Fred B. Gernerd Explained

Fred B. Gernerd
Birthname:Fred Benjamin Gernerd
State:Pennsylvania
District:13th
Term Start:March 4, 1921
Term End:March 3, 1923
Preceded:Arthur Granville Dewalt
Succeeded:George F. Brumm
Birth Date:22 November 1879
Birth Place:Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Death Place:Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Restingplace:Trexlertown Cemetery in Trexlertown, Pennsylvania
Party:Republican
Alma Mater:Franklin & Marshall College
Columbia University
Columbia Law School

Fred Benjamin Gernerd (November 22, 1879 – August 7, 1948) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1921 to 1923.

Early life and education

Gernerd was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1901, from Columbia University's school of political science in New York City in 1903, and from Columbia Law School in 1904. He was admitted to the bar in 1904 and commenced practice in Buffalo, New York.

Career

In 1905, he returned to Allentown, serving as district attorney of Lehigh County from 1908 to 1912. He was a Pennsylvania Republican State Committeeman from 1912 to 1920 and a trustee of Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and of Cedar Crest College in Allentown.

Congress

Gernerd was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922.

After Congress

He resumed the practice of law in Allentown and served as a delegate to 1928 Republican National Convention.

Death

Gernerd died in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on August 7, 1948, at age 68, and is interred in Trexlertown Cemetery in Trexlertown, Pennsylvania.

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