Biography

03/08/1862 - 10/16/1933

FRANCIES, John, a Representative from Allegheny County; born, March 8, 1862 in Allegheny City (Pittsburgh), Allegheny County, Pa.; machinist; clerk, city markets (1891-1902); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1903 and 1905 terms; resigned from the House, April 13, 1905; postmaster, United States Postal Service, Allegheny City (1905-1907); gubernatorial appointee, warden, Western Penitentiary (1910-1922); gubernatorial appointee, supervision of construction, Rockview Penitentiary (1912-1915); elected, clerk of courts of Allegheny County (1923-1926); elected, treasurer, Allegheny County (1927-1930); secretary, board of assessment and revision of taxes, Allegheny County (1932-1933); died, October 16, 1933 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Union Dale Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.