James A. Frear

James Archibald Frear ( born October 24, 1861 in Hudson, Wisconsin, † May 28 1939 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1935 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Frear attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1878, the Lawrence University in Appleton. In 1879 he moved with his parents to the capital Washington. Between 1879 and 1884 Frear was a soldier in the U.S. Army. He (signal service) was used in the intelligence service. After studying law at the National Law University in Washington and its made ​​in 1884 admitted to the bar he began in Hudson to work in his new profession. In the years 1894 and 1895 he was a legal representative of the city. In addition, Frear was eleven years at the National Guard of Wisconsin, where he rose to the colonel. Between 1896 and 1901 he was district attorney in St. Croix County. Politically, Frear member of the Republican Party. In 1903 he was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly. In 1905 he sat in the state Senate. Between 1907 and 1913 Frear served as Secretary of State, the executive officers of the State Government.

In the congressional elections of 1912 Frear was selected in the tenth constituency of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Elmer A. Morse on March 4, 1913. After ten re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1935 eleven consecutive legislative periods. Between 1933 and 1935 he represented as a successor to George J. Schneider the ninth district of his home state. During his 22 years as a congressman, the constitutional amendments there were 16 to 21 adopted. During this time the First World War fell. Since 1929, the world economic crisis also influenced the work of the U.S. House of Representatives. As of 1933, the first New Deal legislation of the new federal government there were discussed and approved by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1934 James Frear waived on a bid again. In the following years he worked as a lawyer in the federal capital. There he is on 28 May 1939, died. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

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