Frank Crawford Sites (December 24, 1864 – May 23, 1935) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from

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Biography

Frank C. Sites was born in

Shippensburg, Pennsylvania Shippensburg is a borough in Cumberland and Franklin counties in the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Settled in 1730, Shippensburg lies in the Cumberland Valley, southwest of Harrisburg, and is part of the Harrisburg–Carlisle Metropolitan ...

on December 24, 1864. In 1875, he moved with his parents to

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. He attended the public schools, learned the trade of watchmaker and

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, and subsequently practiced those trades in Harrisburg. From 1903 to 1912, he was a director on the Harrisburg school board, and was then appointed postmaster of Harrisburg in 1913, serving until his successor was appointed in 1922. Sites was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924. He returned to Harrisburg and engaged in the bond business.

Death and interment

Sites died in Harrisburg on May 23, 1935 and was interred at the

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."Sites, Frank Crawford," ''The Political Graveyard''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sites, Frank C. 1864 births 1935 deaths Politicians from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania