U.S. Congressman. He attended Bucknell University, graduated from Jefferson Medical College, in 1912, served an internship at Ashland State Hospital, (1912-13) and commenced the practice of medicine in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, in 1914. During World War I, he served as a Captain Surgeon in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, overseas with the 115th Infantry, 99th Division, being awarded the Silver Star Medal and World War I Victory Medal with two bronze battle clasps. After the war, he resumed his medical practice and was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixty Congress and to the next eleven succeeding Congresses, serving (1939-63). An unsuccessful candidate for reelection, he served as medical advisor to Secretary of Welfare of the State of Pennsylvania and as a medical consultant to General Hospital State of Pennsylvania, until 1968. He lived in retirement until his death at age 97.
U.S. Congressman. He attended Bucknell University, graduated from Jefferson Medical College, in 1912, served an internship at Ashland State Hospital, (1912-13) and commenced the practice of medicine in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, in 1914. During World War I, he served as a Captain Surgeon in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, overseas with the 115th Infantry, 99th Division, being awarded the Silver Star Medal and World War I Victory Medal with two bronze battle clasps. After the war, he resumed his medical practice and was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixty Congress and to the next eleven succeeding Congresses, serving (1939-63). An unsuccessful candidate for reelection, he served as medical advisor to Secretary of Welfare of the State of Pennsylvania and as a medical consultant to General Hospital State of Pennsylvania, until 1968. He lived in retirement until his death at age 97.
Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith
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