Biography

09/13/1897 - 04/26/1986


DENNE, John Lewis, a Representative from Cambria County; born, September 13, 1897 in Irwin, Westmoreland County, Pa.; graduated, Portage High School, 1916; graduated, St. Francis College, 1921; teacher; miner, Puritan (1923-1925); tax collector, Portage Township; elected, president, Portage Township School Board; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1928; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1930); died, April 26, 1986 in Portage, Cambria County, Pennsylvania; interred, Saint Bartholomew Cemetery, Wilmore Cambria County, Pennsylvania. 
 


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