Frank O. Briggs

Frank Obadiah Briggs (August 12, 1851 – May 8, 1913) was the Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey, from 1899 to 1902. He was a United States senator from New Jersey from 1907 to 1913.

Biography Briggs was born on August 12, 1851, in Concord, New Hampshire, the son of James Frankland Briggs and Roxanna (Smith) Briggs. and again from 1910 until his death in 1913. He was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate, serving from March 4, 1907, to March 3, 1913; he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection.

While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Geological Survey (Sixty-first Congress) and a member of the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expense (Sixty-second Congress). He resumed his former business pursuits in Trenton, where he died in 1913, aged 61. He was buried in Riverview Cemetery.