William I. Troutman

William Irvin Troutman ( born January 13, 1905 in Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, † January 27, 1971 ) was an American politician. Between 1943 and 1945 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Troutman attended the public schools of his home. In 1927 he graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and his 1930 was admitted to the bar he began in Shamokin to work in this profession. Between 1939 and 1943 he worked as Sonderstatsanwalt (Special Attorney for Pennsylvania). Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1942, Troutman was in the then state-wide 33 electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Elmer J. Holland on January 3, 1943. Since he resigned in 1944 to further candidacy, he could until his resignation on January 2, 1945, one day before the official end of the legislative period, remain in Congress. This period was marked by the events of the Second World War.

In 1945, William Troutman sat in the Senate of Pennsylvania. Between 1946 and 1966 he served as a judge at the Court of Appeal in Northumberland County. After that, he was Senior Judge temporary judge of the Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. He died on 27 January 1971 in his birthplace of Shamokin, where he was also buried.