Harold Vernon Froehlich

Harold Vernon Froehlich ( born May 12, 1932 in Appleton, Wisconsin ) is a retired American politician. Between 1973 and 1975 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Harold Froehlich attended the common schools and studied until 1959 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison business and commerce. In between, he was the 1951 and 1955 Soldier in the U.S. Navy. After studying law at the University of Wisconsin and its made ​​in 1962 admitted to the bar he began in Appleton his new profession to work. He was also sworn public accountants and was active in the real estate market.

Politically, Froehlich joined the Republican Party. Between 1963 and 1973 he sat in the Wisconsin State Assembly; while he was 1967-1971 president of this chamber. He then headed to 1973 the Republican faction. Between 1957 and 1981, Froehlich was a delegate at all regional Republican party days in Wisconsin; in the years 1972 and 1976 he took part in the respective Republican National Conventions, to which the President Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford later were nominated for re-election.

In the congressional elections of 1972, Froehlich was in the eighth constituency of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John W. Byrnes on January 3, 1973. Since he Democrat Robert John Cornell was defeated in the elections of 1974, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1975. This was primarily influenced by the Watergate affair.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Harold Froehlich again worked as a lawyer. In 1976 he applied unsuccessfully to return to Congress. In 1981 he became district judge in Outagamie County. In 1982 he was elected for another six years in this office. He now lives in Appleton.