Biography

06/19/1872 - 05/15/1930

RUSH, James L., a Representative from Greene County; born in Wayne Township, Greene County, Pa., June 19, 1872; B.S., Ohio Northern University, 1898; school teacher (12 years); engaged in the mercantile business (5 years); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1907 term; served 1 consecutive term thereafter; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1911 term; coal dealer; died, May 15, 1930, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred in Oakmont Cemetery, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania.