{{Short description|American politician}} {{distinguish|Alvin C. Bush}} {{use mdy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Alvin Ray Bush | image = Alvin Ray Bush.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date|1893|06|04}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1959|11|05|1893|06|04}} | birth_place = Boggs Township, Pennsylvania, US | state = Pennsylvania | constituency = {{ushr|PA|15|C}} (1951–53)<br>{{ushr|PA|17|C}} (1953–59) | term_start = January 3, 1951 | term_end = November 5, 1959 | preceded = Robert F. Rich | succeeded = Herman T. Schneebeli | party = Republican }} '''Alvin Ray Bush''' (June 4, 1893 – November 5, 1959) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
==Biography== Alvin Bush was born on a farm in Boggs Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. At the age of thirteen started work as a laborer in Pennsylvania coal mines and later was an apprentice in a machine shop. During World War I, Bush served overseas as a corporal with the Five Hundred and Forty-first Motor Truck Company. He established an automobile repair business in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania. Bush purchased a bus line serving Philipsburg and neighboring communities, and later becoming president and general manager of the Williamsport Transportation Co.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.citybus.org/chrono.html |title=Williamsport Bureau of Transportation |access-date=2006-06-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060617093723/http://citybus.org/chrono.html |archive-date=2006-06-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He operated a dairy farm in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and served as director of Lowry Electric Co. and Muncy Valley Hospital.
Bush was elected as a Republican to the 82nd United States Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1951, until his death in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 1959. Bush voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/85-1957/h42|title=HR 6127. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957.|work=GovTrack.us}}</ref>
==Namesake== The Alvin R. Bush Dam on Kettle Creek, north of Renovo, Pennsylvania, is named in his honor.<ref>[http://www.nab.usace.army.mil/recreation/bush.htm Army Corps of Engineers] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070214042002/http://www.nab.usace.army.mil/recreation/bush.htm |date=2007-02-14 }}</ref>
==See also== * List of members of the United States Congress who died in office (1950–1999)
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==External links== {{CongBio|B001165}} Retrieved on 2009-03-01 *[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html The Political Graveyard]
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