Willard S. Curtin

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Willard Sevier Curtin (November 28, 1905February 4, 1996) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Willard S. Curtin was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He moved to Morrisville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with his parents in 1911. He graduated from Penn State University in 1929 and from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1932.

Curtin served as assistant district attorney of Bucks County, Pennsylvania from 1938 to 1949, and as district attorney from 1949 to 1953. He was a county committeeman to the Pennsylvania State Republican Committee from 1954 to 1956.

Curtin was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses. He was not a candidate for reelection in 1966.

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Preceded by
Karl C. King
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district

1957-1967
Succeeded by
Edward G. Biester, Jr.