Frank W. Boykin

Frank William Boykin ( born February 21, 1885 in Bladon Springs, Choctaw County, Alabama, † March 12, 1969 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician and represented the state of Alabama in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Life

Frank William Boykin was born on 21 February 1885 in Bladon Springs, Choctaw County, Alabama, where he attended public school. After his family in 1890 moved to Fairford. There he worked first as a clerk in a warehouse and later as a warehouse manager. In 1905 he moved to Malcolm and worked for a manufacture of railroad cross ties. In 1915 he lived in Mobile, Alabama and engaged in real estate, agriculture, livestock, timber, timber and maritime trade in southern Alabama.

During the First World War he served as an officer in the shipbuilding industry. He was then elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy that was created by the resignation of John McDuffie. He was also elected to the seventy-fifth and the twelve succeeding Congresses. His term was from July 30, 1935 to January 3, 1963. During this time he was chairman of the Committee on Patents ( 78th and 79th Congress ). During his tenure in Congress, he was involved in the constitution of the Southern Manifesto, which spoke out against racial integration in public institutions. In 1962, he lost his re-election for the eighty-eighth Congress. Then he returned to his business.

Frank William Boykin died on March 12, 1969 in Washington, DC. He was then buried in the Pine Crest Cemetery in Mobile, Alabama.