Frank Jefferson Horton (December 12, 1919 – August 30, 2004) was a
United States representative
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from
New York State
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.
Early life and career
Horton was born in
Cuero, Texas
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and was a graduate of
Louisiana State University
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(
B.A., 1941) where he was a member of the
Kappa Sigma fraternity (''Gamma'' chapter). He enlisted in the
U.S. Army in 1941 and served until the end of
World War II
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. He then attended
Cornell Law School
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in
Ithaca, New York
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and received a
Bachelor of Laws
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in 1947, the same year that he was admitted to the New York
Bar
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. From 1956 to 1962 he was the President of
Rochester Community Baseball, Inc. Rochester Community Baseball, Inc. are the owners of the Triple-A Rochester Red Wings baseball team.
History
The company was formed when in 1956 the St. Louis Cardinals announced that they would no longer operate the franchise in Rochester. Local ...
From 1959 to 1961, Horton served as the Executive Vice President of the
International Baseball League, as well as the League's attorney.
Political career
Horton was a member of the
Rochester City Council from 1955 to 1961. Elected to the
House of Representatives in 1962 as a
Republican, Horton was re-elected to 14 additional terms.
In 1966, along with three Republican Senators and four other Republican Representatives, Horton signed a telegram sent to Georgia Governor
Carl E. Sanders
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regarding the Georgia legislature's refusal to seat the recently elected
Julian Bond in their state House of Representatives. This refusal, said the telegram, was "a dangerous attack on representative government. None of us agree with Mr. Bond's views on the Vietnam War; in fact we strongly repudiate these views. But unless otherwise determined by a court of law, which the Georgia Legislature is not, he is entitled to express them."
Horton was known as a moderate, a
Rockefeller Republican and "the least partisan of Representatives." He rose to the position of Ranking Minority Member of the Government Operations Committee (now known as the
.)
Horton retired from Congress in 1993 when redistricting placed him in the same district as his friend Rep.
Louise Slaughter.
While in Congress, Horton proposed making the
United States Environmental Protection Agency
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a cabinet-level agency and helped introduce the
Whistleblower Protection Act
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in 1987. Horton also introduced legislation which designated the month of May as Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
See also
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List of federal political scandals in the United States
Notes
External links
Congressional bio
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1919 births
2004 deaths
Burials at Arlington National Cemetery
Cornell Law School alumni
Louisiana State University alumni
New York (state) city council members
People from Cuero, Texas
United States Army personnel of World War II
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)
20th-century American politicians