Biography

09/02/1886 - 06/03/1953

LINTON, William, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, September 2, 1886 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; attorney; attorney, Pennsylvania Office of the Auditor General (1915-1916); Deputy Attorney General, Pennsylvania Attorney General's office (1918-1920); assistant city solicitor, Philadelphia (1928-1932); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1929 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1930); solicitor, Sheriff’s Office, Philadelphia County (1932-1946); appointed, judge, Philadelphia Municipal Court (1946-1953); died, June 3, 1953 in Hempstead, Nassau County, New York; interred, Saint James Methodist Episcopal Church Grounds, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.