Fred Trump

Frederic John Trump (December 21, 1913 – February 17, 1968) in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Frederic A. Trump and Myrtle VanBrunt Trump. (He also had a brother named Paul Van Brunt.) He was married on February 11, 1937, in Los Angeles to Julianne Schmahl, On Trump's 1938 California voter registration, his occupation was recorded as 'wholesaler'. By 1940, he and his wife were living back in St. Paul. named Cosmetics Inc. according to his draft registration of that year. He had three daughters, as well as a son named Fred Trump Jr. (July 17, 1956December 27, 2018).

By 1950, Trump had worked as a cowboy, newspaper reporter, manufacturer, and sales consultant, helping reorganize several firms. (In 1955, a Republican group of Trump supporters stated that By 1952, Trump had done national publicity work for the Republican chapter of New York City and moved his family to Tucson, where he was the head of a million-dollar firm that produced pharmaceuticals for infants.)

In 1953, an executive of Trump's companies brought a $37,500 lawsuit against him for his lawyer's failure to register $30,000 worth of stock before selling it to him, as well as Trump's having allegedly used deceptive methods to force the sale. Trump named his lawyer as third-party defendant, saying he should pay any charges brought against them.

Trump polled at 46% in his state district for the 1952 election to the Arizona House of Representatives, In a 1955 letter of support for the position of Arizona governor to a Republican State Committee official, Trump was cited as sharing many of the views of Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. Major General Charles A. Willoughby wrote a March 1956 newsletter to Arizona Republicans supporting Trump for governor. The same month, Nixon wrote a note to Trump, igniting a correspondence that would last beyond Trump's campaign. An advertisement for Trump's campaign touts him as being a cousin of electrical engineer John G. Trump (along with a photograph of the two together), brother of New York real-estate developer Fred Trump (the father of Donald Trump). Trump garnered the least support of any major candidate in his gubernatorial campaign, receiving 13.92% of the vote. Three other Republicans had run, and the incumbent Democrat, Ernest McFarland, won the election.

Trump later lived in Boulder, Colorado. He continued corresponding with Nixon, even advising him on the approach he should take in campaigning against John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election. He wrote, "Please refer to Sen. K, not by name, but as the 'Junior Senator from Massachusetts'!" Nixon called his advice "most welcome". Trump returned to Arizona, and in 1965 became the founding president of Scottsdale's chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. (The same year, Barry Goldwater became a charter member.)

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