Alfred Buckwalter Garner

Alfred Buckwalter Garner ( born March 4, 1873 in Ashland, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, † 30 July 1930 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1909 and 1911 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Alfred Garner attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree in 1897 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began in Ashland to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1901 and 1907 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. In the congressional elections of 1908 Garner was in the twelfth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the meantime resigned Charles N. Brumm on March 4, 1909. Until March 3, 1911, he was able to complete a term in Congress.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Garner practiced first again as an attorney in Ashland. Since May 1917, he worked as a Taxing Officerfür the State Auditor of the State of Pennsylvania. He died on July 30, 1930 in Harrisburg.