Biography

12/18/1917 - 12/31/2001

DEPUY, Warner M., a Representative from Pike County; born in Milford, Pike County, Pa., December 18, 1917; graduated, Milford High School, 1935; B.A., Dartmouth College, 1939; owner and operator, Depuy’s Coal and Feed, Port Jervis, NY; co-publisher and co-owner, Pike County Dispatch; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1943 term and served 3 more consecutive terms; appointed, Joint Legislative Committee on Administrative Code (1947-1948); appointed, Joint Legislative Tax Study Committee (1947-1948); appointed, Tax Study Commission (1947-1948); not a candidate for reelection to the House (1950); elected, commissioner, Pike County (28 years); appointed, deputy treasurer, Pennsylvania Department of Treasury (1963-1967); appointed, Secretary of Revenue, Pennsylvania Department of Revenue (1967-1971); appointed, State Tax Equalization Board (1970); appointed, chair, Susquehanna River Basin Commission (1980-1988); president and chief executive officer, First National Bank of Pike County; died, December 31, 2001 in Milford, Pike County, Pennsylvania; interred, Milford Cemetery, Dingman Township, Pike County, Pennsylvania.