Biography

08/31/1877 - 02/25/1934

SHERIDAN, Thomas Patrick, a Representative from Luzerne County; born in Pittston, Luzerne County, Pa., August 31, 1877; coal miner; locomotive fireman; traveling salesman; keeper, Luzerne County prison; elected, Pittston Board of Education (1910-1918); lead examiner, United States Employment Service, United States Department of Labor (1918-1922); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1923 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1925 term; died, February 25, 1934 in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; interred, St. John the Evangelist Cemetery, Pittston, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.