Frank Gillespie

James Frank Gillespie ( born April 18, 1869 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, † November 26, 1954 in Bloomington, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1935 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frank Gillespie attended the common schools and taught there even in the years 1891 and 1892 as a teacher. In 1891 he was a member of the faculty of the White Sulphur Springs High School. After studying law at Central College in Danville (Indiana) and his 1892 was admitted to the bar he began in Charleston to work in this profession. In 1894 he moved his residence and his law firm to Bloomington in Illinois. In addition, he now also engaged in agriculture. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party a political career. In the years 1913 and 1914 he was a member of a House of Representatives from Illinois.

In the congressional elections of 1932, Gillespie was in the 17th electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Homer W. Hall on March 4, 1933. Since he has not been confirmed in 1934, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1935. There, then, the first New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 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.

In 1934, Frank Gillespie applied unsuccessfully to return to Congress. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer back in Bloomington, where he died on 26 November 1954.