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Where was Martin Frost educated in 1960?
Martin Frost Jonas Martin Frost III ( born January 1 , 1942 ) is an American politician , who was the Democratic representative to the U.S . House of Representatives for Texass 24th congressional district from 1979 to 2005 . Personal life . Frost was born to a Jewish family in Glendale , California , the son of Doris ( nee Marwil ) and Jack Frost . He has one sister , Carol Frost Wagner . His grandfather , Joe Frost , was co-founder of Frost Brothers Department Store . In 1949 , his family moved to Fort Worth , Texas where his father took a job with Convair Aircraft . In 1964 , he graduated from the University of Missouri with a bachelor of journalism and a bachelor of arts in history . As a student , Frost was editor of The Maneater , is a brother of Zeta Beta Tau , and was tapped by Omicron Delta Kappa and QEBH . After graduating , Frost worked as a newspaper reporter , including positions at The News Journal of Wilmington , Delaware . He received his Juris Doctor degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1970 . Following his graduation he worked as a law clerk for Federal Judge Sarah T . Hughes of the Northern District of Texas , after which he practiced law in the Dallas-Fort Worth area . In addition , Frost was a legal commentator on KERA-TV . Frost served in the United States Army Reserve from 1966 to 1972 . Political career . Frost ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the House in 1974 . He tried again successfully in 1978 , becoming the first Jewish U.S . congressman from Texas . Frost was reelected 12 times without serious opposition . In 1980 , he defeated an African American Republican opponent , Clay Smothers . On October 10 , 2002 , Martin Frost was among the 81 House Democrats who voted in favor of authorizing the invasion of Iraq . He served two terms as the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus from 1999 to 2003 , the number three post in the Democrats House leadership after the minority leader and minority whip . As Democratic Caucus Chair , Frost was often at odds with another prominent Dallas-area Congressman , Dick Armey , who was the Republican House Majority Leader . Due to term limits as Democratic Caucus Chair , Frost made a bid for Minority Leader after Dick Gephardt resigned in the wake of losing four seats in the 2002 Congressional midterm elections , but Frost dropped out of the race and supported eventual winner Nancy Pelosi . Frost was the ranking member of the House Rules Committee during his last term in the House . Due to his strong fundraising ability for fellow Democrats , and the fact that he led the 1991 redistricting in Texas , he was one of the targets of a controversial mid-decade redistricting engineered by then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay . His district , which included portions of Dallas , Fort Worth and Arlington , was redrawn to be much more Republican . Its portions of Fort Worth and Arlington were replaced with wealthier and more Republican territory around Dallas . While Al Gore won the old 24th fairly handily in 2000 , the new 24th would have given George W . Bush a staggering 68 percent of the vote in that election . Moreover , Frosts home in Arlington was shifted into the heavily Republican 6th District , represented by 10-term incumbent Joe Barton . Frost decided to seek re-election in the newly redrawn 32nd District , which included a considerable amount of territory that he had represented from 1979 until 1993 . He lost by 10 points to Republican Pete Sessions . Since Ralph Halls party switch earlier in 2004 , Frost had been the only white Democrat to represent a significant portion of the Metroplex . Retirement . In 2005 , Frost was a candidate for chairman of the Democratic National Committee . He dropped out of the race on February 1 . On February 15 , Frost was hired by Fox News as a political commentator . Frost is now an attorney at the Polsinelli law firm and president of America Votes . He is also a member of the ReFormers Caucus of Issue One . In a July 2011 op-ed regarding the debt ceiling crisis , Frost wrote , We now have a group of U.S . politicians seeking political purity , who seem to have much in common with the Taliban . They are tea party members . Frost co-authored with Tom Davis , Richard E . Cohen , and David Eisenhower the 2014 book The Partisan Divide in which they attempt to explain the reasons behind an increasingly polarized U.S . Congress and offer possible solutions . Personal . In 1976 , Frost married Valerie H . Hall in Dallas . They divorced in 1998 . Later that year he married Kathryn Frost , a major general in the United States Army . She died in 2006 , and in 2008 , Frost married Jo Ellen Ronson .