11 Facts About Frank Chelf

Frank Leslie Chelf was a United States representative from Kentucky.

Frank Chelf was born on a farm near Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

Frank Chelf graduated from Masonic Home High School and lived at the Masonic Widows and Orphans Home in Louisville, KY.

Frank Chelf attended the public schools as well as Centre College at Danville, Kentucky and St Mary's College.

Frank Chelf graduated from Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee in 1931 and was admitted to the bar in 1931 and commenced practice in Lebanon, Kentucky.

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Frank Chelf served as chief code designator, Intelligence Division, Air Transport Command, and later as executive officer, Plans and Liaison Division, and as assistant chief of Air Staff Training.

Frank Chelf was discharged on August 10,1944, due to physical disability, with rank of major in the Air Corps.

Frank Chelf served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1936.

Frank Chelf was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth and to the ten succeeding Congresses and was unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress.

Frank Chelf did not sign the 1956 Southern Manifesto, and voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1960 and 1968, as well as the 24th Amendment to the US Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but voted against the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.

Frank Chelf was a legislative consultant and resident of Lebanon, Kentucky until his death there in 1982.