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MOORHEAD, William Singer, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., April 8, 1923; attended Shady Side Academy; graduated from
Phillips Andover Academy in 1941 and from Yale University in 1944; served in
the United States Navy from 1943 until discharged as a lieutenant (jg.) in 1946
with service in the Pacific Theater; graduated from Harvard Law School in 1949;
was admitted to the bar in 1949 and commenced the practice of law in
Pittsburgh, Pa.; assistant city solicitor of Pittsburgh 1954-1957; member of
Allegheny County Housing Authority 1956-1958 and Pittsburgh Art Commission in
1958; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the ten succeeding
Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1981); was not a candidate for
reelection in 1980 to the Ninety-seventh Congress; resumed the practice of law
in Washington, D.C.; was a resident of The Plains, Va., until his death in
Baltimore, Md., on August 3, 1987.
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