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Senate Years of Service: 1953-1959 Party: Republican
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BARRETT, Frank Aloysius, a Representative and a Senator from Wyoming; born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Nebr., November 10, 1892; attended the public schools; graduated from
Creighton University, Omaha, Nebr., in 1913 and from its law department in
1916; during the First World War served as a sergeant in the Balloon Corps,
United States Army 1917-1919; admitted to the bar in 1919 and commenced
practice in Lusk, Wyo.; also a rancher; county attorney of Niobrara County,
Wyo. 1923-1932; member, State senate 1933-1935; member of the board of trustees
of the University of Wyoming; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and
to the three succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1943, until his
resignation December 31, 1950, having been elected Governor of Wyoming; served
as Governor from January 1951 until his resignation January 2, 1953, having
been elected a Senator; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and
served from January 3, 1953, to January 3, 1959; unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1958; general counsel, Department of Agriculture, Washington,
D.C., and member of board of directors of Commodity Credit Corporation
1959-1960; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for United
States Senate 1960; died in Cheyenne, Wyo., May 30, 1962; interment in Lusk
Cemetery, Lusk, Wyo.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography.
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