Frank P. Briggs

Frank Parks Briggs ( born February 25, 1894 in Armstrong, Howard County, Missouri, † September 23, 1992 in Macon, Missouri ) was a U.S. Representative (Democratic Party), who represented the state of Missouri in the U.S. Senate.

Frank Briggs attended school in his birthplace Armstrong and Fayette. He then continued his education from 1911 to 1914 continued at Central College in Fayette, before he graduated from the University of Missouri in Columbia made ​​in 1915. As a result, Briggs was active in the newspaper industry; from 1925 he worked as an editor in Macon. In this city he began the office of mayor 1930-1932 also his political career. From 1933 to 1944, he sat in the Senate from Missouri.

On January 18, 1945, appointed to the Senate of the United States Frank Briggs of Missouri Governor Phil Donnelly. He went there to the succession of elected to the U.S. Vice- President Harry S. Truman, President of the United States was only a little later. Briggs ' tenure in Washington, D.C. ended on January 3, 1947, as he Republican James P. Kem defeated in the next election in November 1946.

As a result, Briggs was active again in the newspaper business. From 1955 to 1956 he served as Chairman of the Conservation Commission of Missouri (State Conservation Commission ). He returned once to Washington and served there from 1961 to 1965 as Deputy Secretary of the Interior with responsibility for fish and wildlife inventory. Then he sat down to rest in Macon, where he died in 1992 at the age of 98 years. At the time of his death he was the oldest living U.S. Senator.