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Oswald D. Heck

Life[edit]

He was born on February 13, 1902, in Schenectady, New York. In 1933, he married Beulah W. Slocum.

He was a member of the New York State Assemblyin1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939–40, 1941–42, 1943–44, 1945–46, 1947–48, 1949–50, 1951–52, 1953–54, 1955–56, 1957–58 and 1959; and was Majority Leader in 1936, and Speaker from 1937 until his death in 1959.

He was a delegate to the 1944, 1948, 1952 and 1956 Republican National Conventions.

He died on May 21, 1959, in Schenectady, New York, of a heart attack; and was buried at the Vale Cemetery there.

His 21-year-old son Peter Heck died on July 17, 1960, in Glens Falls Hospital, in Glens Falls, New York, after a car accident.^[2]

His daughter Penelope Heck Crannell died February 3, 1979, at St. Clares Hospital in Schenectady, NY of liver cancer.

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• [1] Political Graveyard
• [2] Obit notice in TIME magazine on June 1, 1959