Frank Crowther

Frank Crowther (* July 10, 1870 in Liverpool, England; † July 20, 1955 in Pueblo, Colorado ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1943 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1872, Frank Crowther came with his parents from his native England to Canton in Massachusetts, where he attended the public schools. In 1888 he graduated from the Lowell School of Design, part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Then he designed seven years pattern for carpets. After studying dentistry at Harvard University and his 1898 was admitted as a dentist, he began to practice in Boston in this profession. In 1901 he moved to Perth Amboy and his practice in New Jersey. He also proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1904 and 1905 he sat as an MP in the New Jersey General Assembly; 1906-1909 it belonged to the Tax Committee of the Middlesex County. Since 1912 he has been resident in Schenectady, New York, where he continues to practice as a dentist. In the years 1917 and 1918 he was Chairman of that city council.

In the congressional elections of 1918, Crowther was in the 30th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George R. Lunn on March 4, 1919. After eleven re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1943 twelve legislatures. From 1929 to 1931 he was chairman of the Committee on Memorials. In the years 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages as well as the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage. The 18th Amendment was repealed in 1933. In Crowther's time as a congressman and the Great Depression fell. Since 1933, the New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration were adopted, which his party faced a rather negative. 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends, or begins on January 3. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked.

In 1942, Crowther gave up another Congress candidate. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he moved to Pueblo in Colorado, where he worked on cultural matters, such as a violin studies and landscape painting. He also gave public lectures. Frank Crowther died on July 20, 1955 in Pueblo, where he was also buried.