Member Biography

Albert Raymond Pechan 

Albert Raymond Pechan 
Sessions Office Position District Party
1949-1950       41 Republican
1951-1952       41 Republican
1953-1954       41 Republican
1955-1956     Majority Whip 41 Republican
1957-1958     Majority Whip 41 Republican
1959     Majority Whip 41 Republican
1960     Majority Whip 41 Republican
1961     Majority Whip 41 Republican
1962     Majority Whip 41 Republican
1963     Majority Whip 41 Republican
1964     Majority Whip 41 Republican
1965     Majority Whip 41 Republican
1966     Majority Whip 41 Republican
1967     Majority Whip 41 Republican
1968     Majority Whip 41 Republican
1969     Majority Whip 41 Republican

COUNTIES: Armstrong, Butler, Indiana, Clarion, Jefferson  


Biography

05/13/1902 - 09/11/1969

Doctor Albert Raymond Pechan (R41) Armstrong and Butler Counties 1949-1964 (R41) Armstrong, Indiana, and Jefferson Counties 1965-1966 (R41) Armstrong, Clarion, Indiana, and Jefferson Counties 1967-1969

Early Life:

Doctor Albert Raymond Pechan, born May 13, 1902, Ford City, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania; Ford City School education; University of Kentucky; Bucknell University; University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine, 1928; engaged practiced dentistry, 1928-1965; married, Lenora Belle Shaffer, 1923 (d. 1963); married, Elizabeth “Betty” Tenerowicz, 1965; lieutenant colonel, United States Army, World War II; United States Army Reserves; alternate delegate, Republican National Convention, 1940; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1949-1969, elected, Majority Whip, 1955-1969; assistant sergeant-at-arms, Republican National Conventions, 1956, 1960; died, September 11, 1969 (aged 67), while in office of Senate, Armstrong-Butler Armstrong County Memorial Hospital, Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania; interment, Kittanning Cemetery, Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.

Professional titles; business ownership; board memberships; local government; club memberships:

Boards of trustees, University of Pittsburgh, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; member, past vestryman, Saint Paul's Episcopal Church. 

Pennsylvania Politics:

Onetime chairman Armstrong County Republican; member, Ford City Board of Education, thirty years.

Alternate delegate, Republican National Convention, 1940; assistant sergeant-at-arms, Republican National Conventions, 1956, 1960.

Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 41st district, Armstrong and Butler, 1949-1964; Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 41st district, Armstrong, Indiana, and Jefferson Counties 1965-1966; Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 41st district, Armstrong, Clarion, Indiana, and Jefferson Counties 1967-1970; elected, Majority Whip, 1955-1969; chairman, Pennsylvania Department of Foreign Wars Committee. Died, while in office of Senate, September 11, 1969, Patrick J. Stapleton, Jr., seated June 8, 1970.

Legacy:

First Pitt Panther band member to receive a letter, University of Pittsburgh; assistant editor, Pitt Dental Rays.

Cited:

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

The Leader-Times (Kittanning, Pennsylvania), Thursday September 11, 1969, Page 1. 

Albert Raymond Pechan (1902-1969) - Find a Grave Memorial