[1] Britten attended Heald's Business College, San Francisco, California.

[1] Britten competed in an amateur boxing tournament at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.

[2] Britten was a construction worker and a business executive before his political career began.

He served as chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs from 1928 to 1931 (Seventieth and Seventy-first Congress).

[1] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress