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Charles L. Gerlach
American politician (1895–1947) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Charles Lewis Gerlach (September 14, 1895 – May 5, 1947) was an American businessman and politician who served five terms as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1939 until his death in 1947.[1]
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Biography
Gerlach was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on September 14, 1895. In 1914, he moved to Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he became the organizer, and later president, of a fuel and heating supply company.[2]
Congress
A Republican State committeeman in 1936 and 1937, he was elected to the 76th Congress in 1938, and served until his 1947 death in Allentown.[3]
A confidential 1943 analysis of the House Foreign Affairs Committee by Isaiah Berlin for the British Foreign Office described Gerlach as:[4]
A newcomer to the committee. A rugged Isolationist before Pearl Harbor, who voted only for purely defensive measures, such as conscription and arming of United States ships. Though he opposed the original Lend-Lease, he favoured its continuation, but would be difficult to say exactly where he stands on the larger questions of post-war American policy.
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Death and burial
On May 5, 1947, while still serving in Congress, Gerlach died in Allentown, Pennsylvania, at age 51. He was interred in Greenwood Cemetery in Allentown.
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