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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—PennsylvaniaOliver Walter FREY
(1887-1939)
FREY, Oliver Walter, a
Representative from Pennsylvania; born near Quakertown, Richland
Township, Bucks County, Pa., September 7, 1887; moved to Ohio with
his parents in 1891 and to Allentown, Pa., in 1893; attended the
public schools of Allentown; was graduated from the College of
William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., in 1915; enlisted in the
United States Army and served from April 1917 until honorably
discharged in June 1919; was commissioned a first lieutenant in the
Three Hundred and Fourteenth Infantry, serving overseas in the
Seventy-ninth Division; resumed his studies at the University of
Pennsylvania and graduated from its law department in 1920; was
admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in
Allentown, Pa.; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third Congress
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry W. Watson;
reelected to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses and
served from November 7, 1933, to January 3, 1939; unsuccessful for
reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; general counsel
for the Farm Credit Administration in Baltimore, Md., from April
1939 until his death in Allentown, Pa., August 26, 1939; interment
in Grandview Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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