18 Facts About Fred Schwengel

Frederick Delbert Schwengel was a Republican US Representative from southeastern Iowa.

Fred Schwengel graduated from Northeast Missouri Teachers College at Kirksville, Missouri, in 1930 where he was an undergraduate member of Phi Sigma Epsilon fraternity, and attended graduate school at the University of Iowa in Iowa City from 1933 to 1935.

Fred Schwengel had founded the United States Capitol Historical Society in 1962, and continued to serve as its president after his defeat, until 1993.

Fred Schwengel was a founder and president of the Republican Heritage Foundation.

Fred Schwengel served as the President of the Iowa Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the National Civil War Centennial Commission and the Joint Sessions of Congress for the Lincoln Sesquicentennial.

Fred Schwengel served in the Missouri National Guard from 1929 to 1936.

Fred Schwengel served as athletic coach and instructor of history and political science in public schools of Shelbina, Missouri, and Kirksville, Missouri, from 1930 to 1937.

Fred Schwengel engaged in the insurance business in Davenport, Iowa, from 1937 to 1954.

Fred Schwengel was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 1944, serving five consecutive terms, from 1945 to 1955.

Fred Schwengel served as member of the Iowa Development Commission from 1949 to 1955.

Fred Schwengel lost to University of Iowa political science Professor John R Schmidhauser by fewer than 4,000 votes.

In 1970 Fred Schwengel narrowly defeated Iowa legislator Edward Mezvinsky by only 765 votes.

Fred Schwengel voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957,1960,1964, and 1968, as well as the 24th Amendment to the US Constitution.

Fred Schwengel had founded the Capitol Historical Society in 1962, and continued to serve as its president after his defeat, until 1993.

Fred Schwengel was a founder and president of the Republican Heritage Foundation.

Fred Schwengel received the first JM Dawson Award from the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty in 1986 for, among other things, his stance against school prayer in 1970 that eventually led to his defeat from Congress.

At the onset, Fred Schwengel was strongly supportive of this merger, and influential in the decision as a much-loved past president and ritual author for Phi Sigma Epsilon.

At its completion, Fred Schwengel agreed to serve as a historian for the combined fraternity and as a trustee of the PSK Foundation.