 Frey served as chairman of the Florida Federation of Young Republicans.He was nominated and elected as a Republican to the Ninety-first Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1969 to January 3, 1979) from what was then the 5th congressional district but is now the 9th district.Frey was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-sixth Congress in 1978.