Lawrence Hummel "Larry" Curry (February 21, 1935 – December 17, 2018) was a Democratic member of the

Pennsylvania House of Representatives The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. There are 203 members, elected for two-year terms from single member districts. It ...

. He represented the 154th District from 1993 until 2012.

Biography

Curry was born in

Camden, New Jersey Camden is a city in and the county seat of Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Camden is part of the Delaware Valley metropolitan area and is located directly across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the 2020 ...

. He lived in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania and graduated from Jenkintown High School. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

and another master's degree from

Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then called Ba ...

. Curry taught history at the University of the Arts in

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...

. Curry served on the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners and on the Jenkintown Borough Council.Pennsylvania House of Representatives-Lawrence H. Curry
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References

External links

Pennsylvania House of Representatives - Lawrence Curry (Democrat)
official PA House website
Pennsylvania House Democratic Caucus - Lawrence Curry
official Party website {{DEFAULTSORT:Curry, Lawrence 1935 births 2018 deaths Politicians from Camden, New Jersey People from Jenkintown, Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania alumni Temple University alumni University of the Arts (Philadelphia) faculty Pennsylvania city council members Montgomery County Commissioners (Pennsylvania) Democratic Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives 21st-century American politicians