Anthony Cavalcante

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Anthony Cavalcante (b. February 6, 1897 – d. October 29, 1966) was an United States Representative for Pennsylvania.

Anthony Cavalcante was born in Vanderbilt, Pennsylvania. He served overseas with Company D, One Hundred and Tenth Infantry, Twenty-eighth Division, from May 3, 1918 to May 6, 1919, and was awarded the Purple Heart Medal. He was a student at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1920 and 1921 and Penn State College in 1921.

He graduated from the law school of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1924. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1935 to 1943. He worked as chief counsel for United Mine Workers of America, District Four of German Township School District, German Township Road Supervisors, and South Union Township Road Supervisors.

Cavalcante was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1950. After his time in Congress he was engaged in the practice of law, and died in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, aged 69.

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• The Political Graveyard
• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Preceded by William J. Crow

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 23rd congressional district 1949 - 1951

Succeeded by Edward L. Sittler, Jr.