Fred Sisson

Frederick James "Fred" Sisson ( born March 31, 1879 in Wells Bridge, Otsego County, New York; † 20 October 1949 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1937 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Fred Sisson attended the public schools in Unadilla. In 1904, he graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton. Between 1904 and 1910 he was a teacher at Vernon High School. After studying law and his 1911 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Utica in this profession. In 1914 he was an advisor to this city and attorney for the local police. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1922 and 1928, he ran unsuccessfully for each U.S. House of Representatives. From 1925 to 1933 he sat in the Education Committee of the city of Whitesboro. Between 1926 and 1930 he was president of that body.

In the congressional elections of 1932 Sisson was the 33rd electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Frederick Morgan Davenport on March 4, 1933. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1937 two legislative sessions. During this time the first New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration there have been adopted. 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends, or begins on January 3.

In 1936, Frederick Sisson was not re-elected. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced until 1945 as an attorney in Utica and Washington. Then he withdrew into retirement. He died on 20 October 1949 in the German capital Washington.