Don Hilary Gingery (February 19, 1884 – October 15, 1961) was a Democratic member of the

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from

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Biography

Don Gingery was born in Woodland, Pennsylvania, and moved to

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, in 1892. He attended the

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, and the Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio. He was engaged in the hardware and mine-supply business from 1902 to 1934, and also as a

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in 1903. Gingery was a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1915 and 1916. He served in the Pennsylvania National Guard, in grades from private to captain from 1902 to 1906. He was chairman of the Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, Democratic committee in 1916 and 1917, and a member of the Democratic State committee in 1919 and 1920. He was a member of the official delegation attending the inauguration of President

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of the

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, in 1935. Gingery was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in

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. He was associated with the

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Division of the Coal Mines Administration, and the Solid Fuels Administration for War of the

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, at Altoona, Pennsylvania, from 1939 to 1946. He was a delegate to

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from Pennsylvania. He died in Clearfield and is buried in Hillcrest Cemetery.

References

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