Peter J. De Muth

{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Peter J. De Muth | image = PDeMuth-Group of Legislators ask president for flood control dollars (cropped).jpg | caption = De Muth in 1938 | state = [[Pennsylvania]] | district = [[Pennsylvania's 30th congressional district|30th]] | term_start = January 3, 1937 | term_end = January 3, 1939 | preceded = [[J. Twing Brooks]] | succeeded = [[Robert J. Corbett]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1892|01|01}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1993|04|03|1892|01|01}} | birth_place = [[Pittsburgh|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]], U.S. | death_place = [[Laguna Hills, California]], U.S. | party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] }} {{commons category|Peter De Muth}} '''Peter Joseph De Muth''' (January 1, 1892 – April 3, 1993) was an American businessman and politician who served one term as a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] member of the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] from [[Pennsylvania]].

==Biography== Peter J. De Muth was born in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]] on January 1, 1892. He received a B.S. from the [[Carnegie Institute of Technology]] in Pittsburgh, and worked as a civil engineer from 1914 until his enlistment in the [[United States Navy]] as a chief machinist mate on July 15, 1918. He returned to Pittsburgh and was employed as a sales manager from 1919 to 1922. He was engaged in the real estate business and as a building contractor in 1922.

===Congress === [[image:Group of Legislators ask president for flood control dollars.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Group of legislators leaves [[White House]] after asking [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] for $80,000,000 for flood control in [[Ohio Valley]], March 7, 1938. front: l-r [[Joseph A. Dixon]], [[James G. Polk]], [[Eugene B. Crowe]], [[George William Johnson (congressman)|G W Johnson]], [[Lawrence E. Imhoff]], rear l-r : Peter J. De Muth, [[Kent E. Keller]], [[Brent Spence]].]] De Muth was elected as a Democrat to the [[75th United States Congress|Seventy-fifth]] Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938.

===Later career and death === He resumed the real estate and building business in Pittsburgh until June 1949, when he moved to [[Los Angeles, California]]. He continued to work in the real estate, insurance, and building business, and was a resident of [[Laguna Hills, California]], until his death. He died on April 3, 1993, in [[Laguna Hills, California]].

==References== {{CongBio|D000225|Peter J. De Muth}} *[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dempster-denious.html The Political Graveyard]

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