Arthur Granville Dewalt

Arthur Granville Dewalt ( born October 11, 1854 in Bath, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, † 26 October 1931 in Allentown, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1915 and 1921 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Arthur Dewalt attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1870, the Keystone State Normal School. In 1874 he graduated from Lafayette College in Easton. After a subsequent law degree in 1877 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began in Allentown to work in this profession. Between 1880 and 1883 he was district attorney in the local Lehigh County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1902 and 1910 he sat in the Senate of Pennsylvania; in the years 1904 and 1908, he participated as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant. From 1909 to 1910 he was state chairman of his party for Pennsylvania. He also served for ten years as commander of the Fourth Regiment of the National Guard of his state.

In the congressional elections of 1914 Dewalt in the 13th electoral district of Pennsylvania was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Hoover Rothermel on March 4, 1915. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1921 three legislative periods. In this time of the First World War fell. During his time in Congress, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified.

In 1920, Arthur Dewalt renounced another Congress candidate. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again in Allentown, where he died on 26 October 1931.