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Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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DITTER, John William, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa.,
September 5, 1888; attended the public schools and was graduated from the law
department of Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa., in 1913; was admitted to
the bar the same year; professor of history and commerce in the Philadelphia
high schools 1912-1925; moved to Ambler, Pa., in 1925 and commenced the
practice of law; served as workmens compensation referee for eastern
Pennsylvania in 1929; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-third and to the
five succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, until his death in an
airplane crash near Columbia, Lancaster County, Pa., on November 21, 1943;
interment in Whitemarsh Memorial Cemetery, Prospectville, Montgomery County,
Pa.
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