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Succeeded by
  
Welling G. Sickel

Political party
  
Name
  
Frank Briggs


Preceded by
  
Parents
  
James Frankland Briggs

Succeeded by
  
Party
  
Frank O. Briggs

Preceded by
  
Frank Snowden Katzenbach, Jr.

Born
  
August 12, 1851Concord, New Hampshire (
1851-08-12
)

Died
  
May 8, 1913, Trenton, New Jersey, United States


Succeeded by
  

Frank Obadiah Briggs (August 12, 1851 – May 8, 1913) was the Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey from 1899 to 1902. He was a United States Senator from New Jersey from 1907 to 1913.

Biography

He was born on August 12, 1851 in Concord, New Hampshire to James Frankland Briggs.

He attended the public schools, Francestown Academy, and Phillips Exeter Academy. He was graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1872 and served in the Second Regiment, United States Infantry, as second lieutenant until 1877, when he resigned from the Army.

In 1877, he moved to Trenton, New Jersey and engaged in the manufacture of wire and wire products; he was a member of the Trenton School Board from 1884 to 1892 and was Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey from 1899 to 1902. In 1901 and 1902, he was a member of the New Jersey State Board of Education, and was New Jersey State Treasurer from 1902 to 1907.

Briggs was Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee from 1904 to 1907 and again from 1910 to until his death in 1913. He was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate, serving from March 4, 1907, to March 4, 1913; he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection.

While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Geological Survey (Sixty-first Congress) and a member of the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expense (Sixty-second Congress). He resumed his former business pursuits in Trenton, where he died in 1913, aged 61. He was buried in Riverview Cemetery.

References

Frank O. Briggs Wikipedia


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