William Josiah Crow was a Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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 member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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William J. Crow was the son of United States Senator William E. Crow

William E. Crow

Wiliam Evans Crow was an American lawyer and Republican party politician from Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He served in the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1907 until 1921 and was its President pro-tem in 1909-1911. In 1921 he was appointed to the United States Senate, after Senator Knox died in...

. He was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania

Uniontown, Pennsylvania

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. He graduated from the Pennsylvania Military College at Chester, Pennsylvania

Chester, Pennsylvania

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 in 1922 and from Dickinson School of Law

Dickinson School of Law

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 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

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 in 1925. He was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi

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 fraternity. He was assistant district attorney of Fayette County, Pennsylvania

Fayette County, Pennsylvania

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, from 1928 to 1932. He was elected mayor of Uniontown in 1938 and reelected in 1940 for a four-year term and served until called into active service from the Reserves as a Major of Ordnance on June 4, 1941. He served forty-one months overseas in the Pacific theater

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Crow was elected as a Republican to the Eightieth

80th United States Congress

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 Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948

United States House election, 1948

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. He was recalled to active duty with the Ordnance Corps

Ordnance Corps

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 in 1951 and served as chief of legislative coordination branch until 1956. In January 1957, he became a regional administrator for the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C.

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  He moved to Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

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, after retiring in 1964, and served on the Zoning Board and the Parks Commission.