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For other people of the same name, see Oliver Frey (disambiguation).
Oliver Walter Frey (September 7, 1887 – August 26, 1939) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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Biography
Oliver W. Frey was born near Quakertown, Pennsylvania. He moved to Ohio with his parents in 1891 and to Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1893. He graduated from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1915. During the First World War he enlisted in the United States Army. He was commissioned a first lieutenant in the 314th Infantry, serving overseas in the 79th Division. He served from April 1917 until honorably discharged in June 1919. Frey resumed his studies at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from its law department in 1920.
Frey was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry Winfield Watson. He was reelected to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938. After his time in Congress he worked as general counsel for the Farm Credit Administration in Baltimore, Maryland, from April 1939 until his death in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
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References
- Oliver W. Frey at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Retrieved on 2009-02-24
- The Political Graveyard
External links
- "Oliver W. Frey". Find a Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6858278. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
United States House of Representatives Preceded by
Henry Winfield WatsonMember of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 33rd congressional district
1933–1939Succeeded by
Charles L. GerlachCategories:- 1887 births
- 1939 deaths
- United States Army officers
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
- University of Pennsylvania alumni
- American military personnel of World War I
- United States Army soldiers
- The College of William & Mary alumni
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