Biography

12/09/1911 - 02/28/1979

DeLONG, Paul A., a Representative from Lehigh County; born in Alburtis, Lehigh County, Pa., December 9, 1911; insurance sales; operator, messenger service; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1946; reelected for 2 nonconsecutive terms in 1948 and 1956; appointed, Joint Legislative Committee on Tax-Exempt Real Property (1947-1948); not a candidate for reelection to the House (1950); unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1958); chief voter registration clerk, Lehigh County (1960); unsuccessful campaign, mayor, Allentown (1962); unsuccessful campaign, treasurer, Lehigh County (1971); unsuccessul campaing, justice of the peace (1975); elected, register of wills, Lehigh County (1975-1979); died, February 28, 1979 in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; interred, Grandview Cemetery, Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.