Joseph L. Carrigg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joseph L. Carrigg

American politician

Date of Birth: 23-Feb-1901

Place of Birth: Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 06-Feb-1989

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Joseph Leonard Carrigg (February 23, 1901 – February 6, 1989) was a Republican member of the U.S.
House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Joseph L.
Carrigg was born in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania; three of his grandparents were Irish immigrants.
He graduated from Niagara University in Niagara Falls, New York in 1922, Albany Law School in Albany, New York in 1924, and Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1925.
Carrigg was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity while at Albany.
He was district attorney of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, from 1936 to 1948, and burgess of the borough of Susquehanna from 1948 to 1951. Carrigg was elected as a Republican to the 82nd Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Wilson D.
Gillette.
He was reelected to the Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth, and Eighty-fifth Congresses.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958, defeated by Democrat Stanley A.
Prokop.
After his time in Congress, he served as the Director of Practice for the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, D.C., from 1959 to 1960.
He also worked as secretary to Representative William Scranton of Pennsylvania in 1961.
He served as manager of the State Workmen's Insurance Fund of Pennsylvania from 1963 through 1971.