Biography

01/24/1859 - 05/22/1944

DETZEL, Frank J., a Representative from Erie County; born in Mill Creek Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania, January 24, 1859; proprietor, grocery store (1881-1944); school director (1 term); elected, city council, Erie; member, board of trustees, Erie Public Library; elected, delegate, Democratic State Convention (1886); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1906; reelected to the House in 1908 and 1910; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1912); elected, delegate to the Democratic National Convention (1908); member, Pennsylvania Board of Education; died, May 22, 1944, in Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania; interred, Calvary Cemetery, Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania.