Biography

06/21/1890 -

PENNOCK, Martha Maitlan, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, June 21, 1890 in New Berlin, Union County, Pa.; executive secretary, N. Snellenburg and Company, Philadelphia (7 years); secretary, 34th Ward Republican Women’s Committee; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1925 term and reelected to 4 more consecutive terms thereafter; not a candidate for reelection to the House in the 1934 General election.