Biography

12/29/1899 - 12/15/1971

O’DONNELL, Ambrose C., a Representative from Carbon County; born December 29, 1899 in Summit Hill, Carbon County, Pa.; corporal, Battery A, 107th Field Artillery, 28th Infantry Division, United States Army National Guard (1917-1919, World War I); miner, Lansford Colliery, Lehigh Navigation Coal Co.; elected, director, Summit Hills School; member, Carbon County Democratic Party; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1945 term; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1946); elected, commissioner, Carbon County (1948-1955); employed, Pennsylvania Tax Equilzation Board (1956-1965); died, December 15, 1971 in Coaldale, Carbon County, Pennsylvania; interred, Saint Joseph Cemetery, Summit Hill, Carbon County, Pennsylvania.