William M. Berlin

William Markle Berlin (* March 29, 1880 in Delmont, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, † October 14, 1962 in Greensburg, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1937 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Born on a farm William Berlin attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1896, the Laird Institute in Murrysville. Since 1916 he lived in Greensburg, where he was working in the car trade. He was also engaged in oil, gas and coal business. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. In 1916, he was the district chairman in Westmoreland County.

In the congressional elections of 1932 Berlin became the 28th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Thomas Cunningham Cochran on March 4, 1933. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1937 two legislative sessions. During this time the first New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration there have been adopted. 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends or begins on January 3. In Berlin time as congressman also the abolition of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution of 1919 by the 21th Amendment falls. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages.

In 1936, he was not nominated by his party for re-election. Between 1937 and 1941 he worked for the court administration in Westmoreland County. He then worked in Pennsylvania and West Virginia coal mining. In July 1944, Berlin was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in part, on the President Roosevelt for the fourth and last time, was nominated as a presidential candidate. He then moved to the Republicans. In 1950, he sought unsuccessfully to their nomination for the congressional elections. From 1957 to 1961 he was deputy librarian at the U.S. House of Representatives. Then he was there promoted to chief operating Librarian ( Librarian ). This office he held until his death on October 14, 1962 in Greensburg.