15 Facts About Bill Frenzel

William Eldridge Frenzel was an American politician and businessman who represented Minnesota's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1991.

Bill Frenzel served as a lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve during the Korean War from 1951 to 1954.

Bill Frenzel served eight years in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1962 to 1970, prior to serving in the US Congress.

Bill Frenzel was president of the No Waterway Terminals Corp.

Bill Frenzel was a member of the executive committee for Hennepin County, Minnesota.

Bill Frenzel was elected as a Republican to the 92nd, 93rd, 94th, 95th, 96th, 97th, 98th, 99th, 100th, and 101st congresses, serving from January 3,1971, to January 3,1991, and was the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee and a member of the influential Ways and Means Committee.

Bill Frenzel was a Congressional Representative to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in Geneva for 15 years.

Bill Frenzel became known as an expert in budget and fiscal policy, election law, trade, taxes and congressional procedures, and was a negotiator in the 1990 budget summit.

Bill Frenzel served as vice chairman of the Committee on House Administration, and vice chairman of the Commission on Congressional Mailing Standards.

Bill Frenzel did not run for re-election to the House in 1990.

Bill Frenzel was chairman of the Ripon Society, a Republican think-tank, from the 1990s until March 2004.

Bill Frenzel has been a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, since January 1991, and was named director of the Brookings Governmental Affairs Institute on July 18,1997.

President Bill Clinton appointed Frenzel to help sell the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Bill Frenzel was interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered, on December 20,2004, as an advocate of President Bush's plan for Social Security privatization.

Bill Frenzel died of cancer on November 17,2014, in McLean, Virginia.