Willard Sevier Curtin (November 28, 1905 – February 4, 1996) was a

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member of the

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from

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. Willard S. Curtin was born in

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, with his parents in 1911. He graduated from Penn State University in 1929 and from the

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Law School in 1932. Curtin served as assistant district attorney of

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from 1938 to 1949, and as district attorney from 1949 to 1953. He was a county committeeman to the Pennsylvania State Republican Committee from 1954 to 1956. Curtin was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses. He defeated noted author (and Doylestown, Bucks County native) James A. Michener in the 1962 election

He was not a candidate for reelection in 1966. Curtin voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1957, Civil Rights Acts of 1957,

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, and

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, as well as the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Curtin, Willard S. 1905 births 1996 deaths County district attorneys in Pennsylvania People from Bucks County, Pennsylvania Politicians from Trenton, New Jersey Pennsylvania State University alumni University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 20th-century American politicians