William F. Frye (April 11, 1929 - July 17, 1988) is an American court lawyer and politician from the state of Oregon. He was elected as Lane County District Attorney in 1958 at the age of 29 years and is one of the country's first public prosecutors who routinely fire drunk drivers involved in fatal accidents with negligent murder.
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Bill Frye was born in Salem, Oregon to schoolteacher Ethel (Ives) and lawyer Stanley Frye. He grew up with two younger sisters in Portland and graduated from Parkrose High School in 1946. After joining the US Air Force Air Force, he was dismissed with respect three years later. In 1949 he entered the University of Oregon where he majored in journalism and joined the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. It was during his second year while serving as a treasurer of the class that he met Helen Jackson who was then a student vice president. They married a year later. After receiving a bachelor's degree in 1953, Frye enrolled in a university law school and graduated in 1956.
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Professional career
Frye was elected as Lane County District Attorney, just two years out of law school. During his first term in office he served as president of the Oregon District Bar Association and vice president of the National District Bar Association. In 1963, he received the first Special Service Award from the National District Bar Association and a year later was named a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. In 1966 he resigned from his post and ran for the congress but lost in the main party. For the next sixteen years he was in private practice. Frye was elected to Oregon State Legislature in 1982. She was re-elected in 1986 and served as chairman of the Justice Committee and was named President of the Senate for a while.
Highlights
At the start of his first term as a county attorney, and about twenty years before Mothers Against Drunk Driving was founded, Frye attempted to prosecute drunk drivers for their mistakes in a traffic accident. He was one of the country's first public prosecutors to vigorously seek criminal charges, tried twelve homicidal murder cases and raised eleven punishments in five years.
Frye was also an early lawyer who used the law to pursue fathers for not paying off child support, creating a program that "finds husbands in arrears in favor of wives and children, makes them pay for financial support as required by law."
On July 6, 1965, Deputy Carlton Smith was killed on the first night of his patrol. While stopping regular traffic, he was shot by Carl Bowles and Wilford Gray, both of whom escaped from detention. Frye personally wounded the case and sent the two men back to life in prison. In 1974, Bowles fled while on a husband-wife visit and was later found in Eugene. After a firefight with the FBI, he kidnaps the old couple and disappears, killing them both the next day. He was shot and arrested near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, after the impasse with the police. Bowles later became one of the book's subjects by author Pete Earley entitled Hot House: Life Prison In Leavenworth.
Controversy
In 1966, Annette Buchanan was editor of the Oregon University student newspaper, the Daily Emerald, when she wrote an article on marijuana use on campus. He then refused Frye's orders to testify before the jury and reveal the source. A judge found him guilty of insulting and fined $ 300. His appeal was rejected by the Oregon Supreme Court, but his actions were generally credited with encouraging the legislature to pass a state shield law in 1973.
Death
In 1985, Frye was diagnosed with cancer. He sought treatment over the next three years even as he continued to serve in legislative and legal practice. He died on July 17, 1988.
References
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