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BRITTEN, Frederick Albert (1871-1946)

Republican of Illinois

9th congressional district

Served in House 1913-1935

Total roll-call votes cast: 1,167

Biography

A Representative from Illinois; born in Chicago, Du Page County, Ill., November 18, 1871; attended Healds Business College, San Francisco, Calif.; construction worker; business executive; member of the Chicago, Ill., city council, 1908-1912; member and chairman of the city civil service committee, Chicago, Ill., 1909; member of the executive committee of the American group of the Interparliamentary Union, 1923-1934; delegate to the Republican National Convention, 1936; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third and to the ten succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1913-January 3, 1935); chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs (Seventieth and Seventy-first Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Seventy-fourth Congress in 1934; died on May 4, 1946, in Bethesda, Md.; interment at Abbey Mausoleum, Arlington, Va.; reinterred at Fort Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, Md.
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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