Biography

12/17/1888 - 08/05/1943


GAGHAN, William Joseph, Jr., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, December 17, 1888 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; clerk, Charlie Webb Co.; president, 6th Ward Republican Executive Committee; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican for the 1931 term; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House for the 1933 term; clerk, Philadelphia County; died, August 5, 1943 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Holy Cross Cemetery, Yeadon, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. 
 


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