Frank Livingston Ball (October 4, 1885 – April 28, 1966) was a member of the

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from 1924 to 1932.

Early life

Frank Livingston Ball was born in

Clarendon, Arlington, Virginia Clarendon is an urbanized, upper-class neighborhood in Arlington County, Virginia, located between the Rosslyn area and the Ballston area. It was named after Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, a leading statesman and historian of the English Ci ...

on October 4, 1885 to America A. (née Deeble) and William Ball, a member of the Ball Family that

Ballston, Arlington, Virginia Ballston is a neighborhood in Arlington County, Virginia. Ballston is located at the western end of the Rosslyn-Ballston corridor. It is a major transportation hub and boasts one of the nation's highest concentrations of scientific research agenci ...

is named for. He was educated in public schools and graduated from

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He graduated from the

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with a law degree in 1908.

Career

Ball started practicing law at Fort Myer Heights in Rosslyn, Virginia. In 1915, Ball was elected Commonwealth's Attorney of

Arlington County Arlington County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The county is situated in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of the Potomac River directly across from the District of Columbia, of which it was once a part. The county ...

. He served as the Commonwealth's Attorney from 1916 to 1924. During

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, Ball served as fuel administrator of Arlington County and chairman of the United War Work Campaign. After the war, he was chairman of the first campaign for Near East Relief. Ball practiced law with Ball & Douglas. He was elected as a member of the

of the 13th Senatorial District, and served from 1924 to 1932. He attended the Constitutional Convention of 1945 and the Constitutional Convention of 1956. Ball was the author of the ''County Manager Form of Government''. Arlington County adopted the county manager form of government in 1930.

Personal life

Ball married Anna M. Shreve on September 10, 1913. Together, they had four children: Frank Livingston Ball Jr., Elizabeth, Virginia and Barbara. In 1926, Ball bought and moved into the historic Glebe House in Arlington.

Death

Ball died on April 28, 1966. He is interred at

Columbia Gardens Cemetery The Columbia Gardens Cemetery is a cemetery located in the Ashton Heights Historic District of Arlington, Virginia Cemetery The Columbia Gardens Cemetery is located at the southern boundary of the Ashton Heights Historic District and is one o ...

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