Peter C. Granata

Charles Peter Granata ( born October 28, 1898 in Chicago, Illinois, † September 29, 1973 ) was an American politician. In the years 1931 and 1932, he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Peter Granata attended the public schools in Chicago and then to 1912 the local Bryant and Stratton Business College. Since 1917 he worked in the coal business. Between 1926 and 1928 he worked in the administration of the Prosecutor of Chicago. Thereafter he served until 1930 as Chief Deputy Coroner in forensic medicine. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. In 1930 he was elected at a by-election in the House of Representatives from Illinois.

In the congressional elections of 1930, Granata was in the eighth electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Stanley H. Kunz took on 4 March 1931, which he had defeated in the election. Kunz laid against but the result is a contradiction. As this was met, Granata had to cede his seat to Kunz and resign from the Congress on April 5, 1932.

In 1932 he applied unsuccessfully to make his return to the U.S. House of Representatives. By 1933, Peter Granata worked in the coal and oil industry. From 1933 to 1973 he was again a deputy in the House of Representatives from Illinois. Between 1941 and 1943 he was head of department at the local treasury. In 1948 he became vice president of a glass company in Chicago. He died on September 29, 1973 in Chicago, where he was also buried.