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  Buchanan, Frank
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AffiliationDemocratic   
NameFrank Buchanan
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McKeesport, Pennsylvania , United States
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Born December 01, 1902
DiedApril 27, 1951 (48 years)
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Aug 20, 2015 08:03pm
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InfoBUCHANAN, Frank, (husband of Vera Daerr Buchanan), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in McKeesport, Allegheny County, Pa., December 1, 1902; attended the public schools and was graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1925; teacher in high schools of Homestead and McKeesport, Pa., 1924-1928 and 1931-1942; automobile dealer 1928-1931; economic consultant 1928-1946; served as mayor of McKeesport, Pa., 1942-1946; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel A. Weiss; reelected to the Eightieth, Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses and served from May 21, 1946, until his death in Bethesda, Md., April 27, 1951; chairman, Select Committee on Lobbying Activities (Eighty-first Congress); interment in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Elizabeth Township (near McKeesport), Pa.

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Wife Vera D. Buchanan 00, 1929-Apr 27, 1951

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  11/07/1950 PA District 33 Won 65.81% (+31.63%)
  11/02/1948 PA District 33 Won 69.24% (+38.47%)
  11/05/1946 PA District 33 Won 57.90% (+15.81%)
  05/21/1946 PA District 33 - Special Election Won 59.50% (+19.01%)
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