Biography

1857 - 05/13/1936


GOURLEY, James P., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, 1857, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; attended, St. Michael’s Parochial School; lawyer; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as Republican in 1908; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1910); unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania State Senate (1910); died, May 13, 1936 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
 


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