Biography

10/03/1890 - 07/25/1979

KOHLER, Walter W., a Representative from Lackawanna County; born in Old Forge, Lackawanna County, Pa., October 3, 1890; graduated Old Forge High School, 1910; graduated, Lackawanna Junior College; graduated, Wesleyan University, 1914; graduated, Michigan Law School, 1917; attended, Harvard University; attended, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; ensign, Naval Aviator No. 1496, United States Navy (World War I); lawyer; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1921 and 1923 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1925 term; unsuccessful campaign, United States Congress (1936, 1944); died in July 25, 1979 in Beaufort, Beaufort County, South Carolina; interred, Forest Hill Cemetery, Dunmore, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.