Biography

11/21/1852 - 06/03/1914

John F. Budke (R46) Beaver and Washington Counties 1899-1902

Early Life:

John F. Budke, born November 21 , 1852, Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia; son of William A. and Sophia Deidrich Budke; common school education; principal occupation the rolling mill business, manufacturing fine grades of sheet iron and steel; organized, Budke Manufacturing Company, for the manufacture of sheet iron specialties, 1874; connected with the mills of Kirkpatrick, Beale and Company, Leechburg, Pennsylvania; moved, with the Budke Manufacturing Company, Canonsburg , Pennsylvania, 1884; management, member board of directors, Canonsburg Iron and Steel Company; one of the original promoters of the Manufacturers Natural Gas Company, Canonsburg Light and Fuel Company, Canonsburg Iron and Steel Company; president, Elk Park Mining and Milling Company, Denver, Colorado; vice president, Speer Box and Lumber Company, of Pittsburgh, operating in Pennsylvania and Alabama; member of the Board of Managers, Pennsylvania Reform School, President, Canonsburg School Board; member, Washington County committee, two terms; twice elected delegate, Republican State conventions; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, November, 1899-1902; married, Mary H. Harrison, children, Frank William Budke, Bernice Budke McCurdy, Earl Harrison Budke; died, June 3, 1914 (aged 62); interment, Oak Spring Cemetery, Canonsburg, Washington County, Pennsylvania. 

Pennsylvania Politics:

Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 46th district, Special Election, November7, 1899, vacancy, death, July 18, 1899, of Senator elect Alexander L. Hawkins, Beaver and Washington Counties, 1899-1902; committee assignments, Appropriations, Banks and Building and Loan Associations, Congressional Apportionment, Corporations, Municipal Affairs, New Counties and County Seats (Chairman), Railroads and Street Passenger Railways.

Cited:

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

Smull’s Legislative Handbook, (1901). Cochran, T.B., (Editor) Miller, H.P. (Assistant Editor) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 1182, 1187-1190, Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 1153. 

20th Century History of the City of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens; Joseph F. McFarland, Chicago, Ill., Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1910, pages 1321-1322.

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

John F Budke (1851-1914) - Find a Grave Memorial