Biography

10/26/1933 - 11/18/2023

CUMBERLAND, James L., a Representative from Armstrong, Clarion, Jefferson, and Venango Counties; born, October 26, 1933 in Butler, Butler County, Pa.; attended, Butler High School; attended, law enforcement, Slippery Rock State College (now Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania); elected, sheriff, Clarion County (5 years); project director, Clarion County Communication Center 911; appointed chair, Seminar Committee on County Jail Corrections; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1974; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1976); died, November 18, 2023 in Templeton, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania; interred, Oak Grove Cemetery, Frogtown, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.