Frank Plumley
Frank Plumley ( born December 17, 1844 in Eden, Lamoille County, Vermont, † April 30, 1924 in Northfield, Vermont ) was an American politician. Between 1909 and 1915 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Frank Plumley attended the common schools and the People's Academy. After that, he taught in Morrisville themselves as teachers. After studying law in Morrisville and at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made in 1869 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Northfield. Between 1876 and 1880 he was a prosecutor in Washington County.
Plumley was a member of the Republican Party. In 1882 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Vermont. In 1886 he was chairman of the regional congress of the Republicans for Vermont and in 1888 Plumley was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, at the Benjamin Harrison was nominated as presidential candidate of the party. Between 1889 and 1894 Plumley served as United States Attorney for the District of Vermont. In 1894 he was elected to the Senate from Vermont. In the years 1902 and 1904 he was a member of a Civil Court ( Court of Claims ) in Vermont, and from 1904 to 1908, he served as Chief Justice Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of his State. In 1903 he was sent as chairman in an international commission, which met in Caracas ( Venezuela). Two years later he was obman another international commission, which met in Northfield. In 1905, Plumley was also curator of the Norwich University.
In the congressional elections of 1908 was Plumley in the second district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Kittredge Haskins on March 4, 1909. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1915 three legislative periods. In 1912 he was one of four Congress delegates at the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Geneva. In 1914, he opted not to run again.
After the end of his time in Congress Plumley again worked as a lawyer. He died on April 30, 1924 in Northfield. Frank Plumley was the father of Charles Albert Plumley (1875-1964), who represented the first electoral district of Vermont in Congress 1934-1951.