Biography

05/05/1900 - 02/09/1964


REIDENBACH, William J., a Representative from Lackawanna County; born in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pa., May 5, 1900; elected, alderman, 8th Ward, Scranton (1942); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1944; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1946); reelected to the House in 1948 and served 7 more consecutive terms; appointed, secretary, Joint Committee to Investigate the Knox Mine Disaster (1959);not a candidate for reelection to the House (1962); elected, tax collector, Scranton (1962-1964); died, February 9, 1964 in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; interred, Shady Lane Cemetery, Chincilla, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.


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