Biography

10/19/1858 - 03/17/1934

Joseph Alonzo Langfitt, Sr. (R44) Allegheny (Part) County 1907-1910

Early Life:

Joseph Alonzo Langfitt, Jr., born October 19, 1858, Kendall, Beaver County, Pennsylvania; son of Phillip and Mary Ann Christler Langfitt; Washington and Jefferson College, A.B., 1879, Washington and Jefferson College, A.M., 1882; admitted, Allegheny Bar, Beaver County, 1882; attorney; select council,  Allegheny County, four years; board of school control, Allegheny County, three years; president, Mercantile Bank, Federal National Bank of Pittsburgh, Bank of Brushton; director, Bankers Trust Company, Central Trust company of Pittsburgh; Supreme Regent, Royal Arcanum, president, National Fraternal Congress; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1907-1910; married, Mary Agnes Burry Langfitt, children, Joseph Alonso Langfitt, Jr., Lotus Langfitt; died, March 17, 1934, (aged 75), Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interment, Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. 

Pennsylvania Politics:

Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 44th district, Allegheny (Part) County, 1907-1910; committee assignments, Banks and Building and Loan Associations, Congressional Apportionment, Education, Insurance (Chairman), Judicial Apportionment, Judicial General, Public Printing.

Cited:

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members "L"". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.

The Pennsylvania Manual, (1910). Miller, H.P., (Compiler). Baker, W.H., (Assistant Compiler). Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 993, 1000-1003, Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 973.

Distinguished successful Americans of our day; By Successful Americans (Firm: Chicago, Illinois 1912).

The Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) · Monday, March 19, 1934 · Page 31.

Sen. Joseph Alonzo Langfitt (1858-1934) - Find a Grave Memorial