Campaign card, Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

BRITTEN, Frederick Albert, a Representative from Illinois; born in Chicago, Du Page County, Ill., November 18, 1871; attended Healds Business College, San Francisco, Calif.; construction worker; business executive; member of the Chicago, Ill., city council, 1908-1912; member and chairman of the city civil service committee, Chicago, Ill., 1909; member of the executive committee of the American group of the Interparliamentary Union, 1923-1934; delegate to the Republican National Convention, 1936; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third and to the ten succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1913-January 3, 1935); chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs (Seventieth and Seventy-first Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Seventy-fourth Congress in 1934; died on May 4, 1946, in Bethesda, Md.; interment in Abbey Mausoleum, Arlington, Va.; reinterment to unknown location.