Biography

09/27/1886 - 10/06/1949

HUESTER, Fred J., a Representative from Lackawanna County; born in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pa., September 27, 1886; machinist, Delaware and Western Railroad and Allis-Chalmers Locomotive Works (6 years); assistant foreman, Erie Railroad (6 years); mercantile appraiser, Lackawanna County (1922); appointed, alderman (1922); appointed, clerk, prothonotary office, Lackawanna County (1926); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1929 term and served 1 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1931 term; elected, mayor, Scranton (1938-1942); died, October 6, 1949 in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; interred, Pittston Avenue Cemetery, Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.