Frederick A. Britten

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

Career

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Britten attended Healds Business College, San Francisco, California. He was a construction worker and a business executive before his political career began. 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. Then he served as member of the executive committee of the American group of the Interparliamentary Union from 1923 to 1934. He also served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1936.

Britten was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third and to the ten succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1913–January 3, 1935). On April 5, 1917, he was one of the 50 representatives who voted against declaring war on Germany. 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.

Death

Britten died on May 4, 1946, in Bethesda, Maryland. He was interred in Abbey Mausoleum in Arlington County, Virginia. He was later reinterred in an unknown location.

References

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

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Lynden Evans	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois's 9th congressional district 1913 – 1935	Succeeded by James McAndrews

Chairmen of the United States House Committee on Armed Services

Military Affairs Committee (1822–1947)	Eustis Hamilton Vance Hamilton Drayton R. Johnson McKay C. Johnson Thompson Dawson Stanly Haralson Botts Burt Bissell Benton Quitman Faulkner B. Stanton Blair Buffington Schenck Garfield Logan Coburn Banning Sparks Henderson Rosecrans Bragg Townshend Cutcheon Outhwaite Hull Hay Dent Kahn McKenzie Morin James Quin McSwain Hill May

Naval Affairs Committee (1822–1947)	Fuller Crowninshield Storrs Hoffman Anderson White Jarvis Ingham Thomas Wise Parmenter Holmes King F. Stanton Bocock Benson Bocock Morse Sedgwick Rice Pike Scofield Whitthorne Harris Cox Herbert Boutelle Herbert Cummings Geissenhainer Boutelle Foss Padgett Butler Britten Vinson

Armed Services Committee (1947–)	Andrews Vinson Short Vinson Rivers Philbin Hébert Price Aspin Dellums Spence Stump Hunter Skelton McKeon Thornberry

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