Frank Dunklee Currier was a U.S. Representative

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 from New Hampshire

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Born in Canaan, New Hampshire

Canaan, New Hampshire

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, Currier attended the common schools, then Kimball Union Academy

Kimball Union Academy

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 in Meriden, New Hampshire

Meriden, New Hampshire

Meriden is a village in the eastern part of the town of Plainfield in Sullivan County, New Hampshire, United States. Meriden is home to Kimball Union Academy, a private boarding school....

, and Doctor Hixon's School in Lowell, Massachusetts

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. He studied law and was admitted to the bar

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 in 1874, commencing practice in Canaan.

He served as member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives

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 in 1879 and was Secretary of the Republican

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 State committee, 1882-1890. He served as clerk of the New Hampshire Senate

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 in 1883 and 1885 and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention

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 in 1884. He continued as member of the State senate in 1887, serving as president of that body. He served as naval officer of customs at the port of Boston from 1890 to 1894, then returned to New Hampshire to be Speaker of the State house of representatives in 1899.

Currier was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh

57th United States Congress

-House of Representatives:*Democratic: 151*Republican: 200 *Populist: 5*Silver : 1TOTAL members: 357-Leadership:-Senate:* President: Theodore Roosevelt , until September 14, 1901, vacant thereafter....

 and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1913). He served as chairman of the Committee on Patents (Fifty-eighth

58th United States Congress

- House of Representatives :* Republican : 209 * Democratic : 176* Silver Republican : 1TOTAL members: 386-Senate:* President: Vacant* President pro tempore: William P. Frye -Members:...

 through Sixty-first

61st United States Congress

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 Congresses). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third

63rd United States Congress

- House of Representatives:*Democratic : 291 *Republican : 134*Progressive : 9*Independent : 1TOTAL members: 435-Senate:*President of the Senate: Thomas R. Marshall*President pro tempore: James P. Clarke-Senate:...

 Congress and retired from public life. He died in Canaan

Canaan, New Hampshire

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, November 25, 1921, and was interred in Canaan Street Cemetery.