Born in St. Louis , Missouri , he was educated in the public schools . For many years he was engaged in farming , stock-raising , and railroad construction . He lived in Wyoming from 1887 onward , was mayor of Newcastle , Wyoming from 1888 to 1895 , and served in Congress from 1895 to 1897 and once again from 1899 to 1923 . He was majority leader in the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses on the floor of the House and took a prominent part in framing the legislation passed by that body . He took an active part in all the Republican conventions from 1902 to 1924 when he was a chairman at the 1924 Republican National Convention . He died in 1939 in Washington , D.C. < ! --
1924 Republican National Convention
1924 Republican National Convention
Frank Wheeler Mondell