- Frank C. Kniffin
Frank Charles Kniffin (
April 26 ,1894 –April 30 ,1968 ) was a lawyer and U.S. Representative fromOhio .Born on a farm near
Stryker, Ohio , Kniffin attended the public schools and then studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1919 and commenced practice inNapoleon, Ohio . He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress, in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress, in 1926 to the Seventieth Congress, and in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress.Kniffin was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and to the three succeeding Congresses (
March 4 ,1931 –January 3 ,1939 ). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress. He resumed the practice of law.He served as a referee in bankruptcy, northern district of Ohio, western division, from 1939 until his death in
Napoleon, Ohio ,April 30 ,1968 . He was interred in Wauseon Cemetery,Wauseon, Ohio .References
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