SENATOR BRANDEGEE OF CONNECTICUT TAKES OWN LIFE
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On October 14, 1924, the senior United States Senator from Connecticut, Frank B. Brandegee*, took his own life at his home at 1700 I Street here in the District of Columbia.
The Senator, a nationally prominent Republican and chairman of the Judiciary Committee, died from inhalation of illuminating gas**.
Friends of the Senator, according to the Evening Star, say he was "worried and distracted...over financial difficulties (and) had been in ill health."
Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire says his friend was "suffering from an incurable disease."
*Frank Bosworth Brandegee (1864-1924) was born in New London, Connecticut. FBB graduated from Yale University 1885. He served in the US Senate 1905-1924 & was an 'old guard' conservative Republican who opposed woman suffrage & US entry into the League of Nations.
**illuminating gas is used for lighting & breathing it, depriving body tissue of oxygen, may cause death.
SOURCE
"Frank Brandegee, Leader In Senate, Takes Life By Gas," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., October 14, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
