Biography

09/28/1871 - 03/25/1939

READER, Willard Stanton, a Representative from Beaver County; born in New Brighton, Beaver County, Pa., September 28, 1871; attended, Geneva College; apprentice, reporter, partner, city editor, Beaver Valley News; reporter, various Pittsburgh newspapers; secretary, Board of Health, Beaver County; elected, burgess, New Brighton (1 term); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1924; served 4 consecutive terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House in the 1932 General election; died, March 25, 1939 in Patterson Heights, Beaver County, Pennsylvania.