Augustus Frank was a United States Representative

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 from New York during the American Civil War

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Born in Warsaw

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, Wyoming County

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, he was a nephew of two other U.S. Representatives, William Patterson

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 and George Washington Patterson

George Washington Patterson

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. Frank attended the common schools, engaged in mercantile pursuits, was director and vice president of the Buffalo & New York City Railroad Co., and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention

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 in 1856. He was elected as a Republican

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 to the Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh, and Thirty-eighth Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1859 to March 3, 1865. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1864 and was director of Wyoming County National Bank in 1865.

In 1867 and 1868 he was a member of the New York constitutional convention, and from 1870 to 1882 was one of the managers of the Buffalo State Hospital for the Insane at Buffalo

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. He organized the Bank of Warsaw in 1871 and served as president until his death; he was also director of the Rochester

Rochester, New York

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Trust & Safe Deposit Co. Frank was State commissioner for the preservation of public parks and was a member of the board of directors of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad, and was a delegate at large to the State constitutional convention in 1894.

He died in New York City in 1895; interment was in Warsaw Cemetery.