Biography

11/07/1923 - 03/02/2007

EHRGOOD, Thomas Alexander, a Representative from Lebanon County; born in Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pa., November 27, 1923; graduated, Lebanon High School, 1941; graduated, Deerfield Academy, 1942; graduated, history, Amherst College, 1946; graduated, Dickinson School of Law (now Penn State Dickinson Law), 1951; lieutenant, "U.S.S. Willis" (1946), United States Navy (1943-1946, World War II); attorney, Ehrgood and Ehrgood; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1955 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1957 term; elected, Pennsylvania State Senate (1957-1964); unsuccessful campaign, United States Congress (1966); died, March 2, 2007 in Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.