- Anthony Cavalcante
Anthony Cavalcante (
February 6 1897 –October 29 1966 ) was anUnited States Representative for Pennsylvania.Anthony Cavalcante was born in
Vanderbilt, Pennsylvania . He served overseas with Company D, One Hundred and Tenth Infantry, Twenty-eighth Division, from May 3, 1918 to May 6, 1919, and was awarded thePurple Heart . He was a student atBucknell University inLewisburg, Pennsylvania , in 1920 and 1921 andPenn State College in 1921.He graduated from the law school of
Dickinson College inCarlisle, Pennsylvania in 1924. He was a member of thePennsylvania State Senate from 1935 to 1943. He worked as chief counsel forUnited Mine Workers of America , District Four of German Township School District, German Township Road Supervisors, and South Union Township Road Supervisors.Cavalcante was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1950. After his time in Congress he was engaged in the practice of law, and died in
Uniontown, Pennsylvania , aged 69.References
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/catron-cavanagh.html The Political Graveyard]
*CongBio|C000259 Retrieved on2008-02-15
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