Anthony Cavalcante (February 6, 1897 – October 29, 1966) was a United States Representative for Pennsylvania. Anthony Cavalcante was born in

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. 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. He was a student at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1920 and 1921 and

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College in 1921. He graduated from the law school of

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, in 1924. He was a member of the

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from 1935 to 1943. He worked as chief counsel for

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, 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

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in 1948, defeating incumbent Republican Congressman

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. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in

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, defeated by Republican Edward L. Sittler. After his time in Congress he was engaged in the practice of law, and died in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, aged 69.

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