predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place jr/sr party term_end birth_date term_start birthname article_title state
harry s. truman james p. kem 23 september 1992 armstrong , missouri macon , missouri united states senator democratic january 3 , 1947 25 february 1894 january 18 , 1945 frank parks briggs frank p. briggs
 missouri
frank p. briggs

frank parks briggs -lrb- february 25 , 1894september 23 , 1992 -rrb- was a united states senator from missouri .
born in armstrong , missouri , he attended armstrong and fayette schools and central college at fayette from 1911 to 1914 .
he graduated from the university of missouri in columbia in 1915 , engaged in the newspaper business that year , and in the publishing business at macon , missouri in 1925 .
he was mayor of macon from 1930 to 1932 and a member of the missouri senate from 1933 to 1944 .
briggs was appointed , on january 18 , 1945 , as a democrat to the u.s. senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of harry s. truman and served from january 18 , 1945 , to january 3 , 1947 ; he was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the full term in 1946 .
he resumed the newspaper publishing business and was chairman of the missouri state conservation commission in 1955-1956 ; from 1961 to 1965 he was assistant secretary of the interior for fish and wildlife .
he was a resident of macon until his death in 1992 ; interment was in walnut ridge cemetery , fayette .
