Joseph McLaughlin (Pennsylvania politician)
<templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>
Joseph McLaughlin (June 9, 1867 – November 21, 1926) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
Joseph McLaughlin was born in Burt, County Donegal, Ireland on June 9, 1867. He immigrated to the United States and settled in Philadelphia in 1889. He was employed as a mechanic in the Baldwin Locomotive Works and became shop superintendent of his department.
McLaughlin was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1918. He was elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1922.
He died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 21, 1926. Interment in Holy Cross Cemetery, Yeadon, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
Sources
United States House of Representatives | ||
---|---|---|
Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's at-large congressional district 1917–1919 |
Succeeded by Anderson H. Walters |
Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's at-large congressional district 1921–1923 |
Succeeded by Guy E. Campbell |
- Pages with broken file links
- 1867 births
- 1926 deaths
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
- Politicians from County Donegal
- Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923)
- Pennsylvania Republicans
- Politicians from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives