Alfred M. Waldron

Alfred Marpole Waldron ( born September 21, 1865 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † June 28, 1952 ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1935 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Alfred Waldron attended the common schools and worked in the insurance industry. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1911 and 1924 he sat on the city council of Philadelphia; 1916 to 1936 he was a member of the local board of the Republicans. In the years 1924, 1928 and 1932, he participated as a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions, where Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover was nominated as the presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1932, Waldron was in the third electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Harry C. Ransley on March 4, 1933. Since he resigned in 1934 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1935. During this time the first of the New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration there were adopted, which Waldron's party faced a rather negative.

After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Alfred Waldron resumed his previous activities in the insurance industry again. He died on 28 June 1952 in Philadelphia.