Frank Hunt Hurd (December 25, 1840 – July 10, 1896) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. representative from Ohio for three nonconsecutive terms in the late 19th century.

[1] Hurd graduated from Kenyon College, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, in nearby Gambier in 1858.

Journalist and Toledo mayor Brand Whitlock, in his autobiography Forty Years of It, attributed his own decision to become a Democrat to Hurd's influence, writing that "anyone who ever heard Frank Hurd deliver an oration never forgot it afterward":[H]is black hair, his handsome face, his beautiful voice, and the majestic music of his rolling phrases were wholly and completely charming.

In that address Frank Hurd began with the phrase, "The tariff is a tax," which acquired much currency years after when Grover Cleveland used it.

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