Norton Lewis Lichtenwalner

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Norton Lewis Lichtenwalner (June 1, 1889–May 3, 1960) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Norton L. Lichtenwalner was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Allentown High School in 1905 and Bethlehem Preparatory School in 1906. He attended Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. In 1908, he moved to New York City and was employed in a banking institution. He returned to Allentown in 1915 and engaged in the retail furniture business until 1922, and then in the retailing of automobiles until 1933. During the First World War, Lichtenwalner enlisted as a seaman in the United States Naval Reserve.

Lichtenwalner was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932. After his time in congress, he became State director for the Pennsylvania National Emergency Council from 1935 to 1941, and State director of Office of Government Reports in 1941 and 1942. In 1949 he was elected to the Allentown City Council for one term and in 1955 he elected treasurer of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania for one term. He died in Allentown, and is buried in Fairview Cemetery.

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• Norton L. Lichtenwalner at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by Charles J. Esterly

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 14th congressional district 1931 - 1933

Succeeded by William E. Richardson