Preceded by Irving P. Wanger Party Democratic Party Political party Democratic | Name Robert Difenderfer Resigned March 3, 1915 Role U.S. representative | |
Born June 7, 1849
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania ( 1849-06-07 ) Died April 25, 1923, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | ||
Succeeded by Henry Winfield Watson | ||
Robert Edward Difenderfer (June 7, 1849 – April 25, 1923) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
Robert E. Difenderfer was born in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and studied dentistry and practiced this profession for fourteen years in Lewisburg and Pottsville, Pennsylvania. He built and operated the first woolen mill at Tianjin, China. He returned to the United States in August 1900, where he engaged in the wholesale lumber business and as a contractor at Jenkintown, Pennsylvania.
Difenderfer was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1914, 1916, and 1918. He was engaged in the retail confectionery business at Jenkintown, and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1923. Interment in Westminster Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd.