Joshua Eilberg

Joshua Eilberg ( born February 12, 1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † March 24, 2004 ) was an American politician. Between 1967 and 1979 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joshua Eilberg attended Central High School in Philadelphia, and then to the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School belonging to 1936. After a subsequent law degree from the Law School of Temple University in Philadelphia and his admission to the bar he began to work in this profession. He was also a member of the U.S. Navy Reserve. Between 1952 and 1954 he was a deputy district attorney in Philadelphia. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. From 1954 to 1966 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, where he led the Democratic majority faction from 1965. In the years 1960, 1964 and 1968, he participated as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant. He also led a regional party in Philadelphia County ( Democratic ward leader).

In the congressional elections of 1966 Eilberg was in the fourth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Herman Toll on 3 January 1967. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1979 six legislative periods. In this time were, among others, the end of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal. Eilberg was temporarily Chairman of the Justice Committee members Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and International Law. In 1978 he was not re-elected.

Joshua Eilbergs political career was not free of controversy. So he came under the suspicion of financial trust in connection with a donation to a hospital in Philadelphia. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years probation and $ 10,000 fine. He died on 24 March 2004 in Philadelphia.