Biography

08/24/1875 - 03/31/1949

WEINGARTNER, George T., a Representative from Lawrence County; born, August 24, 1875 in Slippery Rock Township, Lawrence County, Pa.; graduated, Rose Point Academy, 1896; student, law office of Robert K. Aiken, Esquire; attorney; member, Lawrence County Republican Committee (secretary, 1902-1903; chair, 1920-1924); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1904; reelected to the House in 1906 and 1940; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1908, 1942); elected, Pennsylvania State Senate (1908-1912 and 1924-1932); elected, commissioner, Lawrence County (1919-1926); chair, Victory Liberty Loan (1918); director, Lawrence Savings and Trust Company; director, Blair Strip Steel Company; director, New Castle Hotel Company; senior member, Weingartner and Mercer; president, Weingartner Realty Company; died, March 31, 1949 in New Castle, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania.