Frank L. Houx

Frank Lee Houx ( born December 12, 1860 in Lexington, Missouri, † April 3, 1941 in Cody, Wyoming ) was a U.S. Representative (Democratic Party), who was from 1917 to 1919 Governor of the State of Wyoming.

Career

Houx graduated in 1884 at the Shaw's Business College in Kansas City, Missouri. In the following year he moved to Montana, where he followed the cattle business, and ten years later to Cody, Wyoming, where he was twice elected mayor of Cody. Then he was twice elected Secretary of State, before he became governor in the U.S. Senate after the election of Governor John B. Kendrick himself. His tenure was during the First World War, where he mobilized the National Guard of Wyoming for the federal public service. He also called the Wyoming Council for National Defense and nominated persons who led the Select Service Draft. After he was defeated in his re-election attempt in 1918, he went to the oil refining in Texas, but in 1935 he returned back to Cody, where he also died.

He has also been married twice. With his first wife, Augusta Camp, he had three children with his second wife, Ida Mason Christy, he had four children together.