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Feb 08, 1963 Greenwich, Connecticut, United States 61 years old
American politician
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About John H. Frey
- John H.
- Frey (born in Greenwich, Connecticut, on February 8, 1963) is an American real estate broker, businessman and politician.
- A member of the Republican Party, he is the State Representative from the 111th District (Ridgefield, Connecticut), first elected in 1998.
- In the 2004 election, Frey won with 68.7% of the vote and was the highest vote-getter in the 151-member Connecticut House of Representatives.
- In 2008, he received nearly 3,000 more votes than his opponent and garnered the most votes of any contested House candidates.
- In 2014, he was elected to his ninth term in an election where he garnered 74.70% of the vote against his Democratic challenger. Serving in his eleventh term as Ridgefield's chief advocate in Hartford, Frey was appointed by the House Minority Leader Themis Klarides to serve as Senior Republican Whip.
- He serves on the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee; the Bank Committee and Legislative Management Committee.
- He also served on the state Aging Commission. Frey has supported measures to improve education for students at all grade levels, to protect benefits of seniors and Veterans residing in Connecticut, to preserve consumers' rights, to reform state government, and to secure pristine areas of open space. Frey has also been instrumental in securing state aid for local projects in Ridgefield, including the Ridgefield Playhouse, school construction and improvements, the Ridgefield Veterans Community Center, the Aldrich Museum, Tiger Hollow and the Ridgefield Boys & Girls Club.
- He is largely credited for gaining funding for the 400-acre (1.6 km2) Bennetts Pond State Park. In February 2008, the State Bond Commission approved $3.25 million to fund 12 unit expansion of Ballard Green senior housing and rehabilitation of 120 units of affordable and senior housing in Ridgefield.
- Connecticut Governor M.
- Jodi Rell thanks Rep.
- John Frey for his perseverance in advocating for funding for the project.
- In October 2008, he secured an additional $640,000 to cover unanticipated funding shortfalls. Before winning election to the state House of Representatives, Frey was appointed Chairman of the Connecticut Real Estate Commission in 1995 by former Governor John G.
- Rowland.
- Frey held the distinct honor as the commission's youngest Chairman in state history.
- Representative Frey was also appointed 'government representative' for the University of Connecticut Business School Center for Real Estate and Economic Studies, a position he still holds. In June 2008, he was appointed by President George W.
- Bush to the President's Commission on White House Fellows.
