- Edward J. Bonin
Edward John Bonin (
December 23 ,1904 –December 20 ,1990 ) was a Republican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania .Edward Bonin was born in
Hazleton, Pennsylvania . He served in theUnited States Navy from 1922 to 1926. He graduated fromWyoming Seminary inKingston, Pennsylvania in 1929, fromDickinson College inCarlisle, Pennsylvania , in 1933, andTemple University inPhiladelphia ,Pennsylvania , in 1937. During theSecond World War he served in theUnited States Army . From 1949 to 1952 he was assistant district attorney ofLuzerne County, Pennsylvania , and Mayor of Hazleton, from 1951 to 1953.Bonin was elected in 1952 as a Republican to the
83rd United States Congress , but he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1954. After his term in congress, he served as assistant to the Philadelphia Regional Director of the Post Office Department from February 1955 to March 1963, and General Attorney for the Post Office Department inWashington, D.C. from March 1963 to December 1966.ee also
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* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bondurant-boog.html The Political Graveyard]
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