Biography

02/08/1886 - 01/16/1939

McGOWAN, Thomas Francis, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, February 8, 1886 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; attended, University of Pennsylvania; attended, Jefferson Medical College (now Sidney Kimmel Medical College); proprietor, Southern Ice and Coal Business; member, 39th Ward Republican Executive Committee; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1920, 1922, and 1924; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1926); died, January 16, 1939 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Holy Cross Cemetery, Yeadon, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.