Frederick Taylor Pusey (1872–1936) was a politician from Pennsylvania who served two terms in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
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Early life and educaction
Pusey was born in Philadelphia on June 3, 1872. He graduated from Friends Central High School in 1899.
Military career
He served in the Pennsylvania National Guard from 1892 to 1918. He was a member of the First Regiment from 1892 to 1906 and served in the Spanish–American War. He served as aide-de-camp to Governor Edwin Sydney Stuart from 1907 to 1912 and to Governor John K. Tener in 1913. He served with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I from 1917 to 1918.
Civilian career
He worked as an assistant manager in a hosiery mill for two years, and later worked as an industrial life insurance collector. He was a lawyer and solicitor for Lansdowne Borough (1899–1900) and served as president of the Law Academy of Philadelphia.
Political career
He served two terms in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1903–04 and 1905–06) representing Delaware County as a Republican. He did not run for re-election in 1906.
In 1903 he introduced an "anti-cartoon" bill in the legislature. The bill would have made it illegal for publishers to print cartoons depicting politicians as animals. It was inspired by a series of cartoons depicting the 1902 candidate for governor, Samuel Pennypacker, as a parrot. The bill did not become law, but it inspired a whole new series of cartoons depicting politicians as vegetables and inanimate objects.
He died September 6, 1936 in Philadelphia, and is buried in Cumberland Cemetery, Media, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.