Franklin Bound

Franklin Bound ( born April 9, 1829 in Milton, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, † August 8, 1910 ) was an American politician. Between 1885 and 1889 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Franklin Bound attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law school in Easton and his 1853 was admitted to the bar he began in Milton to work in this profession. He was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. Between 1860 and 1863 he sat in the Senate of Pennsylvania. In 1863 he was during the Civil War Soldier in the state militia. In May 1868, he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in part in Chicago, was nominated to the General Ulysses S. Grant as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1884 Bound was in the 14th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel Fleming Barr on March 4, 1885. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1889 two legislative sessions. In 1888, he was not nominated by his party for re-election. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Franklin Bound practiced as a lawyer again. He died on August 8, 1910 in Milton, where he was also buried.