John Hoover Rothermel | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's13th district | |
| In office March 4, 1907 – March 4, 1915 | |
| Preceded by | Marcus C. L. Kline |
| Succeeded by | Arthur G. Dewalt |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1856-03-07)March 7, 1856 |
| Died | August 1922(1922-08-00) (aged 66) Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Resting place | Charles Evans Cemetery |
| Political party | Democratic |
John Hoover Rothermel (March 7, 1856 – August 1922) was an American lawyer and politician who served four terms as aDemocratic member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania from 1907 to 1915.
John H. Rothermel was born inRichmond Township, Pennsylvania. He pursued an academic course at Brunner's Business College inReading, Pennsylvania. He taught school in Blandon Township, Pennsylvania, from 1876 to 1881. He served as a member of the faculty at Brunner's Scientific Academy. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1881 and commenced practice in Reading.
Rothermel worked as an assistant district attorney of Reading from 1886 to 1889. He served as county solicitor ofBerks County, Pennsylvania from 1895 to 1898. He was an unsuccessful candidate for judge of the court of common pleas in 1899.
Rothermel was elected as a Democrat to theSixtieth and to the three succeeding Congresses, serving from 1907 to 1915.
He served as the chairman of the United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce and Labor during theSixty-second Congress, and of the United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce during theSixty-third Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914.
He resumed the practice of law, and died in Reading in 1922. Interment in Reading'sCharles Evans Cemetery.
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| Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's 13th congressional district 1907–1915 | Succeeded by |
