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| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Edited | Chronicler Jan 24, 2008 05:47pm |
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| News Date | Monday, June 20, 1960 11:45:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Elliott of Pennsylvania Found Dead Under Car - Won G.O.P. Special Election
Chambersburg, Pa., [6/19/1960] (AP) - Representative Douglas H. Elliott was found dead today under a parked car. A coroner ruled that he had died of "carbon-monoxide poisoning, self-administered."
The 39-year-old Pennsylvania Republican, who was elected to fill an unexpired term [4/1960], was found near a lake-front cabin he owned eighteen miles from here.
His body was near the exhaust pipe of a new small car. A deer-skin was draped over his head and the end of the pipe.
Friends and associates were unable to provide a clue that might explain his suicide.
Elliott won his seat in the 4/26/1960 primary, filling the term of the late Rep. Richard M. Simpson.
He later won the Republican nomination for a new two-year term in the eight-county 18th Congressional District in the south-central part of the state.
In the special election he defeated Robert M. Meyers, a Lewistown Democrat, by nearly a 2-1 vote in a district that is traditionally Republican.
Elliott, a Philadelphia public relations man, was vice president of Wilson College for Women here.
He was married and the father of three children. He was born in Philadelphia and studied at the Haverford School and the University of Virginia.
During World War II he served in the Navy air arm in the Pacific. He was elected to the State Senate, his first political office, in 1956. |
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