Member

Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1965 Representative Democrat
1966 Representative Democrat
1967 Representative Democrat
1968 Representative Democrat
1969 Representative 138 Democrat
1970 Representative 138 Democrat
1971 Representative 138 Democrat
1972 Representative 138 Democrat
1973 Representative 138 Democrat
1974 Representative 138 Democrat
1975 Representative 138 Democrat
1976 Representative 138 Democrat
1977 Representative 138 Democrat
1978 Representative 138 Democrat
1979 Representative 138 Democrat
1980 Representative 138 Democrat
1981 Representative 138 Democrat
1982 Representative 138 Democrat
1983 Representative 138 Democrat
1984 Representative 138 Democrat
Counties Monroe, Northampton

Biography

09/16/1918 - 04/17/1988


KOWALYSHYN, Russell, a Representative from Monroe and Northampton Counties; born in Northampton, Northampton County, Pa., September 16, 1918; graduated, Northampton High School; B.A., Lehigh University; M.A., Columbia University; LL.B., Dickinson School of Law (now Penn State Dickinson Law); captain, Military Government, United States Army (1943-1946), (1942-1946, World War II); attorney; Assistant District Attorney, Northampton County (1956-1963); director, Northampton Area school board (1960-1965); solicitor, Moore Township and Northampton; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1965 term; reelected to serve 9 consecutive terms thereafter; appointed, chair, Select Committee on Safe Drinking Water (1984); not a candidate for reelection to the House (1984); died, April 17, 1988 in Fountain Hill, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; interred, Assumption of Virgin Mary Ukrainian Orthodox Cemetery, Northampton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
 


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