Biography

06/08/1922 - 11/17/2003

CHECCHIO, I. Harry, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., June 8, 1922; A.B., Temple University, 1944; LL.B. J.D., Temple University School of Law, 1948; attorney; lecturer on government and law; instructor, family and business law, Holy Family College; founder and Dean, Advanced Real Estate Institute; associate counsel, General State Authority of Pennsylvania; special assistant, Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General; chief counsel, District 1, Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board; chair, 41st Ward Republican Executive Committee; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1973 term; appointed, Select Committee to Investigate the Betsy Ross Bridge, The Pulaski Expressway and the Northeast Freeway (1973); appointed, Special Committee to Review Juvenile Unrest and Gang Wars in the Philadelphia Area (1973-1974); not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1975 term; died, November 17, 2003 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.