Don Hilary Gingery (February 19, 1884 – October 15, 1961) was a Democratic member of the

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from

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Biography

Don Gingery was born in Woodland, Pennsylvania, and moved to

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, in 1892. He attended the

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, and the

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. He was engaged in the hardware and mine-supply business from 1902 to 1934, and also as a

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in 1903. Gingery was a member of the

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in 1915 and 1916. He served in the

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, in grades from private to captain from 1902 to 1906. He was chairman of the

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, Democratic committee in 1916 and 1917, and a member of the Democratic State committee in 1919 and 1920. He was a member of the official delegation attending the inauguration of President

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of the

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, in 1935. Gingery was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in

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. He was associated with the

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Division of the Coal Mines Administration, and the Solid Fuels Administration for War of the

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, at

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, from 1939 to 1946. He was a delegate to

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from Pennsylvania. He died in Clearfield and is buried in Hillcrest Cemetery.

References

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