J. Allen Frear

Joseph Allen Frear Junior (born March 7, 1903 at Rising Sun , Delaware ; † January 15, 1993 in Dover , Delaware) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of Delaware in the US Senate .

Born on a Kent County farm , Allen Frear attended the public schools in his home country and graduated from the University of Delaware in 1924 . Then he worked in several business fields. He owned a dairy near Dover; he was also president and owner of a retail company based in that city. He was also active in the banking industry. From 1936 to 1941 he sat on the board of directors of Delaware State College ; between 1938 and 1948 he was a member of his state's senior welfare committee. Finally, he served from 1938 to 1947 as director of the Federal Land Bank Board in Baltimore and then until 1951 as President of Kent General Hospital in Dover. During the Second World War , Frear served as an officer in the US Army .

In 1948 Frear stood as a Democratic candidate in the US Senate election, where he met the Republican incumbent C. Douglass Buck and defeated him with 50.8 percent of the vote. He took up his mandate in Congress from January 3, 1949 and initially belonged to the Democratic majority faction in the Senate; after the elections in 1952, his party formed the opposition. Frear ran again in 1954 and prevailed with almost 57 percent of the vote against the Republican Congressman Herbert B. Warburton . He did not succeed in another re-election: in 1960 he was defeated in a narrow race with 49.3 percent of the vote to the governor of Delaware, Cale Boggs , who achieved 50.7 percent.

Frear then resigned from the Senate on January 3, 1961. A little later he was appointed to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, where he remained until 1963. Then he went back to his business activities. He died in Dover in 1993 and was buried in Camden . The J. Allen Frear Federal Building in Dover and the Allen Frear Elementary School in Camden are named after him.

Web links

J. Allen Frear in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Frear, J. Allen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Frear, Joseph Allen Junior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	March 7, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	at Rising Sun , Delaware
DATE OF DEATH	January 15, 1993
Place of death	Dover , Delaware