American politician
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 1941.
Biography
Albert G. Rutherford was born in Watford, Ontario , Canada . He immigrated to the United States in 1883 with his parents, who settled in Carbondale, Pennsylvania . He attended Blair Academy in Blairstown, NJ , and the Scranton-Lackawanna Business College. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School at Philadelphia in 1904, where he became a member of the Delta Chi fraternity.
Early career
He served as deputy prothonotary of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania , from 1907 to 1914. He moved to Honesdale, Pennsylvania , in 1918 and continued the practice of law. He enlisted in the Pennsylvania National Guard in 1904, and served as a lieutenant colonel of the Second Pennsylvania Reserve Militia in 1918.
Congress
Rutherford was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fifth , Seventy-sixth , and Seventy-seventh Congresses and served until his death.
Death
Rutherford died in Washington, D.C. on August 10, 1941.
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