Frank Kowalski

Frank Kowalski ( born October 18, 1907 in Meriden, Connecticut, † October 11, 1974 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1959 and 1963 he represented the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frank Kowalski attended the public schools of his home. After he graduated in 1930, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Later he studied until 1937 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and then in the years 1945 and 1946 at Columbia University International Relations. He was a member until 1958 and the U.S. Army. In 1944 he directed the program for the planned after the end of World War II German disarmament. Then he supported in Japan as acting head of the American Advisory Group, the new Japanese government. In 1954, he was the founder and first commander of the United States Army Command Management School at Fort Belvoir ( Virginia). Until his retirement from military service in 1958, he had made it to the Colonel. Kowalski was also active as a writer and inventor.

Politically, Kowalski member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1958, which were held all across the state for the sixth parliamentary seat of Connecticut, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of the Republican Antoni Sadlak on January 3, 1959. After a re-election in 1960 he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1963 two legislative sessions. In 1962 he abandoned a renewed bid for the U.S. House of Representatives. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for election to the U.S. Senate. Between 1963 and 1966, was a member of the Subversive Activities Control Kowalski Board, the observed suspicious activity in the United States and pursued.

Frank Kowalski died on 11 October 1974 in the German capital Washington and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.