AINEY, William David Blakeslee, a Representative
from Pennsylvania; born in New Milford, Pa., April 8, 1864;
attended the public schools, the State Normal School at
Mansfield, and Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., in 1887;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1887 and commenced practice in Montrose, Pa.; district attorney for Susquehanna County 1890-1896; organized Company G of the
Pennsylvania National Guard and served as captain 1889-
1894; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second Congress
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George W. Kipp;
reelected to the Sixty-third Congress and served from November 7, 1911, to March 3, 1915; was not a candidate
for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress; delegate
to the International Parliamentary Union for International
Peace held at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1912, and at The
Hague in 1913; secretary and president of the JapaneseAmerican group of interparliamentarians and delegate in
1914 to Tokyo, Japan, and to Stockholm, Sweden; resumed
the practice of law in Montrose, Pa.; appointed a member
of the Public Service Commission of Pennsylvania May 20,
1915, and on August 20, 1915, was elected chairman; reappointed for a ten-year term as member and chairman
on July 1, 1917, and again on July 1, 1927; appointed chairman of the Pennsylvania Fuel Commission in August 1922;
president of the National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners in 1924; died in Harrisburg, Pa., September 4, 1932; interment in Montrose Cemetery, Montrose,
Pa.
