Biography

03/15/1897 - 03/03/1978


KRAKOW, Benjamin J., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, March 15, 1897 in Russia; graduated, Philadelphia Business College; graduated, Franklin Institute; graduated, Temple University; served, United States Army (World War I); insurance salesman (1920-1958); realtor (55 years); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1956; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1958); died, March 3, 1978 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Collingdale, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
 


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