Charles L. Gerlach

Charles Lewis Gerlach ( born September 14, 1895 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, † May 5, 1947 in Allentown, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1947 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Gerlach attended the public schools of his home. In 1914 he moved to Allentown. He founded a company that dealing in fuel and heating spare parts, and whose president he was then. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1936 and 1937 he was a member of the State Board of his party.

In the congressional elections of 1938, Gerlach was in the ninth constituency of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Oliver W. Frey on January 3, 1939. After four elections he could remain until his death on 5 May 1947 Congress. Since 1945, he represented the eighth district of his state there. During his time in Congress the last New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration there were adopted until 1941, which Gerlach's party faced a rather negative. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War and its aftermath was marked.