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  Buchanan, Frank
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NameFrank Buchanan
Address1403 N. Central Park Ave
Chicago, Illinois , United States
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Born June 14, 1862
DiedApril 18, 1930 (67 years)
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Info a Representative from Illinois; born on a farm near Madison, Jefferson County, Ind., June 14, 1862; attended the rural schools of the county; engaged in agricultural pursuits at home and subsequently became a bridge builder and structural iron worker in Chicago; served as business agent for the Bridge and Structural Iron Worker’s Union and was elected president of the International Structural Iron Worker’s Union in 1901; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress and again in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, and Sixty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1917); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress; resumed his former business pursuits as a structural iron worker; died in Chicago, Ill., April 18, 1930; interment in Irving Park Boulevard Cemetery.


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