Frederick Albert Britten

Republican Representative of Illinois's 9th district

Congresses Served

House Terms

November 18, 1871 (74 years old)

Birthday

May 4, 1946

Death

Attended Heald’s Business College in San Francisco, California.
Competed in and won multiple amateur boxing championships in the early 1890s.
Worked as a construction worker and business executive before entering politics.
Served on the Chicago City Council from 1908 to 1912 and held various other local government positions.
Was a member of the executive committee of the American group of the Interparliamentary Union from 1923 to 1934.
Served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1936.
Served as a U.S. Representative for Illinois from 1913 to 1935.
Voted against declaring war on Germany in 1917.
Served as chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs from 1928 to 1931.
Worked towards the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment.
Was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934.
Engaged in an importing and exporting business in Chicago after leaving Congress.
Married Alma Hand in 1907.
Lived in Washington, D.C., during and after his congressional service, purchasing a notable residence there in 1941.
Died in 1946 at Walter Reed Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, and was initially interred in Abbey Mausoleum, Arlington County, Virginia, before being reinterred in an unknown location.