Wilson Darwin Gillette (July 1, 1880 – August 7, 1951) was a
Republican member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
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from
Pennsylvania
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serving in the
United States House of Representatives
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from 1941 until his death in
Towanda, Pennsylvania
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in 1951.
Biography
He was born on a farm near
Sheshequin, Pennsylvania. He attended Susquehanna Collegiate Institute in
Towanda, Pennsylvania
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. He was engaged in agricultural pursuits, clerked in a general store and became a dealer of automobiles in 1913. He was a member of the
Pennsylvania State House of Representatives
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It ...
from 1930 to 1941.
Gillette was elected as a Republican to the
77th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Albert G. Rutherford
Albert Grieg Rutherford (January 3, 1879 – August 10, 1941) was an American lawyer and politician who was elected to three terms as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, serving from 1937 until his death in ...
, and was reelected to the
Seventy-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from November 4, 1941, until his death from
bronchial pneumonia
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It is ofte ...
in
Towanda, Pennsylvania
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.
[Rep. W. D. Gillette of Towanda Dies; Towanda Daily Review; Towanda, Pennsylvania; Page 1; August 8, 1951]
See also
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References
Sources
Eilson D. Gilletteat ''The Political Graveyard''
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Republican Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
1880 births
1951 deaths
American automobile salespeople
People from Bradford County, Pennsylvania
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
20th-century members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly
20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives