Frank Ellsworth Doremus

Frank Ellsworth Doremus ( born August 31, 1865 Venango County, Pennsylvania, † September 4, 1947 in Howell, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1921 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frank Doremus attended the public schools in Portland. After a subsequent study of law at the Detroit College of Law and his admission to the bar he began to work in his new career in 1899 in Detroit. In the meantime, he worked in the newspaper business. In 1885 he founded the newspaper " Portland Review," which he edited until 1899. Between 1895 and 1899 he was postmaster in Portland.

Politically, Doremus member of the Democratic Party. From 1890 to 1892 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Michigan. Between 1903 and 1910 he held several local offices in the city government of Detroit. In the congressional elections of 1910, he was the first electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Edward Denby on March 4, 1911. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1921 five legislative sessions. In this time of the First World War fell. In addition, at that time the 16th, the 17th, 18th amendments have been passed to the United States Constitution and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution in Congress.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Frank Doremus was in the years 1923 and 1924 as the successor of John C. Lodge Mayor of Detroit. He then worked as a lawyer in Fowlerville. He died on 4 September 1947 in Howell and was buried in Detroit. Since 1890 he was married to Libby Hatley, with whom he had a son.