Fred Benjamin Gernerd (November 22, 1879 – August 7, 1948) was an American politician serving as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Biography

Fred B. Gernerd was born in

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. He graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in

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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. In 1905, he returned to Allentown, serving as district attorney of

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from 1908 to 1912. He was a Pennsylvania Republican State Committeeman from 1912 to 1920 and a trustee of Franklin & Marshall College in

and of Cedar Crest College in Allentown. Gernerd was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922. He resumed the practice of law in Allentown and served as a delegate to the

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in 1928. Gernerd died in Allentown and is interred in Trexlertown Cemetery in Trexlertown, Pennsylvania.

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