Albert G. Rutherford

Albert Greig Rutherford ( born January 3, 1879 in Watford, Ontario, Canada; † August 10, 1941 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1937 and 1941 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1883, Albert Rutherford came with his parents from his Canadian home to Carbondale, Pennsylvania, where he attended the public schools. He then attended the Blair Academy in New Jersey and the Scranton Lackawanna Business College in Pennsylvania. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and his 1904 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Scranton in this profession. At that time he became a member of the Democratic Party. Since 1904, Rutherford was also a member of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, in which he rose to 1918 and to lieutenant colonel. In 1918 he moved his residence and his law firm to Honesdale. Politically, he moved temporarily to the Republicans.

In the congressional elections of 1936, Rutherford was elected in the 15th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he succeeded the Democrats Charles E. Dietrich on January 3, 1937. After two re- elections he could remain until his death on 10 August 1941 at the Congress. During this time the last of the New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration there have been adopted.

Albert Rutherford was buried in Honesdale.