Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey

Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey ( born April 26, 1891 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † July 13, 1949 ) was an American politician. Between 1935 and 1939 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frank Dorsey attended the public schools of his home and then the local high schools. Subsequently, he studied until 1917 at the University of Pennsylvania. At times he was a member of the local faculty. During the First World War, he served 1917-1919 in the U.S. Army. Since 1919 Dorsey was involved in the production of steel tools. He also went into the banking industry. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1934, Dorsey was in the fifth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican James J. Connolly on 3 January 1935. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1939 two legislative sessions. 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. While Dorsey's time more New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration were adopted there in Congress. 1938 Dorsey was not re-elected. In the same year he was a member of the United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission.

From 1939 until his death worked as a department manager Frank Dorsey at the Federal Ministry of Labour. He died on July 13, 1949 in Philadelphia.