Peter Edward Costello (June 27, 1854 – October 23, 1935) was a

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member of the

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for

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. Peter Costello was born in

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. He moved to

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in 1877. He engaged in various manufacturing industries and general construction work and real estate development. He was a member of the common council of Philadelphia from 1895 to 1903, and director of the department of public works of Philadelphia from 1903 to 1905. He was described by Rudolph Blankenburg as having been dismissed for serving the interests of "the organization" (organized crime)."Forty Years in the Wilderness; or Masters and Rulers of the "Freemen" of Pennsylvania: VII "Law and Order" "
Rudolph Blankenburg, '' The Arena'', Vol. XXXIV (1905), Jul.-Dec. No. 188-193, pp. 128-142 (p. 133) He was again a member of the common council from 1908 to 1915. He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1920. Costello continued in the real-estate and investment brokerage business in Philadelphia until his death.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Costello, Peter E. Philadelphia City Council members 1854 births 1935 deaths Burials at West Laurel Hill Cemetery Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania