Frederick Simpson Deitrick

Frederick Simpson Deitrick ( born April 9, 1875 in New Brighton, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, † May 24 1948 in Middleton, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frederick Deitrick attended the common schools and graduated in 1895, the Geneva College in Beaver Falls. Then he studied until 1898 at Harvard University. After a subsequent law degree in 1899 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he went to work in Boston in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1902-1905 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts; in the years 1908 and 1909, he sat on the city council of Cambridge.

In the congressional elections of 1912 Deitrick in the eighth constituency of Massachusetts was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel W. McCall on March 4, 1913. Since he has not been confirmed in 1914, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1915. In 1913 were the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution ratified.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Frederick Deitrick practiced as a lawyer again. Politically, he is no more have appeared. He died on 24 May 1948 in Middleton and was buried in Cambridge.