Biography

08/06/1874 - 05/27/1970

SPEER, Garnet R., a Representative from Allegheny County; born, August 6, 1874 in Kennedy Township, Allegheny County, Pa.; attended, Pittsburgh Academy; graduated, University of Pittsburgh (1906); teacher; lawyer; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1924; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1926, 1928); died, May 27, 1970 in Coraopolis, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.