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Senate Years of Service: 1925-1931 Party: Republican
GILLETT, Frederick Huntington, a Representative and a Senator from Massachusetts; born in
Westfield, Hampden County, Mass., October 16, 1851; attended the public
schools; graduated from Amherst College, Amherst, Mass., in 1874 and from the
law department of Harvard University in 1877; admitted to the bar at
Springfield, Mass., in 1877 and commenced practice in that city; assistant
attorney general of Massachusetts 1879-1882; member, State house of
representatives 1890-1891; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third and to
the fifteen succeeding Congresses; (March 4, 1893, to March 3, 1925); Speaker
of the House of Representatives (Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh, and Sixty-eighth
Congresses); chairman, Committee on Reform in the Civil Service (Fifty-sixth
through Sixty-first Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination to the
Sixty-ninth Congress; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in
1924 and served from March 4, 1925, to March 3, 1931; was not a candidate for
renomination in 1930; engaged in literary pursuits; died in Springfield, Mass.,
July 31, 1935; interment in Pine Hill Cemetery, Westfield, Mass.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Gillett, Frederick H.
George Frisbie Hoar. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1934;
Gillett, Frederick H.
The United States and the World Court. New York: American
Foundation, 1930.
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