Louis Frey, Jr.
Louis Frey, Jr. ( born January 11, 1934 in Rutherford, New Jersey) is an American politician. Between 1969 and 1979 he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Louis Frey attended until 1951 the Rutherford High School and then studied until 1955 at Colgate University in Hamilton (New York). Between 1955 and 1958 he was an active member of the Air Corps of the U.S. Navy, the Reserve he served until 1978. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made in 1961 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession. After a short period as Deputy District Attorney Frey worked 1963-1967 as a partner in Winter Park (Florida ) based law firm Gurney, Skolfield & Frey. In the years 1966 and 1967 he was also a consultant in charge of Florida 's Turnpike toll authority. He then became a partner in Mateer, Frey, Young & Harbert in Orlando.
Politically Frey joined the Republicans and became chairman of the youth organization of the party in Florida. In the congressional elections of 1968 he was in the fifth electoral district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Edward Gurney on January 3, 1969. After four elections he could pass in Congress until January 3, 1979 five legislative sessions. Since 1973 he has acted as the successor to Paul Grant Rogers the ninth district of his state. During his time as a congressman of the Vietnam War ended. In 1974, the political America was rocked by the Watergate affair. 1971, the 26th Amendment to the Constitution was adopted. Louis Frey was a member of the Committee on the Internal and Foreign Trade, the Science and Technology Committee and the Committee for the control of drug abuse.
In 1978, Frey gave up another run for Congress. Instead, he sought unsuccessfully to his party's nomination for the gubernatorial elections. This was awarded to Jack Eckerd, which in turn was defeated by Democrat Bob Graham. 1980 failed Frey also with trying to be nominated by his party for the elections to the U.S. Senate; this time he lost to Paula Hawkins. In 1986 he made another unsuccessful run for the nomination for the gubernatorial election, but this time the Republicans chose Bob Martinez for another candidate. Frey is the founder of the Lou Frey Institute of Politics and Government at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.