Biography

01/11/1889 - 08/31/1977


POWERS, James J., Sr., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., January 11, 1889; graduated, Saint John the Baptist Roman Catholic High School; salesman; chair, 43rd Ward Democratic Executive Committee; chief, Bureau of Weights and Measures, Philadelphia; magistrate, Philadelphia City Court (1962); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1962; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1964); died, August 31, 1977 in Lower Gynedd Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; interred, Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
 


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