- Frank C. Partridge
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name = Frank C. Partridge
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birth_date = birth date|1861|5|7|mf=y
birth_place = East Middlebury,Vermont , U.S.
death_date = death date and age|1943|3|2|1861|5|7|mf=y
dead=dead
death_place = Proctor,Vermont , U.S.Frank Charles Partridge (1861-1943) was a
United States Senator fromVermont .Partridge graduated from
Amherst College in 1882 and from theColumbia University Law School in 1884. He worked as a lawyer in Rutland and then worked in the marble industry.He held several positions in local, state and national government, including
town clerk (1887-1889), member of the school committee (1888-1889), private secretary to the Secretary of War (1889-1890),solicitor of theDepartment of State (1890-1893),United States Minister toVenezuela (1893-1894),consul general atTangier ,Morocco (1897-1898),Vermont State Senator (1898-1900), member of the Vermont committee of public safety (1917-1919), and Delegate of the United States to the FifthPan-American Conference atSantiago, Chile (1923).Partridge was appointed as a Republican to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Frank L. Greene in 1930. He was defeated in the 1930 Senate election byWarren R. Austin . He died inProctor, Vermont in 1943; internment was in Proctor Cemetery.References
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