Peter J. De Muth

Peter J. De Muth

Group of legislators leaves White House after asking Franklin D. Roosevelt for $80,000,000 for flood control in Ohio Valley, March 7, 1938. front: l-r Joseph A. Dixon, James G. Polk, Eugene B. Crowe, G W Johnson, Lawrence E. Imhoff, rear l-r : Peter J. De Muth, Kent E. Keller, Brent Spence.
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 30th district
In office
January 3, 1937  January 3, 1939
Preceded by J. Twing Brooks
Succeeded by Robert J. Corbett
Personal details
Born (1892-01-01)January 1, 1892
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Died April 3, 1993(1993-04-03) (aged 101)
Laguna Hills, California
Political party Democratic
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Peter Joseph De Muth (January 1, 1892 April 3, 1993) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Biography

Peter J. De Muth was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received a B.S. from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and worked as a civil engineer from 1914 until his enlistment in the United States Navy as a chief machinist mate on July 15, 1918. He returned to Pittsburgh and was employed as a sales manager from 1919 to 1922. He was engaged in the real estate business and as a building contractor in 1922.

De Muth was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938. He resumed the real estate and building business in Pittsburgh until June 1949, when he moved to Los Angeles, California. He continued to work in the real estate, insurance, and building business, and was a resident of Laguna Hills, California, until his death.

References

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
J. Twing Brooks
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 30th congressional district

1937–1939
Succeeded by
Robert J. Corbett
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