Biography

11/25/1848 - 10/11/1914

PIATT, Frank Hammond, a Representative from Wyoming County; born, November 25, 1848 in Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pa.; graduated, Lafayette College, 1870; teacher; appointed, superintendent of common schools, Wyoming County (1871-1872); civil engineer; engaged, mercantile business; elected, delegate, Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention (1878); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Tunkhannock (1885-1890); elected, school director, Tunkhannock; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1892; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1894); elected, chair, Wyoming County Democratic Convention (1896); unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania State Senate (1896); elected, justice of the peace; died, October 11, 1914 in Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania; interred, Sunnyside Cemetery, Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania.