Biography

05/14/1881 - 04/19/1970

COLEMAN, Chester A., a Representative from Monroe County; born in Monroe County, Pa., May 14, 1881; insurance salesman; operator, Analomink Sawmill (48 years); elected, prothonotary and clerk of courts, Monroe County (1917-1924); deputy prothonotary, Monroe County (1925-1928); elected, register and recorder, Monroe County (1929-1936); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1943 and 1945 terms; appointed, Joint State Government Commission Sub-Committee on Finance Companies (1945-1946); unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1946); reelected to the House for the 1949 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House in the 1950 General election; died, April 19, 1970 in Analomink, Monroe County, Pennsylvania; interred, Stroudsburg Cemetery, Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pennsylvania.