Frederick A. Britten

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Frederick Albert Britten (November 18, 1871 - May 4, 1946) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Britten attended Healds Business College, San Francisco, California. Construction worker. Business executive. He served as member of the Chicago, Illinois, city council from 1908 to 1912. He served as member and chairman of the city civil service committee, Chicago, Illinois, 1909. He served as member of the executive committee of the American group of the Interparliamentary Union from 1923 to 1934. He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention, 1936.

Britten was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third and to the ten succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1913-January 3, 1935). He served as chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs (Seventieth and Seventy-first Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Seventy-fourth Congress in 1934. He died on May 4, 1946, in Bethesda, Maryland. He was interred in Abbey Mausoleum, Arlington, Virginia. He was reinterred to unknown location.

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• Frederick A. Britten at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress