district serviceyears branch succeeded death_date birth_place party term_end preceded battles birth_date term_start article_title state name
14th 1913 -- 1918 united states navy charles joseph esterly 21 october 1929 upper macungie township , pennsylvania democratic march 3 , 1925 louis thomas mcfadden world war i 09 april 1866 march 4 , 1923 william martin croll
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william martin croll

william martin croll -lrb- april 9 , 1866 -- october 21 , 1929 -rrb- was a democratic member of the u.s. house of representatives from pennsylvania .
william m. croll was born in upper macungie township , pennsylvania .
he attended keystone state normal school in kutztown , pennsylvania , and graduated from the eastman business college in poughkeepsie , new york .
he taught school , and moved to maxatawny , pennsylvania , in 1889 and engaged in the general merchandise business .
he moved to reading , pennsylvania , in 1897 and engaged in the retail clothing business and in banking .
he was treasurer of berks county , pennsylvania , from 1909 to 1912 .
during the first world war , he served as naval officer at the port of philadelphia , from 1913 to 1918 .
he was a delegate to the democratic national conventions in 1912 and 1920 .
croll was elected as a democrat to the sixty-eighth congress , but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924 .
he resumed mercantile pursuits , and died in reading .
interment in laureldale cemetery in laureldale , pennsylvania .
