Louis Frey Jr. | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 9th district |
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In office January 3, 1973 – January 3, 1979 |
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Preceded by | Paul G. Rogers |
Succeeded by | Bill Nelson |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 5th district |
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In office January 3, 1969 – January 3, 1973 |
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Preceded by | Edward J. Gurney |
Succeeded by | William D. Gunter Jr. |
Personal details | |
Born |
Rutherford, New Jersey |
January 11, 1934
Political party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | Marcia Frey |
Residence | Winter Park, Florida |
Alma mater |
Colgate University (B.A.) University of Michigan Law School (J.D.) |
Occupation | Attorney |
Louis Frey Jr. (born January 11, 1934), is an American politician and a Republican former member of the United States House of Representatives, who served from 1969 until 1979. He represented Florida's 5th congressional district from 1969 to 1973 and the 9th district from 1973 to 1979, until he ran unsuccessfully in 1978 for the Republican nomination for governor to succeed the term-limited Democrat Reubin Askew of Pensacola.
Frey was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, graduated in 1951 from Rutherford High School, and received a B.A. in 1955 from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. He served in the United States Navy in naval aviation from 1955 to 1958, and in the Naval Reserve from 1958 to 1978. In 1961, he earned a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and he was admitted that same year to the Florida bar.
He worked as a lawyer in private practice, with a brief stint as assistant county solicitor in Orange County, Florida; became an associate, and then partner, in the law firm of Gurney, Skolfield & Frey in Winter Park, Florida, from 1963 to 1967; served as acting general counsel of the Florida State Turnpike Authority from 1966 to 1967; and became a partner in 1967 in the law firm of Mateer, Frey, Young & Harbert of Orlando.