Biography

04/06/1867 - 03/29/1923

CRAIG, Thomas B., a Representative from Carbon County; born, April 6, 1867 in Lehigh Gap, Carbon County, Pa.; attended, Wyoming Seminary; engaged, mercantile business; land surveyor; elected, school director, Lower Towamensing (6 years); elected, chair, Carbon County Democratic Committee (4 years); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1898; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1900); elected, commissioner, Carbon County (1912-1920); co-founder and president, Palmerton National Bank; director, Lehigh Gap Bridge Company; president and director, Farmers’ Mutual Fire Insurance Company; died, March 29, 1923 in Lower Towamensing, Carbon County, Pennsylvania; interred, Towamensing Cemetery, Palmerton, Carbon County, Pennsylvania.