
Frederick William Magrady (November 24, 1863 – August 27, 1954) was aRepublican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania.
Frederick W. Magrady was born nearPottsville inSchuylkill County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the State Normal School (nowBloomsburg University of Pennsylvania) atBloomsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1890. He taught school thirteen years inMount Carmel, Pennsylvania. He briefly engaged in thecoal business atGauley, West Virginia. He graduated fromDickinson School of Law inCarlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1909, was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Mount Carmel. He was director and solicitor of the First National Bank of Mount Carmel, president and solicitor of the Shamokin-Mount Carmel Transit Co., and of the Ashland & Shamokin Auto Bus Co., Inc. He also worked as director of the Mount Carmel Water Co.
Magrady was elected as a Republican to theSixty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932. He resumed the practice of law, and died inDanville, Pennsylvania. Interment in Mount Carmel Cemetery, Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania.
He died in 1954, at the age of 90 years, and was buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery.
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