Biography

08/05/1856 - 08/14/1940


WALLACE, William Tennent, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, August 5, 1856 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; graduated, Central High School, 1874; engaged, grocery business; engaged, pharmaceutical manufacturing; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1919 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1920); unsuccessful campaign, commissioner, Philadelphia County (1923); appointed, clerk, Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry; general insurance broker; died, August 14, 1940 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Slate Hill Cemetery, Goshen, Orange County, New York.
 


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