Frank Charles Partridge was a United States Senator from Vermont

Vermont

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...

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Biography

Frank Charles Partridge was in East Middlebury, Vermont

Middlebury (town), Vermont

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 to Charles Frank Partridge and Sarah Ann (Rice) Partridge. He graduated from Amherst College

Amherst College

Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...

 in 1882 and from the Columbia University Law School in 1884, earning an LL.B degree. He worked as a lawyer in Rutland and then worked in the marble industry.

He held several positions in local, state and national government, including town clerk (1887–1889), member of the school committee (1888–1889), private secretary to the Secretary of War

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 (1889–1890), solicitor

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 of the Department of State (1890–1893), United States Minister to Venezuela

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 (1893–1894), consul general at Tangier

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, Morocco

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 (1897–1898), Vermont State Senator (1898–1900), member of the Vermont committee of public safety (1917–1919), and Delegate of the United States to the Fifth Pan-American Conference

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 at Santiago, Chile

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 (1923).

Partridge was appointed by Gov. John E Weeks to fill a vacancy in the US Senate caused by the death of Frank L. Greene

Frank L. Greene

Frank Lester Greene was a United States Representative and Senator from Vermont. Born in St. Albans, Vermont, he attended the public schools and was employed by the Central Vermont Railway Co. in various capacities from 1883 to 1891...

 in 1930. Partridge, a Republican

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, occupied the seat until a successor was regularly elected. He was defeated in the 1930 Senate election by Warren R. Austin. He died in Proctor, Vermont

Proctor, Vermont

-Notable people:* Bernard Joseph Flanagan, bishop* F. Ray Keyser, governor of Vermont* Frank Charles Partridge, senator* Fletcher Dutton Proctor, governor of Vermont* Mortimer Robinson Proctor, governor of Vermont...

; interment was in Proctor Cemetery.

Rice family and relations

Partridge was a descendant of Edmund Rice

Edmund Rice (1638)

Edmund Rice , was an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony who was born in Suffolk, England, and lived in Stanstead, Suffolk and Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire prior to sailing with his family to America. He arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in summer or fall of 1638, presumed to be first...

, an English immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony

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, as follows:

• Frank Charles Partridge, son of
• Sarah Ann Rice (1835 – 1919), daughter of

• Luther Rice (1799 – 1876), son of
• Eliakim Rice (1756 – 1834), son of
• Zebulon Rice (1725 – 1799), son of

• Elisha Rice (1679 – 1761), son of
• Thomas Rice (1626 – 1681), son of

• Edmund Rice
  Edmund Rice (1638)
  Edmund Rice , was an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony who was born in Suffolk, England, and lived in Stanstead, Suffolk and Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire prior to sailing with his family to America. He arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in summer or fall of 1638, presumed to be first...
  
  (1594 – 1663)