Joseph Franklin Biddle

Joseph Franklin Biddle ( born September 14, 1871 Bedford, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, † December 3, 1936 in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. In the years 1932 and 1933 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Biddle attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1894, the Millersville State Teachers ' College. After a subsequent law studies at Dickinson College in Carlisle and his 1897 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Bedford in this profession. In 1903 he moved his residence and his law firm to Everett. He was also active in the newspaper business. Since 1918 he lived in Huntingdon, where he worked in the newspaper industry and the banking industry. Between 1924 and 1936 he was a member of the Association of Newspaper Publishers in Pennsylvania. From 1926 to 1936 he served as a director of the National Editorial Association. Politically, Biddle joined the Republican Party. Between 1932 and 1936 he sat in the State Board of his party.

After the death of Mr Edward M. Beers Biddle was in the overdue election for the 18 seats of 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 1932. Since he did not run in the regular congressional elections of 1932, he could only finish the current term in Congress until March 3, 1933. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives to Biddle operated again in the newspaper industry. He died on 3 December 1936 in Huntingdon.