Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey (April 26, 1891 – July 13, 1949) was a member of the

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from

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Biography

He was born in

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, April 26, 1891; attended grade and high schools; was graduated from the

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at Philadelphia in 1917; served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1916 and 1917; enlisted as a private in the

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, in July 1917 and was honorably discharged as a

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on April 18, 1919; engaged in the manufacture of steel tools in 1919; also engaged in banking; elected as a

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to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; member of the

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in 1938; director, Region III, Wage and Hours and Public Contracts Division,

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, from 1939 until his death in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 13, 1949; interment in St. Dominic's Cemetery.

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