Biography

04/03/1866 - 03/20/1938


SUMNEY, Dr. Frank Foster, a Representative from Allegheny County; born, April 3, 1866 in Munntown, Washington County, Pa.; attended, Jefferson Academy; M.D., Jefferson Medical College (now Sidney Kimmel Medical College); post-graduate studies, University of Pittsburgh; physician; school director (1898-1902); postmaster, United States Post Office, Dravosburg (1914-1919); examiner of drafted men, World War I (1917); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1934; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1936); died, March 20, 1938 in Dravosburg, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Richland Cemetery, Dravosburg, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.


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