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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyWilliam Beck WIDNALL
(1906-1983)
WIDNALL, William Beck, a
Representative from New Jersey; born in Hackensack, Bergen County,
N.J., March 17, 1906; attended the public schools; Brown
University, Providence, R.I., Ph.B., 1926 and from the New Jersey
Law School (now part of Rutgers University), LL.B., 1931; was
admitted to the bar in 1932 and commenced the practice of law in
Hackensack, N.J.; member of the State house of assembly 1946-1950;
delegate, Republican National Convention, 1968; elected as a
Republican to the Eighty-first Congress, by special election,
February 6, 1950, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
J. Parnell Thomas; reelected to the twelve succeeding Congresses
and served from February 6, 1950, until his resignation December
31, 1974; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1974 to the
Ninety-fourth Congress; chairperson of the National Commission on
Electronic Fund Transfers from November 1975 to 1981; was a
resident of Ridgewood, N.J., until his death there December 28,
1983; interment in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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