House  1889-90  (District 26);  House  1891-92  (District 28)
                            
                            
                                Party when first elected:  Republican
                            
                            
                                Counties Served: 
                   Ramsey
                            
                            BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
                            
                                
                                    
                                        
                                        
                                            Date of Birth: 
                                            1/1/1861
                                        
                                        
                                            Birth Place: 
                                            Boston, Massachusetts
                                        
                                        
                                            Birth County: 
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            Birth Country: 
                                            United States
                                        
                                        
                                            Date of Death: 
                                            7/1/1923
                                        
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                        
                                            Gender: 
                                            Male
                                        
                                        
                                            Religion: 
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            Reported Minority: None Reported
                                        
                                     
                                    
                                 
                                
                                
                                    Other Names: 
                                    Fred
                                
                                
                                    
                                
                                
                                
                                    City of Residence (when first elected): 
                                    Saint Paul
                                
                                
                                    Occupation (when first elected): 
                                    Attorney at Law
                                
                             
                            EDUCATION
                            
                                
                                    Searsport Common Schools, Maine; Elementary School; 
Rockland High School, Maine; Secondary; Graduate, 1877
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine; College Graduate; 1881
Read Law; With Honorable A.W. Paine, Bangor, Maine
University of Iowa, Law Department; Law Degree; 1884; Admitted to the Bar, 1884
                                
                             
                            OTHER GOVERNMENT SERVICE
                            
                                
                                
                                        
                                        
                                            U.S. Representative: 
                                            4th Congressional District, Minnesota; 
                         
                         03/04/1897 to 03/03/1915
                                            [Elected]
                                        
                                    
                                    
                             
                         
                        
                        
                            FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
                            
                                
	
                                    Spouse: 
                                    Single (when first elected); Ellen J. Fargo (married in 1889)
                                    Children: 
                                    No children (as of 1897)
                                    
                                    
                                    Family Members Who Have Served in the Minnesota Legislature: 
                                    
                                    
                                
                             
                            GENERAL NOTES
                            
                                
                                    He moved to Searsport, Maine, with his parents.  He came to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1884.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the United States House of Representatives in 1914.
He died in St. Paul, Minnesota and was buried in Oakland Cemetery in St. Paul, Minnesota.