Fred Anton
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Frederick Anton III is President and CEO of the Pennsylvania Manufactures Association and the Pennsylvania Manufactures Insurance Company.

A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...

, he graduated from Villanova University School of Law
Villanova University School of Law
Villanova University School of Law is the law school of Villanova University, the oldest and largest Catholic University in Pennsylvania. Villanova was founded 150 years ago by the Augustinians, a prominent Roman Catholic teaching order...

 in 1958 and practiced law in Philadelphia. In 1962, he took a job as a claims attorney with the Pennsylvania Manufactures Insurance Company, where he handled workers compensation cases. He became president of the Pennsylvania Manufactures Insurance Company in 1972 and became president of the Pennsylvania Manufactures Association in 1975.

As a Republican, he was a delegate to the 2000
2000 Republican National Convention
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 and 2004
2004 Republican National Convention
The 2004 Republican National Convention, the presidential nominating convention of the Republican Party of the United States, took place from August 30 to September 2, 2004 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York...

 Republican National Convention
Republican National Convention
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The Pennsylvania Report
Pennsylvania Report
The Pennsylvania Report is an independent bi-weekly subscription-based political newspaper published in Pennsylvania. It is "widely read by the state's political junkies." It was founded in 1985 by David Buffington, a former public relations worker for the Pennsylvania Government.It provides...

named him to the 2003 "The Pennsylvania Report Power 75" list of influential figures in Pennsylvania politics, calling him "an important financial player for GOP" In 2009, the Pennsylvania Report
Pennsylvania Report
The Pennsylvania Report is an independent bi-weekly subscription-based political newspaper published in Pennsylvania. It is "widely read by the state's political junkies." It was founded in 1985 by David Buffington, a former public relations worker for the Pennsylvania Government.It provides...

named him to the "The Pennsylvania Report 100" list of influential figures in Pennsylvania politics and noted that he remains a "key figure in the business community" and "[t]he “godfather” of all conservative organizations in the state." He was named to the PoliticsPA
PoliticsPA
- Content :The website focuses on news aggregation, linking to major political news making headlines across the state. The editors write occasional features, like the weekly "Up & Down" scorecard and one-off lists like "Harrisburg's Smartest Staffer" and "Best Dressed Lobbyist" lists...

 list of "Sy Snyder's Power 50" list of influential individuals in Pennsylvania politics in 2002. In 2010, he was named of the "Top 10 Republicans" in Pennsylvania by Politics Magazine, who noted that he "funds much of the conservative infrastructure in the state, such as the right of-center think-tank Commonwealth Foundation
Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives
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