Frederick D. Ely

Frederick David Ely ( * September 24, 1838 in Wrentham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts; † August 6, 1921 in Dedham, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1885 and 1887 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frederick Ely attended the Day's Academy in Wrentham and then studied until 1859 at Brown University in Providence (Rhode Iceland ). After a subsequent law school and admitted to the bar he began in 1862 to work in Dedham in this profession. Between 1867 and 1885 he worked as a criminal court judge. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1873 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts; 1878 to 1879 he was a member of the State Senate. He sat from 1882 to 1894 in the school committee of the city Dedham.

In the congressional elections of 1884 Ely was in the ninth election district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Theodore Lyman on March 4, 1885. Since he has not been confirmed in 1886, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1887. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Frederick Ely again practiced as a lawyer. From 1888 to 1914 he was city judge in Boston. He died on 6 August 1921 in Dedham, where he was also buried.