Samuel Arthur Weiss
(1902 - 1972)
WEISS, Samuel Arthur, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Krotowocz, Poland, April 15, 1902; immigrated to the United States in 1903 with his parents, who settled in Glassport, Pa.; attended the public schools; B.S., Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1925 and from the law department of the same university, LL.B., 1927 and J.D., 1929; was admitted to the bar in 1927 and commenced practice in Pittsburgh, Pa.; director of the Roselia Maternity Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa.; served in the State house of representatives 1935-1939; elected as a Democratic to the Seventy-seventh Congress; reelected to the two succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1941, until his resignation on January 7, 1946; elected in November 1945 a judge of Common Pleas Court of Allegheny County, Pa., for the term commencing in January 1946; reelected in 1955 for the term ending January 1966, and again in 1965 for the term ending January 1976; retired in 1967; president, Pennsylvania State Judicial Administration, 1968; died in Pittsburgh, Pa., February 1, 1977; interment in B’nai Israel Cemetery.
Sources: Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress
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