Robert E. Freer

Freer was born in Madisonville, Cincinnati, Ohio. He received an LL.B. from the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 1917.{{Sfn|"Robert Elliott Freer",|1920|pp=24–25}} He received an LL.M. from the Washington College of Law in 1929.{{Sfn|Martindale-Hubbell. Vol. 1,|1958|p=743}}

Freer entered the practice of law in Cincinnati in 1917.{{Sfn|Martindale-Hubbell. Vol. 1,|1958|p=743}} He served in the United States Army during World War II in the 324th Infantry Regiment, and was deployed to France.{{Sfn|Cincinnati Enquirer, October 29,|1919|p=7}}

In 1925, he became an attorney with the Bureau of Valuation within the Interstate Commerce Commission.In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him as a Republican member of the FTC.{{Sfn|Chicago Tribune, January 7,|1963|p=42}} He was reappointed to the FTC by President Harry S. Truman in 1948, but resigned later that year to return to the practice of law.{{Sfn|Chicago Tribune, January 7,|1963|p=42}}

In 1960, he returned to government service as a hearing examiner for the Federal Power Commission{{Sfn|Chicago Tribune, January 7,|1963|p=42}}

In 1928, Freer was elected to the Order of the Coif by his alma mater, the University of Cincinnati College of Law. {{Sfn|American Law School Review, December|1928|p=385}}

Freer married three times. On October 28, 1919, he married Hazel Louise Davis (1898–1975) in Newport, Kentucky. On April 11, 1925, he married Olive Roberts (1898–1973) in Marion County, Ohio. Finally, on September 7, 1939, he married Alice Elizabeth Barry (1905–1979) in McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania. Her father, Edward P. Barry, had been Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts;{{Sfn|Cincinnati Enquirer, October 29,|1919|p=7}} she had earned a law degree from the Portia Law School in Boston in 1933.{{Sfn|Washington Post, April 22,|1979}} Freer adopted her two daughters and one son from her prior marriage to Harold Wadsworth Sullivan (1896–1969), former Assistant Attorney General for Massachusetts.{{Sfn|Boston Globe, September 12,|1939|p=22}} He and Alice then had a son.

Freer died of multiple myeloma at the age of 66,{{Sfn|Chicago Tribune, January 7,|1963|p=42}} and was interred at Arlington National Cemetery.

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• {{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|American Law School Review, December|1928|p=385}} |date=December 1928 |last1=American Law School Review (The) |title=Notes and Personals |url={{GBurl|6pizAAAAIAAJ|p=385|dq="robert elliott freer"}} |series={{free access}} |volume=6 |issue=7 |page=385 |access-date=May 20, 2022 |via=Google Books }} {{LCCN|2008247516}}; {{OCLC|76883455 |show=all}}.

• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Boston Globe, September 12,|1939|p=22}} |last1=Boston Globe (The) |author-link1=The Boston Globe |date=September 22, 1939 |title=Ex-Lieut. Gov. Barry's Daughter Weds Freer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/431793727/ |url-access=subscription |volume=136 |issue=74 |page=22 (column 6, middle) |access-date=May 20, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com}}

• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Chicago Tribune, January 7,|1963|p=42}} |last1=Chicago Tribune |author-link1=Chicago Tribune |date=January 7, 1963 |title=R. E. Freer, Ex-Chairman of FTC, Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/374706022/ |url-access=subscription |volume=122 |issue=6 |page=42 |access-date=February 21, 2021 |via=Newspapers.com}}
• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Cincinnati Enquirer, October 29,|1919|p=7}} |last1=Cincinnati Enquirer (The) |author-link1=The Cincinnati Enquirer |date=October 29, 1919 |title=R. E. Freer Wins Bride |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/33869107 |url-access=subscription |volume=76 |issue=302 |page=7 (column 5, middle) |access-date=February 21, 2021 |via=Newspapers.com}}

• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Federal Trade Commission, October|2021}} |last1=Federal Trade Commission |author-link1=Federal Trade Commission |date=October 2021 |title=Commissioners, Chairwomen and Chairmen of the Federal Trade Commission |url=http://www.ftc.gov/system/files/attachments/commissioners/commissioner_chart_timeline.pdf |type=timeline |series={{free access}} |access-date=January 22, 2021 }}.

• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Martindale-Hubbell. Vol. 1,|1958|p=743}} |date=1958 |title=Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory |url= |edition=90th Annual |volume=1 (of 3) |page=743 }} {{LCCN|31006356}}; {{ISSN|0191-0221}}; {{OCLC|1645529|show=all}}.

• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|"Robert Elliott Freer",|1920|p=24}} |date=1920 |chapter=Robert Elliott Freer |chapter-url={{GBurl|IhMVAAAAYAAJ|p=24|dq="robert elliott freer"}} |title=Memoirs of Miami Valley |url={{GBurl|IhMVAAAAYAAJ|p=24|dq="robert elliott freer"}} |series={{free access}} |location=Chicago |publisher=Robert O. Law Company |volume=3 (of 3) |pages=24–25 |access-date=May 20, 2022 |via=Google Books}} {{LCCN|a-40000507}}; {{OCLC|478490|show=all}}.

• {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Washington Post, April 22,|1979}} |last1=Washington Post (The) |author-link1=The Washington Post |last2=Joyce |first2=Maureen |date=April 22, 1979 |title=Alice Barry Freer, Former City Court Official, Dies |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/04/22/alice-barry-freer-former-city-court-official-dies/8a143b59-ff20-4376-83f5-f0c11fc5b86e/ |series={{free access}} |access-date=May 20, 2022 }}

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