Frank McCloskey

Francis Xavier "Frank" McCloskey ( born June 12, 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; † 2 November 2003 in Bloomington, Indiana ) was an American politician.

McCloskey served 1957-1961 in the U.S. Air Force, which he had joined right after high school. He studied at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1968. At the Law School of the University in 1971 he received his Juris Doctor. Besides his studies McCloskey worked as a reporter for the Indianapolis Star, the Herald -Telephone Bloomington and the City News Bureau in Chicago. 1972 to 1982 he held the office of mayor of Bloomington.

McCloskey was elected as a Democrat to Congress and represented there, the state of Indiana from January 3, 1983 to January 3, 1995 in the U.S. House of Representatives. During this time he traveled several times to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and sat down for this country in a Congress. He died in November 2003 at his home in Bloomington after a long illness on bladder cancer. His ashes were interred on 10 February 2004 with military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.

McCloskey was married and had two children, a son and a daughter.