Biography

12/27/1908 - 11/12/1964

HALLER, Harold Smith, a Representative from Allegheny County; born, December 27, 1908 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa.; B.S., Industrial Engineering, The Pennsylvania State (University) College; LL.B., University of Pittsburgh; captain, Air Corps, United States Army (1942-1945, World War II; Asiatic Pacific Ribbon with two stars recipient); captain, United States Army Air Corps Reserve; attorney; counsel, Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (1934-1939); solicitor, Duquesne Prospect Savings and Loan Association of Pittsburgh; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1946; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1948); vice-president, Peoples Home Savings & Loan Assn.; died, November 12, 1964 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.