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Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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SAYLOR, John Phillips, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Conemaugh Township,
Somerset County, Pa., July 23, 1908; attended the public schools in Johnstown,
Pa.; was graduated from Mercersburg Academy in 1925, Franklin and Marshall
College, Lancaster, Pa., in 1929, and Dickinson Law School, Carlisle, Pa., in
1933; was admitted to the bar in 1934 and commenced the practice of law in
Johnstown, Pa.; elected city solicitor of Johnstown, Pa., in 1938 and served
until 1940; enlisted in the United States Navy on August 6, 1943, commissioned
a lieutenant (jg.) in 1943, and discharged in January 1946; elected as a
Republican to the Eighty-first Congress, by special election, September 13,
1949, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert L. Coffey; reelected to
the twelve succeeding Congresses and served from September 13, 1949, until his
death in Houston, Tex., October 28, 1973; interment in Grandview Cemetery,
Johnstown, Pa.
BibliographyRalph Nader Congress Project.
Citizens Look at Congress: John P. Saylor, Republican Representative
from Pennsylvania. Washington, D. C.: Grossman Publishers,
1972.
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