Biography

08/30/1872 - 10/19/1931

CLEARY, William B., a Representative from Luzerne County; born in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pa., August 30, 1872; coal miner; correspondent, Plymouth Times; correspondent, Wilkes-Barre Times Leader; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1911 and 1913 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1915 term; president, Plymouth Board of Health; died, October 19, 1931 in Plymouth, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; interred, St. Mary’s Cemetery, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.