He worked as an assistant manager in a hosiery mill for two years, and later worked as an industrial life insurance collector. He was a lawyer and solicitor for the borough of Lansdowne, Pennsylvania (1899–1900) and served as president of the Law Academy of Philadelphia.
Political career
He served two terms in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1903–04 and 1905–06) representing Delaware County as a Republican. He did not run for re-election in 1906.[2]
In 1903 he introduced an "anti-cartoon" bill in the legislature. The bill would have made it illegal for publishers to print cartoons depicting politicians as animals. It was inspired by a series of cartoons depicting the 1902 candidate for governor, Samuel Pennypacker, as a parrot.[3] The bill did not become law, but it inspired a whole new series of cartoons depicting politicians as vegetables and inanimate objects.
Personal life
In 1895, Pusey married Nellie Oglivie and together they had one child.[1]
^"Frederick Taylor Pusey". Politics in Graphic Detail: Exploring History through Political Cartoons. Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Retrieved April 28, 2016.