DEAL, Alphonso, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born in Watertown, Columbia County, Fl.; graduated, Staton High School; attended, Fells Institute, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; sergeant, United States Army (1941-1945, World War II); auto worker, Edward G. Budd Co.; police officer, Philadelphia Police Department (1954-1978); head, Public Safety Department of Fayette, Mississippi (1969); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1981 term and served 3 consecutive terms thereafter (1983-1987); appointed, Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (1983-1986); died while in office, June 3, 1987 in the city of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Ivy Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
