Frank Bosworth Brandegee (8 July 1864 – 14 October 1924) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-CN 3) from 4 November 1902 to 10 May 1905, succeeding Charles Addison Russell and preceding Edwin W. Higgins, and of the US Senate from 10 May 1905 to 14 October 1924, succeeding Orville H. Platt and preceding Hiram Bingham III.
Biography[]
Frank Bosworth Brandegee was born in New London, Connecticut in 1864, the son of Congressman Augustus Brandegee. He was admitted to the bar in 1888 and worked as a lawyer before being elected to the State House of Representatives. He served as New London's corporation counsel from 1889 to 1893 and from 1894 to 1897, and he served in the US House of Representatives from 1902 to 1905. Brandegee resigned from the House to serve in the US Senate from 1905 to 1924, and he was a staunch conservative, opposing women's suffrage, the League of Nations, and most other progressive measures of the time. In 1924, he inhaled fumes from a gas light to kill himself, having lost most of his fortune through bad investments.