Fred Benjamin Gernerd

Fred Benjamin Gernerd ( born November 22, 1879 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, † August 7, 1948 ) was an American politician. Between 1921 and 1923 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Fred Gernerd attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1901, the Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster. Then he studied until 1903 political science at Columbia University in New York City. After studying law at the same university and his 1904 was admitted to the bar he began to work in this profession in Buffalo, New York. A year later he returned to Allentown. Between 1908 and 1912 he was district attorney in the local Lehigh County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1912 and 1920 he was a member of the State Board of his party. He also served as curator of the Franklin & Marshall College and the Cedar Crest College in Allentown.

In the congressional elections of 1920 Gernerd in the 13th electoral district of Pennsylvania was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Arthur Granville Dewalt on March 4, 1921. Since he has not been confirmed in 1922, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1923. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Fred Gernerd again practiced as a lawyer. In June 1928 he was a delegate attended the Republican National Convention in Kansas City, was nominated on the Herbert Hoover as a presidential candidate. He died on 7 August 1948 in Allentown.