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Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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OLPP, Archibald Ernest, a Representative from New Jersey;
born in South Bethlehem, Northampton County, Pa., May 12, 1882;
attended the public schools;
was graduated from the Moravian School, Bethlehem, Pa., in 1899, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., in 1903, and from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1908;
instructor in chemistry at Lehigh University in 1903 and 1904;
instructor in biological chemistry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University), New York City, in 1908 and 1909;
began the practice of medicine in West Hoboken, N.J., in 1909;
served as town physician 1912-1914;
police surgeon and physician to public schools, Secaucus, N.J., 1916-1924;
served as first lieutenant in the United States Medical Corps during the First World War;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923);
was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress;
resumed his medical profession;
died in Cliffside Park, N.J., July 26, 1949;
interment in Brookside Cemetery, Englewood, N.J.
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