Biography

03/05/1914 - 01/30/2011


O’BRIEN, Bernard F., a Representative from Luzerne County; born in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pa., March 5, 1914; graduated, James M. Coughlin High School; stereotyper, International Color Printing; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1963 term and served 8 more consecutive terms; appointed, Special Committee to Investigate the Energy Crisis (1973); appointed, vice-chair, Select Committee on Three Mile Island (1979); unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1980); appointed, Governor’s Energy Council; died, January 30, 2011 in Mountain Top, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; interred, Saint Marys Cemetery, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.


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