Biography

08/08/1910 - 03/16/1964

Gus Paul Verona (D18) Northampton County 1963-1964 

Early Life: 

Gus Paul Verona, born, August 8, 1910; son of Paul and Catherine Cesare Verona; Pen Argyl High School; completed, Insurance Certification Courses, attended, Muhlenberg College; contractor; member, Democratic State Committee; married, Lena Carniel, daughters, Kathryn, Rosalyn; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1959-1963; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1963-1964; died, in office of the Senate, March 16, 1964, home, West Bangor, Northampton County, Pennsylvania; interred, Saint Elizabeth’s Cemetery, Pen Argyl, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. 

Early Career:

Bobbin Boy, Pen Argyl Silk Mill; textile contractor, president, Slate Belt Apparel Contractors.

Professional titles; business ownership; board memberships; local government; club memberships:

Member, chairman, Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission; past president Easton Association of Life Underwriters, manager, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company; finance chairman, Slate Belt Salvation Army Advisory Board; finance, committeeman, Boy Scouts, Crippled Children; past president, Hillside, Rod and Gun Club; charter member, West End Lions Club of Brodheadsville; member, Saint Roch Catholic Church, West Bangor.  

Pennsylvania Politics:

Member, Democratic State Committee, six years; Democratic area chairman, twenty years; committeeman, Delabole District, Plainfield Township.

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1959 – resigned, House, December 2, 1963. 

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 16th district, Northampton County, November 6, 1963- March 16, 1964, death; filled, vacancy, Fred B. Rooney, United States Congressman; member, Banking, Education, Highways, Law and Order, Public Health and Welfare and State Government Committees. 

Pennsylvania House of Representatives Biography:

Official Website - PA House Archives Official Website (state.pa.us) 

Cited: 

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members "V"". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.

The Pennsylvania Manual, (1963-1964). Stine, C., (Editor). Crouse, J., (Assistant Editor). (Volume 96) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 93, 95. Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 87. 

The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania) Tuesday March 17, 1964, Page 5.

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