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[[File:Frank Sites.jpg|thumb|200px|Frank Crawford Sites]]
'''Frank Crawford Sites''' (December 24, 1864 – May 23, 1935) was a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] member of the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] from [[Pennsylvania]].<ref>"[https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S000457 Sites, Frank Crawford]" (S000457), in ''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress''. Washington, D.C.: Offices of the Historians of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, retrieved online, March 3, 2023.</ref><ref>"[https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/simspon-sizemore.html Sites, Frank Crawford]." Ann Arbor, Michigan: ''The Political Graveyard'', May 10, 2022.</ref>

==Biography==
Frank C. Sites was born in [[Shippensburg, Pennsylvania]] on December 24, 1864. In 1875, he moved with his parents to [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]]. He attended the public schools, learned the trade of [[watchmaker]] and [[jeweler]], and subsequently practiced those trades in Harrisburg.<ref>"Sites, Frank Crawford," in ''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress''.</ref><ref>"Sites, Frank Crawford," ''The Political Graveyard''.</ref>

From 1903 to 1912, he was a director on the Harrisburg school board, and was then appointed postmaster of Harrisburg in 1913, serving until his successor was appointed in 1922.<ref>"Sites, Frank Crawford," in ''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress''.</ref><ref>"Sites, Frank Crawford," ''The Political Graveyard''.</ref>

Sites was elected as a Democrat to the [[68th United States Congress|Sixty-eighth]] Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924. He returned to Harrisburg and engaged in the bond business.<ref>"Sites, Frank Crawford," in ''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress''.</ref><ref>"Sites, Frank Crawford," ''The Political Graveyard''.</ref>

==Death and interment==
Sites died in Harrisburg on May 23, 1935 and was interred at the [[East Harrisburg Cemetery]].<ref>"Sites, Frank Crawford," in ''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress''.</ref><ref>"Sites, Frank Crawford," ''The Political Graveyard''.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline|Frank Crawford Sites}}
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