Biography

02/10/1876 - 04/07/1947


SHANNON, Walter R., a Representative from Pike County; born in Lackawaxen, Pike County, Pa., February 10, 1876; graduated, Baltimore University of Medicine, 1897; doctor; surgeon, Erie Railroad; elected, school board, Lackawaxen; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1921 term; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1922); appointed, Pike County Medical Director; died, April 7, 1947 in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; interred, Milford Cemetery, Milford, Pike County, Pennsylvania.
 


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