Theodore C. Harter

Theodore C. Harter

Member

Photo credit:

Image courtesy of: Historical and Biographical Annals of Columbia and Montour Counties, Pennsylvania. Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co., II

Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1923-1924 Representative Democrat
Counties Columbia

Biography

11/10/1851 - 01/25/1931


HARTER, Theodore C., a Representative from Columbia County; born in Nescopeck, Luzerne County, Pa., November 10, 1851; graduated, Dickinson Seminary (now Lycoming College); graduated, Bloomsburg Literary Institute and Normal School (now Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania); graduated, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, 1881; private physician; elected, council, Bloomsburg; elected, school board, Bloomsburg; physician, Bloomsburg Alms Hospital; president, Keystone Copper and Mining Company; unsuccessful campaign, United States Congress (1910); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1922); unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1924); died, January 25, 1931 in Bloomsburg, Columbia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Saint James Lutheran Church Cemetery, Zenith, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
 


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