He was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 26, 1891; attended grade and high schools; was graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1917; served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1916 and 1917; enlisted as a private in the
Ordnance Department,
United States Army, in July 1917 and was honorably discharged as a
lieutenant on April 18, 1919; engaged in the manufacture of steel tools in 1919; also engaged in banking; elected as a
Democrat to the
Seventy-fourth and
Seventy-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the
Seventy-sixth Congress; member of the
United States Sesquicentennial Constitution Commission in 1938; director, Region III, Wage and Hours and Public Contracts Division,
United States Department of Labor, from 1939 until his death in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 13, 1949; interment in
St. Dominic's Cemetery. ==External links==