Biography

10/12/1869 - 03/15/1917

McDERMOTT, John Francis, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, October 12, 1869 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; produce merchant; wood and wire worker; foreman, Navy Yard, Philadelphia; member, 39th Ward Republican Executive Committee; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1914; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1916); clerk; died, March 15, 1917 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Evangelican Lutheran Church of the Trinity Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.