Biography

07/30/1887 - 02/04/1974

BARTON, Robert McClellan, a Representative from Perry County; born, July 30, 1887 in Lack Township, Juniata County, Pa.; graduated, Tuscarora Academy; graduated, Ohio Northern University; general store operator; owner and editor, Duncannon Record; appointed, postmaster, United States Post Office, Duncannon (1926-1934); principal, Middleburg High School; elected, Duncannon school board; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1943 term; reelected to the House to serve 1 more consecutive term; appointed, Joint State Government Commission Sub-Committee on Fish and Game Commissions (1945-1946); not a candidate for reelection for reelection to the House for the 1947 term; elected, council, Duncannon Borough; president, Duncannon National Bank; died, February 4, 1974 in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; interred, Duncannon Union Cemetery, Duncannon, Perry County, Pennsylvania.