Franklin Ellsworth

Franklin Fowler Ellsworth (* July 10, 1879 in Saint James, Watonwan County, Minnesota, † December 23, 1942 in Minneapolis, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1915 and 1921 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Franklin Ellsworth attended the common schools and then served during the Spanish- American War in an infantry unit. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Minnesota and its made ​​in 1901 admitted to the bar he began in Saint James to work in his new profession. Between 1904 and 1905 he was also legal representatives of this community; 1905-1909 Ellsworth acted as district attorney in Watonwan County.

Politically, Ellsworth member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1914 he was in the second electoral district of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1915, the successor of Winfield Scott Hammond of the Democratic Party. After two re- election he was able to complete in 1921 three contiguous legislatures in Congress until March 3. In this time of the First World War fell. At that time, the Congress and the 18th and the 19th Amendment, discussed and adopted. It was about the introduction of the ban on trade in alcoholic beverages and the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage.

1920 Ellsworth waived on a bid again for Congress. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully for the post of governor of Minnesota; he was defeated in the primary of his party the later victorious in the election O. J. A. Preus. In 1924 he was again unsuccessful in the gubernatorial primaries. He subsequently worked as a lawyer in Minneapolis, where he had moved in 1921. There he is on 23 December 1942, died.

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