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'''Frederic Mosley Sackett''' ([[December 17]], 1868-[[May 18]], 1941) served as a [[United States Senator]] from [[Kentucky]] and [[ambassador]] to [[Germany]] during the [[Hoover Administration]].

'''[[May 22]]'''

* '''[[1830 in rail transport|1830]]''' – The [[Baltimore and Ohio Railroad]] completes construction on the line between [[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]] and [[Endicott's Mills, Maryland|Endicott's Mills]], [[Maryland]].

He was born in [[Providence, Rhode Island]]. His father was a wealthy wools manufacturer. He attended the public schools in Providence. He graduated from [[Brown University]] in 1890 and from [[Harvard Law School]] in 1893.

* '''[[1915 in rail transport|1915]]''' – In the [[Quintinshill rail crash]], four trains collide causing more than 200 fatalities near [[Gretna Green]], [[Scotland]]; the accident is found to be the result of non-standard operating practices during a shift change at a busy junction.

He was admitted to the bar in 1893 and began practice in [[Columbus, Ohio]]. Shorltly after he moved to [[Cincinnati, Ohio]] and then to [[Louisville, Kentucky]]. He practiced law until 1907.

In 1898 he married [[Olive Speed]], the daughter of [[James Breckenridge Speed]], who was part of a wealthy and prominent Kentucky family.

Although he began as an attorney, he gradually became involved in his wife's family business, the mining of coal and the manufacture of cement. He served as president of the Louisville Gas Co. and of the Louisville Lighting Co. from 1907-1912. He was involved with the Board of Trade of Louisville, serving as president in 1917, 1922, and 1923. He was also director of the Louisville Branch of the [[Federal Reserve Bank]] from 1917-1924. During the [[First World War]], he served as federal food administrator for Kentucky from 1917-1919. This led to a friendship with the directory of the national food administrator, [[Herbert Hoover]]. Afterwards he was a member of the Kentucky State Board of Charities and Corrections from 1919-1924.

He was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1924 and served from March 4, 1925, to January 9, 1930, when he resigned, having been appointed Ambassador to Germany by President Herbert Hoover. He served from 1930 to 1933, when he resigned. Afterwards, he resumed his former business activities. He died of a heart attack while visiting [[Baltimore]], and is buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville.

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==References==

*Burke, Bernard V. ''Ambassador Frederic Sackett and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic, 1930-1933'' Cambridge University Press, 1994.

[[Category:1868 births|Sackett, Frederic M.]]

[[Category:1941 deaths|Sackett, Frederic M.]]

[[Category:United States Senators from Kentucky|Sackett, Frederick M.]]

[[Category:Ambassadors|Sackett, Frederic M.]]