Biography

12/11/1866 - 01/12/1956


CULTON, William D., a Representative from Northumberland County; born in Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pa., December 11, 1866; coal miner (36 years); elected, council, Shamokin; appointed, Mine Examining Board, Shamokin (11 years); transcribing clerk, Pennsylvania State Senate (1 year); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1903 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1904); justice of the peace, Shamokin (appointed, 1912; elected, 1913-1949); elected, delegate, Republican National Convention (1932); died, January 12, 1956 in Coal Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania; interred, Shamokin Cemetery, Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.
 


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