Biography

08/13/1893 - 03/12/1970

ROMAN, Thomas Gibbons, a Representative from Luzerne County; born in Alden, Newport Township, Luzerne County, Pa., August 13, 1893; graduated, East Stroudsburg State Normal School (now East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania); graduated, Centre College of Kentucky; captain’s writer, United States Navy (World War I); coal miner; school teacher; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1921 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1923 term; school principal; elected, school board, Newport Township; unsuccessful campaign, commissioner, Newport Township (1937, 1945); died, March 12, 1970 in Nanticoke, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; interred, Hanover Cemetery, Hanover, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.