Biography

01/08/1902 - 04/18/1985

SMITH, William B., a Representative from Beaver County; born, January 8, 1902 in Beaver, Beaver County, Pa.; graduated, Beaver High School; B.A., Beaver Business College; served, United States Coast Guard Reserve (World War II); secretary, Aliquippa, Pa.; member, Executive Board of the Federal Housing Authority; justice of the peace; real estate and insurance businessman; employed, office of the Pennsylvania Auditor General; employed, office of the Pennsylvania State Treasurer; appointed, Public Utility Commission; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1948; reelected to the House in 1952, 1954, and 1956; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1958); unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1950); died, April 18 1985 in Aliquippa, Beaver County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery, Aliquippa, Beaver County, Pennsylvania.