- Fred Benjamin Gernerd
Fred Benjamin Gernerd (
November 22 ,1879 –August 7 ,1948 ) was a Republican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania .Fred B. Gernerd was born in
Allentown, Pennsylvania . He graduated fromFranklin and Marshall College inLancaster, Pennsylvania , in 1901, from the school of political science ofColumbia University inNew York City , in 1903, and from the law school of Columbia University in 1904. He was admitted to the bar in 1904 and commenced practice inBuffalo, New York . He returned to Allentown in 1905, and served as district attorney ofLehigh County from 1908 to 1912. He was a Pennsylvania Republican State Committeeman from 1912 to 1920, and a trustee of Franklin and Marshall College and ofCedar Crest College in Allentown.Gernerd was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922. He resumed the practice of law in Allentown, and served as a delegate to the
Republican National Convention in 1928. He died in Allentown and is interred in Trexlertown Cemetery inTrexlertown, Pennsylvania .ources
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