Frederick James Sisson (March 31, 1879 – October 20, 1949) was an American educator, lawyer, and politician who served two terms as aUnited States representative fromNew York from 1933 to 1937.

Born in Wells Bridge,Otsego County, New York, he attended the public schools atUnadilla and was graduated fromHamilton College in 1904. He was principal ofVernon High School from 1904 to 1910, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1911 and commenced practice inUtica.

He was sheriff's attorney in 1913 and corporation counsel for the city of Utica in 1914. In 1922, he was an unsuccessful candidate for election up to the68th United States Congress and in 1928 to the71st United States Congress. He was member of theWhitesboro Board of Education from 1925 to 1933, serving as president from 1926 to 1930.

Sisson was elected as aDemocrat to the73rd and74th Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1933, to January 3, 1937. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the75th Congress.

After Congress, he continued the practice of law in Utica andWashington, D.C., until his retirement in 1945.

In 1949 he died in Washington, D.C., and was interred in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Whitesboro.

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• 1879 births
• 1949 deaths
• Politicians from Otsego County, New York
• Hamilton College (New York) alumni
• Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)
• 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives

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