Howard G. Freas

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Howard G. Freas (born July 13, 1900 in Fogelsville, Pennsylvania ; died 23 August 1971 in Bethesda, Maryland ) was an American government employee. From 1953 to 1966 he was a member of the American regulatory authority Interstate Commerce Commission .

Life

In 1916 he finished Allentown Business College and then studied at the Mercersburg Academy until 1921 . Then followed in 1921/1922 a medical degree at the University of Nevada and the University of California . From 1934 to 1936 he studied law at LaSalle Extension University . By 1929 he worked for six years for railroad companies in Pennsylvania and California and was responsible for traffic for three years in a California industrial group.

From 1929 he worked for the Railroad Commission of California / California Public Utilities Commission and developed into a specialist in tariff structuring. From 1942 to 1953 he was chairman of the Mountain-Pacific States Conference of Public Utilities Commissioners. From 1942 to 1945 he was a lecturer at Stanford University .

On July 9, 1953, the Republican was nominated by the President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower for the vacated seat of William E. Lee on the Interstate Commerce Commission, and was confirmed by the Senate a week later. He took office on August 18, 1953. In 1959 he was the rotating chairman of the authority. In the decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission to merge the Pennsylvania Railroad with the New York Central Railroad to Penn Central , he was the only member of the ten-person commission to vote against the project.

In the ICC he worked until December 31, 1966. His successor was George M. Stafford . He then worked for Southern Railway as an adviser to the President until his retirement in July 1970 .

He died of a heart attack in 1971. He had been married since 1924 and had three children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 13 Aug 1921, 4 - The Morning Call at Newspapers.com. Accessed March 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ 5 Mar 1922, 2 - The Morning Call at Newspapers.com. Retrieved April 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 10 Jul 1953, 7 - The San Francisco Examiner at Newspapers.com. Accessed March 29, 2019 .
  4. ↑ 28 Apr 1966, 1 - Tampa Bay Times at Newspapers.com. Accessed March 29, 2019 .
  5. ^ Howard Freas, Chairman Of ICC in '58, Dies at 71 . In: The New York Times . August 24, 1971, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed March 29, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Freas, Howard G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American government official
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Fogelsville, Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH 23rd August 1971
Place of death Bethesda, Maryland