James A. Frear

James A. Frear

James Archibald Frear (born October 24, 1861 in Hudson , Wisconsin , †  May 28, 1939 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1913 and 1935 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Frear attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1878 Lawrence University at Appleton . In 1879 he moved with his parents to the federal capital Washington. Frear was a US Army soldier between 1879 and 1884 . He was employed in the message service ( Signal service ). After studying law at the National Law University in Washington and his admission to the bar in 1884, he began to work in Hudson in his new profession. In 1894 and 1895 he was the city's legal representative. Frear also served in the Wisconsin National Guard for eleven years, where he made it to the rank of Colonel. Between 1896 and 1901 he was a district attorney in St. Croix County . Politically, Frear was a member of the Republican Party . In 1903 he was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly . In 1905 he was a member of the State Senate . Between 1907 and 1913, Frear served as Secretary of State, the executive officer of the state government.

In the 1912 congressional election , Frear was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the tenth constituency of Wisconsin, where he succeeded Elmer A. Morse on March 4, 1913 . After ten re-elections, he was able to complete eleven consecutive terms in Congress by January 3, 1935 . Between 1933 and 1935 he represented the ninth district of his home state as the successor to George J. Schneider . During his 22 years as a congressman, amendments 16 to 21 were passed there. The First World War also fell during this period . Since 1929, the global economic crisis has also shaped the work of the US House of Representatives. From 1933, the first New Deal laws of the new federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt were discussed and passed there.

In 1934 James Frear declined to run again. In the following years he worked as a lawyer in the federal capital. He died there on May 28, 1939. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Web links

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• James A. Frear in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• James A. Frear in the database of Find a Grave (English)