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Frank Bosworth Brandegee (S&B 1885)

Republican. Attorney. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Delta Kappa Epsilon.

Opposed Women’s suffrage, Prohibition amendments, American’s participation in the League of Nations and Proposed World Court.[4] [Research … Hegelian Dialectic … ].

Chairman of the Federal Forestry Reserve Committee (5 Years)

4 Mar 1923 to 4 Mar 1925 - Committee on Judiciary.[7]

4 Mar 1919 to 4 Mar 1923 - Committee on Library.[7]

4 Mar 1913 to 4 Mar 1919 - Committee on Pacific Railroads.[7]

4 Mar 1911 to 4 Mar 1913 - Committee on Panama.[7]

4 Mar 1911 to 4 Mar 1913 - Committee on Interoceanic Canals.[7]

1911 to 1913 - President Pro tempore during several sessions of the Senate in the Sixty-second Congress. [7] … President William Howard Taft (S&B 1878).

4 Mar 1905 to 4 Mar 1911 - Chairman, Committee on Forest Reservations and Game Protection.

10 May 1905 to 14 Oct 1924 - United States Senator from Connecticut (Resigned from House to accept election to the U.S. Senate, filling the vacancy caused by the death of Orville H. Platt (Freemason)[9], Member of the Senate Four, which largely controlled the Senate along with John Coit Spooner (Freemason)[10], William B. Allison(Freemason)[11] and Nelson W. Aldrich (Freemason)[11] (Search mind map).

Preceded by Orville H. Platt (Freemason). Succeeded by Hirman Bingham III (Freemason)[11]

1904 - Made the first eulogy of President McKinley at the first annual session of the McKinley Association.[4]

4 Nov 1902 to 10 May 1905 - Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut’s 3rd District.

1899 - Served as Speaker, Connecticut House.[7]

1898 - Member Republican State Central Committee.[4]

1885 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]

Died 14 Oct 1924 (Whilst in office), Committed suicide in Washington D.C. by inhaling fumes from a gas light in a seldom used bathroom on the third floor of his home.[5] According to published accounts, he was in ill health and had lost most of his fortune through bad investments.[6] Suicide note pencilled in an uncertain hand.[6]. Age 60. Unmarried. St. James ‘ Episcopal Church.

Father, Augustus Brandgee (S&B 1849) - Judge / Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Republican Party-Connecticut, 1863-1867).

[1] - America’s Secret Establishment. An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones by Antony C. Sutton (2004)

[2] - Fleshing Out Skull & Bones - Investigations into America’s Most Powerful Secret Society 2008 by Antony Sutton, Howard Altman, Kris Millegan, Dr Ralph Bunch, Anton Chaitkin and Webster Griffin Tarpley

[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen

[4] - Yale Obituary - Page 99 / On the page 1370.

[5] - Plaines NY Register Herald 1924-1925, Brandegee Dead by Gas, October 15, 1924

[6] - Financial Losses Cause Senator to turn on gas (references note Pencilled in an uncertain hand and $100 x2)

[7] - History, Arts & Achives - U.S. House of Representatives - Frank Bosworth Brandegee (S&B 1885)

[8] - FYI - Wiki - Frank Bosworth Brandegee (S&B 1885)

[9] - 10,000 Famous Freemasons by William R. Denslow Vol ll [K to P] - Orville H. Platt (Freemason)

[10] - 10,000 Famous Freemasons - Vol IV [Q to Z] - John Coit Spooner (Freemason)

[11] - 10,000 Famous Freemasons by William R. Denslow Vol l [A to D]