J. Allen Frear, Jr.

Joseph Allen Frear Jr ( born March 7, 1903 caused Rising Sun, Delaware, † January 15, 1993 in Dover, Delaware ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of Delaware in the U.S. Senate.

Born on a farm in Kent County Allen Frear attended the public schools of his home and made his 1924 graduation from the University of Delaware. Thereafter, he worked in several business segments. So he owned a dairy near Dover; He also was president and owner of a resident of this town retail company. He was also active in the banking industry. From 1936 to 1941 he sat on the supervisory board of the Delaware State College; 1938-1948 he was a member of the Senior Citizens Welfare Committee of his state. Finally, he served from 1938 to 1947 as director of the Federal Land Bank Board in Baltimore as well as in connection to 1951 as president of the Kent General Hospital in Dover. During the Second World War Frear served as an officer in the U.S. Army.

1948 Frear resigned as Democratic candidate at the time of election to the U.S. Senate, where he met the Republican incumbent C. Douglass Buck and this defeated with 50.8 percent of the vote. He took its mandate in Congress from January 3, 1949 and was the Democratic majority in the Senate first fraction of; after the elections of 1952 formed his party's opposition. Frear ran again in 1954 and sat down with nearly 57 percent of the vote clearly against Republican Congressman Herbert B. Warburton by. Another re-election did not succeed: In 1960 he was defeated in a tight race with 49.3 percent of the vote to the Governor of Delaware, Cale Boggs, which reached 50.7 percent.

Frear different then on January 3 in 1961 from the Senate. A little later he was appointed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in which he remained until 1963. Then he went back to his business activities. He died in 1993 in Dover, and was buried in Camden. The J. Allen Frear Federal Building in Dover and the Allen Frear Elementary School in Camden are named after him.