Fred E. Busbey

Fred Ernst Busbey (February 8 1895 - February 11 1966) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.

Born in Tuscola, Illinois, Busbey attended the public schools, Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, and Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. During World War I he enlisted on September 24 1917 in the United States Regular Army and served overseas as a sergeant until after the Armistice, when he was made a battalion sergeant major in the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Field Artillery, Thirty-third Division, being discharged June 8 1919. In 1930 he engaged in the investment brokerage business in Chicago.

Busbey was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth Congress (January 3 1943-January 3 1945). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress.

Busbey was elected in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress (January 3 1947-January 3 1949). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress.

Busbey was elected to the Eighty-second and Eighty-third Congresses (January 3 1951-January 3 1955). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress. He resumed the investment brokerage business until his retirement in 1958. He resided in Cocoa Beach, Florida until his death there and was interred in Mount Hope Cemetery in Chicago.

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