Fred C. Gartner
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Fred Christian Gartner (March 14, 1896 – September 1, 1972) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.[1]
Biography
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 14, 1896, Fred C. Gartner was a son of German immigrants.[2] He attended the public schools and Brown Preparatory School in Philadelphia. He served as a yeoman in the United States Naval Reserve in 1918 and 1919. He graduated from the law department of Temple University in Philadelphia in 1920. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Civil Service Commission at Philadelphia from 1928 to 1932. He served in the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1933 and 1934.[3]
Gartner was a Nazi sympathizer who met with the German American Bund in Washington in February 1939.[4]
Gartner was elected as a Republican to the 76th Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1940. He served chairman of the board for the Hol-Gar Manufacturing Corporation of Pennsylvania.[5]
References
Template:S-endTemplate:USCongRep-startTemplate:USCongRep/PA/76Template:USCongRep-endTemplate:Authority control- ↑ "Gartner, Fred Christian" (G000087), in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Washington, D.C.: Offices of the Historians of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, retrieved online March 4, 2023.
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- ↑ "Gartner, Fred Christian," in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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- ↑ "Gartner, Fred Christian," in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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