Background
Alvin Bush was born on a farm in Boggs Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania.
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Alvin Bush
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Career
At the age of thirteen started work as a laborer in Pennsylvania coal mines and later was an apprentice in a machine shop. During World War I, Bush served overseas as a corporal with the Five Hundred and Forty-first Motor Truck Company. He established an automobile repair business in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania.
Bush purchased a bus line serving Philipsburg and neighboring communities, and later becoming president and general manager of the Williamsport Transportation Company
He operated a dairy farm in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and served as director of Lowry Electric Company and Muncy Valley Hospital. Bush was elected as a Republican to the 82nd United States Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1951, until his death in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 1959.
The Alvin R. Bush Dam on Kettle Creek, north of Renovo, Pennsylvania, is named in his honor.
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Nationality
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Political Party
Republican party