Harve Tibbott

Harve Tibbott (* May 27, 1885 in Ebensburg, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, † December 31, 1969 ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1949 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Harve Tibbott attended the common schools and then studied until 1906 at the University of Pittsburgh Pharmacy. He then worked as a pharmacist in Ebensburg. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1913 and 1915 he was Chief Financial Officer of the William Penn Highway Association. From 1932 to 1935 he served as treasurer in Cambria County; in the years 1936 and 1937 he was a member of the State Board of his party. He got one in the banking industry and was president of the First National Bank of Ebensburg since 1938.

In the congressional elections of 1938 Tibbott in the 27th electoral district of Pennsylvania was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Joseph Anthony Gray on January 3, 1939. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1949 five legislative sessions. Since 1945, he represented there as a successor of Louis E. Graham 26 district of his state. By 1941, the last New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration were adopted. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War and its aftermath was marked. Tibbott experienced even the beginning of the Cold War, as a congressman. In 1948 he was not re-elected.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives sat Harve Tibbott his work as president of the First National Bank of Ebensburg continues. He died on 31 December 1969 in Ebensburg, where he was also buried.