Biography

12/14/1879 - 08/15/1942

BOUTON, Victor Burdette, a Representative from Westmoreland County; born, December 14, 1879 in Port Allegheny, McKean County, Pa.; graduated, Smethport High School, 1899; attended, De Veaux Academy; attended, Pennsylvania State (University) College; LL.B., Dickinson University Law School, 1903; lawyer (1903-1942); elected, solicitor, McKean County and Arnold borough; solicitor, Smethport, Lewis Run, and Lewis Run School District; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1916; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1918); elected, District Attorney, Westmoreland County (1930-1934); appointed, solicitor, New Kensington; died, August 15, 1942 in New Kensington, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; interred, Rose Hill Cemetery, Smethport, McKean County, Pennsylvania.