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Earl Chudoff

(1907 - 1993)

CHUDOFF, Earl, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., November 15, 1907; attended the public schools; graduated from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, in economics in 1929 and from the law school of the University of Pittsburgh in 1932; was admitted to the bar in 1933 and commenced the practice of law in Philadelphia, Pa.; building and loan examiner, Pennsylvania State Department of Banking, 1936-1939; served as chief boatswain’s mate in the United States Coast Guard Reserve from December 1942 to September 1945; member of the State house of representatives 1941-1948; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1949, until his resignation January 5, 1958, having been elected judge of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas No. 1 and continued to serve in that capacity until his resignation in 1974; was a resident of Philadelphia until his death there on May 17, 1993.


Sources: Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress