McDADE, Joseph Michael (1931-2017)

Republican of Pennsylvania

10th congressional district

Served in House 1963-1998

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Biography

Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pa., September 29, 1931; attended St. Paul's School and Scranton Preparatory School; graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1953; LL.B., University of Pennsylvania, 1956; served clerkship in office of Chief Federal Judge John W. Murphy, Middle District of Pennsylvania; engaged in the general practice of law in 1957; city solicitor of the city of Scranton in 1962; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth and to the seventeen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1999); was not a candidate for reelection in 1998 to the One Hundred Sixth Congress; died on September 24, 2017, in Fairfax, Va.; interment at Rome Cemetery, Rome, N.Y.
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