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Preceded by
  
Name
  
Franklin Bartlett

Children
  
Bertha King Bartlett

Succeeded by
  

Political party
  
Party
  
Democratic Party

Citizenship
  
United States

Role
  
Politician

Resigned
  
March 3, 1897

Franklin Bartlett

Born
  
September 10, 1847Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts (
1847-09-10
)

Spouse(s)
  
Bertha King Post Bartlett

Alma mater
  
Harvard University Columbia College Law SchoolOxford University, England

Died
  
April 23, 1909, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

Education
  
Columbia Law School, Harvard University, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Exeter College, Oxford

Battles and wars
  

Franklin Bartlett (September 10, 1847 – April 23, 1909) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York.

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Biography

Bartlett was born in Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, the son of William Osborne and Agnes Fredericka Herreshoff Willard Bartlett. He graduated from the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, Harvard University, and Columbia College Law School. He also attended Exeter College (Oxford University, England). He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He married Bertha King Post on June 4, 1872, and they had one daughter Bertha King Bartlett.

Career

Bartlett served as a member of the constitutional commission of the State of New York in 1890. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1892.

Bartlett was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses, and served from March 4, 1893 to March 3, 1897. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 to the fifty-fifth Congress.

During the war with Spain in 1898, Bartlett served as colonel of volunteers. He was a member of the Sons of the Revolution and the Society of Colonial Wars.

Death

Bartlett died of a kidney disorder in Manhattan, New York County, New York, on April 23, 1909. He is interred at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. His brother was Chief Judge Willard Bartlett.

References

Franklin Bartlett Wikipedia


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