Biography

04/28/1891 - 10/03/1963

CROOP, Roy, a Representative from Columbia County; born April 28, 1891 in Briar Creek, Columbia County, Pa.; attended, Bloomsburg State Normal School (now Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania); corporal, United States Army (World War I); sergeant, Pennsylvania National Guard (6 years); first lieutenant, Company F, Pennsylvania Reserve Corps; elected, council, Berwick; constable, Berwick; automobile dealer; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1941 and 1943 terms; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House to the 1945 term; court crier and tipstaff, Columbia County Courthouse; died, October 3, 1963 in Berwick, Columbia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Roselawn Cemetery, Berwick, Columbia County, Pennsylvania.