Biography

03/17/1895 - 05/11/1989

BOORY, Benjamin, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, March 17, 1895 in Rochester, Monroe County, NY; served, United States Army (1916-1919, World War I); water proffer; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1943 and 1945 terms; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House for the 1947 term; reelected to the House for the 1953, 1955 and 1957 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1959 term; elected, constable, 28th Ward, Philadelphia (1959); died, May 11, 1989 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Roosevelt Memorial Park, Trevose, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.