Biography

04/23/1896 - 12/17/1953

BEDNAREK, Dr. George J., a Representative from Luzerne County; born, April 23, 1896 in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pa.; graduated, Bloomsburg State Normal School (now Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania); D.M.D., Temple University Dental School (now, Temple University Kornberg School of Dentistry), 1924; served, United States Army (World War I); dentist; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1949 term and served 1 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1951 term; elected, school director, Wilkes-Barre (1953); died, December 17, 1953 in Kingston, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; interred, Saint Mary’s Church of the Maternity Cemetery, Wyoming, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.