Biography

11/06/1885 - 09/08/1971

BEHNEY, Ralph Haak, a Representative from Lancaster County; born, November 6, 1885 in Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pa.; graduated, Lebanon High School, 1906; graduated, Dickinson College, 1910; graduated, New York Law School, 1912; lawyer; solicitor, Richland, Pa.; solicitor and director, Richland National Bank (1919-1965); solicitor, Lebanon City School District; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1923 and 1925 terms; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1926); deputy attorney general, State Workmen’s Insurance Fund, Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry (1927-1939); chief council, State Workmen’s Insurance Fund, Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry (1939-1956); died, September 8, 1971 in Annville, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.