Allen E. Ertel

Allen Edward Ertel ( born November 7, 1937 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania) is an American politician. Between 1977 and 1983 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Allen Ertel attended the public schools of his home and then to 1958 Dartmouth College. In 1959 he graduated from the Thayer School of Engineering and the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. Between 1959 and 1962 he served in the U.S. Navy. In the years 1965 and 1966 he worked for the federal judge Caleb Merrill Wright. After a simultaneous study of law at Yale University and his 1965 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to practice in Williamsport in this profession. Between 1968 and 1976 he was district attorney in Lycoming County.

Politically, Ertel joined the Democratic Party. In July 1972, he participated in Miami Beach as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. In the congressional elections of 1976 he was in the 17th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Herman T. Schneebeli on January 3, 1977. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1983 three legislative periods.

1982 renounced Allen Ertel on another Congress candidate. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully for the post of Governor of Pennsylvania. Two years later, also failed his candidacy as Attorney General of his state. Otherwise, he has been working since his retirement from the Congress as a lawyer.