Frederick W. Dallinger

Frederick William Dallinger (2 October 1871 – September 5, 1955) was an American Republican politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.

Born in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, he attended the public schools and graduated from Cambridge Latin School in 1889. He went on to Harvard University, where he graduated in 1893, and then attended Harvard University Law School until he graduated in 1897. He was admitted to the bar in 1897 and commenced practice in Boston.

Political career

He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1894 and 1895 and served in the state Senate from 1896 to 1899. He was public administrator of Middlesex County 1897 to 1932, President of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce and a lecturer on government at Harvard University in 1912. He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the four succeeding Congresses (4 March 1915 to 3 March 1925). He was chairman of the Committee on Elections No. 1 (Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses), Committee on Education (Sixty-eighth Congress).

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1924, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for United States Senator; subsequently elected to the Sixty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Harry Irving Thayer. Reelected to the Seventieth, Seventy-first, and Seventy-second Congresses and served from 2 November 1926, until his resignation effective 1 October 1932, having been appointed to the bench; judge of the United States Customs Court from 2 October 1932, until his resignation on 2 October 1942.

Retirement

He then engaged in agricultural pursuits. Retiring to Center Lovell, Maine, he died in North Conway, New Hampshire, on 5 September 1955. His body was interred in Center Lovell Cemetery, Center Lovell, Maine.

References

• Frederick W. Dallinger at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress