Background
Wachter, Frank C. was born on September 16, 1861 in Baltimore.
United States representative politician
Wachter, Frank C. was born on September 16, 1861 in Baltimore.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Wachter attended private schools and Saint Paul"s Evangelical School at Baltimore.
He was of Polish descent. He learned the trade of cloth cutting and in 1892 engaged in the cloth-shrinking business. Wachter was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1899 to March 3, 1907.
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1906, and resumed his former business pursuits in Baltimore.
He is interred in Loudon Park Cemetery.
Democratic Party, Republican Party.
He served as a member of the jail board of Baltimore from 1896 to 1898, and was an unsuccessful candidate for police commissioner of Baltimore in 1898. He served as a member of the board of managers of Maryland Penitentiary from 1909 until his death in Baltimore.