Bill Frenzel
William Eldridge "Bill" Frenzel ( born July 31, 1928 in Saint Paul, Minnesota ) is a retired American politician. Between 1971 and 1991 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Bill Frenzel first attended the St. Paul Academy and then studied until 1951 at Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire). During the Korean War he served in the reserve of the U.S. Navy. He was used in the Korean area. Between 1966 and 1970, Frenzel was president of the Minneapolis Terminal Warehouse Co.
Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the years 1966 and 1967 he was a member of the County Council of Hennepin County. Since 1962 to 1970 he was also a member of the House of Representatives from Minnesota. In the congressional elections of 1970 he was in the third electoral district of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Clark MacGregor on January 3, 1971. After nine elections Frenzel could pass in Congress until January 3, 1991 ten contiguous legislatures. In this time, among other things, the Watergate affair fell. Unlike many of his Republican colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives, he was re-elected in spite of this affair in 1974. At times, Frenzel was a member of the Budget Committee and the Committee on Ways and Means. For 15 years he was one of the representatives of the Congress in the GATT negotiations in Geneva. Frenzel made his name as an expert in economic and financial issues. He was also temporarily Deputy Chairman of the Committee on House Administration, which is concerned with the Congress government.
1990 renounced Frenzel on a bid again. In the 1990s he was president of the Republican- affiliated think tank Ripon Society. A post he held until 2004. In 2001 he was appointed by President George W. Bush in a commission to investigate the possibilities of privatizing social security. In this commission he supported the privatization plans of the President. Today, Bill Frenzel, despite his advanced age now, among other things chair of a child welfare organization (Children in Foster Care), Vice President of the Eurasia Foundation and chairman of the Japanese-American Society in Washington. He is also a member in some economic and financial associations. Frenzel is married and has three children.