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Frank J. Horton
From 1983's Pocket Congressional Directory of the Ninety-Eighth Congress
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York
In office January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1993
Preceded by	John Taber
Succeeded by	John J. LaFalce
Constituency	36th district (1963–73) 34th district (1973–83) 29th district (1983–93)
Personal details
Born	December 12, 1919 Cuero, Texas
Died	August 30, 2004(2004-08-30) (aged 84) Winchester, Virginia
Nationality	American
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Marjorie Wilcox Horton (div.); Nancy Flood Horton
Alma mater	Louisiana State University (B.A.) Cornell Law School (LL.B.)
Profession	Lawyer
Frank Horton's voice Horton speaks in support of the Prompt Payment Act Amendments of 1988 Recorded July 26, 1988

Frank Jefferson Horton (December 12, 1919 – August 30, 2004) was a United States representative from New York State.

Early life and career

Horton was born in Cuero, Texas and was a graduate of Louisiana State University (B.A., 1941) where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity (Gamma chapter). He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1941 and served until the end of World War II. He then attended Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York and received a Bachelor of Laws in 1947, the same year that he was admitted to the New York Bar. From 1956 to 1962 he was the President of Rochester Community Baseball, Inc. From 1959 to 1961, Horton served as the Executive Vice President of the International Baseball League, as well as the League's attorney.

Political career

Horton was a member of the Rochester City Council from 1955 to 1961. Elected to the House of Representatives in 1962 as a Republican, Horton was re-elected to 14 additional terms.

In 1966, along with three Republican Senators and four other Republican Representatives, Horton signed a telegram sent to Georgia Governor Carl E. Sanders regarding the Georgia legislature's refusal to seat the recently elected Julian Bond in their state House of Representatives. This refusal, said the telegram, was "a dangerous attack on representative government. None of us agree with Mr. Bond's views on the Vietnam War; in fact we strongly repudiate these views. But unless otherwise determined by a court of law, which the Georgia Legislature is not, he is entitled to express them."

Horton was known as a moderate, a Rockefeller Republican and "the least partisan of Representatives." He rose to the position of Ranking Minority Member of the Government Operations Committee (now known as the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.)

Horton retired from Congress in 1993 when redistricting placed him in the same district as his friend Rep. Louise Slaughter.

While in Congress, Horton proposed making the United States Environmental Protection Agency a cabinet-level agency and helped introduce the Whistleblower Protection Act in 1987. Horton also introduced legislation which designated the month of May as Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.

See also

• List of federal political scandals in the United States

Notes

1. "Bioguide Search".
2. "Georgia House Dispute". Congressional Quarterly. 24 (3): 255. January 21, 1966.Cited in African American Involvement in the Vietnam War
3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2020-12-05. Retrieved 2017-02-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
4. "Congressional Transcript".
5. "May Heritage Month History". 13 May 2020.

External links

• Congressional bio
• Arlington National Cemetery Announcement
• Appearances on C-SPAN

• 1919 births
• 2004 deaths
• Burials at Arlington National Cemetery
• Cornell Law School alumni
• Louisiana State University alumni
• New York (state) city council members
• People from Cuero, Texas
• United States Army personnel of World War II
• Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)
• 20th-century New York (state) politicians
• 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives