Earl Chudoff Explained

Earl Chudoff
Image Name:Earl_Chudoff_PA_Legislature_Pic.jpeg
Birth Date:15 November 1907
Birth Place:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
State1:Pennsylvania
District1:4th
Term Start1:January 3, 1949
Term End1:January 5, 1958
Preceded1:Franklin J. Maloney
Succeeded1:Robert N. C. Nix Sr.
Office2:Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Term2:1941–1948
Party:Democratic

Earl Chudoff (November 15, 1907 – May 17, 1993) was an American lawyer and jurist who served five terms as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1949 to 1958.

Early life and career

Earl Chudoff was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in economics in 1929 and from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1932.

He worked as a building and loan examiner for the Pennsylvania State Department of Banking from 1936 to 1939.

World War II

He served as chief boatswain's mate in the United States Coast Guard Reserve from December 1942 to September 1945.

Political career

He was a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1941 to 1948.

Congress

Chudoff was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first Congress, defeating incumbent Republican Congressman Franklin J. Maloney, and was re-elected to the four succeeding Congresses, beginning on January 3, 1949.

He resigned on January 5, 1958, having been elected judge of the Pennsylvania Courts of Common Pleas No. 1 (defeating the incumbent, Joseph L. Kun in the 1957 election). He served in that capacity until his resignation in 1974.

Death

He died in Philadelphia in 1993.

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