Earl Chudoff

Earl Chudoff (born November 15, 1907 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , †  May 17, 1993 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1949 and 1958 he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Earl Chudoff attended public schools in his homeland. Then he studied until 1929 for economics at the University of Pennsylvania belonging Wharton School . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Pittsburgh and his admission to the bar in 1933, he began to work in this profession in Philadelphia. Between 1936 and 1939 he worked for the Department of the State Government of Pennsylvania, where he was responsible, among other things, for checking credit in the banking sector. During the Second World War he was a member of the US Coast Guard Reserve between 1942 and 1945. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party . Between 1941 and 1948 he was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives .

In the 1948 congressional election , Chudoff was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of Pennsylvania , where he succeeded Republican Franklin J. Maloney on January 3, 1949 . After four re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on January 5, 1958 . During this time, the Cold War , the Korean War and, domestically, the civil rights movement fell .

Chudoff's resignation came after his appointment as an appellate judge in Philadelphia. He held this office until he retired in 1974. He died on May 17, 1993 in his hometown of Philadelphia.

Web links

• Earl Chudoff in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Franklin J. Maloney	United States House Representative for Pennsylvania (4th constituency) January 3, 1949 - January 5, 1958	Robert NC Nothing