Louis Frey

Louis Frey

Louis Frey Jr. (born January 11, 1934 in Rutherford , New Jersey - † October 14, 2019 in Orlando , Florida ) was an American politician . Between 1969 and 1979 he represented the state of Florida in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Louis Frey attended Rutherford High School until 1951 and then studied at Colgate University in Hamilton ( New York ) until 1955 . Between 1955 and 1958 he was an active member of the Air Corps of the US Navy , whose reserves he then belonged to until 1978. After completing a law degree at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and being admitted to the bar in 1961, he began to work in his new profession. After a brief stint as assistant district attorney, Frey worked as a partner in the Winter Park, Florida-based law firm Gurney, Skolfield & Frey from 1963 to 1967 . In 1966 and 1967 he was also an advisor to the toll authority responsible for Florida's Turnpike . He then became a partner in the law firm Mateer, Frey, Young & Harbert in Orlando .

Politically, Frey joined the Republicans and became chairman of the party's youth organization in Florida. In the 1968 congressional elections , he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Florida , where he succeeded Edward Gurney on January 3, 1969 . After four re-elections, he was able to complete five legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1979 . From 1973 he represented the ninth district of his state as the successor to Paul Grant Rogers . During his time as Congressman, the Vietnam War ended . In 1974, political America was shaken by the Watergate affair . In 1971 the 26th amendment to the constitution was passed. Louis Frey was a member of the Committee on Internal and External Trade , the Science and Technology Committee, and the Committee on Drug Abuse Control.

In 1978 Frey renounced another candidacy for Congress. Instead, he unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination for gubernatorial elections . This went to Jack Eckerd, who in turn was subject to the Democrat Bob Graham . In 1980, Frey also failed when his party tried to be nominated for the US Senate elections; this time he lost to Paula Hawkins . In 1986 he made another unsuccessful attempt for the nomination for the gubernatorial election, but this time again the Republicans decided with Bob Martinez for another candidate. Frey is the founder of the Lou Frey Institute of Politics and Government at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

Web links

• Louis Frey in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ryan Lynch: Former US Congressman Lou Frey dies at 85 in Orlando. In: Orlando Business Journal , October 15, 2019. Retrieved October 15, 2019.