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Frank C. Partridge (May 7, 1861March 2, 1943) was a diplomat, business executive and United States Senator from Vermont. ==Early life and start of career== Frank Charles Partridge was born 7 May 1861 in East Middlebury, Vermont to Charles Frank Partridge and Sarah Ann (Rice) Partridge.〔U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925, 1923 entry for Frank C. Partridge, accessed July 31, 2013〕〔Edmund Rice (1638) Association, 2009. Descendants of Edmund Rice: The First Nine Generations.〕 He graduated from Middlebury High School in 1878,〔Vermont Bar Association, (Annual Meeting Proceedings ), 1943, page 81〕 and as a teenager worked as a messenger for Redfield Proctor during Proctor's term as Governor of Vermont.〔Vermont General Assembly, (Journal of Proceedings ), 1879, page 360〕 He attended Middlebury College, graduated from Amherst College in 1882 (with classmate Fletcher Dutton Proctor), and received his law degree from Columbia Law School in 1884.〔Middlebury College, (Catalogue of Officers and Students of Middlebury College ), 1917, pages 268-269〕 Partridge worked as a lawyer in Rutland and then began a career with the Vermont Marble Company in Proctor, Vermont. Vermont Marble was owned by Redfield Proctor, and Partridge's decision to join Vermont Marble continued his lifelong association with the Proctor family. He served as Vermont Marble's Treasurer (1886); Vice President (1891); and President (1912) and Chairman of the Board of Directors.〔Jacob G. Ullery, (Men of Vermont Illustrated ), 1894, pages 300-301〕〔Joseph & Sefton, Publishers, (Who's Who in Finance, Banking, and Insurance ), Volume 1, page 946〕 He was also President of the Proctor Trust Company and the Clarendon and Pittsford Railroad, as well as a member of National Life Insurance Company's Board of Directors.〔Amherst College Alumni Council, (Amherst Graduates' Quarterly ), Issue 3, Issue 127, 1943, page 256〕〔Columbia University Alumni Council, (Columbia Alumni News ), Volume 22, 1930, page xxvii〕 Partridge was a Trustee of Middlebury College, and received an honorary LL.D. degree in 1909.〔James Terry White, (The National Cyclopædia of American Biography ), Volume 32, 1945, pages 35-36〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank C. Partridge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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