Frank Probasco Bohn (July 14, 1866 – June 1, 1944) was a

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from the

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. He served three terms in the

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from 1927 to 1933

Early life and education

Bohn was born in Charlottesville, Indiana, where he attended public

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. He attended Danville Normal College in

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, and graduated from the Medical College of Indiana, Indianapolis in 1890.

Political career

Bohn ran unsuccessfully as a Democrat for the Michigan House of Representatives from the Delta District in the

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in 1896. He worked as a

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and was village

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, 1904–1919, and a member of the Newberry

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, 1908-1914. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the

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primary election for Lieutenant Governor of Michigan in 1916. He was a member of the Michigan Senate from the 30th District, 1923-1926. Bohn defeated incumbent

Frank D. Scott in the primary election in 1926. He then won the general election to the

from

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for the 70th Congress and the two succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1927 to March 3, 1933. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election to the 73rd Congress in 1932, losing in the general election to Democrat Prentiss M. Brown. After leaving Congress, Bohn was a member of the Michigan State Hospital Commission from 1935 through 1937. Bohn died at the age of seventy-seven in

and is interred there at Forest Home Cemetery .

References

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