Biography

02/18/1858 - 08/15/1947


BENN, Wallace B., a Representative from Allegheny county; born in McKeesport, Allegheny County, Pa., February 18, 1858; attended, Curry Institute, Pittsburgh; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1914; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House as a Bull Moose Party candidate (1916); died, August 15, 1947 in McKeesport, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Monongahela Cemetery, Braddock Hills, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
 


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