Frank Kowalski

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Frank Kowalski

Frank Kowalski (born October 18, 1907 in Meriden , Connecticut , †  October 11, 1974 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1959 and 1963 he represented the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Frank Kowalski attended the public schools in his home country. He then graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point in 1930 . He later studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) through 1937 and then international relations at Columbia University in 1945 and 1946 . He was also a member of the US Army until 1958 . In 1944 he headed the program for the planned disarmament of Germany after the end of World War II . He then supported the new Japanese government in Japan as acting head of the American advisory group. In 1954, he was the founder and first commander of the United States Army Command Management School in Fort Belvoir ( Virginia ). By the time he left military service in 1958, he had made it up to the rank of colonel. Kowalski was also active as a writer and inventor.

Politically, Kowalski was a member of the Democratic Party . In the 1958 congressional elections, which were held for the sixth Connecticut mandate, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, where he succeeded Republican Antoni Sadlak on January 3, 1959 . After re-election in 1960, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 1963 . In 1962 he declined to run for the US House of Representatives again. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the US Senate elections . Between 1963 and 1966, Kowalski served on the Subversive Activities Control Board , which monitored and tracked suspicious activity in the United States.

Frank Kowalski died on October 11, 1974 in the federal capital Washington and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Web links

  • Frank Kowalski in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Kowalski, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Meriden , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1974
Place of death Washington, DC