William Horace FRANKHAUSER, Congress, MI (1863-1921)

FRANKHAUSER, William Horace, a Representative from Michigan; born in Wood County, Ohio, March 5, 1863; moved with his parents to Monroe, Mich., in 1875; attended the public schools, Michigan State Normal School at Ypsilanti, and Oberlin College, Ohio; taught school for several years; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1891 and commenced practice in Hillsdale, Mich.; city attorney and prosecutor of Hillsdale County 1896-1903; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress and served from March 4, 1921, until his death in Battle Creek, Mich., on May 9, 1921; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery, Hillsdale, Mich.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present