Frank E. Guernsey, courtesy of Maine State Museum
Frank Edward Guernsey (1866-1927) a U.S. Representative was born in Dover on October 15, 1866. He attended the common schools, Foxcroft Academy, Eastern Maine Conference Seminary in Bucksport, Wesleyan Seminary, Kents Hill and Eastman’s College, Poughkeepsie, New York.
He studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1890 and began his practice in Dover. Treasurer of Piscataquis County 1890-1896, he then became a member of the Maine House of Representatives (1897-1899, and served in the Maine State Senate in 1903.
Guernsey was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1908 and in that year he was elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Llewellyn Powers. He was reelected to the Sixty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from November 3, 1908, to March 3, 1917. He did not run for reelection but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Senator.
Thereafter he was President of the Piscataquis Savings Bank and trustee of the University of Maine at Orono, also engaging in the practice of law. Guernsey died in Boston on January 1, 1927, with interment in Dover Cemetery, Dover-Foxcroft.