Frank M. Ramey

Frank Marion Ramey ( born September 23, 1881 in Hillsboro, Montgomery County, Illinois, † March 27, 1942 ) was an American politician. Between 1929 and 1931 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frank Ramey attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1900, the Hillsboro High School. He also graduated from the Eastern Illinois Normal School in Charleston. Between 1902 and 1905 he worked as a teacher in Hillsboro. After a subsequent law degree in 1907 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Hillsboro to work in this profession. From 1907 to 1911 he was also legal representatives of this city. Between 1920 and 1928 he served as a prosecutor in Montgomery County.

Politically, Ramey joined the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1928, he became the 21st electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat James Earl Major took on 4 March 1929 he had defeated before. Since he resigned in 1930 to another candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1931. This was marked by the events of the Great Depression.

Between 1931 and 1934 Frank Ramey officiated as deputy district attorney. In the years 1934, 1936 and 1938, he applied to each unsuccessfully to return to Congress. Otherwise, he practiced as a lawyer. In 1942, he briefly worked for the Trade Commission of the State of Illinois. He died on 27 March 1942 in Hillsboro.