Albert Grieg Rutherford was a Republican

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 member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

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Albert G. Rutherford was born in Watford, Ontario, Canada

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. He immigrated to the United States

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 in 1883 with his parents, who settled in Carbondale, Pennsylvania

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. He attended Blair Academy

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 in Blairstown, NJ, and the Scranton-Lackawanna Business College. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School

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 at Philadelphia in 1904.

He served as deputy prothonotary

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 of Lackawanna County, PA, from 1907 to 1914. He moved to Honesdale, Pennsylvania

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, in 1918 and continued the practice of law. He enlisted in the Pennsylvania National Guard

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 in 1904, and served as a lieutenant colonel of the Second Pennsylvania Reserve Militia in 1918.

Rutherford was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, and Seventy-seventh Congresses and served until his death in Washington, D.C.

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Sources

• The Political Graveyard