J. Irving Whalley

John Irving Whalley ( born 14 September 1902 in Barnesboro, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, † March 8, 1980 in Pompano Beach, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1960 and 1973 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Irving Whalley attended the common schools and the Cambria Rowe Business College. He then worked in the automotive industry, in banking and in the coal business. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. He was a member of the Advisory Board, belonging to the University of Pittsburgh Johnstown College and chairman of the Somerset County Redevelopment Authority and Windber Planning Commission. He also sat from 1935 to 1947 in the school board of Windber. Between 1951 and 1955 Whalley was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania; 1955 to 1960 he was a member of the State Senate.

After the death of Mr Douglas Hemphill Elliott Whalley was at the due election for the 18th seat Pennsylvania as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 8 November 1960. After four elections he could remain until January 3, 1973 at the Congress. Since 1963 he represented there the twelfth electoral district of his state. In his time as a congressman of the Vietnam War and the final phase of the civil rights movement fell.

1972 renounced Irving Whalley on another candidacy. After that, he is no longer politically have appeared. He died on March 8, 1980 in Pompano Beach.