{{short description|American politician}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific_prefix = |name = Albert Rutherford |honorific_suffix = |image = Albert G. Rutherford.jpg |birth_name = Albert Greig Rutherford |state = [[Pennsylvania]] |district = [[Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district|15th]] |term_start = January 3, 1937 |term_end = August 10, 1941 |predecessor = [[Charles E. Dietrich]] |successor = [[Wilson D. Gillette]] |birth_date= {{birth date|1879|1|3|mf=y}} |birth_place= [[Watford, Ontario]], Canada |death_date= {{death date and age|1941|8|10|1879|1|3|mf=y}} |death_place= [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S. |party = [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] }} '''Albert Grieg Rutherford''' (January 3, 1879 – August 10, 1941) was an American lawyer and politician who was elected to three terms as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] member of the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] from [[Pennsylvania]], serving from 1937 until his death in 1941.
== Biography == Albert G. Rutherford was born in [[Watford, Ontario]], [[Canada]]. He immigrated to the [[United States]] in 1883 with his parents, who settled in [[Carbondale, Pennsylvania]]. He attended [[Blair Academy]] in [[Blairstown, NJ]], and the Scranton-Lackawanna Business College. He graduated from the [[University of Pennsylvania Law School]] at [[Philadelphia]] in 1904, where he became a member of the [[Delta Chi]] fraternity.
=== Early career === He served as deputy [[prothonotary]] of [[Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania]], from 1907 to 1914. He moved to [[Honesdale, Pennsylvania]], in 1918 and continued the practice of law. He enlisted in the [[Pennsylvania National Guard]] in 1904, and served as a lieutenant colonel of the Second Pennsylvania Reserve Militia in 1918.
=== Congress === Rutherford was elected as a Republican to the [[75th United States Congress|Seventy-fifth]], [[76th United States Congress|Seventy-sixth]], and [[77th United States Congress|Seventy-seventh]] Congresses and served until his death.
=== Death === Rutherford died in [[Washington, D.C.]] on August 10, 1941.
==See also== * [[List of members of the United States Congress who died in office (1900–1949)]]
==Sources== {{CongBio|R000546}} *[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherford.html The Political Graveyard]
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