Edward C. Shannon

Edward C. Shannon was the 15th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania from 1931 to 1935.

Edward Caswell Shannon was born in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania on June 24, 1870, and grew up in Columbia, Pennsylvania. He studied metallurgical chemistry at Lehigh University and Lafayette College. He later completed a course in metallurgical chemistry in the laboratory of the Phoenix Iron Company, and then worked as a chemist and blast furnace superintendent in the iron and steel industries. In 1899 he married Maud Radcliffe Lucas . Shannon later worked as Treasurer and General Manager of Lucas Manufacturing, a clothesmaking business in Columbia owned by his wifes family.

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