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CONTE, Silvio Ottavio (1921-1991)

Republican of Massachusetts

1st congressional district

Served in House 1959-1993

Total roll-call votes cast: 11,743

Biography

Representative from Massachusetts; born in Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Mass., November 9, 1921; graduated from Pittsfield Vocational High School, Pittsfield, Mass., 1940; graduated from Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass.; LL.B., Boston College Law School, Chestnut Hill, Mass., 1949; machinist; lawyer, private practice; United States Navy, 1942-1944; member of the Massachusetts state senate, 1951-1958; parliamentarian, Republican State conventions, 1956 and 1958; delegate to Republican National Conventions, 1960, 1964, and 1968; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-sixth and to the sixteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-February 8, 1991); died on February 8, 1991, in Bethesda, Md.; interment in St. Joseph's Cemetery, Pittsfield Mass.
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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