Joseph A. McArdle

Joseph A. McArdle ( born June 29, 1903 in Muncie, Indiana, † December 27, 1967 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1942 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1905, Joseph McArdle moved with his parents to Pittsburgh, where he attended the public schools. He then worked in the insurance business. Politically, he joined the first at the Democratic Party. Between 1936 and 1938 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. In the congressional elections of 1938, he became the 33rd electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the meantime resigned Henry elbows on January 3, 1939.

After a re-election McArdle could remain until his resignation on January 5, 1942 at the Congress. By 1941, there the last New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration were adopted. Since December 7, 1941, the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked. Between 1942 and 1949 McArdle sat in the City Council of Pittsburgh. During this time he joined the Republicans and was 1950-1966 a member of the State Board for Pennsylvania. He died on December 27, 1967 in Pittsburgh, where he was also buried.