Biography

06/22/1901 - 05/17/1993


PERRY, Peter E., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., June 22, 1901; attended, Drexel Institute, Peirce Business School, and LaSalle Extension University; president, Charles H. Howell Co., paint manufacturing company; director, East Germantown Building and Loan Association; member, 50th Ward Democratic Committee; elected as Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1959 term; reelected to serve 8 consecutive terms thereafter; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1977 term; died, May 17, 1993 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
 


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