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| | National Safety Council's Safety & Health International Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Background: General Franklin M. Kreml was born January 11, 1907, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. He attended Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, on scholarship and, while working full-time as an Evanston police officer, enrolled at John Marshall Law School, where he received his Juris Doctor with honors in 1932. |
 | | Nine years later, having led a $185 million plan to success on 70 acres of land reclaimed from Lake Michigan on the campus shore, he took a leave of absence to become president and chief executive officer of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of the United States. |
 | | Career Highlights: Franklin Kreml was a pioneer in the field of traffic safety when law enforcement was doing little about the alarming increase in motor vehicle deaths and injuries. |
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