Frank Charles Osmers Jr. (December 30, 1907 – May 21, 1977) was an American Republican Party politician who represented

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's 9th congressional district in the

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from 1939 to 1943 and again from 1951 to 1965.

Biography

He was born in

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, on December 30, 1907. Raised in

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, Osmers attended the local public schools, graduating from

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before attending

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, in

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. He was engaged in the jewelry business. Osmers was a member of the Haworth Borough Council from 1930 to 1934 and served as Mayor of Haworth, New Jersey in 1935 and 1936. He was a member of the

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from 1935 to 1937, and was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the

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, serving in office from January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1943. While a member of the Seventy-seventh Congress, Osmers enlisted as a private and graduated from the Infantry School at

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, as a second lieutenant. He was placed on the inactive list by Presidential directive and finished his term in Congress, but was not a candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress. Osmers went on active duty as a second lieutenant in the Seventy-seventh Infantry Division on January 4, 1943, transferred to the Twenty-fourth Corps and served in the Pacific, and was discharged on February 22, 1946. He served as a major in Officers’ Reserve Corps. After he returned from his military service, Osmers resumed his former business pursuits and was also interested in real estate, insurance, and publishing businesses. He was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second Congress, by special election on November 6, 1951, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of

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, and was reelected to the six succeeding Congresses, serving from November 6, 1951, to January 3, 1965. Osmers voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957,

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, and

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, and the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress, and was again unsuccessful in his bid for office in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress, both times losing to Democrat

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by 51% to 49% margins. He was executive administrator,

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. He resided in

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, where he died on May 21, 1977, and was interred in Brookside Cemetery in

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.Frank Charles Osmers Jr.

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. Accessed August 22, 2007.

References

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