Frederick W. Cords Jr. (December 27, 1903 - November 25, 1972)[1] was an American electrical engineer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who served one term as a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
He first defeated Frederick Petersen, former state representative from the district, in the Republican primary election; and in the general election polled 1380 votes, defeating Democrat Gene Ackerman, who received 936 votes, and Socialist Fred Breuhahn, who received 896 votes.
[2] In 1930 Cords had first to achieve a plurality in a five-way primary (Petersen was again one of his challengers).
In the general election, Cords again faced Rubin, Kaiser and two new independents (one was Petersen, who polled only 37 votes).
This time Kaiser (with Franklin D. Roosevelt at the top of the Democratic ticket) was the victor, with 2240 votes to Cords' 1412, Rubin's 2130, and another 129 for the two independents.