THOMAS A. McGRAIL

McGRAIL, Thomas Anthony, a Representative from Westmoreland County; born, June 7, 1896 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa.; attended, Morningside Public School; employed in the steel mills; marine engineer, United States Navy (1914-1918: Mexican, Cuban, and Dominican Insurrections and World War I); passenger trainman, Pennsylvania Railroad; electrical worker, Westinghouse Air Brake Company (10 years); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1932; not a candidate for reelection to the House in the 1934 General election; assistant reading clerk, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1935); chief inheritance tax investigator, Westmoreland County; died, October 15, 1961 in Irwin, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; interred, Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Irwin, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.