Biography

10/10/1873 - 01/05/1949

ERDMAN, Ira T., a Representative from Lehigh County; born in Ruchsville, Lehigh County, Pa., October 10, 1873; graduated, Allentown High School, 1890, graduated, Muhlenberg College, 1894; teacher; school principal; lawyer; elected, prothonotary, Lehigh County (1902-1905); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1915 and 1917 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1918); chair, Lehigh County Democratic Committee (1920); died, January 5, 1949 in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; interred, Egypt Cemetery, Egypt, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.