for the ninth judicial district of Minnesota.

In the congressional elections of 1920 he was in the second electoral district of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Franklin Ellsworth on March 4, 1921. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in 1933 six contiguous legislatures in Congress until March 3. Shortly before the end of his last term of office of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution was adopted there, which brought forward the start of the terms of office of the Congress and the President from March to January, to shorten the distance between the November elections and the Office beginning.

In 1932, Frank Clague renounced another candidacy. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again. He was also engaged in farming. He spent his retirement in Redwood Falls, where he died on 25 March 1952. He was married to Stella P. Clague ( 1868-1958 ).