Biography

06/03/1872 - 09/06/1936

PUSEY, Frederick Taylor, a Representative from Delaware County; born, June 3, 1872 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; graduated, Friends’ Central High School, 1889; served, Pennsylvania National Guard (1892-1918, Army Distinguished Service Medal recipient: captain and adjutant, First Regiment, 1892-1906, Spanish-American War; lieutenant-general, aide-de-camp, Pennsylvania Governor Stuart, 1907-1912; lieutenant-colonel, aide-de-camp, Pennsylvania Governor Tener, 1913; quartermaster, 28th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, 1917-1918, World War I); assistant manager, hosiery mill (2 years); engaged as an industrial life insurance collector; lawyer; solicitor, Lansdowne (1899-1900); president, Law Academy of Philadelphia; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1903 and 1905 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House in the 1906 General election; died, September 6, 1936 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Cumberland Cemetery, Media, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.