Edward G. Biester, Jr.

Edward George Biester Jr. ( born January 5, 1931 in Trevose, Bucks County, Pennsylvania ) is a former American politician. Between 1967 and 1977 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edward beasts attended the public schools in Doylestown and thereafter until 1948, the George School in Newtown. This was followed up in 1952 to study at Wesleyan University. After a subsequent law degree from Temple University and his 1956 was admitted to the bar he began to work as a lawyer. Between 1958 and 1964 he was a deputy district attorney in Bucks County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1966 beasts was in the eighth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Willard S. Curtin on January 3, 1967. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1977 five legislative sessions. In this time were, among others, the end of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal. In 1976 he gave up another candidacy.

In the years 1979 and 1980 was Edward beasts Attorney General of Pennsylvania. Between 1980 and 2006 he served as an appellate judge in the Seventh Judicial District of the State of. He was also a member of the United States Court of Military Commission Review.