Frank Dunklee Currier

Frank Dunklee Currier ( born October 30, 1853 in Canaan, New Hampshire, † November 25, 1921 ) was an American politician. Between 1901 and 1913 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frank Currier attended the common schools and Kimball Union Academy in Meriden. He also studied at the Doctor Hixon 's School in Lowell (Massachusetts ). After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1874 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Canaan.

Currier was a member of the Republican Party. In 1879 he was elected to the House of Representatives from New Hampshire. Between 1882 to 1890 he was Secretary of the Regional Party Executive Board for the state of New Hampshire. In the years 1883 and 1885 Currier File Clerk was the state Senate, which he was a member and President in 1887. 1884 Currier took as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago in part. Between 1890 and 1894 he was employed by the customs authorities at the port of Boston. In 1899 he was a member and President of the House of Representatives of his State.

In 1900 Currier was elected in the second district of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1901 to succeed the late in January 1901 Frank Gay Clarke. After five elections Currier could pass in Congress until March 3, 1913 six contiguous legislatures. Between 1903 and 1911 he was chairman of the Patent Committee. In the 1912 elections, he was defeated by Democrat Raymond Bartlett Stevens. After that Currier retired from politics and from public life. He died on 25 November 1921 in his birthplace of Canaan and was also buried there.