Orrin Dubbs Bleakley

Orrin Dubbs Bleakley ( born May 15, 1854 in Franklin, Venango County, Pennsylvania, † December 3, 1927 in Robinson, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between March and April 1917, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Orrin Bleakley attended the common schools and then studied at the University of Bonn in the Kingdom of Prussia. After returning to Pennsylvania, he worked until 1876 along with his father in the banking industry. He then worked until 1883 in the oil business. This year, he founded the company Franklin Trust Company, whose president he became. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In June 1904 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in part in Chicago, was nominated to the President Theodore Roosevelt for re-election.

Bleakley was also a Republican district chairman in Venango County. In the congressional elections of 1916, he was the 28th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel Henry Miller on March 4, 1917. He was the first American politician who by plane flew to his choice of his home state of Washington and was flown. Bleakley exercised his mandate only until 3 April 1917. On this day he resigned after he was sentenced to a fine for an infringement of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act of 1910. Background was exceeding its statutory election campaign budget of $ 5,000.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Orrin Bleakley again worked in the banking industry. He died on 3 December 1927 in Robinson and was buried in Franklin.