Frank Rader

{{Short description|American politician}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Frank Rader

|image = Portret Franka Radera.jpg

|caption = Portrait of Frank Rader

|birth_date = April 8, 1848

|birth_place = Easton, Pennsylvania

|death_date = {{d-da|March 28, 1897|April 8, 1848}}

|death_place = Lake Elsinore, California

|order = 22nd

|office = Mayor of Los Angeles

|term_start = December 12, 1894

|term_end = December 16, 1896

|predecessor = Thomas E. Rowan

|successor = Meredith P. Snyder

|party = Republican

|profession =

|spouse = Genie Finch (m. 1877)
Clara Dewey (m. 1880)

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Frank Rader (April 8, 1848 – March 28, 1897) served as the 22nd Mayor of Los Angeles from 1894 until 1896.

He was born in Easton, Northampton, Pennsylvania, and settled in Clyde, Ohio with his siblings around 1870s to 1880s before he relocated to California.https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LCVK-8MM/franklin-rader-1848-1897 Rader moved to Los Angeles in 1883 as a banker including the organization of Southern California National Bank and real estate.

He died at age 49 in Lake Elsinore, California.