Biography

09/13/1905 - 10/15/1959

DUFFY, Edward, Jr., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, September 13, 1905 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; graduated, Central High School; attended, Temple University; sheet metal worker; Inspector, Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry (1938-1939); president, 29th Ward Democratict Committee; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1941 term; reelected to the House to serve the 1943, 1945, 1949 and 1951 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1953 term; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House for the 1947 term; deputy clerk, Quarter Sessions Court, Philadelphia County (1953-1959); died, October 15, 1959 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.