Biography

10/03/1880 - 03/29/1964

STEVENS, Samuel Pritts, a Representative from Westmoreland County; born, October 3, 1880 in Millerstown, Fayette County, Pa.; educated in public schools; blacksmith; elected, president, council, Mount Pleasant (1909-1917); burgess, Mount Pleasant (elected, 1917-1921 and 1925-1932); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1932 and 1934; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1936); steward, Torrance State Hospital; unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1940); unsuccessful campaign, burgess, Mount Pleasant (1945, 1949); died, March 29, 1964 in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.